Thomas’ Story
For most of my life I was struggling. I was consumed by anxiety and depression, if it wasn't one, it was the other... often both at the same time.
My father and I had a turbulent relationship that led me to leave home at fifteen. I was homeless until I was eighteen, and although we repaired things somewhat, until several years later when he died by suicide.
Grief came as anger and guilt and relentless replaying. I felt responsible. I thought I was dying. I lived from a constant sense of threat and my sense of who I was collapsed.
I tried everything I could find. Therapy and meditation and breathwork and hypnosis and positive psychology. Some of it helped for a while. None of it led to lasting change.
What I found wasn't a better tool or a coping strategy. It was something different. A way of seeing what's happening to generate your experience. And when that became clear, I realised that I am not defined by those memories. I didn't need to process them or overcome them. I just saw what they were.
I no longer suffer the way I did.
If any of this sounds relevant to where you are, we can talk.
About Storytelling Minds
When I first got into this field, I believed mental and emotional freedom required a collection of tools and techniques. That these were what you needed in order to be okay.
Through a series of fortunate meetings and circumstances, I was guided towards an insight that made everything I'd learned up to that point redundant. It was working on the wrong level.
Storytelling Minds is built on the foundation of that insight.
Mental and emotional freedom doesn't have to be difficult. It's not something you create, achieve, or attain. It's something you recognise. And once you see it, it's difficult to unsee.
If any of this sounds relevant, the first step is a free conversation.