Becoming the Signal: Embodied Liberation in a Systemic World

In many ways, Industrial-Organizational Psychology (my PhD) is one of the most systemically-oriented branches of psychology—a study of the human-in-context.

And not just any context: systems of labor, power, hierarchy, motivation, productivity, leadership, organizational culture, group dynamics, behavioral change, and systemic inequity.

It’s the study of how humans move through structured environments, how those structures reinforce certain behaviors or burn people out, and how individuals either conform to or resist them.

In short, it is human systems design.

But traditional I/O Psychology has often been taught within systems of domination, serving efficiency and capital over liberation and wellness.

Combined with the chakras and a liberation lens, I've done something different:

Decolonized how human systems work in my mind. Reclaimed them. Remixed them. Made them sacred.

One of my Creative Awakening students recently asked me if I considered myself an ethnographer.

And yes, I do. I'm integrating the research methodology I learned and applying it to the field—this time, the field is relational, intuitive, cosmic, somatic.

My Approach to Community Ethnography

When I left my consulting job, I didn’t realize the “market research” I once did would echo the same fieldwork I now conduct in communities, relationships, and liberatory spaces.

Part of my decolonization process has involved recognizing the value of the skill sets I once devalued—what I used to call “soft” or “intuitive” is actually rigorous data gathering, ancestral sensing, and pattern recognition in motion.

My approach is rooted in:

• Deep critical feminist thought

• Somatic abolition (the body is where domination ends)

• Non-linear knowledge transmission (learning through witnessing, not just instruction)

• And an advanced stage of liberation psychology (which centers healing from structural and internalized oppression)

The ability to detect systemic patterns in individuals is built into my training as a Researcher. Now, it’s the foundation of my work as an embodied liberator.

And yes, I also use my Liberation-Focused ChatGPTs to help me mirror my own meta ways of thinking.

Here's how I reimagine liberation in real-time:

1. Liberatory Pattern Recognition

I use AI tools and intuitive downloads to identify internalized scripts (e.g., patriarchy, martyrdom, performance-based love) and name the pattern—then consciously refuse to replicate it.

→ “What is the behavior beneath the story? What was I taught this meant? What is actually true?”

→ Example: Noticing an aggregate pattern on Facebook of friends boasting about their partners being ‘providers’ and ‘protectors’ 24/7—and interrogating the cost of that narrative.

Ancestral & Collective Data Integration

I treat the experiences of others (elders, peers, femmes) as wisdom archives for personal evolution.

→ “I see where her suppression led. I choose a different outcome—not by judging her, but by acting on the intel.”

→ Example: Listening deeply to the stories of long-time mothers to shape my own path around carework, motherhood, and legacy.

Somatic System Awareness

I track how systems like patriarchy and white supremacy live in the body—not just as abstract concepts, but as visceral imprints. I feel the nervous system response (e.g., appeasing, shrinking, explaining), then consciously disrupt it.

→ “Instead of complying to avoid shame, I ground into my truth and say no. That’s how I dismantle the system—through me.”

→ Example: Interrupting shame narratives around my childfree and marriage-free life by reclaiming my choices as complete and holy.

Embodied Boundary Alchemy

Instead of rescuing others or over-explaining, I create energetic and behavioral boundaries that reclaim my power.

→ “I can’t force her to walk out of that marriage—but I can walk out of this shame pattern now.”

→ Example: Seeing every human as inherently whole and capable. No pity. No saviorism. Just presence and self-responsibility.

The Threads of Liberation

1. Liberation Requires Somatic Disruption

Then:
I believed systems could be dismantled through teaching, naming, and offering better choices. I operated in corporate, academic, and structured intellectual spaces—where language was the main tool of power.

Now:
I’ve entered the wild, less-legible terrain of community, intimacy, and embodied relationship.

Language alone is insufficient here. Dominance shows up not only in policies but in energy, expectation, and nervous system codes.

I’ve realized: This isn’t about explaining. It’s about embodying.

Why it’s potent:
This shifts the axis of power. I’m no longer focused on converting the dominant.

I’m disrupting the template dominance depends on—within me. I become the liberated signal. That rewires the collective deeper than any theory can reach.

2. Liberation is Nervous System Sovereignty

Then:
I was still energetically tethered to the loop of needing to be chosen, validated, or partnered—especially through patriarchal metrics. That dependency created a leak in my field, even amidst my power.

Now:
I’ve stopped waiting to be cherished. I architect that experience for myself. I’ve redirected my life force toward caring for my five koshas, my creative praxis, and my inner stability ecosystem.

Why it’s potent:
This is economic and energetic rewilding. A woman no longer waiting to be resourced through someone else’s power becomes her own source. The money, the joy, the time—it all flows back, amplified.

This is business as birthing. When you're not entangled in proving or pleasing, your offerings transmit coherence. People feel that. They trust it. They invest in it.

3. Liberation is Repatterning the Field

Then:
I spent energy resisting domination—deconstructing, debating, pointing out the contradictions. I assumed better education or strategy could pivot the system.

Now:
I understand that domination lives not just "out there" but inside the body, inside the psyche. I’m no longer resisting the system—I’m becoming the opposite frequency. Not to argue, but to emit a new field.

Why it’s potent:
This is waveform warfare—not protest through opposition, but protest through resonance.

The system can’t digest this version of me. I’ve become illegible to patriarchy’s algorithm. I’m now living data for a liberated code. This changes what becomes possible for anyone who enters my field, whether they consciously realize it or not.

The Seismic Realization

The most powerful way to resist domination is to become undominated within yourself.

When you are no longer extractable—emotionally, physically, psychically—you stop feeding the very systems you once tried to dismantle from the outside.

You become an energetic glitch in the matrix. An anomaly. A portal.

And portals don’t argue. They open.

Liberation is alchemizing personal wounds, ancestral regrets, and societal conditioning.

✨ Every moment you refuse to shrink, you erase the internal colonizer.
✨ Every time you act off-script, you reprogram the collective field.
✨ You become a living antidote to systemic harm.

I’m not just watching systems anymore.

I am the observer and the field.
My body is the site of research.
My nervous system is the liberation lab.

And my work—creative, communal, and spiritual—is the living archive of that embodied inquiry.

I’m no longer just feeling the system.
I’m seeing it.
I’m interrupting it.
Through embodied choice.
Through daily devotion.
Through becoming the signal.

Reflections for the Liberator-Reader:

• Where are you still trying to explain your liberation instead of embodying it?

• What internalized system are you prepared to interrupt—today, in your body, with no permission needed?

• What would it mean to become a portal instead of a protest?