“I really thought ... I've tried everything, and this is it. Clearly nothing has worked ... And there was this little voice in my head that was just like, ‘You know what? No.’”

For nearly 20 years, Skylark’s mind and body had been carrying the trauma of a severely abusive childhood. She had survived an attempt on her life by her own mother, and abuse at the hands of both parents – but she had not healed. For sometimes 30 hours a week, she suffered with panic attacks and night terrors. She fought with ideas of suicide – and spent tremendous energy restraining herself.

No amount of intervention – psychiatry; medication; experimental therapies; special diets – made a difference. Skylark became increasingly angry and frustrated. And then, she had a revelation. She realized she had survived all of her history – but she hadn’t moved on. She didn’t actually want to heal.

Once Skylark found the exercises in Dr Joe’s book, “Becoming Supernatural,” she began to experience some relief. She found even more healing with the beginner meditations in the Progressive and Intensive Online Courses. “It just felt really good,” she says today. “I felt so whole and loved when I did that. So, I just kept doing the meditation.”

Skylark came up against her resistance once more – and very nearly gave in to it. But, as Dr Joe says, “The hardest part of every war is the last battle.” So, when a tiny, resilient voice told Skylark not to give up, she listened. And then – she healed. 

Recorded at the Cancun Week Advanced Retreat in June 2024