From Trauma to Healing: How Our Animals Mirror, Hold, and Help us Heal

What if the animals in our lives are more than companions?
What if they are part of our healing?

In this deeply moving and thought-provoking episode of Growing Tall Poppies, Dr. Nat Green is joined by animal communicator and psychosomatic practitioner Katherine Luna Sol, whose life journey bridges trauma, intuition, science, and the profound connection between humans and animals.

Katherine shares how early childhood trauma, sensitivity, and survival shaped her path — and how an extraordinary bond with her first horse became the catalyst for healing, identity discovery, and ultimately her life’s work.

Through loss, grief, and relentless searching for answers, Katherine immersed herself in multiple healing modalities, blending traditional animal care, somatic awareness, and energy-based approaches to support both animals and their humans.

This conversation explores the powerful ways animals can:

• Reflect our emotional world
• Support nervous system healing
• Help us reconnect with identity after trauma
• Walk beside us as we move from survival into growth

Whether you’re an animal lover, trauma survivor, or someone navigating your own healing journey, this episode invites you to consider connection, hope, and healing from a completely new perspective.

🌿 In This Episode, We Explore:

✔ How trauma can shape identity — and how healing can reshape it
 ✔ The deep emotional bonds between humans and animals during times of adversity
 ✔ Why animals often become anchors of safety, regulation, and connection
 ✔ Katherine’s journey from pre-veterinary training to psychosomatic and intuitive healing work
 ✔ The role of somatic healing, emotional release, and inner work in post-traumatic growth
 ✔ How grief, loss, and resilience can open unexpected pathways to purpose
 ✔ The importance of hope, tenacity, and following even the smallest spark forward
 ✔ Moving from codependency to what Katherine calls “sovereignty and union” in relationships — with animals and ourselves

🌟 Key Takeaways

- Healing doesn’t always arrive logically.
 - Sometimes it begins with connection.
 - Sometimes it begins with loss.
 - And sometimes, it begins with the quiet presence of an animal who helps us feel safe enough to come back to ourselves.

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Transcript

Dr Nat Green 0:04

Welcome to Growing Tall Poppies, thrive After Trauma. I'm your host, Dr. Nat Green, and I am so excited to have you join me as we discuss what it means to navigate your way through trauma. Or significant challenges and not just survive, but to thrive after it. This is a space for people who've been through trauma or adversity, have done some healing, and know they're meant for more than just coping. This podcast is about post-traumatic growth, not getting back to who you used to be. Rather, understanding who you are now and learning how to stand tall without shrinking, forcing, or abandoning yourself. Here we explore identity after adversity, integrity and visibility wounds, nervous system wisdom. And what it really takes to move forward. In a way that feels aligned, embodied, and true, you'll hear a blend of deep solo conversations and powerful guest interviews with people who have lived this work, not just studied it, because growth doesn't come from pushing harder. It comes from understanding how you adapted. Honoring your nervous system and gently updating the old agreements that no longer fit the life you are ready to live. If you're ready to stop hiding, stop performing, and start owning who you are becoming, then you are in the right place. Let's grow tall together. I am really excited today to bring you our next guest on the Growing Tall Poppies podcast. It's my absolute pleasure and privilege to welcome a beautiful lady who I've recently been introduced to and connected with, and as you're going to find out today, she's nothing short of inspirational and amazing. She has had some pretty significant trauma experiences and through these, she's found her calling and is a wonderful example of a tall poppy constantly shining her light bright despite her adversity and making a difference in the lives of so many. So, I'd love for you to meet Katherine Luna Sol and welcome Katherine.

Katherine Luna Sol 2:40

Thank you. I'm so excited to be here.

Dr Nat Green 2:43

Oh, I'm so excited to have you. So let's start with you giving us a brief introduction of who you are and what you do in the world.

Katherine Luna Sol 2:55

Yeah. So I am an animal communicator and animal healer. I actually prefer the term psychosomatic practitioner though. Mm-hmm. Because it explains what I do a little bit more in depth where, um, I look at the body. Of an animal and I'm able to heal things within it through quantum physics. Different modalities I've learned over about six or seven years and the. Training I went through as myself and my own soul with learning how the psychosomatic relationship affects the body. How a narrative or a trauma can show up, like tension stored in the sacrum, or you know, a limp in the left hind or something like that. So there's. Not really a method to it because it is so unique to each being. It's really about listening and having the internal capacity to show up and look at that animal. And to witness a story without judgment. And then I bring in all of my tools as far as being an Emotion code practitioner, Tucker, bio kinetic technique practitioner. Um, I've done mystery school where you learn very, very amazing esoteric type of connections and how to work with energy medicine. And I've brought that into my animal healing business, and it is incredible to see. Immediate results, long-lasting results. And also how being a voice for the animals allows such deeper connection for them and their human, which is exceptional.

