Your Life is Your Medicine 1

What if there was nothing to figure out, but for letting the flow of life unfold?

This article was originally published as a Substack letter on The Alma Letter on 21.09.2025. You can read it here and subscribe to this new series.

Finding oneself unexpectedly on a healing path

Eight years ago, my life path magically changed. For this sentence, I had wanted to write “dramatically” instead of “magically”, but my fingers led me to the magic instead. I trust the deeper truth, rather than chosen words through routines and patterns. The change was slow, and deep, and only now I can see it all more clearly.

That year took me through the ringer, starting with a “big” trauma, that took time for me to process, to even understand it was one. The year closed with an accident, a near-death experience, that was to be a catalyst for the years and healing to come. In-between, I got terrified by a bear, hiking in the Japanese mountains, only to understand today, Bear was a teacher and guide, a bridge in-between those events, and nothing to be afraid of. The spiral is weaved beyond a straight timeline of years.

Encountering bears in Canada, trying to step away from my fears

And since, step-by-step, life took me through a path of healing, of change, of reinvention, towards a way of living I would never have imagined, one I would have never believed, one of peace and flow, one of consciousness and awakening, one that past me would have judged, laughed at, resented, been jealous of, unable to open to. The most important tool I’ve carried on this path, the one that I’d like to share with younger Lucie would be this: “Stay open; don’t judge; don’t hold on to what you believe to be true as a shield to your own truth, healing and joy; because they may very well be your path forward. The answers, the peace, your truth are always beyond the shield and the formatting of your mind, prejudice and conditioning.”

This eight-year cycle of healing has been quite a journey! A static one at that - for the most part - for the depths are not to be found far and wide, but within, in stillness, in silence, in the pause - at least at first.

It all started with Intuition

It all started with intuition, or “inner voice work”; it had been there all along, without my knowing, and throughout the years, it’s been a constant, and the greatest of tool.

I was really at the bottom of my world, when I landed in Paris, putting a pause - that would become a stop - to my nomadic life. I grasped at friends, started therapy, and jumped onto the “bettering oneself” bandwagon of the productive entrepreneurs - for I was one - but my mental health was jeopardising my capacity to find work, nor do the actual work. That’s how I stumbled upon “intuition”, as a concept, as a tool, as Other, through a podcast called The Lively Show. It was a subtle introduction at first, as the host, Bella Lively focused on interviews of entrepreneurs and leaders, rather than sharing her spiritual teachings, but as I binged her episodes and walked the streets of Paris, I learned, I applied every titbit she was sharing, I trialed, I received.

Sink or flow

I can’t say it was an easy-peasy flowy journey; and for me, perhaps it wasn’t meant to be that way. While I uncovered emotional layers, traumas, and such space for growth in myself in therapy, I kept on playing with intuition, with the idea that there was something bigger than what we had been ‘sold’, that perhaps there was another way to be, to live, and that, ultimately, I would be able to find it. As I unravelled, more difficulties came… health issues, loosing meaning in my work, relationship attachment issues, realisations around past events and traumas… but I kept on pulling the thread with ferocity, trusting there would be another side, that it couldn’t always stay like this, that there was no way out but through… Or rather, I had no other choice: do the work, or sink and disappear. And the strong part, the light part of me didn’t want to sink… Perhaps not this time…

Shadows, light and mirrors

I do want to specify here that all our journeys are individual and personal, and that they don’t have to be that traumatic, difficult or riddled with obstacles. After all, I was what we call a “3/5 profile” in Human Design, which means a path and resilience to learn through mistakes and failures, to cut through obstacles, to show an easier, cleaner way for others. And there are many other elements about karma for example that I don’t know anything about that can have played a role in my path. It doesn’t have to be that hard, and perhaps it will be. This isn’t in our control. Some may find a peaceful, higher way to growth and realisation, and I can only wish it for you, but there’s never any guarantee.

A treasure hunt, a map of the highest intention

Choosing the path of intuition isn’t the destination, but rather accepting to play with a map of the highest intention for us. It’s bridging our needs and our deepest wants in the now moment. It’s coming back to our essence, instead of looking outward of ourselves for solutions, saving, quick fixes, or surrendering to an impression, an illusion of desire. Following the intuition doesn’t mean we have arrived… AND it’s the quickest way towards who we are. Intuition is the golden compass, to navigate at best what life sends our way, to understand the clues, to welcome in surprises and flow.

