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My Journey

Hello

I am fauzia faizi shah, author, teacher of presence, dedicated to healing complex post traumatic stress disorder at its root through the body, breath and presence.

For decades, my clinical practice has focused on supporting individuals navigating complex trauma, anxiety, and the lasting impact of early relational wounds. My work integrates evidence-based therapeutic approaches with a deep respect for the body’s innate capacity to heal and regulate.

My book, Breath, Being, Body A Mindful Journey into Healing Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, emerged from this intersection of clinical practice and lived experience. It offers a pathway that moves beyond coping toward transformation, inviting readers to reconnect with themselves not as a problem to solve, but as a presence to discover.

“You are not your body.”

— ECKHART TOLLE

My approach is also shaped by the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng. Through formal training in their work, I have come to understand healing as something that unfolds through awareness, stillness, and embodied attention. Rather than forcing change, we create the conditions that allow it.

At the heart of my work is a simple belief: healing does not come from becoming someone new. It comes from gently awakening to who you already are. In that return, something else becomes possible.

Through therapy, writing, and teaching, I aim to create spaces where that awakening feels possible.

30+

Years Experience

Dedicated to mental health.

1

Books Published

My shared book.

Inner State

Joy & Contentment

Mindfulness & Presence

Living in the Now

fauzia faizi shah

A Note From Me

"Healing isn’t a finish line."

It’s a path we walk - sometimes steady, sometimes messy, always meaningful. Life will hand us challenges, yes, but those challenges are not verdicts about who we are. They’re invitations. Openings. Moments that nudge us toward growth and toward remembering what Eckhart Tolle calls our “essential nature”—the deeper Self beneath the swirl of thoughts, fear, and old stories.

I see my work as a teacher of presence to help you reconnect with that Self: the quiet, steady aliveness within you that has been there all along. You are more than your thoughts. More than your pain. More than any chapter of your past. You are life itself: interconnected, resilient, and capable of transformation.

When we begin to see ourselves this way, something shifts. The noise quiets. Compassion rises. And, as Tolle reminds us, “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

From this awareness comes a natural truth: when you recognize your own worth, caring for yourself stops feeling optional—it becomes essential.

I’m here to walk beside you on that journey.

fauzia faizi shah, MSW, LCSW