Dr Nat Green 4:46

Oh, I love that so much. And, and I know we met only last week and we talked about some of the amazing things that you do, and I was just really drawn to you and your energy and. I'm just so amazed. 'cause we all, we love our animals, don't we? I mean, we are very deeply connected and intertwined with our animals and I know that a lot of our listeners. Uh, really have, as a result of the trauma and things they've been through, have a special animal that they connect with that has held them in their deepest, darkest moments. So, yeah, I'm really fascinated to hear more about how you started on this path and, and yeah, I'm sure everyone else is too.

Katherine Luna Sol 5:35

Absolutely. Yes. And I love that you have already brought up how an animal can be there for us through that trauma and. Even if we don't have the exact language as to why that animal is there to help us, it is. We know that they are there for a reason. Mm-hmm. Or we think it's maybe like a silly thought like, oh, you know, this is my, this is my soul. No, but they actually are. You and that animal have a soul contract to go through these certain experiences and they can reflect what you need to heal back towards you. Which can be a gift and a blessing. But in my journey, I took it a step further where instead of us being these almost harshly reflected mirrors where, oh my gosh, that means I need to heal my sister wound. Okay, well, you know, and then not only are you having to heal your own trauma, but you have. The fear and the nervousness about, oh my gosh, my animal has, you know, something on their left side showing up. And now I'm also fearful. So my job is to separate it. It's to separate the human and the animal energetically, but allow union, so I call it sovereignty and union. So you can be. with one another, and you can be guides on your journey. You can have a soul contract where you both step into your power but not at the cost of one another. And that's massive. Yes. And that's where. I do a lot of things that are very science backed. I went to uc, Davis for pre veterinary medicine. I worked in large animal clinics for years. I delivered baby horses for years. Going to college, it was the most fun. Sleeping in a barn and delivering baby horses at night. It was, oh my goodness. So much fun. And I also have this very intuitive and very spiritual type of element that is in the work. And I see them combined so fluidly. I really see them as one. I don't see it as separate and. A lot of people are waking up to, okay, yeah, these animals are our soulmates. They are helping us work through this.

Dr Nat Green 8:01

Yeah. But

Katherine Luna Sol 8:01

the huge piece that we really need to be able to bring awareness to and heal is how to walk on a journey without codependency

Dr Nat Green 8:13

so

Katherine Luna Sol 8:15

our animals don't need to take stuff on in order for us to heal it. But there, what I see is we get to that portion where, I mean really, truly, mostly everyone is at that stage right now where their animal is mirroring back their issues.

Dr Nat Green 8:32

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 8:32

But my goal is to get people past that, where we can identify it, heal it, and get past it. Our animal no longer has to carry it. Our animal no longer has to suffer for it. Mm-hmm. We don't have to suffer. So there is. Such an it's, it's complex, but it's also fluid and beautiful way of identifying the issues, bringing the awareness. I use all my tools in my training to untangle it, heal it, release it, let it go, and then we can create a new soul contract that says, Hey, let's both step into our power without suffering, which is massive.

Dr Nat Green 9:15

Yay. And I

Katherine Luna Sol 9:16

learned that. Oh, I learned that through the loss of many of my animals. So a lot of soul contracts where it was, um. I will definitely, I'll probably cry at some point here. Um,

Dr Nat Green 9:31

okay. But tears are welcome here. Always have tears.

Katherine Luna Sol 9:36

Right. Ab I mean with the depth of, you know, our journeys, tears are normal and natural.

Dr Nat Green 9:43

Yes. So, absolutely. And it's, it's all part of, we need to feel to be able to heal. We absolutely do. And it's when we shut off our heart space and our ability to, to really. Feel and own our emotions that, that the suffering continues, I think, anyway.

Katherine Luna Sol 10:03

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So I would say a very. Tough point where my journey started and I did not consciously understand what was going on or what I was about to go through. But my very first horse was a gift to me. I had worked at a barn locally, and I didn't know anything about horses. At 17, I had ridden them maybe once a year. Was very obsessed with them. Uh, it did, it did kind of run in my family. I had a lot of great grandparents and grandparents who were ranchers and owned farms in the mid Midwest and it was something where you could tell there was horse, girl chromosomes in my beings. You knew it. When I was, I mean, even younger than that, I used to line up stuffed animals on the staircase. Mm-hmm. And I would teach them. And so at three years old, I, and it's very, it's not normal to have memories of ourselves when we're that young, but I clearly remember setting my animals out and teaching them, instructing them, and talking to them and saying, okay guys, you know, this is what we're gonna do over here. So. From a very young age, my soul knew even if I consciously wasn't quite aware.

Dr Nat Green 11:30

Mm.

Katherine Luna Sol 11:31

And when my first horse was given to me, it, I mean, my whole life changed. I got a free horse.

