Before

Like many people, I grew up in a family where love was present but often clumsy. Everyone did the best they could but they didn't always have the right tools. That resulted in many positive things, but also, quite a few "ordinary traumas" (i.e. the unattended wounds of a typical life that we shove under the rug and that end up driving us in the background).

I became a high achiever, obsessed with people's opinion of me, desperately trying to fit in but feeling like I never really belonged anywhere. 

My relationships were rocky, I was mostly unsatisfied at work, chronically stressed and totally disconnected from my body and I'd only feel my emotions when they became inner raging storms. Patterns of self-sabotage and bruising relationships kept repeating. 

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Until I realised that if I wanted things to change, and I had to look inside to explore what I was trying to ignore. 

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Now

I've appeased a lot of my core wounds, like abandonment and rejection, and I'm not afraid to be real and vulnerable.

My ability to create deep, genuine relationships has become one of my main strengths. 

I'm reconnected to my body, which means I take more aligned decisions and don't seek as much external validation, because I know how to give it to myself first. 

My nervous system and my reactions to stress are more peaceful, my emotions are softer, and I know how to calm the storms when they start. 

I deeply know that I am a wonderful woman even though I'm far from perfect, and I have so much more kindness and curiosity towards myself and the patterns that still emerge. 

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On a daily basis, life has become very different and so much sweeter, joyful and at peace.

There is no doubt I owe that to my own Internal Family Systems therapy and the somatic tools I've been using for almost 5years. 

If you ask me, this is the best decision I ever took. And that's why I'm so obsessed with it as a professional. 

BECAUSE IT WORKS.