Ever since my mother died when I graduated college, I've been on a quest to heal myself. But it turned out that the pain of losing her was just one piece in a massive tapestry of trauma, most of which actually happened to my ancestors or during my prenatal development (I had a good childhood). It took 12 years of searching, trying every therapy, workshop, drug, coaching program, and ceremony that seemed promising, before I found a little-known modality via word of mouth that changed everything.
This modality, Peak States Therapy, has four important characteristics:
It heals trauma permanently
It is sophisticated, comprehensive, and precise enough to account for nuanced, complex trauma of all kinds
It uses a completely new paradigm and is endlessly fascinating to my engineering mind
It can unlock amazing states of consciousness that were dormant or suppressed
When I took the training for this modality, I was working as a manufacturing engineer for a 3D printer startup. I was making great money, but I couldn't keep any of it, and I was severely burned out due to stress at work and at home. I realized that I was never going to heal myself while I was at that job, for the same reason that you can't give a soldier therapy while he's still getting shot at.
I quit my job, expecting to feel better, but I remained burned out. My wife and I moved from the west coast to Florida, where we crashed with my dad for a year. We exhausted our savings and lived on credit cards. But thanks to others believing in me, I was able to start my business as a healing practitioner. I managed to heal myself enough to tolerate the intense uncertainty of starting a business from scratch, which still blows my mind.
My favorite aspect of this work, besides helping people feel better, is unlocking peak states of consciousness. If you've ever had a "peak experience" where you felt temporarily elevated from the norm, that was a peak state that is normally suppressed but became unsuppressed for a short time, before becoming suppressed again. The reason it and most of your other states are suppressed is that you unconsciously don't feel safe to let them express themselves. Healing to restore peak states works by healing the trauma that makes you feel unsafe to allow those states. It's super cool. And amazing.