Never write when you're sad but maybe it's the perfect time to truly put words, to one's feelings and make sense of things. Healing goes beyond the physical and when I was told a few months ago that extended water fasting would draw out trauma like poison from a wound and serendipitous things would happen, I could not imagine in my wildest dreams how the months following would unfold. Bumping into people that knew me in the oddest of places, making new friendships, understanding how my earliest childhood years impacted my life on a subconscious level, heart felt conversations, signs from the universe.

I have learnt that the body is a vessel that mirrors one's inner life; and unresolved trauma leads to disease; when our frequency remains low, when we do not experience close connection and intimacy, when we are held in a state of fear and insecurity for extended periods of time, not only does it affect the decisions we make but how our nervous system regulates our bodily functions. We don't digest food properly, our blood becomes sticky, our cells starve for oxygen, all our senses become dulled, our skin breaks out, our posture slumped over and the zest for life has been exchanged for survival. To the outer world, we are fine. Stoic and strong but inside we are crying out to be seen, to be heard and to be loved. To feel safe, connected and protected .

It came to pass that I was asked to interview