For much of my early life, I tried to think my way into feeling whole. I worked hard, pushed for achievement, and shaped myself into what I believed would finally feel like “enough.” From the outside, it looked like I had built a successful life. But in doing so, I disconnected from the very part of me that could guide me toward true healing: my body’s wisdom. My efforts to avoid pain, control emotions, and meet impossible standards left me feeling further from myself than ever.

Over time, life brought challenges that no amount of striving or intellectual understanding could resolve. The kinds of experiences that gently, and sometimes forcefully, reveal the limits of control: interrupted plans, losses, grief, and physical struggles that invited me to see things differently. I began to understand that healing wasn’t something to achieve. It was something to return to — a remembering of what had always been there beneath the layers of striving and protection.
Real change began when I stopped trying to fix myself and started listening. When I welcomed in the parts of me I’d pushed aside, and when I let my mind, body, and spirit work together rather than in isolation. In those moments, I learned that feeling broken is sometimes the beginning of becoming whole.

This understanding reshaped my life and my work. I sought out practices that could hold this deeper kind of healing — somatic therapies, Internal Family Systems (IFS), yoga, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, trauma releasing practices, and wove them into an integrative approach that honors the complexity of what it means to heal.

Today, I work with people who sense there’s more waiting for them beneath the surface. People who may have tried other paths but are ready now to come home to themselves — fully, courageously, and with compassion. My mission is to walk with you on that return.

from striving to wholeness

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