PEACE

Picture the sea on a stormy day, towering waves crashing down, chaotic, pushed by roaring winds. But as you descend beneath, something remarkable happens.

Within tens of metres, the movement is dramatically reduced. Even further down the ocean is calm, silent and still.

Think of the surface as everything that pulls at our attention: our thinking mind. Our mental chatter, worries, fears, emotions.

Most of us spend our lives at the surface.

We become so caught up in the waves that we begin to believe we are the waves.

But no matter what is happening on the surface, beneath it there is a place of complete stillness.

A place of peace.

Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of brave people whose nervous systems have carried the imprints of some of humanity’s darkest acts. Survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Incest. War. The murder of loved ones. Miscarriage. Violence. Forced marriage. Chronic illness. Grief that has lived in the body for decades.

I have watched people arrive having tried many different therapies and treatments – utterly exhausted by the relentless noise of their own minds.

And yet, time and time again, I have witnessed the same extraordinary truth. For all the horrors, pain and trauma every single person had within them a place of stillness and peace.

When the nervous system begins to feel safe, when the body softens and the mind quietens, people often discover that they do not have to create peace.

They uncover it.

It has been there all along.

There are many paths to this place. Meditation. Time in nature. Prayer. Breathwork. Psychedelic-assisted therapy. Stillness. Presence.

The path is different for each of us. The destination is the same.

My work is not to give you peace. You already have it. My work is to help your system remember where to find it.