The need for ' checking out’, stimulating or numbing yourself, originates in having too many suppressed emotions. This leads to not feeling comfortable in your own body and to not being able to be in the here and now. This causes an unpleasant life experience.

The feelings one tries to run from vary per person. The one engages in addictive behaviour or in substance use in order to avoid fear, another to avoid grief, another despair, and someone else runs from guilt and deep shame.

The more feelings we have stuffed into us, the more unpleasant being in our body and 'in the here and now' feels like, leading us to engage our addiction.

To break this cycle, we will uproot emotions stored in the body and feel them out, so they can dissolve.

I will feel them with you so we will be going through the same experience. Because there will be two of us processing your stuff, an accelerated and powerful healing will take place.

If, for whatever reason, you are not capable of feeling a particular emotion at that moment, that emotion will flow through me. This way it will be released, just not by you at that moment.

This will make you feel (much) lighter, and restore your aliveness, vitality and feelings of contentment.

Just like your emotions can make you want to numb your body and escape your life experience, thoughts can do as well (in the end, it's all energy).

Flashbacks to the past may distract you from living in the present. Or worse, they might cause you to relive the unprocessed fear, shame, guilt or sadness attached to them, leading you to self-medicate with your addiction.

The solution is examining your thoughts, detaching from them and emptying out the mind by ‘deleting’ what can be deleted.

We will achieve this through parts work and stream-of-consciousness writing.

This will create more space in between your thoughts, allowing you to feel better, be more present and take more action.

Energy healing is the practice of working with the subtle energy field of the client in order to clear out energetic imprints.

An energetic imprint can either be the energetic signature of a certain pattern or the energetic equivalent of the mental-emotional blockages (due to for example trauma, unconsciousness, or insecurities) or physical pains a client has.

These energetic imprints cause heaviness, low mood and/or distress, leading you to

To clear them out, I will either move the dissolve the energy blockage with concentration and hand movements, or I will attune myself to your energy system, and start processing the blockages you have there, by taking them over and letting them move through me, thereby releasing them from your system.

An emotional release might then take place in you, in me or in the both of us, such as crying or experiencing a wave of irritation or anger.

By clearing out your energetic imprints, the energy in your field that was previously blocked will start flowing again, leading to an increase in vitality and mood, and less resistance in daily life.

I might conclude the energy healing with a (distance) reiki treatment, in order to charge up your system with a high frequency energy. You will leave the session feeling more relaxed, happy and clear-thinking and you will have a good night’s sleep.

Being too mental, in the sense that we live in our heads, causes us to engage in addictive behaviours, in order to escape our thoughts.

To get rid of this, we must also work with the body. Techniques that allow us to do this are for example (intuitive trigger point) massage, breathwork, stretching, systemic bodywork, tapping or just focusing on the sensations that arise within us.

When we work with the body, we awaken the stagnant energy in it with our awareness or touch. The energy is then freed up from suppression and, after being felt by us, can flow again in our system.

The more attention we place on the body, and more we liberate it from stagnant energy, the more pleasurable 'living in our bodies' is, leading us to stop 'living in the head' and start embodying more of ourselves.

Exercise or any other form of movement are amazing for your health, but aren’t bodywork. They are oftentimes a ‘mind over matter’ activity that do not help us dissolve old emotional residue (except for stretching). The more bodywork we do, the more we awaken our energy, allowing for a sharper, more energized and more active existence.

We all have ‘parts’ living within us that can best be described as sub-personalities.

These ‘sub-personalities’ are created over the course of our lives as a reaction to judgments, compliments, successes, and failures. Each part has its own agenda for you and its own strategy of how to get to its goal, which oftentimes contradicts the agenda and strategies of the other parts.

What each part also has, is a voice that produces thoughts and emotions in you.

When you suffer from addiction you have certain parts living within you, that are wounded and cause you to self-destruct when they come up, as they produce a lot of pain in their efforts to get your attention.

By taking out these parts one by one, talking with them, understanding their strategy and agenda, feeling out the emotions behind their thoughts and actions, you will process them and let go of the thoughts they produce in your head.

When they dissolve you will feel lighter, happier and a lot more mental-emotional space will be created in you.