Naomi Holdt - Psychologist and Speaker

Naomi Holdt - Psychologist and Speaker Psychologist | Speaker | Author | Personal & Professional Growth Mentor
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ABOUT NAOMI
Naomi is a psychologist, author and speaker with over 20 years experience in education, educational psychology and psychotherapy with a special interest in the emotional well - being of children and young adults. With an initial teaching background she has insightful knowledge on the role of both parents and teachers in supporting, nurturing and helping young people reach their potential. Naomi qualified cm laude with an MA in Educational Psychology from University of KwaZulu-Natal and is in private practice in Hilton, South Africa. She has spoken countrywide and her online parenting courses have now reached an international following. Naomi is a mother of two young children and regards this as a privilege and her most important role. DISCLAIMER
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12/04/2026

Some of us were never meant to live at the surface.

We see more, feel more, question more, and spend years trying to fit into spaces, patterns, and ways of being that were never truly ours.

That’s where the pain begins: masking, self-abandonment, feeling not good enough, pathologising your depth.

But freedom comes when you stop trying to be who you were never meant to be.

If this speaks to you, Radical Reclamation is for you.
Starts 1 May.

Comment RADICAL and I’ll send you the link to claim your spot šŸ‘‡

In just a few weeks…I step into my 49th year. And I’m about to guide a group of dozens of incredible humans through a 30...
11/04/2026

In just a few weeks…
I step into my 49th year.

And I’m about to guide a group of dozens of incredible humans through a 30-day experience that asks them to do the deepest kind of work there is…
the work of coming home to themselves.

And here’s the truth no one talks about enough:
I don’t have it all figured out myself either…

Just yesterday, I found myself saying to my assistant,
ā€œI feel like my mojo has walked out the door… I need to find it...ā€

After everything.
After the work.
After the rebuilding.
After so, so much…

Because here’s the thing about this journey-
It doesn’t end.

I realised a while ago that I had to tear down every part of my life before I could begin to build again.
And truthfully… I’m still figuring it out.

I had to lose every version of who I thought I was
before I could start meeting who I am.

And even now-
I know who I am…
and I also know I am evolving… every.single.day.

That’s the part we don’t prepare people for.
The becoming is not neat.
It’s not certain.
It’s not comfortable.

It can feel like you’re walking a road with no map.
Because your brain craves familiarity…
but your growth demands something entirely different.

And sometimes life doesn’t gently guide you out of your comfort zone…
it rips you out of it so fast it feels like something has been injected straight into your veins…

Growth.
Expansion.
Change.

And what I have learnt is this:

This work isn’t about perfection.
It’s about presence.
It’s about noticing when old patterns rise again…
and choosing, gently, differently.

Sometimes that looks like saying it out loud.

Sometimes it’s sitting with whatever arises- gently, compassionately.

Sometimes it’s stepping away and doing the one thing that brings you back to yourself.
(For me… that’s often the ocean. Fully submerging. And yesterday, that’s exactly where I found my mojo again.)

Not to escape-
but to remember.

And that’s the work I’m walking right now.

And next month… I won’t be walking it alone.

I’ll be walking it in Radical Reclamation- alongside a group of humans ready for more- more freedom, more joy, more truth… and willing to do the work to get there.

I’m not walking ahead of anyone.
Not above anyone.
But right next to.

Still learning.
Still unlearning.
Still becoming…

Yes- every.single.day.

With love always,
Naomi ā¤ļø

How SAD is this...Understanding your patterns so clearly……and still living inside them.Spending years becoming more self...
10/04/2026

How SAD is this...

Understanding your patterns so clearly…
…and still living inside them.

Spending years becoming more self-aware…
yet never interrupting the thing still running your life.

Knowing exactly why you shrink, overthink, shape-shift, or people-please…
…and still letting it decide your choices.

Continuing to negotiate with the very pattern you know is exhausting you.

Still telling yourself:
ā€œI just need more clarity first.ā€

Believing you need another book, another insight, another breakthrough…
before you're ready to actually change something.

Circling the same internal terrain…
year after year.

Postponing the life you actually want…
because the old pattern still feels familiar.

Abandoning your truth just to stay comfortable, agreeable, or predictable.

Shrinking your voice, your power, your desires…
because you’re still relating to the old script.

Being this aware…
and still this stuck.

šŸ‘† Thank me later for the reminder.

