When God Brings the Unconscious to Light
As a facilitator in both Embody Processing and Root Cause Therapy, I’ve found it essential to share these modalities and their tools with Christian women who are seeking true transformation, not just in mind, but in body and spirit.
Understanding the plains within, the conscious and the unconscious, has been key to lasting healing. We often speak in Christian circles about transformation and renewing the mind,
but many still don’t know how to do it in practice.
A quote often used in our work by Carl Jung beautifully mirrors what Scripture has proclaimed all along:
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
In biblical terms, this is repentance and revelation —
a divine awakening where what is hidden in darkness is brought into the light of truth, allowing wholeness and transformation through Christ.
I’ve touched before on discernment and the subconscious, but it’s worth exploring the practical ways we can live this out. Too often, we hear about the love or hope of Jesus, yet we aren’t shown how to experience it, especially for those who have known deep loss, hurt, or rejection. How can one truly feel love when love was never safely modelled?
This is where I love embodied processing. It’s not about fixing what’s broken, or trying to replace what’s missing, it’s about understanding the inner terrain, the soma, and coming home to the truth of who we are in Him.
Scripture calls us to move from reactive, unconscious living, where we act from learned roles, traits, and survival patterns into a renewed, aware state rooted in truth and Spirit.
Many of us live through identities shaped by past experiences, pain, or expectation, mistaking them for who we are.
These reactive states control, striving, people-pleasing, over-caring are not our true selves but protective patterns.
The Bible continually invites awareness:
“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2
“Put off your old self... and be made new in the attitude of your minds.” Ephesians 4:22–24
“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.” Lamentations 3:40
“Everything exposed by the light becomes visible and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.” Ephesians 5:13–14
This isn’t about self-improvement or behaviour modification;
It’s about awakening to truth seeing what drives us, bringing it into light, and allowing God to restore our original design.
Through this conscious living, we move from:
Flesh → Spirit
Reaction → Response
Pattern → Presence
Identity built on fear → Identity rooted in Christ
It’s not striving to be better, but becoming aware of what we’ve been living from and letting grace renew it from within.
Isn’t that what it means to bring the unconscious to consciousness?
A New Way of Thinking
Romans 12:2 has always been one of my favourite scriptures, but my understanding of it has deepened.
“Do not be shaped by this world. Instead, be changed within by a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide what God wants for you, what is good, pleasing, and perfect.”
It’s not about willpower or intellect, it’s about inward awareness.
Each of us reacts differently to life’s challenges, retreating, people-pleasing, becoming aggressive, or avoiding altogether.
We often label these reactions as “bad” or “sinful,” but beneath them lies something holy: an unexpressed need or quality God placed within us.
All things are from God, even our emotions. They are messengers, inviting us into deeper relationship and understanding. When we begin to discern what’s truly beneath our reactions,
we see that what affects us isn’t the behaviour of another, but our own internal conflict in how we respond.
When we can’t sit with, inquire into, or understand this,
we deepen our pain and turn it into identity. Beliefs are formed, patterns reinforced, and the cycle continues.
We each have within us a true identity in Christ, given talents and divine traits. Even in our unwanted behaviours lie distorted expressions of something good.
Take control, for example. It’s often seen as negative, yet when redeemed,
it carries confidence, purpose, and courage.
Embodiment teaches us to see differently, to look beyond the mask.
When someone seems controlling or defensive,
perhaps beneath that is a God-given strength misused through pain or fear. And when we feel triggered by it, it may reveal our own longing to embody those same traits within ourselves.
If both hearts could see what’s beneath the behaviour, if both could access the unconscious and bring it into light, grace and understanding would have room to move.
Patterns become ingrained, beliefs are shaped, and cycles continue unless
we pause, discern, inquire, and reintegrate our understanding of the goodness within what we avoid or fear.
That pause that moment of awareness, is where transformation begins.
This is the work of grace, the journey from reaction to renewal, from unconscious living to embodied faith.
If this speaks to you and you’re ready to explore the deeper layers of healing, to understand the why beneath your patterns and reconnect with your God-given wholeness, I’d love to walk alongside you.
