“I Felt Like There Was Something Deeply Wrong With Me”

When I started working with Grace, I was living in a near-constant state of anxiety and confusion. I felt unsafe in my own mind and disoriented in my body. Life felt heavy. I felt clumsy, stuck, and as though I was moving through some kind of internal fog that I couldn’t clear.

I’d recently come out of a period of traditional talking therapy that had felt cold and emotionally isolating. Instead of helping, it left me feeling more alone. I knew I needed healing that felt human — something compassionate, embodied, and real.

At the time, I was scared that there was something deeply wrong with me, maybe on a spiritual or moral level. I worried about having to revisit childhood or parental experiences in a way that felt overwhelming or intrusive. What I didn’t expect was that the answer was there — just approached in a completely different way.

Through a combination of acupuncture and theta work, we began working with burdens I’d been carrying for years: guilt, shame, sadness, anger — some of it going back further than I could consciously remember, even to before I was born. What surprised me most was that the release didn’t come through talking things through. The shifts happened somewhere much deeper, in the body itself. And somehow — in a way that’s hard to explain — I was able to let it go.

I genuinely look forward to the sessions. They never feel daunting or heavy. I feel deeply understood by Grace, who has an exceptional intuitive ability to get to the root of things quickly — in a way that would have taken months in more traditional therapy. The theta work feels like opening yourself up to possibility: letting new energy in, and old, stuck beliefs out. It can be challenging, because you’re asked to really acknowledge where you are and what you believe about yourself — but it’s also incredibly freeing.

There have been moments where I’ve felt elated and close to tears in the same session. I’ve physically felt myself letting go of harmful beliefs and negativity during theta work. After acupuncture sessions, I feel balanced and deeply calm, as though my system has finally exhaled.

Over time, I’ve felt a profound shift. I feel back in tune with my body, able to enjoy being in it without that sense of clumsiness or disconnection. My inner world is no longer dominated by judgement, moral pressure, or confusion. I feel a sense of self-love that I had completely lost when I first began this work.

Now, I feel a sense of possibility and newness. Life still has its chaos, but it no longer overwhelms me. My relationships feel lighter and less loaded, and I take real pleasure in caring for myself again.

If I could say one thing to someone who feels the way I did, it would be this: you don’t have to carry what you’re carrying. There are ways through that you can’t even imagine yet — and healing can come from places you might not expect.

One of the most surprising realisations I had was uncovering a deeply rooted sense of Catholic morality and judgement within myself, despite not being raised in a religious household. Becoming aware of that has allowed me to change long-standing internal patterns and relate to myself with far more kindness.