You have an innate ability, a body-mind toolkit, that can support you in attending to your own healing. And I know – it happened to me - that with perseverance, the strength, stability and peace that you develop through practicing these tools will follow you into every area of your life, from lifestyle to work to relationships to finances.

Interoception, the ability to sense the internal state of our body, is increasingly shown by neurobiological research to play a crucial role in maintaining overall health and wellbeing.  

Psychedelics like psilocybin (the psycho-active compound found in magic mushrooms), used respectfully and intelligently, can be a powerful tool for healing.

Yoga (body-breath-mind tools) can be so effective at re-connecting us with the experience of safely living in our bodies, without fear of their sensations minute-to-minute, that Dr Bessel van der Kolk, together with Yoga teacher David Emerson, pioneered Trauma Sensitive Yoga as a therapeutic tool at the Trauma Center in Boston, Massachusetts (now called the Center for Trauma and Embodiment).

I travelled to The Temple of the Way of Light, an ayahuasca retreat centre in the Peruvian Amazon, following some kind of gravitational pull, a sense that under that canopy dwelled something — some knowledge — that I needed. I emerged two weeks later into the same world but seen through completely different eyes.