Because you’re far more capable of change than you’re currently allowing.

You know how much you're overthinking.
You know how much you're negotiating.
You know how much you're circling.

And you know you're done with it.

It’s time to interrupt the pattern.

If you’re ready to stop understanding your life and start reclaiming it…

Radical Reclamation is open.

30 days.
3 LIVE calls.
BONUS live call if your seat is locked in by 15 April.
Real pattern interruption.
Real identity shifts.

Not more awareness.

Actual, Reclamation.

šŸ‘‰ Join dozens of others who're already inside and prepared to get to work: https://naomiholdt.thrivecart.com/radical-reclamation/

Can’t wait to share the journey with you šŸ’ƒā¤ļø

At some point, staying the same becomes more painful than changing. Let’s not sugar coat this. Because I’ve done the sea...
09/04/2026

At some point, staying the same becomes more painful than changing.

Let’s not sugar coat this. Because I’ve done the season of sugarcoating and sweetening up what is actually almightily un-sugary…

Change… growth… becoming…

It’s not for the feint-hearted.

But- and this was it for me- there comes a moment when the cost of the pattern gets louder…
Not always because life explodes.

Sometimes because you get honest…

Honest about how exhausting it is to keep doing the same thing.

Honest about how much energy it takes to keep managing the old version of you.

Honest about how many opportunities, relationships, conversations, decisions, and desires are being shaped by something that no longer feels true.

And honest when you truly own up that this is no longer a way you want to survive through life…

When your desire to LIVE becomes the loudest force propelling you.

This is the part I want you to really sit with: If nothing changes, what happens next?

Not in a dramatic ā€˜shamey’ way.

In a real way…
In a way that really gets you holding your breath a fraction longer and thinking this through face-to-face with your future self…

If nothing changes:

šŸ‘‰ what do your relationships look like 6 months from now?
šŸ‘‰ what does your self-trust look like?
šŸ‘‰ what decisions are you still postponing?
šŸ‘‰ what truth are you still not telling?
šŸ‘‰ what desire are you still negotiating with?
šŸ‘‰ what kind of life are you continuing to build from an old pattern?

Because staying the same is not neutral.

It comes at a cost- a heavy one…

It costs energy.
It costs aliveness.
It costs intimacy.
It costs momentum.
It costs time- something that some of us are all too aware of is our most valuable asset…

And sometimes the most loving thing we can do- for ourselves and those around us- is stop pretending the old pattern is harmless just because it’s familiar.

Sometimes the comfort of familiarity is the fastest way to endanger our aliveness.

You do not have to wait until things get worse to decide you are done.

Radical Reclamation starts 1 May.

For 30 days we step out of autopilot and start interrupting the patterns that keep shaping our choices, our relationships, and the way we show up in our own lives.

Inside the experience you’ll receive:

✨ Daily voice notes and prompts to help you catch the pattern while it’s happening
✨ A private Telegram space for real-time integration
✨ A private Facebook community for accountability and shared growth
✨ 3 live calls together (28 April, 14 May and 1 June - all recorded)

The investment is $33 / R555 for the full 30 days.
And because it’s my birthday month, I’ve intentionally made this accessible - because this is work I want more people to experience.

šŸ”„ Join before 15 April and you’ll also be bonused into an additional live call on 23 April.

If something in this post made you pause…
If the cost of the old pattern is starting to feel louder than the comfort of keeping it…

Come join us inside Radical Reclamation.

Your future self will be glad you did.

Comment "RADICAL" below and I'll send the details and link straight to your inbox šŸ‘‡

And suddenly, there it was... I hadn’t expected it.It had been so well hidden.But once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it… Th...
06/04/2026

And suddenly, there it was...

I hadn’t expected it.
It had been so well hidden.
But once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it…

This past weekend, during one of my morning ocean swims, I caught sight of something lying quietly in the seaweed out of the corner of my eye.

A turtle.
Almost completely camouflaged.
Quiet. Graceful. Easy to miss.

And I thought:
how much beauty, how much truth, how much life do we miss when we move through the world half-seeing…
half- conscious… half awake to the wonders…

Had I not been paying attention, I would have missed the gift entirely.

But instead, I got to take it in.
The awe.
The aliveness.
The quiet joy of sharing space with something so beautiful as I slowly followed it through the turquoise waters.

