I didn’t go looking for it. It found me at exactly the right time.

I was in my mid-twenties. Not in a crisis — but not where I wanted to be either. I wanted more financial freedom. I wanted a more fulfilling path. I wanted to repair something in the relationship with my parents, especially my mother, though I wouldn’t have known how to describe that clearly at the time.

I wasn’t consciously looking for answers. Then, at a festival, I met someone I had a deep and unexpected connection with. He shared two things with me: the Sedona Method, and a couple of books by David Hawkins. I took the material home, and it sat on my computer for a while.

When I finally listened to Letting Go by David Hawkins, something clicked immediately — in the way that something just makes sense, the way you recognise a truth you’d already known but never had words for. That became a practice I’ve kept up, intensively, for the past six or seven years.

The Sedona Method creates a space to sit with the emotions and sensations in your body that are keeping you from experiencing more effortless living. A set of simple questions helps you explore what’s present, invites you to stay with it rather than push it away, and opens the door to release the underlying patterns — the wanting to control, to be approved of, to feel secure — that most of us are running on without realising it.

When you can let go of those deeper wants, the difficult feeling or situation you started with often loosens on its own. It’s not about thinking differently. It’s about releasing the grip.

She had been dealing with chronic pain for months, possibly longer. We both had a sense that what she was holding onto emotionally was part of what was keeping it alive in her body. We worked through the releasing process together. And at a certain moment, she looked at me differently. The pain had almost entirely disappeared — in a single session. It didn’t come back to the same extent.

That confirmed what I had been experiencing in my own life — that the emotional and the physical are not separate systems. That releasing what we’re holding onto creates space. In the body. In relationships. In life.

One of the most gradual — and meaningful — shifts happened in my relationship with my mother. I spent a long time releasing on that relationship. On hurt I’d carried, on beliefs I’d formed, on blame I hadn’t even fully acknowledged. I wasn’t working on the relationship directly. I was working on what I was holding.

Slowly, without any direct intervention in the relationship itself, things changed. The friction softened. The ease came back. Not because she changed — but because I had stopped holding on to the things that were keeping the distance in place.

That’s what this work does. It doesn’t rewrite your story. It removes the grip your story has on you.

After years of working with people on their bodies, I kept seeing the same thing. Physical work creates real, measurable change. And sometimes it plateaus in ways that don’t make mechanical sense. The body is doing everything right, but something is still holding.

What I started noticing was how much resistance and unprocessed feeling people carry with them — often without being fully aware of it. The emotional and mental struggles they were dealing with, or quietly suppressing, were woven into the pain or tension they were experiencing in their body.

So I started experimenting — carefully, gently. I began introducing certain questions from the Sedona Method during sessions, when the moment felt right. A lot of people resist it at first. That’s normal. But with some clients, something would shift. Something in their inner world would move. And I could see it.