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The Healing Habit

How To Break The Habits That Are Breaking You

Hope I can accept the wild thing in me

Hope nobody comes to tame her

And she can be free
 

‘The Sofa’

Wolf Alice

"This is the place where your story changes. Not because the past will suddenly make sense, but because you no longer allow it to define you".

 

If you understand your patterns but keep finding yourself repeating them. If insight hasn’t translated into change. If you’re tired of starting over...this is where things begin to shift. This work is about breaking the habits that once protected you but now keep you stuck. The Healing Habit helps you do this through understanding, consistency, and making small, steady changes to the habits and patterns you've found hard to interrupt and replace.

How to Use This Section

You can move through this section in your own way, pause when you need to, return when something feels relevant.This isn’t about becoming a different person overnight. It’s about recognising the patterns that are no longer serving you.

How This Section Is Structured

This book moves through five stages:

  • The Awakening → seeing the wound and naming the truth.

  • The Untangling → releasing patterns that keep you stuck.

  • The Reclaiming → rebuilding trust, identity, and emotional strength.

  • The Mastery → staying steady, even when challenged.

  • The Integration → living these changes in everyday life.

 

Each section offers practical ways to work with real experiences - everything from people-pleasing and overthinking to boundaries, self-trust, and emotional independence.

What This Section Helps With

  • repeating emotional patterns.

  • people-pleasing and over-responsibility.

  • overthinking and self-doubt.

  • difficulty setting or holding boundaries.

  • emotional dependence and attachment patterns.

  • feeling stuck, even when you “know better”.

 

This work is about gently challenging and changing learned patterns of behaviour, choosing what stays, and releasing what no longer fits.

A Note on Change

Change happens in small moments when you pause instead of react, when you choose differently, when you stay with yourself instead of abandoning yourself. Those moments build. You don’t need to be perfect at any of this; you just need to begin noticing where something could be said, done, or felt differently.

The Healing Habit has been designed to help you reconnect with your inner strength, and nurture your emotional wellbeing. Each subject and exercise is crafted to guide you towards healing by embracing small, consistent steps that build resilience, self-compassion, and clarity.

Healing doesn’t happen overnight but with daily commitment you can change your emotional habits, release the past, and step into a life that reflects your true potential. Through daily insights, practical tools, and empowering reflections, you'll create a foundation for lasting emotional transformation. Let’s build the habit of healing together.

Grab a journal, double-click on the images below and download the PDFs. Here's an online editable reading checklist so you can check off what you've read as you go along. 

READ THESE FIRST!

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INTRODUCTION

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HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

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BEFORE WE BEGIN

Part I
The Awakening: Seeing The Wound -Naming The Truth

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PART 1
INTRODUCTION

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HOW TO BEGIN YOUR POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH

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HOW TO HEAL SELF-ABANDONMENT

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HOW TO HEAL THE FEAR OF ABANDONMENT

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HOW TO RECOGNISE ANXIOUS ATTACHMENT

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HOW TO HEAL HYPERVIGILANCE

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HOW TO HEAL
FAMILY BETRAYAL

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HOW TO HEAL
YOUR MOTHER WOUND

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HOW TO HEAL
YOUR FATHER WOUND

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HOW TO HEAL YOUR INNER CHILD

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HOW TO COPE WITH EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE

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HOW TO MANAGE SOMEONE WHO WEAPONISES SUFFERING

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HOW TO HEAL FROM CONDITIONAL LOVE

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HOW TO GRIEVE THE CHILDHOOD YOU DIDN’T HAVE

Part II
The Untangling: Releasing The Patterns That Keep You Stuck

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PART II INTRODUCTION

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HOW TO HEAL FROM TOXIC PROJECTION

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HOW DO I COME BACK TO MYSELF?