Dr Nat Green 11:39

Mm. From

Katherine Luna Sol 11:40

cleaning stalls, you know, mucking stalls and helping out at a ranch. And I fell in love with this horse. And I asked the owner, I said, Hey, you know, I'm really getting attached to her. What plans do you have for her? And she goes, oh, I think I'll just give her to you. Oh my gosh. So, wow. I'm like, you just changed my life. And she, okay, well I'm at Starbucks, I gotta go. It's like you changed my whole life. Um, it was just an absolutely incredible moment where someone doesn't understand the impact that they just had on you. Yes. But it was. Such a blessing. And so I started my journey with her. I ended up changing from wanting to go to UCLA to be a dermatologist because I struggled with acne when I was younger and I just wanted to be of service and help other people have clear skin. But when I was given my horse, I changed from UCLA to uc Davis. Okay. And I wanted to be pre-vet. That was, and it, I mean, it was clear. It was like night and day. I know where I'm going. I know who I am now.

Dr Nat Green 12:46

Mm. It was incredible.

Katherine Luna Sol 12:48

So I started my journey with her. We, I took lessons from a trainer. I threw myself into every large animal experience I could have. Training, medicine, interning with veterinarians, um, volunteering. Anything I could get my hands on. I fully immersed myself into it. And when she was about. I would say three years old. So very young for a horse.

Dr Nat Green 13:17

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 13:17

She's began having an issue called chronic colic.

Dr Nat Green 13:22

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 13:22

And colic is the number one killer of horses.

Dr Nat Green 13:26

Yes.

Katherine Luna Sol 13:26

It's, are you familiar with that?

Dr Nat Green 13:28

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Katherine Luna Sol 13:31

So it is, it can be a fatal stomach ache.

Dr Nat Green 13:34

Mm.

Katherine Luna Sol 13:34

And you know the reasons the causes of it can be dehydration. Maybe they ate something, maybe the weather shifted and they just didn't drink quite enough. Mm-hmm. To regulate there. There's so many reasons and a lot of the times we don't know. What the cause is.

Dr Nat Green 13:53

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 13:54

But very common types of, you know, what you go to in emergency is called banamine. Mm-hmm. And so there's an oral administration and you can also do iv. And for years I focused on doing the oral banamine for her in emergency. And when she continued to have chronic colic, I had to learn how to do IV administration. Mm-hmm. Because it got into their bloodstream so much faster. I really went through this Western medicine, um, deep dive trying to save my own horse. Mm-hmm. And she had a colic surgery, which is very, very serious surgery, um, actually at uc Davis. And she went through her healing after that. But I saw how hard it was on her. Mm-hmm. Um, I used to be, I remember just being at like a young. 17, 20-year-old. I mean, so back young when she was my horse and being in job interviews and saying, I need to have my phone on me because I have a horse who's chronically sick and if I get a call, I need to go. Like, that was my personality act. That was my identity. You know, I'm a horse mommy and my, my girl gets sick. So it was emotionally exhausting, financially exhausting, but just, I mean, to have the love of your life and. Oh, to have her. You know, get so sick at any moment at the drop of a hat. Mm. It's, it's so hard to live with. You know, if you have a child, you can understand how that would feel. You know, if you have absolutely animal, you know how that feels. So that was miserable. And I, I did everything. I mean, besides just banamine, I did, you know, pelleted Haze and then 24 7 Forage and turnout and, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. And you know, this lifestyle change. I tried everything. And nothing would cure it altogether.

Dr Nat Green 15:56

Mm. And

Katherine Luna Sol 15:57

I just, I never gave up on her until she needed her second colic surgery and it was so terrible. But I just asked her, I'm like, do you wanna go through that? And she's like, no, I don't. So I had to let her go that day. And. She was absolutely a soulmate because I was too much in trauma and just absolutely, you know, devastated to understand what was going on.

Dr Nat Green 16:29

Mm.

Katherine Luna Sol 16:29

But when, when she died, I laid my body on top of hers and I was just saying a lot of prayers and just like, thank you so much. Thank you so much. I love you. I love you. And. This is insane. But her last exhale came out of me. So I actually, you know, I'm praying, I'm praying. And then I even tasted, um, I don't know what it's called, but the blue liquid they inject them with, in order to euthanize them. It, I actually tasted it on my tongue and I. At the time, I was like, what the heck? Mm-hmm. I just thought, wow, what a gift for her to give me that kind of spiritual experience. And I had no idea what it meant. Um, you know, it wasn't bringing her back, but it was something I would never be able to fully explain. And I took it as a gift in a way of being like, wow, we're really connected. Mm-hmm. Like, oh my gosh. And so from there. I believe it was really her guiding me from heaven. But I was, I say I was hell bent to heal I, oh, I jumped into every healing modality and the first one I found was the emotion code by Dr. Bradley Nelson. Mm-hmm. And he has since created the emotion code, the body code, and the belief code. Okay. And these are staples in my life.

