Why Traditional Inner Work Wasn’t Working for Me (And What Actually Helped Me Heal)

I was tired of doing inner work.

Journalling, mindset work, coaching, NLP… constantly trying to analyse and understand myself to shift things - and still feeling like something wasn’t fully changing.

If you’ve ever felt like your inner work isn’t working, you’re not alone.

I know that feeling very well.

For me, it felt like I was doing everything “right”… but still ending up in the same patterns, the same emotions, the same cycles.

This was the point where I realised something deeper needed to change - not just my mindset, but what my body was still holding onto.

It wasn’t until I discovered the Emotion Code (and then The Body Code and Belief Code) that things began to shift in a way that actually felt different.

What stood out to me straight away was how different this approach felt.

I had tried other techniques that were meant to release emotional trauma from the body before - but they often felt effortful, inconsistent, or hard to fully trust.

This felt simple.

Instead of trying to force a release or figure everything out, I was working directly with what my body was holding onto - and letting my subconscious guide the process.

And that was the piece I had been missing.

It was true that emotionally and mentally I had come a long way from my earlier years of suicidal depression and almost constant ‘bad’ days.

Yet, even though I could see and feel the improvement - my emotional lows were still very low.

I would still have intense breakdowns and, usually at least once a year, find myself back in that familiar feeling of hopelessness that made me wonder what the point of living was.

I was no stranger to inner healing work.

While I say I was first introduced to the world of spirituality and personal development in my late 20s, the truth is that I had been dipping my toes in and out of this work for years.

I was first sent to see a psychiatrist at the age of 14, and I remember attending meditation classes with my mum at 16.

At 19 - one of my worst years by far - I remember getting great benefit from a book called Buddhism for Busy People.

In my mid-20s, when I lived in South America, I would attend yoga, meditation classes, and women’s circles fairly regularly, and even dipped my toes into plant medicine.

It was at 28, though, that I truly became obsessed with personal development and healing work.

What started as a quest to improve my business at the time turned into an obsession with mindset work, the subconscious mind, and ultimately energy work.

By the time I stumbled across the Emotion Code, I had tried countless healing modalities and techniques.

I was tired of how much conscious effort I was putting in to figure out how to feel satisfied and fulfilled with life - and yet, it felt like I had little to show for it.

Maybe I was just destined to be unhappy, and had to resign to the idea that some issues just had to be managed… and that true healing either wasn’t possible, or would take a very long time.

That all changed when I started practising the Emotion Code and Body Code on myself.

Within just a few weeks of finding the book, learning the process, and applying it consistently, I noticed a significant shift in my mood and emotions.

It wasn’t just that I felt better - it was that things were shifting without the constant effort.

That’s when I started to realise that maybe healing didn’t have to feel so hard.

Looking back now, knowing what I know, it’s incredible some of the deep-seated trauma I was able to begin releasing so early on - when I was still learning.

At the time, I didn’t fully realise what was happening (and I was learning on myself without any guidance beyond the book), but I was releasing deep emotional wounds I didn’t even consciously know I was still holding onto.

Years and years of different healing modalities and techniques - and none of it came close to touching what I was able to release from my body and energy field in those first few weeks.

For the first time, healing felt easy.

There was no need to spend hours analysing my thoughts or trying to “make the unconscious conscious” just to understand why I felt a certain way.

Instead, I followed a simple process - and my subconscious mind guided me to what needed to be released.

Of course, it felt too easy.

But the results, and the way I felt, spoke for themselves.

This is something I now see all the time in sessions with clients as well.

When you work with the body and subconscious directly, things can shift much more quickly than you might expect.

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In just two years from when I first discovered these modalities, my emotional baseline is higher than it’s ever been.

Of course, I’m human - I still experience highs and lows.

But those familiar feelings of hopelessness and despair, the intense breakdowns, and the underlying depression I used to feel are gone.

For the first time, I feel like I can easily and simply heal things from my past - without the constant analysing and efforting - and move forward with my life every day.

Now I know that healing can be easy.

It can be simple.

And it doesn’t have to take hours of talking and analysing, hours of meditation (although I still meditate regularly because I enjoy it - but sitting with myself in silence is easy and pleasant now), or years in therapy to heal - even if you have a lot to work through.

If this feels like you - if you’ve ever felt like it’s impossible to heal from what you’ve been through - know that I have been there too.

You are not alone.

Permanent healing is possible.

It can be easy.

And it doesn’t have to take years of striving like it did for me.

This is exactly the work I now do with clients.

Book a body code session here.

With love,
Beth x