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HOW TO STOP PEOPLE-PLEASING

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HOW TO HOLD
BOUNDARIES WITHOUT GUILT

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HOW TO STOP FEELING RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S EMOTIONAL WELLBEING

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HOW TO STOP OVERTHINKING AND DOUBTING YOURSELF

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HOW TO STOP PROTECTIVE SELF-SABOTAGE

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HOW TO STOP WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SAVE YOU

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HOW TO STOP NEEDING EXTERNAL VALIDATION

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HOW TO HEAL CO-DEPENDENCY

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HOW TO ESCAPE WITHOUT BLOWING UP YOUR LIFE

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HOW TO CUT CONTACT WITH EMOTIONAL PREDATORS

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HOW TO INSULATE YOURSELF FROM FAMILY DISAPPROVAL

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HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S
SELF-DESTRUCTION

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HOW TO GROUND YOURSELF UNTIL YOU CAN LEAVE

Part III
The Reclaiming: Coming Home To Yourself
And Building Who You Were Meant To Be

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PART III INTRODUCTION

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HOW TO TRUST YOURSELF

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HOW TO TRUST THE CALM AFTER A LIFETIME OF CHAOS

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HOW TO BELIEVE IN YOUR AUTHENTICITY

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HOW TO RESHAPE YOUR MINDSET

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HOW TO BUILD CONFIDENCE WHEN YOU’VE BEEN ABUSED

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HOW TO LET GO OF THE NEED TO PROVE YOURSELF

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HOW TO STAY CALM WHEN EVERYTHING FEELS OUT OF CONTROL

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HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET

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HOW TO START HEALING FROM ADDICTION

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HOW TO STAY FREE FROM ADDICTION WITHOUT SHAME

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HOW TO START SAYING YES TO REST

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HOW TO FEEL WANTED WHEN YOU WERE TAUGHT YOU DIDN’T BELONG

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HOW TO FEEL GOOD AT ANY AGE

Part IV
The Mastery: Living Unshaken And Unapologetic

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PART IV INTRODUCTION

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HOW TO KEEP WALKING FORWARD WHEN YOU’RE BEING JUDGED

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HOW TO WIN ANYWAY WHEN THEY’RE CHEERING FOR YOU TO FAIL

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HOW TO SUCCEED DESPITE WHO TAKES CREDIT

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HOW TO TOLERATE THE INTOLERABLE

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HOW TO SILENCE THE CRITICAL VOICE

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HOW TO STOP APOLOGISING FOR YOUR OWN POTENTIAL

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HOW TO ACCEPT COMPLIMENTS WITHOUT SHRINKING OR DEFLECTING

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HOW TO STOP HIDING YOUR JOY TO MAKE OTHERS COMFORTABLE

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HOW TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD AND STAY EMOTIONALLY FREE

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HOW TO COPE WITH DISAPPOINTMENT

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HOW TO HEAL FROM GASLIGHTING

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HOW TO SELF-DETERMINE AND CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF

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HOW TO CARE FOR YOURSELF WHEN YOU’RE ANGRY WITH OTHERS

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HOW TO STOP YOUR MISTAKES FROM BECOMING PAINFUL MEMORIES

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HOW TO RECOGNISE WHEN YOU’VE FINALLY OUTGROWN THE WOUND

Part V
The Integration: Living Your Healing Every Day

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PART V INTRODUCTION

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HOW TO RESET WHEN YOU FORGET EVERYTHING

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HOW TO KEEP YOUR PROGRESS FROM SLIPPING BACK

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HOW TO MAKE HEALING A DAILY HABIT

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HOW TO STAY GROUNDED WHEN YOU’RE IN CHAOS

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HOW TO LIVE FULLY, & UNAPOLOGETICALLY

Are we there yet? Nearly...

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THE RESET
CHEAT SHEET:
QUICK REFERENCE

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CLAIMING YOUR BRILLIANCE
CHEAT SHEET

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COMING HOME TO YOURSELF

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A LETTER TO THE READER

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WHY WE SABOTAGE OUR POTENTIAL

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COMPLETE BOOK

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More information plus the course workbook will be available here on July 1st 2026. The course will be available here on July 15th 2026.

 

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