Dr Nat Green 18:01

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 18:02

Um, and for animals, I am an emotion code practitioner. And then I do. My own method of the belief code and body code as for how the animal instructs me best to help them. So after her death dived into the emotion code, the body code, I started doing that once a month. I had insane experiences where like right before my appointments I would have experiences. That were to trigger deeper childhood wounds so that I could bring them up in my session and then know, go through the real life experience of how healing something at age three or four helped me at age 25.

Dr Nat Green 18:48

Yeah,

Katherine Luna Sol 18:49

so it was. It was, well, I'm gonna take a drink of water here.

Dr Nat Green 18:53

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 18:54

Got my water leaking outta my eyes.

Dr Nat Green 18:57

Need to replace it. So just as, as you're taking that drink there, I'm just interested, I'm just wondering, I mean, you had this deep, deep connection and such a beautiful soul connection with this. Amazing animal that you were gifted. I mean, what an amazing experience for you. So and that began your journey moving forward. I'm just wondering if we could just go back a little bit maybe, and if you can share an overview. I mean, you knew that all along since three, you were talking to your stuffed animals, your toys, and teaching them. So there was this inner knowing, just wondering what. Personal trauma you had in your childhood growing up that led you to that deep connection with your beautiful horse?

Katherine Luna Sol 19:54

Yeah. Um, I'm definitely an empath

Dr Nat Green 19:59

amongst

Katherine Luna Sol 20:00

many other, I have all the clear gifts, all of,

Dr Nat Green 20:03

yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 20:04

So I grew up thinking we all had these things that we all talk to animals. We don't, no. Um, I was raised in a very harsh environment, especially for someone so sensitive. So I. I grew up with learning that my survival depended on how sensitive I could be to others', emotions, moods, desires, wants, and how I could fulfill them. Yeah, I had no sense of self and it, you know, I say that and it clearly I did in some way, but being able to look back at it now as an adult at 32. I really see, wow.

Dr Nat Green 21:08

Mm.

Katherine Luna Sol 21:08

Having, being in touch with my identity wasn't an option for

Dr Nat Green 21:15

no

Katherine Luna Sol 21:15

25 years. You know, you had

Dr Nat Green 21:17

for, you had to, you had to keep yourself safe. You had to do everything you could, which was please everybody else put their needs first and completely disconnect from your own. Yes.

Katherine Luna Sol 21:30

Yeah. And I, what's interesting is. I have very, very clear memories where I can even remember the thought that I had at an exact moment after trauma and after that, you know, a lot of it would be blacked out. I wouldn't remember it. Mm-hmm. But I would remember something like, should I tell my mom what that person just did to me? That's a thought from age three.

Dr Nat Green 21:56

Wow. You know,

Katherine Luna Sol 21:56

that is such a little tiny kiddo having this awareness of her consciousness mm-hmm. And the subconscious programs and thoughts.

Dr Nat Green 22:05

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 22:05

Um, and I, it is still, it's amazing to look back and see how deeply gifted I was. I just wasn't able to use it to nurture myself. Yeah. Until I was in a more safe environment.

Dr Nat Green 22:26

Yeah. Um, and that makes total sense, doesn't it? I mean, you needed, as you said, you needed to do what you needed to do to survive, to move through that being an empath in that environment. It must have been excruciating to feel everything so deeply and not be able to do anything. So I can see exactly why the gift of this beautiful animal was so important. 'cause someone gave that to you and you were able to trust something and someone Yes. So deeply, which you'd never been able to do. That's beautiful. Yes.

Katherine Luna Sol 23:09

Oh. And just the first time having something that she depended on me to live. You know, who's gonna give her her grain, you know, who's gonna clean her stall? Um, that was really, I felt so empowered finally stepping into myself as a horse mom because it was the first time I really was able to connect with my true identity. Yay. Um. And I was always very involved with leadership and student government and clubs in high school and even middle school. And I think that's kind of that lightworker program within me is you're just drawn to how can I make a difference? Yes. Um, and to be able to find out even more who I am within my horse. That was truly incredible. Mm-hmm. Um, there was. So many, midnight drives to the barn where you know, oh, I'm really not doing well. Okay, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna go drive and see my horse. And just, I remember, uh, being there in a, I was at, I had a, I think a 96 Chevy Tahoe, you know, old Tahoe, and it's. pouring down rain, it is dark and I'm just sitting next to my horse and she's just sitting there eating, have a little snack and you know, sometimes I was happy and relaxing. Sometimes I arrived, bawling my eyes out.

Dr Nat Green 24:39

Mm-hmm. She

Katherine Luna Sol 24:41

was there for me, however, I needed to show up. Yes.

Dr Nat Green 24:46

Man, and so it's, I mean, it sounds like, as you were telling, story about her life and the connection with you that she taught you so much and was it her that really helped you get to who you really were and your identity, or was it something else?

