With both insight and vulnerability, Author Annette Knopp explores how our earliest attachment experiences shape the way we love, relate, and walk in this world.
In this episode, David and Annette chat about:
- Connecting to our own personal experiences within a creative process
- The intersection of healing and liberation
- Annette’s journey through complex post-traumatic stress disorder
- How our unhealed parental projections create issues within our relationships
- Attachment trauma and somatic healing work
- How our psychological blueprint begins as early as the womb
- The theory of being a ‘good enough’ parent 30% of the time
- Offering repair and having a baseline of secure attachment
- Working with our unmet needs through awareness and observation
- Looking at the message (imprint) rather than the messenger (trigger)
- The motherly presence that is within the path of healing
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About Annette Knopp:
Annette Knopp is the author of Mystic Nomad: A Woman’s Wild Journey to True Connection and co-founder of Blue Spirit Retreat Center in Costa Rica. A meditation teacher, somatic educator, and nature mystic rooted in 30 years of personal contemplative practice, she weaves Indo-Tibetan meditation, Andean earth-based practices, and modern Western approaches to trauma resolution into transformative teaching and mentorship. Her work bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary healing in service of human dignity, wholeness, and embodied connection.
Grab a copy of Annette’s book, Mystic Nomad: A Woman’s Wild Journey to True Connection, or join her in Costa Rica for an upcoming retreat.
“These imprints are laid down in phases before we have the brain development to have even a narrative around it. When we work in trauma with people, it’s all about making what has been implicit, explicit.” –Annette Knopp
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