This is the journey of personal deep transformation. When things in your life appear to be crumbling down around you, when it feels like things are ending, that there is nothing to return to, it is the opportunity to take a great leap forward, a leap of faith that this is all happening for you. The key is to recognise it. It is not loss, and it is more than change, it is an opportunity for transformation. Bring to mind the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly. The caterpillar must retreat into its cocoon and die, for the butterfly to emerge.

When we try to understand ourselves and our past and change our habits and behaviours, our own self-regulatory function prevents us from seeing things differently. In a safe shared space held by someone intentionally, who is experienced and aware, someone who has done the work, a cocoon is created. From this cocoon, you emerge, more yourself than you have ever been.

For this to really work, what is most important is not just to rationalise the narrative, your narrative, but to allow emotions to come to the surface, to be felt and acknowledged, without judgement or rationalising. The narrative is secondary to the emotional experience. It is allowing the full experience to pass through you. When we resist or block full feeling of an emotion, it becomes frozen energy inside us, creating emotional baggage. The cumulative effect of this resistance over years, decades or even a lifetime, is ever-growing weight we must carry, affecting all aspects of life. This work empowers you to be shed of this weight, to be free and for flow to return to your life.

Book an introductory call to explore this journey further at coaching@gerdaly.ie, www.gerdaly.ie