Katherine Luna Sol 25:09

I believe it was her, along with. The other horses. I also had, I think there's, the way our animals show up in our lives, it's kind of like they feel different depending on what the soul contract or, soul agreement, or soulmate connection is. Mm-hmm. So there's some horses who guide and it feels a little more external.

Dr Nat Green 25:35

Mm-hmm. You

Katherine Luna Sol 25:35

know, it feels like, okay. I can tell they're walking next to me.

Dr Nat Green 25:39

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 25:39

She was such a close guide. It. She was so close, you wouldn't even know it was her. You think it's your own self? Honestly, I get, goosebumps saying it, she was one of the ones where they're so close. You just, you'd almost think, oh, I really wish they'd show up. And they're like, I'm literally right here. You know, I've been here the whole time. I'll be here forever whether I'm with you on the earth or not. Um, so with her and. I realized how much healing she offered me, and that is where I actually started my first business, where I did therapeutic riding for children with special needs. And

Dr Nat Green 26:21

Okay.

Katherine Luna Sol 26:22

I was blessed with, um, I mean at one time I had seven horses and my program was doing very well, and all of these horses had such different gifts to offer me, but she was my original, answered prayer.

Dr Nat Green 26:37

And that

Katherine Luna Sol 26:38

is what I named my program after, so

Dr Nat Green 26:41

Oh, okay.

Katherine Luna Sol 26:41

I really was blessed with animals who taught me very deep, complex lessons and helped me heal in different ways and they became my family unit, so she was like the catalyst for my soul. Mm-hmm. Some were a catalyst to help me understand boundaries. Some were a catalyst to introduce me to feeling fully empowered through surrender. So very weird. Did so many lessons with so many unique souls. Um, but she was really the guiding spirit who she'll never leave me, that's for sure.

Dr Nat Green 27:27

Yeah. It sounds like she's such a huge part of your life and always will be. I love that so much. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So what else did you learn? I mean, clearly there's so many parallels about your journey with her and then the work you now do. What have you learned as a result of this ability and this gift to communicate with animals the way you do? And how that relates to people in the world as well.

Katherine Luna Sol 27:59

I think the most important part of what I learned with having so many extra senses was sometimes your internal environment is the only environment you have control over. Mm-hmm. So I would, there was years of. Really an insane amount of trauma that I went through in lots of different aspects. Losing, losing horses, losing animals, coming through narcissistic abuse, uh, waking up to things I experienced when I was younger as far as sexual assault. And my external was absolute chaos during my awakening.

Dr Nat Green 28:43

Okay? And

Katherine Luna Sol 28:43

I had no control over that. We can't control anyone but ourselves. And I did not have control over those things, and that made me turn inward so deeply that it was, you know, kind of this hell bent, well, I can't control that, so I'm gonna make inside of me peaceful. I'm gonna create safety within myself. And I did that through multiple different tools and that created this structure and foundation of. Being able to survive as a highly gifted empath. Mm-hmm. And also to find myself to find more joy. So even from just being able to survive, it helped me start tapping into thriving as well.

Dr Nat Green 29:31

Mm. And yeah, that's, as you know, that's what we do on this podcast. It's really about how to help people go from just surviving. Which we know can take all our energy anyway, to actually get into a place where we know we are thriving. So yeah, I, I'm really fascinated by your story and how you've turned that barely surviving through to thriving. So yeah, keep sharing. It's, it's great. And I know our listeners will be loving it.

Katherine Luna Sol 30:04

Yeah. Um, it. I would say the work I do now, a lot of it is science backed and, and based in quantum physics, and it can be very easy for someone to resonate with that, you know? Okay, that makes sense. I can see how you, you go from this and this, and that's the result you get. That's very easy to connect with, but there is also just that completely esoteric and very spiritual type of fluidity where. Honestly, for someone who loves certainty or who you know, really would've found a lot of safety and certainty, I, I created these methods and started doing what I'm doing to help animals. Not because it made sense, but because I asked, what do you need? And whatever that animal said that they needed, let's give it a try. You know. Oh, that's crazy. So clearing energetic cords from you and rewriting contracts and, you know, making old contracts null and void and, you know, separating ourselves, hooking ourselves up to our sovereign selves, and, uh, creating this healthy dynamic. That's what stops your colic. Okay. Whatever, you know, whatever you say. Um, so it really was. It wasn't like this work waited for me to be ready.

Dr Nat Green 31:36

Yeah. Uh,

Katherine Luna Sol 31:37

it, it just, it was about survival. It turned to spirituality for survival.

Dr Nat Green 31:44

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 31:45

And a lot of that allowed me to find bliss, even when the physical was. Maybe terrible or awful.

