I’d like to introduce you all to M.
I first contacted Talesha when I felt like I’d tried every other route for my mental health issues. I suffer with anxiety and depression, both of which have been a fixture in my life for the past 15 years or so. I had gotten to the point that I could no longer even have that happy, warm, euphoric feeling when something is really great—like you feel when riding a rollercoaster, listening to a moving piece of music, or have an orgasm. As soon as the Good feelings rushed my brain, I would suffer an anxiety attack, and be reduced to sobbing and gasping for air.
That’s no way to live. I was getting desperate.
I’d tried medications, 3 psychiatrists, talk therapy—nothing was working. A friend of mine told me about Talesha, and I figured it couldn’t hurt to try working with her. Worst case scenario, I wouldn’t be any worse off than I already was.
From the first call I had with M, I knew we had work to do together. My heart went out to her as she shared her pain with me. I wanted to just reach through the phone and hug her. I settled for telling her, this work wouldn’t be easy and that she would feel pain. But, that she was feeling pain anyway and one way was sure to lead to improvement and the other way would lead to more darkness, and panic.
She agreed and our work began the following week.
From the beginning, Talesha was exceptional. She is extremely intuitive, to the point that her statements regarding emotions that I had “stuck” were so uncannily accurate that I started calling her my witch doctor ;). I hadn’t even seen her in person, and she was telling me about certain things in my past that had affected me. With specificity. Things no one else would have or could have known about me, because the evidence of them only ever resided in my own head.
When M, told me this I couldn’t help but laugh. It is a true statement and helping her to connect to those experiences and finally see the truths in them were so powerful for me. It’s incredible to watch her let go of what she knew as hurt and turn it into healing.
I started out with Talesha’s 6 week program. By the end of that time period, I felt like I’d had more relief than I did in 10 years of talk therapy, psychiatrists, and medications. Not that I went off any of my meds, mind you—I just felt Better on them, which is a big deal to me.
At the end of the 6 weeks, though, I still felt like I had just scratched the surface of my issues, and have since signed up for the once a week check-ins that Talesha does. I feel like I’m continuing to progress. The caveat here is this: if you have a lot of emotional baggage, you’ll likely take longer to get to a place where you feel totally free of it. My case feels like I’m working through an onion—multilayered, and smelly all the way through. I keep running into walls of my own fear; but I truly believe that with Talesha’s help, I can work through all of it, and find the peace and wholeness that comes from being at home with one’s own soul. I look forward to that.
I think a lot of times you place an expectation on yourself of how healing should look. And how long it should take you to murch through the waters. In M’s case I love how she is aware of her journey and hasn’t placed a timetable on herself to find healing. It is my opinion that doing this helps her to feel and heal in a way that doesn’t add more burden to her.”I am ready to work with Talesha too!