It brought me back to a pattern I’ve consciously shifted since my radiation ended last year, and to a mantra I’ve embraced in as many areas of my life as I can:

Eyes Wide Open.

Eyes wide open to my patterns.
Eyes wide open to the stories I’ve been carrying.
Eyes wide open to what no longer fits.
Eyes wide open to the beauty that was always here, waiting for me to slow down enough to notice it.

Because this is what happens when we begin to reclaim ourselves.

We start to see clearly.

We see the ways we’ve been living on autopilot.
The ways we’ve been surviving instead of living.
The roles, rhythms, and reflexes that once protected us but now keep us bound to the same loop.

The hamster wheel.
The numbness.
The over-functioning.
The constant pushing through.
The habit of carrying what was never ours.

And when we begin to gently, honestly look again - not with shame, but with truth -something shifts…

We can put down what no longer serves.
We can reframe what once defined us.
We can let more light in.
More beauty in.
More joy in.
More life in.

Not because life was never offering it,
but because we were too busy surviving to see it.

That is what Radical Reclamation is about.

Not becoming someone else.
Not fixing yourself.
Not trying to look healed.

But waking up to your own life.
Seeing with fresh eyes.
Breaking patterns that keep you small, stuck, or disconnected.
And returning to the truest, most alive parts of yourself.

If something in you is tired of the hamster wheel…
If you know you’ve been living on autopilot…
If you can feel that there is more beauty, more truth, more life available than the version you’re currently allowing yourself to touch…

This room is for you.

Radical Reclamation begins 1 May.
Your invitation is here:
✨ https://naomiholdt.thrivecart.com/radical-reclamation/

With love and eyes wide open,
Naomi ā¤ļø

Some call it a midlife crisis…I call it the moment you can no longer ignore yourself. The moment where what used to be t...
04/04/2026

Some call it a midlife crisis…
I call it the moment you can no longer ignore yourself.

The moment where what used to be tolerable suddenly isn’t…

The people pleasing.
The overthinking.
The overriding your own needs.

The staying quiet when something in you wants to speak.
The knowing exactly what your patterns are…
And still watching yourself repeat them.

That’s not failure.
That’s the moment you realise awareness is no longer enough.

Because there comes a point where insight stops feeling satisfying.

You don’t need another journal entry about why you do it.
You don’t need another breakthrough that changes nothing.
You don’t need more self-awareness without self-leadership.

You need to choose differently…
In real conversations.
Real decisions.
Real relationships.
Real moments where you would normally abandon yourself and call it being nice, mature, patient, or understanding.

That is what Radical Reclamation is about.

Not performing healing.
Not collecting insight.
Not circling the same pattern with prettier language.

But actually interrupting what keeps pulling you away from yourself-
and becoming someone who moves differently.

Someone with clearer boundaries.
Stronger self-trust.
Less tolerance for what drains you.
And the courage to stop waiting until you feel ready.

If you know your patterns but still feel stuck inside them…
If your life hasn’t caught up with your awareness yet.…
If you are done abandoning yourself in real time…

Radical Reclamation is for you.

We begin 1 May.
30 days.
Live coaching.
Real-time applied work.
Actual change.

Come join us.

Link in comments.

With love,
Naomi šŸ’ƒā¤ļø

There was a version of me who thought growth meant becoming better at carrying everything… Better at holding it all.Bett...
02/04/2026

There was a version of me who thought growth meant becoming better at carrying everything…

Better at holding it all.
Better at being needed.
Better at pushing through.
Better at staying composed and being a peace-keeper.
Better at making sense of things quickly so I could move on and keep going...

And I’ve got to say- that version nearly burned out a few times…

She was left utterly exhausted, yet, still believing that this version of ā€˜carrying it all’, was her story of worth and value in the world…

But it was a story built in survival... Not truth. Not self-honouring. In fact, honestly, it was one of self-abandonment.

One of the deepest parts of this work is realizing that not every identity you’re praised for is actually who you are.

Read that again, because I know the truth hits hard on this one for more than just me…

Some identities are adaptations.
Some are armour.
Some are the roles you learned to play to stay loved, safe, chosen, successful, or in control.

And at some point, if you want a different life, a different kind of love, a different level of visibility, a different relationship to your work, to your life, you have to ask:

What story about myself am I done carrying?

Because the story is never just a story.

