Let me say this simply: there is no tool, teacher, or therapy which can heal the complexity of your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wounds with sudden and ultimate conclusion.

There are no quick fixes for complex trauma.

There are no quick fixes for existential dread.

You won’t find your purpose within a year.

Don’t believe the pageantry of social media catharsis: screaming and sobbing on the yoga mat is an important and eye-catching aspect of the healing journey, but dramatic breakthroughs must be progressed via systematic transformation over multiple year timelines.

Even the most transformative somatic therapies require multiple months of consistent application: please be wary of teachers who sell you short-cuts and rapid-timelines.

Your emotions are important, and you shouldn’t avoid feeling your feelings, but temporary release and temporary insight is not the same as permanent knowledge and permanent emotional restructuring.

Opening a window isn’t the same as removing your rotten carpet.

Making your bed isn’t the same as changing your mouldy mattress.

Painting your room isn’t the same as repairing your broken walls.

If you’re committed to doing your healing work, please don’t place too much emphasis on the kinds of ‘healing breakthroughs’ which you see plastered across social media.

Enduring health - meaningful self integration - comes only with the devotion to become a student of multiple theories and therapies, each of which will support you at a different stage of your healing process.

Focus on the chronic, problematic patterns.

Accept the tremendous time commitment - accept that you will need to sacrifice even more years of your life for this inner work - but likewise hold yourself steady: maintain your hopeful conviction that your healing efforts will not be wasted.

Continue to sacrifice these dark months - spend every second of these dark years - but lose not the sight of your own footsteps as you stride towards your self inheritance.

Recover your essence.

Reclaim your consciousness.

Dark years, illuminated decades.

The best awaits your presence ahead.

Jordan