Identity provides a reassuring sense of certainty, but certainty comes at a cost. We harden against what doesn't fit - emotionally, mentally, and even physically.

The possibility of real, felt transformation in a short space of time is genuine. It is what the work is designed to do.

Most of us have spent so long ignoring or overriding the body's signals that we have lost the ability to hear them. How do we make the body a safe place to inhabit again?

After ten days of Vipassana practice, the physical foundation of my addiction was no longer there. There was nothing to resist. This experience shaped everything I went on to develop in my practice.