The Body Keeps the Receipts: Angela Graham on Kinesiology, Forgotten Trauma and the Wound That Becomes Medicine
She couldn't drive a car for almost twenty years.
Not for lack of wanting to. Something in her body simply wouldn't allow it, and no amount of talking it through had ever shifted it. Then she sat with a kinesiologist who took her back to a car crash she had completely forgotten — a memory her mind had quietly filed away years before — and within six months she was holding her licence. How the Body Holds Forgotten Trauma
That's Angela Graham of Akaora Therapies. And the evening she joined us on #creativetalk — a fellow Kiwi we've shared a few classes with over the years — I knew within minutes we were sitting with someone who understands the thing Kebrasca and I watch happen at our own table every week: the body keeps the receipts. It holds what the mind decides is too much to look at. You can talk for years and never reach it, because it was never stored in words in the first place.
Kinesiology works at exactly that level. As Angela puts it, it bypasses the brain — the brain has so much to say, but the body knows what's underneath all of it. Through gentle muscle testing she has a kind of conversation with the body, navigating past the story the conscious mind is comfortable with and toward the emotion sitting under the thing you actually came in for. It's the same truth we keep meeting from every direction on this show, the same one Monique Elouise calls "the body keeps score." Different door, same room.
Twenty Years, One Forgotten Car Crash
What I loved about Angela is that she doesn't romanticise any of it. She'd tried talk therapy and a few other things to get past a fear of cars that made no sense to her — until a kinesiologist held the space for a meditation and a memory surfaced that she'd completely buried: a childhood crash, no seatbelts, her siblings screaming, her dad climbing out to confront the other driver rather than check on his kids. She'd been told, over and over, "you'll never drive." And for almost twenty years, she didn't. The moment she understood why, the whole thing loosened. Licence within six months.
In This Episode
- 02:19 — Welcome to #creativetalk03:06 — Last week recap: Phil & Kerry and Evidence of the Afterlife06:24 — Everyone is psychic: Phil & Kerry's key teaching09:22 — Mind Body Spirit Festival, Melbourne this weekend12:59 — Meet Angela Graham of Akaora Therapies14:11 — What kinesiology actually is16:12 — How muscle testing works in a session17:25 — Asking the body for consent before you begin19:19 — Angela's story: couldn't drive for 20 years20:09 — The forgotten car crash that held everything back21:24 — Her licence within six months of one session25:31 — Growing up around alcohol addiction26:14 — Living in fight-or-flight as a child28:13 — Kebrasca: "I thought everyone's mum got beaten up"30:06 — Does your trauma make you a better healer?33:25 — What used to hurt you becomes your medicine34:29 — Māori & Cook Island heritage and disconnection35:05 — Finding her tribe through ancestral healing41:45 — Kebrasca & his father: healing a relationship after death43:14 — Moon and medicine circles explained48:40 — Spiritual entrepreneurship & the patience lesson52:09 — Why great healers aren't all going viral55:10 — The pressure to appear "healed"58:15 — What's next: stepping into mediumship1:01:49 — LIVE tarot reading for Angela's business1:07:17 — The Star card: collaboration & expansion ahead1:11:14 — Where to find Angela
Find Angela Graham at akaoratherapies.com.au and across her socials, where she shares her offerings and moon circle dates. Book a reading with Amber at glowbyamber.com, or explore Kebrasca's healing work at kebrascaking.com. #creativetalk is live every Thursday at 5PM AEST — where consciousness meets commerce.