Why Am I Like This?: Illuminating the Traumatized Self

Unlocking the unspoken stories of the traumatized self and inviting a shift towards compassion and healing

’Why am I like this?’ If you’ve asked this question to yourself quietly time and again... get ready to unpack and process like never before. Embark on a textured journey that will illuminate the hidden, unspoken and often unconscious experiences of the traumatized self. Chapter by chapter, you’ll make sense of your emotions, body, nervous system and relationships.
Through concept, vulnerable story-telling and self-inquiry, author Natalia Rachel ignites a shift towards self-compassion and the dissolving of shame. Like the brilliant formations of a kaleidoscope, your awareness will continue to morph, crystalize and clarify until you make the utmost sense. Natalia’s life journey as a patient turned therapist opens an incredibly special doorway to trauma recovery, healing and post-traumatic growth.

Natalia Rachel has spent her life on a journey to answer the question ’Why am I like this?’. Her existential inquiry started at age seven with a knowing that there was something fundamentally wrong with her world. Living through and recovering from relational trauma, mental health misdiagnosis and physical illness, led her on a healing journey exploring mainstream health and mental healthcare, complimentary health, the healing arts, somatics & spirituality. Her studies span hypnotherapy, regression, trauma, craniosacral therapy and other somatic healing modalities.