It becomes the lens…

The pattern.
The relationship dynamic.
The business dynamic.
The reason you over give.
The reason you hide.
The reason you grip.
The reason you avoid conflict.
The reason you keep recreating something you consciously say you no longer want.

For me, a big shift came when I started noticing that the story wasn’t just ā€œthis is who I am.ā€
It was actually ā€œthis is who I became.ā€

And if I became her, I can also become someone else.

And that- that becoming- THAT is where so much freedom lives.

Not in pretending the old story never existed.
Not in bypassing it.
Not in making yourself wrong for having it (Because those guilt demons love popping up here…)

But in lovingly telling the truth:

This identity may have helped me survive a chapter of my life,
but it is not the woman I want leading this one.

That’s the work.
That’s the healing.
That’s the embodiment.

And it changes everything…

how you show up in relationships
how you let yourself be seen
how you receive support
how you hold desire
how you let love in
how you lead
how you trust yourself
how you allow yourself to feel JOY…

So today I’m curious…

What story about yourself are you no longer available for?

And who do you become without it?

Because once you realize it, acknowledge it, and allow yourself to break the patterns that have kept you bound to a story that is no longer meant for you, you begin to remember that anything is possible.

If this stirred something in you - if you know you’re not meant to keep carrying the old identity - come join me for 30 days of awakening. Radical Reclamation was made for this season.

✨ Link in the comments.

See you on the inside.

With love and excitement,
Naomi šŸ’ƒā¤ļø

I didn’t create Radical Reclamation from theory. I created it from transformation…If you know me, you’ll know I’m not so...
01/04/2026

I didn’t create Radical Reclamation from theory. I created it from transformation…

If you know me, you’ll know I’m not someone who shares from a textbook.

I’m a full-heart, full-energy, 300-tabs-open, ADHD human, and everything I share comes from lived experience, deep feeling, and what feels truly real to me.

So when I say this is personal, I mean that.

If you’ve been following my journey over the past year, you’ll know it has been one of the hardest, deepest, most transformative seasons of my life.

I’ve faced things I never imagined I’d have to face.
I’ve grieved.
I’ve felt anger.

I’ve had to make radical changes to protect my nervous system, my peace, and my future.

And through all of that - through the shedding, the space-making, the letting go - I’ve changed.

I’ve grown.
I’ve healed.
I’ve softened.
I’ve become more myself than ever before.

And the shifts that have happened within me are changes I honestly could not have imagined a year ago.

One of the biggest things I’ve learned is this:

So many of us are living from fear and obligation.
From pressure.
From survival.
From old patterns.
From who we think we should be.

But there is another way to live.

A way led by passion.
By desire.
By joy.
By truth.
By feeling fully alive inside your own life.

This past year, I’ve been unravelling old ways of thinking, being, coping, and carrying.

And in doing that, I’ve shifted decades of fear-led energy into something much more freeing:
passion-led energy
desire-led energy
joy-led energy

And because this shift has been so profound for me, I want to share it.

That’s why I’m so excited to bring Radical Recommendation to life.

I’ve chosen May intentionally.

Yes, because I want us to have a full month together - not just a quick burst of inspiration, but a real experience of change.

But also because May is my birthday month, and I honestly can’t think of a more meaningful way to celebrate than by offering something deeply transformational to the people who are ready for change in their own lives.

This feels like such a gift to create.
And if it speaks to you, maybe it gets to be a gift for you too.

Inside this month together, there will be daily prompts, voice notes, live events, a private Facebook group, and practical, sustainable ways to create change that lasts.

Not just for a moment.
Not just while motivation is high.

But in a way that can genuinely support you for life.

This work comes from over 20 years of personal exploration, deep inner work, supporting patients, and then this last year of life stretching me in ways I can only describe as growth on steroids.

And the truth is - I feel different now.

Lighter.
Clearer.
Softer.
More joyful.
More free.

People who know me keep saying,
ā€œNaomi, you look so happy. You look so light.ā€

And that’s exactly how I feel.
And I want to share that with you.

I’m so excited for the people who have already signed up - the ones who know change isn’t always easy, but also know they are no longer willing to stay stuck in the patterns that have kept them living through fear and obligation.

They’re ready to live differently.

To choose joy.
To choose passion.
To choose desire.
To choose themselves.

If you’re reading this and feeling that pull, don’t ignore it.

