The podcast
LIVING PROOF
with Evan Power & Colin Ferring
You can understand a pattern perfectly—and still watch yourself repeat it.
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59 min 26 secYou Understand Your Patterns. Why Are You Still Stuck?
You know what you do when you’re overwhelmed. You may even know where it started. So why does the same pattern keep taking over?
In this conversation
In the first episode of LIVING PROOF, somatic psychotherapists Evan Power and Colin Ferring explore the gap between understanding yourself and responding differently in the moment. They discuss the self-abandonment loop, why acceptance can make change possible, and how avoidance, secrecy, exhaustion, and social pressure keep familiar patterns in place.
The conversation moves from the role of therapy and group work to genuine rest, everyday practice, supportive relationships, and the ways self-improvement can become another form of self-rejection.
Episode chapters12 CHAPTERS
- Welcome to LIVING PROOF and meet the hosts
- Understanding and the self-abandonment loop
- Seeing patterns as they happen
- Acceptance in therapy and group work
- Avoidance, burnout, and genuine rest
- When familiar coping habits stop helping
- Social pressure and personal values
- Secrecy and the parts we hide
- Building a practice of presence
- Social media and supportive communities
- When self-improvement becomes self-rejection
- Presence, friendship, and closing
About the show
Knowing yourself.
Living differently.
You can understand a pattern perfectly—and still watch yourself repeat it.
You know why you retreat when someone gets close, why you work so hard to earn approval, or why you keep hiding what you most want to create. But understanding where those patterns came from doesn’t necessarily make you free.
So what actually changes us?
LIVING PROOF is a podcast with somatic psychotherapists Evan Power and Colin Ferring exploring the space between knowing yourself and living differently.
Drawing on depth and somatic psychotherapy, contemplative traditions, and honest personal inquiry, we explore how shame and the strategies we developed to protect ourselves can quietly shape our identities, relationships, and possibilities.
Through conversations about psychology, spirituality, intimacy, and creative expression, we ask what it takes to meet the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to reject, move beyond self-protection, and become more fully available to life.
Because the point of inner work isn’t simply to understand your story. It’s to become free to live a different one.