What might change when the part of us that believes, I don’t matter, is gently welcomed home?

In Part Three of Our Inner Ecology, Colleen Akiko and Jhana Bowen enter tender territory with care: the fear that we don’t matter, and how that fear can quietly keep us from connection.

Colleen shares an experience during a sound-healing session in Maui, where she encountered a very young part of herself carrying the words, “I don’t matter.” Jhana explores what may become possible when sadness is welcomed home rather than exiled—and how the darker passages in a painting, or a life, can allow the fuller picture to come alive.

Together, they reflect on courage, protection, connection, creativity, and the quiet practice of continuing to show up—even when we don’t know what comes next.

And perhaps, if it feels helpfu ...