From your personal perspective, how has being a natural therapist fed your inner growth?

“We see inner growth as a combination of self-discovery and self-healing. As therapists our inner growth is largely fed through reflection and awareness. Each client or student who walks through the door to share their illnesses, fears and doubts is a mirror image of parts of our own inner state. As a result, an interaction in the therapist room can raise our own doubts, fears, emotions, judgements and thought patterns. The more we become aware of these, the less likely we are to react from our mental and emotional forms and the more we provide a space of pure love and presence for healing to occur.” 

You refer to self-responsibility and self-care being the key to wellness – can you expand on these two concepts please and how it relates to our wellbeing?
“After reading the stories in the book, we realised how important it is for therapists to take responsibility for ‘walking the walk’, not just ‘talking the talk’. When therapists practise what they preach they offer therapy from a space of genuine experience, understanding and awareness. And from this comes compassion and deep connection, firstly to themselves and then to their clients. Given that wellness comes from within, it makes perfect sense for therapists to take responsibility for their own wellness first because how they care for themselves is how they care for others.”