Gosh, for so long I thought to myself, "When is all this work going to pay off?"
For so long, I was stuck in a cycle of finding things wrong with myself and calling it "inner work." If you swing between clingy and distant in your relationships, it might sound very familiar.
It's easy to find yourself in a self-perpetuating cycle of "working on yourself." And to a certain degree, I think that's what all the systems want. To keep you reliant on them, feeling like you're not good enough, and in order to be good enough, you need something outside of you to fix your problems.
But when you finally learn to feel safe in your own skin and body, and become self-resourced. You become the source.
So if you're in that cycle, or you've found yourself there, I want you to know that you're not alone. I've shared in your frustration. And there is light at the end of the tunnel. In this article, I'm going to share with you exactly what that light is on the other side.
What healing actually means
First, I want to define healing. Healing is when your nervous system finally feels safe. When you're able to accept yourself as you are, and relate to yourself, others, and life from a place of connection and love, rather than self-preservation and fear.
When you're healed, you are connected to yourself, and you know that no matter what happens, you'll be okay. Because you trust that you have your own back, and know how to be there for you.
From this place of self-connection and love, you have a sense of emotional and physical freedom where life becomes filled with more presence, joy and peace. You're no longer searching outside of you to source how you want to feel. You know that you are the source.
And so, you relate to life not from lack, but from wholeness and abundance.
What actually becomes available
Now that we've defined what it actually looks like, what's available to you when you relate to life that way?
Here's what that actually looks like.
You stop waiting for your life to begin.
Instead of feeling like everything is outside your control and that you're at the effect of life, you begin to feel safe in your own body, safe in stillness, and you stop needing to control everything and everyone around you to make you feel okay. Instead, you slow down, you pause, you breathe, and you start to relax.
The little girl running the show finally gets to rest.
You stop reacting from that scared, contracted place and spending the next three days feeling ashamed of how you handled it. When something triggers you, you feel it move through your body, you pause, and you respond like the woman you are, not the child who learned that love was unpredictable. You handle it on the spot. You walk away feeling proud of yourself, not defeated.
You give yourself permission to have needs.
You stop pushing through, stop telling yourself you're fine when you're not, stop being the last person on your own list. You start noticing what's actually going on inside you. When you're tired, when something feels off, when you need to stop. And instead of overriding it, you respond to it. Your needs stop feeling like a burden you need to apologise for. They become something you act on, because you matter to yourself now. You're worthy of that level of care and attention.
Your worth stops being tied to people-pleasing.
You stop measuring your value by how much you give, how helpful you are, how well you hold everything together. The people-pleasing, the over-giving, the performing to be chosen, it starts to fall away. You own your own opinion of yourself, and because you do, how you feel about yourself becomes more important than what others think of you. You stop looking to other people for reassurance and validation, because you can validate yourself.
You stop tolerating what once felt normal.
And because your worth deepens, you stop absorbing other people's moods and making them mean something about you. His bad day stays with him. Her cold response stays hers. You feel it, and you stay with yourself anyway. You stop accepting low effort and poor behaviour, not from a rigid, defended place, but because you know what's okay and what isn't. You know what feels good and what doesn't. And you name it. Calmly. Clearly. Without shrinking or overexplaining.
Your heart opens to love differently.
You stop chasing safety, validation, and love outside of yourself, and you learn to give yourself that instead. You no longer leave yourself to get those needs met. You become self-sourced. And from that place, your cup is full before anyone else gets near it. You're able to give love freely, without the fear that it'll be taken away or that you'll be left empty. Because you know you are the source. Love flows through a man. It doesn't come from him. It was always coming from you.
You stop relating from lack and start relating from wholeness.
Because you feel whole within yourself, you live with a full cup. There's no more resentment because you're exhausted and no one seems to notice. No more blame, because you're no longer waiting for someone else to meet the needs only you can meet. The focus shifts. Instead of always focusing on what's missing, you know how to give yourself what you need. So when you show up for people, you're giving from overflow, not depletion. Life starts to feel genuinely good. Lighter. More spacious. The kind of life that isn't about what you have. It's about how you feel inside the life you're already living.
If you're tired of understanding your patterns
You can know your patterns inside out and still find yourself repeating them in love. That's the knowing-doing gap, and no tenth book closes it.
This is what the practice is for. You lie on a mat, I guide you, and you learn to stay with what you feel instead of overriding it. Weekly, until staying becomes your new default.
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