You already know what it feels like to stay where you are.
You already know what it feels like to keep circling the same patterns, the same fear, the same inner negotiations.

And maybe this is the moment you choose something different…

If you’re ready to stop living from fear and obligation and start choosing joy, desire, and real change, click the link in the comments for all the details.

I would LOVE to have you inside Radical Recommendation.

We start 1 May and the program runs for 30 Days. Link in comments to grab a spot šŸ‘‡

With love and energiser bubbles,
Naomi

Sometimes self-abandonment doesn’t look dramatic... āš”ļø It looks responsible.āš”ļø It looks high-functioning.āš”ļø It looks lik...
31/03/2026

Sometimes self-abandonment doesn’t look dramatic...

āš”ļø It looks responsible.
āš”ļø It looks high-functioning.
āš”ļø It looks like keeping the peace.
āš”ļø It looks like being ā€œfine.ā€
āš”ļø It looks like being the one who holds it all together…

But underneath it, there’s often a quiet pattern of leaving yourself again and again.

Here are 5 subtle signs you might be self-abandoning:

1ļøāƒ£ You say yes before you check in with yourself.
You agree.
You commit.
You accommodate.

And only afterwards do you notice the heaviness, resentment, exhaustion, or truth of what you actually wanted.


2ļøāƒ£ You downplay what hurts you.
You tell yourself it’s not a big deal.
You explain away your feelings.
You minimize what landed because acknowledging it would mean honouring your own pain.

3ļøāƒ£ You keep editing your truth to be easier to receive.
You soften it.
Delay it.
Dress it up.
You say half of what you mean and call that vulnerability.
You make your needs more digestible so you don’t risk being ā€œtoo much.ā€ (Oh and isn’t this a BIG one!)

4ļøāƒ£ You abandon your desires before anyone else can.
You talk yourself out of what you want.
Convince yourself it doesn’t matter.
Tell yourself it’s unrealistic, selfish, too late, too much.
You leave your own longing before it has the chance to live…

5ļøāƒ£ You are deeply attuned to everyone else, but disconnected from yourself.
You can feel the room.
Sense other people’s needs.
Pick up on every shift in energy.
But when it comes to your own body, your own truth, your own joy… there’s static.

And the cost of this is not small. It’s actually unbelievably HUGE…

šŸ’Ž chronic disconnection
šŸ’Ž resentment you don’t know what to do with
šŸ’Ž confusion that comes from overriding your own knowing
šŸ’Ž relationships built around performance instead of truth
šŸ’Ž losing touch with joy
šŸ’Ž losing trust in your own voice
šŸ’Ž waking up in a life that looks okay on paper but doesn’t actually feel like yours

This is what self-abandonment does…

It doesn’t always shatter things overnight.
Sometimes it erodes you quietly.
Slowly… Yet in an utterly exhausting and subtle way…

And honestly, this is a big part of what Radical Reclamation is for.

Not to help you become someone else.
Not to teach you how to perform healing more beautifully.
Not to make you louder, harder, more polished, or more ā€˜palatable’. (Goodness NO!)

But to support you in coming back to yourself...

Inside Radical Reclamation, we work on the real return:

šŸ™ŒšŸ½ rebuilding self-trust
šŸ™ŒšŸ½ telling YOUR truth
šŸ™ŒšŸ½ honouring what you feel
šŸ™ŒšŸ½ reconnecting to desire
šŸ™ŒšŸ½ releasing the patterns that taught you to leave yourself
šŸ™ŒšŸ½ creating safety in your body, your voice, your inner world
šŸ™ŒšŸ½ reclaiming joy, softness, power, and the parts of you that got buried in survival

This is for the person who is tired of shape-shifting.
Tired of overriding themselves.
Tired of living at a distance from their own life.

Please read these next three lines a few times…

You do not need to keep abandoning yourself to be loved.

You do not need to keep making yourself smaller to belong.

You do not need to stay disconnected from your own truth because it once kept you safe.

You get to come home now…

If you’ve been feeling this work in your bones, Radical Reclamation is the room.

Doors are now open.

Link in the comments.

With love,
Naomi šŸ’ƒāœØ

Most of what we struggle with at work… doesn’t actually start there.It starts in the small, quiet moments in our persona...
30/03/2026

Most of what we struggle with at work… doesn’t actually start there.

