Foundations of Healing

🎧 Heal Your Past, Free Yourself! - Series #1

Dear friends,

Welcome to the Heal Your Past series! This topic was requested by a majority of you in a recent reader survey - thank you for your input. These posts will land in your inbox or on Substack where I store these letters, on Mondays at 5pm GMT for the next five weeks.

I’ll take you though useful steps to help heal your past, so you can free yourself from it, and step into a brighter future, despite everything.

Whilst I believe that time is a great healer, I’ve compiled useful things here that I have used with clients in therapy that helped them heal their past, so I know they can help you too. In this series, we will gently address our unfinished business, move on from difficult memories and step out of shame. We will heal our past, and move into a brighter future armed with tools we can revisit again and again.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our relationship with it.

Heal Your Past Series Summary

• 1. Foundations for Healing - develop therapeutic skills to integrate and heal

• 2. Leave the Past in the Past: Let’s finish our unfinished business

• 3. Managing Difficult Memories - techniques from the therapy room to shrink difficult memories

• 4. Moving from Shame to Belonging

• 5. Creating Our Future: Forgiveness (?) and Moving On

• Also peppered with somatic tools to support your work.

• Join the comments for support, accountability, and any questions you may have.

• Listen to the audio at the top (questions and expertises might be excluded).

“The essence of our practice can be described as transforming suffering into happiness. It’s not a complicated practice, but it requires us to cultivate mindfulness, concentration, and insight. It requires first of all that we come home to ourselves, that we make peace with our suffering, treating it tenderly, and looking deeply at the roots of our pain. It requires that we let go of useless, unnecessary sufferings and take a closer look at our idea of happiness.” - Thich Nhat Hanh