“I Thought I Was Broken”

When I first reached out, I was at breaking point. I knew I needed help, desperately, but I didn’t know where to turn. Everything felt urgent and overwhelming at the same time. I was searching for answers — not just insight, but a system that would help me move my life forward both emotionally and practically.

A&I was recommended to me by a friend, and I felt a pull to try it. I didn’t have a neat explanation for why — just a sense that I needed something different, something that could actually help me change.

When I first came in, I thought I was broken. I believed I was no good, a bad person. My self-esteem was at rock bottom, and so was my life. Through the work, I came to realise something fundamental: my actions didn’t define me. What I’d been seeing as personal failure were actually the responses of an injured child. I’m now on a journey to heal that part of me and move into my true masculine self — someone grounded in integrity rather than shame.

The sessions themselves have been deeply supportive. The talking therapy feels precise and attuned — I feel understood, and I experience Grace as a source of real wisdom and comfort. The acupuncture leaves me feeling energised, clear, and light in a way I hadn’t felt before. And the theta work is wild — it genuinely feels like magic sometimes, the way my body responds unconsciously. There’s a deep sense of comfort and relief in being able to go in and re-wire old ways of thinking and learned behaviours.

Over time, I’ve noticed real shifts. I can recognise behavioural habits that don’t serve me much more easily now, and they have less and less hold over me. I feel freer, more aligned with the person I want to be — not the version of myself who was always chasing distraction or avoiding what I was feeling. I’m far more compassionate toward myself, and I’m no longer so ruled by shame.

Now, I feel very different in myself. I feel lighter, more confident, and more aligned with what I want and who I’m becoming. I move through the world in a more grounded way.

If someone was in the same place I was when I started, I’d want them to know this: there are people who understand you, and who can help.