Dr Nat Green 31:56

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 31:56

I was able to connect with parts of myself that were always at peace or had kind of that higher wisdom and you know, that equal view of, yeah, these few years are gonna be really shitty, but you're also going to find this part of yourself and this part of yourself, and you're gonna hone these gifts and these are all of the animals that you're gonna help that other people have given up on. It's like, oh my gosh.

Dr Nat Green 32:21

Mm.

Katherine Luna Sol 32:22

So yeah. I feel like my, when my girl passed away, she, it's, I would say she held my hand from heaven, but it was so much closer than that.

Dr Nat Green 32:35

Mm. Where

Katherine Luna Sol 32:36

there wasn't even. A moment where it was like, Hmm, I wonder what's going. It was just like I threw myself into healing. I did kundalini yoga, meditation, inner child healing. Lots of prayer. I changed from eating like microwavable popcorn to all organic. I'm, it was a complete life overhaul.

Dr Nat Green 33:00

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 33:02

It allowed my gifts to open up, it allowed me to finally start a connection with myself, create inner peace when even the external was go insane. Um, I was able to stand in front of very, very toxic or manipulative narcissists and still hold my own, and not in an aggressive way, but in a grounded and centered in my own self way. Wow. So.

Dr Nat Green 33:32

How did you do that? That's, that's amazing. Um,

Katherine Luna Sol 33:37

I created the relationship with myself in, you know, inside of me.

Dr Nat Green 33:41

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 33:42

So the Kundalini yoga is something I love because it is the only form of yoga that helps you release the energy from your emotional body. So in Kundalini yoga They have multiple different, subtle energy bodies. And as an empath, our emotional bodies get so overloaded, and that's why a lot of em, not the only reason, but that's why a lot of empaths have, you know, chronic illness or a lot of disease autoimmune issues. Of course.

Dr Nat Green 34:12

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 34:12

Yeah. So the first time I did Kundalini yoga, I'm in there, I'm doing the exercises, and I am bawling, and I like mm-hmm. Well, this is the one. This is the yoga

Dr Nat Green 34:26

found. It got the message loud and clear.

Katherine Luna Sol 34:31

It gave me a sense of relief and peace that nothing else had. Been able to give me, and I actually, um, I just randomly had founded it because in the area I said, Hey, I'm going to get this, seven day pass to try every single yoga class they have. Mm-hmm. And so I just ended up going to the Kundalini one because it was what I paid for and I started doing it every single day for the rest of my life. And it's, I mean, it. I think you have to do it to really understand how much of a weight it can lift off of you.

Dr Nat Green 35:12

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 35:12

Because there are a lot of weights that we carry, especially as Yes, um, sensitive beings or empaths, you know? Yeah. Anyone who's energetically aware or if you just even feel, if you have a good heart, a soft heart. Mm. Uh, it sometimes you don't know that what pains you the most is something that can be let go of. Yes, and doing these, you know, the yoga inner child meditations and really looking within and getting to know myself. I didn't know that I could drop off 60, 70 pounds of emotional weight, but I could

Dr Nat Green 35:54

Wow.

Katherine Luna Sol 35:55

And that, that was a massive gift. And so,

Dr Nat Green 35:59

mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 36:00

From that, it allowed me to tap into my gifts more. It allowed me to hear the language of animals so much clearer. Mm-hmm. And it allowed me to really offer them a lot more healing because instead of my own, beliefs, limiting beliefs, perceptions popping up. Instead of that, it was so much quieter. It was really allowing me to witness that animal and its sovereignty so I could be fully in service and not have my own shit popping up.

Dr Nat Green 36:30

Yeah, yeah, because as we know that, you know, there's, there's always layers to our healing and it can pop up when we least expect it, and it's about how you can. Retain that level of groundedness and process things and keep working on yourself while also working your magic on your clients, whether they're animals or Absolutely. Or people. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. So do you think there's any specific qualities or personal attributes that you see as being key to move from trauma into post-traumatic growth? For our listeners.

Katherine Luna Sol 37:14

Yes, I'd like to put a word to it. Mm-hmm. Tenacity.

Dr Nat Green 37:21

Mm.

Katherine Luna Sol 37:22

Um, almost at sometimes you need a delusional amount of hope.

Dr Nat Green 37:30

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 37:31

I think hope is huge and tenacity. They speak about faith the size of a mustard seed. I think even if you don't even have the mustard seed, if something makes your spirit even half smile, like, oh, it's that little bit of like, you know, maybe you just see a little bit of sun pop out from under the cloud or something like that. You know, if that's what makes you feel alive, chase it. Chase it. Like your life depends on it. 'cause your life does depend on it.

Dr Nat Green 38:04

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 38:05

You know, if I, if I hadn't. Well, I was gonna say if I hadn't found healing, but I feel like if healing didn't choose me, because that's how it felt, it felt like, yeah, it chose me and said, get over here. But you know, there are a lot of different ways my life could have gone and it wouldn't have been thriving and it wouldn't have been surviving. So when you feel that spark or that little bit of hope, just chase it. Even if it doesn't make sense, and even if people are like, that's really weird, go for it.

