22/05/2026
The image I share in this post is what I felt and saw during a recent somatic session.
It’s so interesting that they’ve come up during this VITA Coaching Certification. Maybe that’s part of the undoing. The process. Maybe that’s the initiation.
You go into the pleasure states and yet that is also where you meet yourself in the darkness. Your inner demons. The parts of yourself that are hidden.
That is you, yourself, in your suffering, in your pain, torturing yourself.
This is probably not what a lot of people are willing to share, talk about, uncover, unpack, or face because it’s too raw, too real, too painful.
It’s embarrassing.
It’s vulnerable.
It’s tender.
It feels like too much.
Not socially acceptable.
To admit that there are parts of you that feel so broken, ashamed, angry, grief-stricken, disconnected, fearful, or tormented.
But the truth is, they exist and needs to be felt and faced.
It needs to be brought to the surface when you're ready. To be dealt with, and held with so much love, compassion, acceptance, tenderness, and unconditional love.
To be held.
To be heard.
To be seen.
To be felt.
Because that is where movement begins.
That is where peace, love, acceptance, and integration begin to move through the heart, mind, body, nervous system, soul, and pleasure.
The darkness needs to be felt and witnessed.
It needs a voice.
A presence.
A safe place to land.
It needs to be felt so the sadness, anger, grief, and suffering can be acknowledged and move through the body and nervous system.
To allow the embarrassment of feeling this way to be felt too.
To have someone hold you as you move through it.
To have someone sit with you as you connect to it, acknowledge it, and ride the wave of emotions whilst feeling safe enough.
And somewhere on the other side of that process, there is this beautiful softening of the heart.
A cracking open.
A release point.
A shift in consciousness.
A shift in the perception of reality and what it means to be human in this world.
Because healing is not always love, light, and unicorns.
**Continued in the comments**