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Two trippy experiences that helped change my self-worth
This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a coach who works with sensitive people so they can stop second-guessing, make decisions confidently and live the life they’ve always dreamed of. You can learn more about working with me here.
Hello, hello, Soothers! Today I am here to present to you two tales of true trippiness and healing. As I’ve talked about the last two weeks, I had left talk therapy in favor of exploring a new-to-me world of healing modalities. And I want to write about two significant experiences I had in two of these modalities that changed everything for me.
(You can listen to this essay as audio here)
It took me until recently to realize it, but I think the biggest block I had with talk therapy is that what I really need to work on for myself was self-acceptance, self-worth, and overcoming shame. The current paradigm, as in much of Western approaches, it to do this with *thinking.*
“Just believe in yourself!” “Just be more confident!” “Fake it til you make it!” “Change your mind, change your world!”