Dr Nat Green 38:40

Exactly. Because you could be answering your soul's calling and not even realize it sounds like you are when you get that. Precisely. Yeah. When you get that deep, deep inner knowing and connect to whatever it is, it doesn't matter what it is. I love that you said follow it with everything you've got.

Katherine Luna Sol 39:07

Absolutely. In my journey, I didn't know why I was doing things. Mm-hmm. I just, beyond knowing I wasn't going to take a different path. So when I started getting into spirituality and understanding the more like mystic wisdoms and understandings mm-hmm. Uh, that allow me to create exceptional health for these animals. You know, they're things that may be mainstream religion are kind of like, Hey, that's a little weird. But if you actually look at it there, it's not, there's nothing harmful and. Exceptional health and extraordinary connection with your animal. So I was actually raised Catholic and I find a lot of beauty in religion. I love, I loved divinity. I love, having that connection with, you know, above and so below. I really, really love that. But I did need to be able to hear my own voice louder than the voices around me to become who I am today. So if you're, if you're waiting on someone else's approval or for others to say, Hey, that sounds normal, you're not gonna become all that you can be and you won't be able to fully step into your purpose and help others. So with the horses and with the animals, it, they did. Guide me on this path and it didn't make sense to anyone else. You know, especially like my family system. Not supportive of at all, you know? No, that's not what we were taught. That's, I don't know what that is. Kind of almost like hoping I'll fail and instead I would get results like, my horse's limp is gone. Or my, one of the wildest things and was, I had someone reach out to me in quite an emergency saying, I think I need to put my dog down. I am very worried about her. You know, can you help? And I said, let me try, let me give it a shot. And if an animal needs to Passover, it is my responsibility to honor that.

Dr Nat Green 41:30

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 41:31

And in session, it is my responsibility to stay in integrity with their consent. So if they say, Hey, stop, I will. Yeah. If they say, Hey, I can't process that, I will. So I will just, I always have to listen to them and really let go of like my ego or what I'm hoping for out of the session. Yeah. And with that doggy. I was able to, they were at the vet and she goes, okay, start working on her. I'm okay. 'cause I do a lot of my work distance. I'm working on her and in about an hour she's like, my dog is completely different. She is so much better. She is alert, she is walking, she's not throwing up. She's like, I left the vet's office feeling like my dog is doing well. And I'm just like, oh my goodness. I mean, every session looks different, but for that dog, me working on her with the subtle energies, with quantum physics techniques and just bringing all of my tools and my gifts into the session with her. Um, we did a few more sessions also over time, but that added a year to two years to her life. Wow. That's insane. And quality of life too, not just, they're breathing, they're here.

Dr Nat Green 42:53

Yeah.

Katherine Luna Sol 42:53

But actually they're enjoying life. They're eating, they're, they look happy. You know, they're connecting with their owner and looking in their eyes and being like, hell yeah. So,

Dr Nat Green 43:08

so being able to do that and then give their human back that gift of quality, great time with them until the time does come that that must be such a gift. So yeah. Yeah. Katherine, I love that you shared that story and I know there's so many more. Um, so as we move to wrapping up this conversation, where can our listeners find out more about you and find you online?

Katherine Luna Sol 43:39

Yes. Through my website, through Instagram, and I'm also on Facebook, depending on when this comes out. My business name currently is Divine Grace Animal Healing and Communication. Mm-hmm. However, I am changing now into Antidote Psychosomatics.

Dr Nat Green 43:59

Very good.

Katherine Luna Sol 44:01

Thank you. Yes. Yes.

Dr Nat Green 44:03

We'll put both on in the show notes Wonderful. So that if one's not working, they can go to your new one.

Katherine Luna Sol 44:10

Wonderful. Yes, that would

Dr Nat Green 44:11

be fabulous.

Katherine Luna Sol 44:13

Uh, I call the method I created of all of the things, all of my certifications and credentials put into one is I call it the antidote because whatever problem an animal has. My work is based on what's the antidote to this. So if it is a belief system or a trapped emotion or a misalignment of the bones or an organ that's not properly functioning, what is the antidote? What's going to heal it and correct at the root cause? And so that is really, that's the inspiration and passion under the antidote for it.

Dr Nat Green 44:52

Oh, goodness me. I love that so much. What a gift. What a gift for you to be able to share with the world, to heal yourself, but then pay it forward through healing our most beautiful, trusted companions. I love that so much. Thank you. You're a blessing.

Katherine Luna Sol 45:12

Thank you. Oh, I'm, I love it. I'm so excited about it. And. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Especially being able to work remotely. I just want, I wanna help everyone. I wanna help everyone. We don't even know how good it can get yet, which is pretty magnificent.

