Traces of the journey

"I came in carrying a lot of shoulds — how I should feel, should cope, should be over it by now. Slowly, that weight began to loosen. I did not have to perform healing here."

On letting the performance go

"For the first time, someone stayed curious instead of trying to fix me. That curiosity became a mirror — I started getting curious about myself too."

On being met, not mended

"I used to think therapy was for people with 'real problems.' I now see that my loneliness, my fear of not being enough, my pattern of shrinking — they were real too."

On giving your pain its name

"There were sessions where I just cried. There were sessions where I laughed at something old. Both were allowed. Both were part of it."

On the many textures of a session

"The biggest shift was not a dramatic moment. It was noticing that I could be angry and still be loved. That I could disagree and still belong."

On holding contradictions gently

"I learned that healing is not a straight path. It loops, it pauses, it returns. Having a Sahayatri made the returning feel less like failure and more like rest."

On the shape of healing