Category: 🌀 The Spiral Path
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I Thought Healing Was Woo-Woo: Until I Had No Choice
When logic stops working, and your body won’t let you look away. I thought I understood emotions.In a… structured way.Something you could name, and move past. Breathwork.Energy work.Inner child conversations. They felt far away from me.Like something other people needed. I preferred things I could explain.If I couldn’t understand it,I didn’t trust it. So I…
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Changed Memory: Recognizing the Trauma I Pretended Didn’t Happen
What happens when someone reflects back the story you refused to see? I received an email with the subject line: Introduction. It was from an acquaintance I had met at a networking event in California two years earlier. We barely interacted that night. I remember feeling slightly intimidated by her. Over dinner, she casually described…
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Burnout and Emotional Numbness: When Doing Life Stops Working
I was doing everything right, but I couldn’t feel anything anymore. Nature.People.Sunshine.Movement. California is still beautiful.I know that. But I’m not responding to any of it. I went whale watching because it’s an epic thing to do here.The water was choppy. I sat at the front, convinced I’d be fine. Fifteen minutes later, I wasn’t.…
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Still Breathing: Near-Death Experience Recovery
Learning to live after almost drowning, when survival doesn’t feel like relief. I keep thinking about how lucky I must be.A small-town girl from a fishing village in Borneo, the first in my family to get a master’s degree, who lived a whole decade in London and now wakes up under California sun. Sometimes it…