Dr Nat Green 45:32

Absolutely. So one thing I like to ask my guests at the end is, what do you think your younger self would think of where you are now and what you've achieved, especially given what she experienced in her life?

Katherine Luna Sol 45:51

I love this question. Um. I'm like, can I, can I answer it without crying? My little self would think I am the coolest girl ever. She would be so proud and she would, she would be very proud of what I've accomplished, but I don't think she would be surprised because she knew that this is exactly who I am. Mm-hmm. Um, it would be very much like. You are so cool. Like, you're so cool. You're so great. I love what you do. And then like, put on some super sparkly cowgirl boots and like, play around and yeehaw and have a bunch of fun.

Dr Nat Green 46:34

I love it. I love it. Oh, that's so, so powerful. Oh, yep. And as you said, and as you talked us through and walked us through your story, it was so clear that that. Inner knowing about your true identity was always there, and you found a way to trust that and reconnect with your gut and that inner knowing through the methods that worked for you. So, oohh Yeah. What a blessing did you

Katherine Luna Sol 47:04

have? If you're open to me sharing one last thing because my voice is not gonna let not say it. I, I can, she's right with me. Yeah. So my first horse who passed away, at the time, and this is where the logic really didn't, logic didn't matter. Logic was going to limit me. Mm-hmm. Intuition, trust and following my soul was going to really expand my life.

Dr Nat Green 47:30

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 47:31

So I, I was raised Catholic. I'd never believed in past lives. And when my girl passed away. I went on this insane journey for years of deeply healing myself and gaining a lot of wisdom and tools, and she actually reincarnated back to me. So, which is this? This is her. It's

Dr Nat Green 47:55

beautiful. I love the white diamond on her head. She's beautiful.

Katherine Luna Sol 48:00

Yes. Oh my goodness. So she let me know, who she was, where she was. Everything that I needed to know in order to come get her, and that was a huge transformative experience for me to understand that I'm a channeler of wild horses because when she connected with me, I connected with her whole herd. And she was born in the wild as a wild Mustang and I connected with her herd, but I didn't understand what I was doing until she fully dropped in. So for about two days, I was going through a very weird experience of like deeply crying, feeling this insane loss of life, loss of freedom. I mean, I was absolutely, I was just curled up in bed, devastated and bawling and not sure where this was coming from.

Dr Nat Green 48:57

Mm-hmm.

Katherine Luna Sol 48:58

But my, I did my nervous system, I mean everything. And when she fully dropped in, let me know. It connected the dots as far as I had felt what that wild herd felt when the US state of forestry connected with them and they could feel that was, I was sensing their loss of life and their loss of lifestyle. Because they were rounded up from the wild and then brought in, and they're brought into holdings, and then people come and adopt them. And it's a very traumatic experience. But that was an incredible experience for me. And if I hadn't gone through my healing experience, I wouldn't have been able to trust that the information I was receiving was. Genuine and true. Mm. And I would've doubted myself too much to probably go, well, I guess I'm gonna go adopt the baby Mustang because she told me to. So, um, yeah, it's been amazing.

Dr Nat Green 50:01

Yeah. But

Katherine Luna Sol 50:03

that's really my deepest pain, birthing me into the most beautiful purpose that I could have never expected.

Dr Nat Green 50:13

It's beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing that. And thank you, from the bottom of my heart for being a guest on our podcast today. And yeah, I'm so grateful that we've connected and I know that our listeners are gonna find this fascinating and I would encourage them to reach out to you as well so you can do the healing with their animals online. And I I love that.

Katherine Luna Sol 50:39

Absolutely. Thank you and thank you for offering so many a space to honor how trauma can birth us into something so much more beautiful than that pain.

Dr Nat Green 50:51

Yeah. Aw, thank you. Thank you for spending this time with me on growing tall poppies. My hope is that today's episode has offered you something more than insight, that it's helped you feel a little more connected to who you are now, a little more trusting of your body, and a little more permission to stand tall without shrinking or forcing yourself forward. Post-traumatic growth isn't about fixing yourself or returning to who you once were. It's about understanding how you adapted, honoring your nervous system, and gently choosing what no longer needs to come with you. New episodes of growing Tall poppies are released weekly. Every Tuesday, and I'd love for you to continue walking this path with us as we explore identity after adversity, integrity and visibility wounds, nervous system wisdom. And what it truly means to grow forward, grounded, aligned, and embodied. If this episode resonated, I invite you to subscribe, follow, share it with someone that you feel might need it, or simply take a quiet moment to reflect on what's ready to move forward. For you. You can also find me on Instagram at Dr. Nat Green on Facebook at Dr. Natalie Green or over on YouTube at Dr. Nat Green. And remember, you don't need to rush and you don't need to hide anymore. Stay connected, stay true, and keep standing tall like the tall poppy you are. I'll see you in the next episode. Bye for now.