Inner healing is the act of letting go of past conditioning, creating a new, empowering belief system for ourselves, and embracing the unknowns of the future with the confidence that we’re strong and capable – no matter what comes our way.

Is there a voice inside your head saying, This isn’t for me – other people can heal, but I can’t? That voice is your pain talking – and it’s wrong.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,

‘I’ve always been hated.’ There. That was it. She’d said out loud the thing she’d been most ashamed of for years; the thing that she’d been carrying with her, secretly, hoping no one else would notice. I knew this was a pivotal moment in her journey

Because in our modern world we tend to simplify the idea of the whole human – and that means we’re not very good at working with all our complexities, and different layers, and the subtle parts of ourselves

Here’s the thing about trauma: we’ve all suffered it in some form or other, but almost none of us were taught from a young age how to handle it.

Certain highs, produced by taking synthetic or natural drugs, or alcohol, or feeding an addiction to food, sex, work, or social media (to name but a few), make us feel as though we’ve transcended our struggles. But that feeling is temporary. At best, it leaves us needing more of that high

gained a new kind of steadiness, and that steadiness has been the anchor that’s kept me strong

Her main goals were to get fit and to get out more; she felt she’d become reclusive and had developed anxiety in relation to going out and socializing. She wanted to feel confident and happy, and enjoy spending time with other people.