Body: From Battleground to Beloved
For decades, my body was the battleground. Diets promised salvation, and I believed them. I obsessed over food, weight, and the hope that if I could just shrink myself, I might finally be enough.
But underneath all that striving was a deeper hunger — for peace, connection, and to truly know my worth regardless of my weight.
Slowly, through The Deeper Cravings Path I walked I discovered the war was never about food. It was about disconnection. My body was not my enemy. It was my Beloved, waiting for me to come home.
Through presence and compassion, I softened. Food became nourishment, not obsession. Movement became play, not punishment. What once felt like a prison became a doorway — not only to freedom with food and body, but to a fuller experience of life itself.
Heart (relationship): Breakdown as Breakthrough
My marriage has been one of my greatest teachers. Years ago, we nearly lost each other. Shame, secrecy, and painful patterns were eroding the early magnetic bond we found.
As a therapist, I could guide other couples — but in my own home, I felt helpless.
And yet, that helplessness eventually cracked something open. I hit a breaking point that propelled us both into years of studying relationship science and doing the hard work of trauma healing and repair, we discovered the tools and skills that allow relationships to be portals for growth, mirrors for our wounds, and sacred ground for deep healing.
Today, my marriage is beautiful, equitable, respectful and fun — still imperfect, but it lives within us as a hard earned treasure — a living testament to what becomes possible when two people commit to a path of love, forgiveness and transformation.
Mind: From Madness to Miracles
My path has also included two seasons of dramatic mental health crisis, two experiences of acute sudden onset psychosis 7 years apart (2007 and again in 2014). For years, I carried deep shame, convinced these experiences somehow marked me as a failure and secretly would disqualify me in your eyes from being the competent healer I know myself to be.
But slowly, I began to see it differently. A miracle happened, I began to see these experiences an invitations into the fullness of my humanity — initiations into the mysteries of psyche and Spirit. They cracked open dimensions of soul I may never have touched otherwise.
Those 2 ‘dark nights’ gave me both that kind of compassion that can only be born of lived experience and a map — living proof that healing is possible even in places we imagine are beyond repair and that ultimately we are not our minds.
Spirit: The Light at the Core
My Body. My Heart (relationship). My Mind.
What I once thought of as my shame, I now know as my initiation and my pathway to discovering the fullness of my Spirit.
Each has carried me back to Presence. Each has shown me that healing is not about becoming someone new, but about remembering who I already am.
I believe every human being holds a luminous core — a rod of Divine Light that runs through them and that can never be extinguished. Our wounds may cover it. Our stories may dim it. But the Light remains.
I am not a healer in spite of my struggles.
I am a healer because of them.
This is the ground of my compassion. The soil of my work. My calling is not to fix you, but to walk beside you as you uncover the wholeness that has always been yours.
We are souls having a human experience. We are Light, longing to shine through the cracks of our pain. And when we return to that Light, we return home — to ourselves, to each other, and to the One that holds us all.
Peggy Farah, LMHC, RCC Deeper Cravings 