I’ve opened up about my healing journey—how I’ve navigated pain, reclaimed my power, and learned to trust my body’s wisdom. Sharing these pieces of myself has been vulnerable, but also deeply healing, and I hope they’ve brought comfort to your own journey.

This final chapter reflects on the lessons I’ve gathered along the way and how I’ve integrated them into my life. It’s a story of resilience, self-trust, and the ongoing work of healing.

Thank you for being here, for reading, and for allowing me to share so openly. I’m deeply grateful for this community and the connection we’ve built through these stories.

Let’s continue to honor the wisdom within ourselves and support one another in our growth.

Trigger warning: This series will trigger you in one way or another, please read with care…and be gentle with yourself.

Integrating My Healing Journey

The more I worked with my therapist, the more pieces of the puzzle fell into place. Everything started to make sense. I began to slowly release sensations of PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression (more recently, with the help of anti-depressants). I began to gain a deeper understanding of why I had been such a perfectionist, why I had constantly tried to please people, why I had felt an overwhelming need to save my family—it all connected back to that trauma. The abuse I had gone through plus the accumulating trauma from my dysfunctional family and our dysfunctional society had shaped every part of who I was. It even explained why I had felt so closed off and why I struggled to see beyond what I had been taught.

As I continued my healing process, it was hard to wrap my head around how I was still standing, how I survived it all. There was a deep sense of empowerment that came from realizing that I made it through and was now doing the work to heal. I oscillated between disempowerment and empowerment for months remembering my childhood (negative and positive experiences).

It wasn’t easy to accept, but it was necessary. One of the hardest parts of my healing has been learning to trust myself again. Throughout my life, I had always been told what to believe, what to do, and how to live. My body had been occupied and controlled by someone who tried to break me down and shrink me. And because of that, part of my healing journey has been to reclaim my body and trust in my own intuition– reclaiming my choice and power.

For so long, I felt like I was living for others—trying to please them, trying to make them happy, trying to fix things that weren’t mine to fix. I lived in a space where I didn’t question anything, and that was my trauma leading my life. But through this journey, I’ve learned that I don’t need anyone to tell me what to believe, what to do, or how to live. The work I’ve done with my therapist has been incredibly transformative in this regard. I learned how to listen to my body—how to trust my heart, my gut, my intuition, and my senses. I don’t seek answers outside of myself anymore because I am aware that the answers I seek are within me and always have been. This is why I claim that my spirituality and my work is anti-oppressive, non-hierarchical, and rooted in ancestral knowledge. I am not here to convince or convert anyone to believe me or my work. What you believe and who you believe is your choice.

A lot of this healing work happened during a time when I had been trying to conceive. I wanted to have a baby but couldn’t. And so, much of my focus had shifted toward emotional healing to prepare my body for fertility. I now believe that all the emotional work I have done is the reason I am able to bring life into this world in this phase of my life. I believe that our unresolved and unacknowledged emotional pain is the cause of our dis-ease; personal, generational, systemic, and ancestral. That’s why I am so passionate about creating this movement of remembering how to heal our bodies—because I truly believe our ancestors knew how to live, how to heal, and how to be connected with the universe. They understood the power of the body and spirit in ways that I am still learning to embrace.

As I continue to deepen my practice and integrate the teachings I have received, I find that the more I trust myself, the more I feel aligned with who I am. Every decision I make then comes from a place of self-trust. It is no longer about following what others say, or reading about what others believe. It is about listening to my body and honoring what it tells me. These are the lessons from my ancestors.

As a result of all my healing experiences, how I relate to people, places, and energy has changed. My relationship to my family, spirituality, the land, money, coffee, alcohol, and so much more has shifted in ways where fear, guilt, or shame no longer lead my life or my decisions. How I relate to the world is dictated by my choice and power.

I am grateful for the lessons I have learned. I have come to understand that healing is about continuing to trust myself, showing up for the parts of me that need healing, and listening to the wisdom I have carried with me all along.

Despite everything I have gone through, I am still here and I am whole.

WHAT’S TO COME NEXT

I continue to heal myself so I can continue to help others heal; ultimately, I hope to leave behind a legacy of healing wisdom to help humanity evolve. This is my life’s work.

What I’ve come to understand through my work is that healing is about remembering the wisdom and power that already exists within us.

Our bodies know how to heal.

Our ancestors knew how to work with this innate wisdom, but this has been overshadowed by societal and western ideologies that tell us we are not capable.

This belief has disconnected us from our bodies.

My life’s work has inspired me to create a course dedicated to teaching these practices—how to reconnect with the wisdom within your body, navigate your emotions, and begin healing in ways that are empowering and transformative.

It’s about reclaiming what has always been ours— Emotional & Somatic Intelligence.

I can’t wait to share more with you about this course I’ve created with my whole heart & soul.

Let’s remember the strength and guidance within us.

TEACHABLE MOMENTS

Somatic healing, energy healing, and emotional healing are all ancestral ways of healing. The practices I have learned throughout my journey, although many come from Western psychology, are not new to my body. My body remembers how to heal.

It has taken me about three years of intentionally and consistently listening to my body to heal from this emotional and physical pain. I have moved energy in my body that had been stored for decades. I’m still moving some of that old energy today. And I am willing to continue to do this work for the rest of my life in order to heal generations of abuse in my family.

Notice the sensations in your body, take a deep breath and repeat after me, “The abuse stops with me, I am passing down emotional and mental we