Intuition always led me to where I needed to be, to what I wanted to be, even if I didn’t know it. It led me to another life, it led me to my path, it let me to my writing, to shamanism, to my love, to healing practices, desires, surprises, peace, joys, to Edinburgh, back home to myself…

Looking at Arthur’s Seat, long before I knew it would be the seat of many awakenings

A year after consciously choosing to live by the intuition, the inner voice, I experienced a first awakening, which brought upon me 6 months of unbothered joy and peace, as well as the intuitive choice to move and settle in Edinburgh. This was followed by other awakenings, sometimes shorter, sometimes deeper, sometimes profound, sometimes purer, sometimes wider, at times a simple spark. In-between, life flowed through duality, with its ups and downs, but always propelled by an unshakeable peace and light within, always knowing it was there and that my only task was to find my way back to it, again, and again, without judging the outer world.

How do we get to the light, to the peace, to the intuition, to the soul?

I’ve experimented with countless practices, and learnt from several teachers and mentors, but looking back on it, it doesn’t feel like the overwhelm of going in too many directions. Each practice, each teacher came in for a reason: to remove a new layer, to build on top of each other, bringing a cohesion in the core principle of the healing ‘technique’; to remove a layer of fear, of conditioning, of trauma, of judgement, to get to the void, to find the light in. Hypnosis, inner voice ‘bean bag’, somatic emotional release, journalling, breathwork, money mindset, astrology, human design, life purpose, shamanism, RTT, reiki, past life integration… they all led to the same truth: our lives are the map, the joy, AND the medicine; the wholeness of their spectrum, but beyond them soul leads us into them.

Your life is your medicine - A new paid writing series on Substack

Life brings the pain, the delight, the cure, all in one bundle, for us to experience, live, enjoy, bring into separation, bring into communion, for us to remember our deeper truths. Healing, and healing techniques are tools to soothe, to heal, to come to awareness, to release, to spiral up to new vibrations, and layers, until life itself becomes an object of awareness, an experiment, a game, for us to transcend and release.

This has been my path of healing and awakening.

Always on the path, on the hills of Cape Town

And this is what I’d like to share with you in this new series Your life is your medicine, which will bring reflections, healing techniques, healing stories, anecdotes, surprises and flow from the past and present. The shape of the series will be ever-evolving and growing, much as life, on an intuitive rhythm. Perhaps, it will be short posts, perhaps longer ones with videos, perhaps it will compound as research and experiment for a new book. I anticipate it to be all of that at once, and yet I don’t know the unfolding path in front of me.

From what I understand today, I haven’t been able to share the entirety of my truth, spiritual teachings, reflections and wisdom on a free basis, available to all on the web, without an energy exchange, without an investment, without reciprocity, without perhaps a protective layer too, as a lot of these stories and teachings are often frowned upon or shunned, as I’m still growing in owning my truth and path as well. I haven’t found yet the perfect format to share what I’ve learned and understood over the past five years. This is an attempt at that, which feels truer, aligned, and mature to be born.

Free letters about creativity, art, healing and general updates will continue to be written with joy, pleasure and flow.

New spiritual, healing, and consciousness content will find its home in this new series, through a paid format. I’m excited to dive deeper with you, if you feel called to it, and to share about consciousness, awareness, and awakening, subjects I haven’t been able to share much about, but which are my favourite subjects of research and thinking at the moment.

This format has been inspired by the leap taken by my friend Aisté, on Heron of Bath, and I’m grateful for her to show me a new way to write. Give her a follow if you feel inclined, over there or her other project (where I’ve been recently interviewed), Heron Guide.

And if you’d like to carry on on this journey with me, you can become a Paid subscriber for the next letter of this series here, which I hope will be written on a weekly basis. It will be my pleasure and honour to be in this new space with you. I’ll focus on English letters for now, but will keep you updated if a French version arise.

As always, with much love and light. I can’t wait to write the next letter.

Sending love from Edinburgh, where we’ve finally made our way back yesterday, after three months on the road. More on that soon, to be sure!

Lucie Alma