“I spent years performing softness. Here I finally learned how to actually feel it. My body is no longer a thing to manage — it is a place I come home to.”

“For the first time I stopped overriding my desire and started listening to it. The shame I carried is not gone, but it is no longer running my life.”

“I was stuck in my job, my relationship and creatively frozen. A year of this work returned me to my own rhythm, and this time I trust it.”

“The price made me hesitate. Abhikesh encouraged me to begin and offered part payment. After one month I understood how deeply I needed this, and every penny felt worth it.”

“Perimenopause felt like losing myself. Breath by breath I found there was nothing lost — only something asking to be met.”

“I came in exhausted from holding everyone. I left knowing that rest is not a reward I have to earn.”

“Three months, and my shoulders came down from my ears for the first time since my forties began.”

“My hot flushes did not vanish, but my fear of them did. My body stopped feeling like an enemy.”

“After the divorce I thought softness was dangerous. I learned it is where my strength actually lives.”

“I did not know how tightly I had been holding my belly for twenty years until I let it go.”

“My children left home and the silence terrified me. Now the silence is where I hear myself.”

“I stopped apologising in every sentence. My colleagues noticed before I did.”