Healing Is the New High

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,

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.

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.

her struggle with being in a group of people, and her fear of being the one who was left out and judged and secretly shunned. It wasn’t a fear of new people, or a fear of people at all – it was a fear that she wasn’t good enough to be an equal part of something. She’d been pushed to the edges of something she thought was safe and loving, and she’d

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.

when a group of friends are in on it, and lying to you… How can you convince yourself that they were all doing something bad and not just behaving in the way that you deserve?

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.

‘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