Different Ways to Explore and Change

I joined this program expecting to learn more about my family history, and about myself. Looking at recurring patterns across generations helped me understand where some of my beliefs and behaviours may have come from without making me feel stuck in them. Instead, it helped me look forward to the future rather than focusing on the past. The sessions were structured, thoughtful, supportive, and practical, and the personalised hypnotic recording tied everything together in a way that felt very personal. I left the program feeling hopeful, motivated, and excited about the next chapter of my life.

“At the beginning, I wasn’t exactly sure what I was getting into. I had heard about this type of therapy, but I was always curious about what it would actually look like. I was pleasantly surprised by the questions and perspectives we explored. Some things might seem obvious in hindsight, but I realised things I had never thought about before. In today’s fast-paced world, we rarely take the time to really examine our lives and childhood in such detail. Sitting down and taking the time to explore these experiences and actually analyse our feelings is incredibly valuable. One insight that stayed with me was that we often look at our childhood through an adult lens. We reflect on events with our adult feelings and rationality, forgetting that we didn’t have those perspectives as children. Something that seems small to us now may have been a very big deal to us as kids. The exploration also led me to do something I had never thought I would. Expressing love openly to family members has always felt uncomfortable to me. After our sessions, I decided to tell my grandfather how much he means to me. It was uncomfortable, but I realised that if I never told him, those feelings would never reach him — and I might regret that one day. I am very happy I took that first step. Irina makes you feel at ease, as if you are talking to a friend, while also being able to notice connections and perspectives you may never have considered yourself. It’s the perfect combination. There is nothing to lose and only to gain. There will always be something for you to discover.

I’ll be honest. I was hesitant to do this work right before visiting family, worried it might make me more tense or hyperaware of things while spending time with them. But after Irina’s encouragement, I went ahead and did it beforehand, and I’m really glad I did. It genuinely helped me go deeper into understanding myself, why I do the things I do, how I show up in certain situations, how I relate to people. We absorb so much from the environment we grow up in, from the people closest to us, often without ever stopping to examine it. This program made me do exactly that. I have always been deeply fascinated by human behaviour, and to this day it remains one of my biggest passions. Over the years that curiosity led me to therapy, to reading extensively on the subject, to observing my own behaviour and that of others, and to countless deep conversations with people of very different backgrounds and life experiences. All of that is also what drew me to Irina’s work in the first place. Even so, I had never done this kind of structured, in-depth observation before, and the findings were genuinely insightful. What made it even more interesting was that when I finally went to visit my family afterward, I could see the patterns in real time. Having done the work with Irina beforehand meant I knew exactly what to look for, and that awareness made the whole experience richer and more layered than it would have been otherwise. Things I might have just lived through without a second thought suddenly had context and meaning. One of the most relieving realisations was understanding that a lot of what our parents and family members do is itself a result of what they inherited from their own families. That context makes a real difference. It doesn’t excuse everything, but it shifts how you hold it. What this program does, at its core, is shift the focus onto the family’s way of doing things and help you notice, often for the first time, just how much those ways have shaped you. Not in a small way either. And beyond the awareness itself, it brings something equally important to the surface: the understanding that not everything is bound to stay the same. We have more power than we realise to change the things that no longer serve us, once we can actually see them clearly. I’m grateful for this program and would genuinely recommend it to anyone willing to take an honest look at the patterns in their life and where they actually came from.