It starts in the small, quiet moments in our personal lives.

The ones no one sees.

Where you:
šŸ’­ second-guess yourself
šŸ’­ soften what you really want to say
šŸ’­ avoid something because it might create discomfort
šŸ’­ tell yourself ā€œI’ll deal with it laterā€

Those moments feel small.

But they train something.

They train your nervous system to:

šŸ‘‰ hesitate
šŸ‘‰ override yourself
šŸ‘‰ prioritise safety over truth

And then you take that same pattern… into your leadership.

So it shows up as:
- giving the same employee ā€œone more chanceā€
- avoiding a conversation you know needs to happen
- over-explaining instead of deciding
- stepping in to control instead of trusting

Not because you don’t know what to do.

But because something in you… doesn’t fully trust yourself to do it.

And this is where it gets expensive.

Because now you’re not just dealing with a moment.

You’re repeating a pattern.

You’ve seen it before.
You know how it plays out.

And still-

You let it run again.

That’s not a systems issue.
That’s not a people issue.

That’s a pattern that hasn’t been interrupted.

And this is exactly what we unpacked in my Stress, Status & the Nervous System workshop:

Your brain will always default to what feels safest… even when it’s not what’s most effective.

Which is why:
- strong leaders hesitate
- capable people overthink
- and high performers burn out

Not because they’re incapable.

But because they’re operating in reactive mode.

And reactive mode doesn’t just live at work.

It lives everywhere.

In your relationships.
In your boundaries.
In the way you make decisions.

Different environments.

Same pattern.

This is exactly why I created Radical Reclamation.

Because the goal isn’t to become someone new at work.

It’s to stop abandoning yourself in the moments that shape everything.

Inside Radical Reclamation (starting 1 May):

šŸ”„ Daily voice notes + prompts (so you catch it while it’s happening)
šŸ”„ Private Telegram space (real-time application)
šŸ”„ Private Facebook group (accountability - not just awareness)
šŸ”„ 3 live calls (28 April, 14 May, 1 June- all recorded)

This is where you start to:
trust your decisions
move faster
tolerate less misalignment

… and stop repeating what you already know doesn’t work.

Investment: $33 / R555 - For 30 days of actually changing the way you respond - at work and in your life.

⚔ Sign up before 15 April and you’ll get access to a BONUS live call on 23 April.

Join Radical Reclamation here:
https://naomiholdt.thrivecart.com/radical-reclamation/

You don’t become a different leader by learning more.

You become a different leader by:
šŸ‘‰ changing what you do in the moment you usually don’t

And that moment? It doesn’t start in your business.

It starts with you.

I thought I needed to fix myself.I actually needed to reclaim myself. One of the wildest things my cancer journey taught...
28/03/2026

I thought I needed to fix myself.
I actually needed to reclaim myself.

One of the wildest things my cancer journey taught me was that surviving something is not the same as becoming whole again.

Because yes, there’s the survival stage.
And then there’s the bit no one really prepares you for…
the identity crisis, the grief, the unravelling, the who the ACTUAL CANARY am I now?

For a while, I genuinely thought that meant I was broken.
That I needed fixing.
That I had to somehow get back to the woman I was before.

Nice theory…
Except… no.

I wasn’t broken.
I was disconnected.

Disconnected from my body.
My joy.
My truth.
My power.
And from the woman I was being asked to become through it all.

The journey I’ve moved through has had phases…
(And I’ve written all about them in my upcoming book, What the Actual Canary!? Yes- really- coming your way soon.)

But what I can tell you is this:

the biggest breakthroughs in my patterns, my thoughts, and my capacity for joy didn’t come from trying to ā€œfixā€ myself.

They came from questioning everything.
Letting parts of me go.
Telling the truth. Mostly about myself- to myself.
And bravely becoming someone new.

Not shinier.
Not more palatable.
Not more ā€˜well-behaved’.

Just… more me.

That’s why this work matters so much to me.
Because sometimes the healing isn’t about getting back to who you were.

It’s about reclaiming who you are now.

And if you’re in that messy, magical, holy-shucks-I-can’t-go-back chapter?

You’ll probably understand exactly why Radical Reclamation exists.

Doors are open if you feel the pull.

DM me RECLAIM and I’ll send you the details.

With love and SO much more!
Naomi šŸ’ƒā¤ļø

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