Compassionate Inquiry has invited me into a unique and transformative journey of healing. Its powerful ongoing impact has significantly altered both my relationship with myself, and also with those around me in a way that will be foundational to my authenticity, embodied compassion and resiliency for the rest of my life. In my relationships, I am now more able to say “no” when my body says no. I have a deeper capacity to be present and compassionate. I am less reactive and more consciously responsive.
The most profound area of transformation that CI has supported within me is the ongoing connection I now have with the parts of myself that were previously unconscious. Throughout my experience in CI, both as a client and a Professional Training student, my capacity for acceptance, curiosity and humility around taking responsibility for all parts of myself has grown and deepened immensely. Now, when I notice tension in my body, I am more capable of offering my gentle attention. Before CI, I often ignored tension, isolated myself or made it (and myself) wrong.
CI has also supported an incredible blooming of my capacity to stay attuned, present and anchored in my body. My relationships with family and friends have become more harmonious, and, although not perfect, I find I have more space to pause and notice what is happening for me in moments of tension or conflict. Knowing how to offer myself this pause connects me with the present moment and possibilities of agency that were previously veiled by the tension in my system. Being able to notice tension in my experience and take responsibility for it, my relationship to myself and those around me shifts from victim to compassionate participant.
As a trauma-integrating, somatic healing practitioner, I now experience deeper embodied faith in a person’s healing process during sessions. I have a clearer understanding of the transformational power of healing in relationships, and offer my sincere, open presence to every person I work with.
Compassionate Inquiry has elevated my confidence as a healing practitioner. This confidence is aligned with an inner, embodied knowing that the person with whom I am sharing CI in a session wants to know the truth. They are coming to the session to unveil a deeper, clearer truth about what they choose to focus on.
This confidence, combined with the limitless faith I have in the innate healing process within all of us, continues to be a powerful catalyst for exploration in CI sessions.
Finally, the element of playfulness inherent to CI has had a beautiful effect on my life and work. In CI we often explore the importance of play throughout a healing process, and I discovered that as we explore, inquire and embark on our healing pathways, brevity and playfulness are fantastic companions. From a place of play, we can remember how connected we all are. Play brings us to the resonant experience of interbeing. When we are aware of interbeing, we are attuned to the ever present possibility of healing through connection and relationship.
Leigh Aschoff, B.F.A., M.S. (she/they)
- Trauma Integrating Somatic Healing
- Professional Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner + Private Mentor
- Advanced Akashic Records Practitioner and Teacher
- www.heartpeacehealing.com
- Supporting wounded hearts returning to embodied wholeness.
- I respectfully and humbly acknowledge that I am a settler who lives on the Confederated Lands of the Chumash, Lenni-Lenape, Salish and Kootenai Tribal Nations.
