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"What you are seeking in life can be discovered only in the roots of your own heart."
"What you are seeking in life can be discovered only in the roots of your own heart."
—Dina Varano
I am a healer. And so are you.
I wouldn’t have made that claim about myself a few years ago. But that was before I had done more of my own deepest healing and realized just how much of what I was seeking was already within me.
With nearly 25 years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist, I could write all kinds of stuff about my professional training and the powerful healing I’ve been privileged to witness in my clients over the decades. But these days the deeper truth about my work with others is that I know what it’s like to go through the crucible of real change and come out the other side more alive, joyful, and connected than you ever thought possible.
Perhaps you’re thinking, surely she hasn’t experienced this fear, this rage, this restlessness, this sadness, this stuckness, this longing, this desperation, this vulnerability and tenderness and confusion that I am feeling. But I’ve been there, this place of no escape. Where the only way out is to go in and down, deep into the roots of your own heart to discover the truth of who you really are.
You may come to see me because you want to feel less anxious or you want better relationships or you can’t kick this vulnerability to depression or addiction, but underneath all that turbulence at the surface of your life, is actually the quiet voice of your own heart calling you to know yourself in some new way. To BE differently in your life. To live a life of greater joy and freedom. To find your way home.
As a trusted guide, a mentor, a companion, and a coach, I know you can do this, even when you think you can’t. You can go into the cave you most fear to enter and discover the deepest treasure within.
