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 13 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 are 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. Restoring a peak state works by healing the trauma that makes you feel unsafe to allow that state. It's super cool. And amazing.