I am Sharmiley D a new writer with a lifelong curiosity about spirituality. Growing up, I explored different religious traditions and philosophies, eventually feeling most drawn to Buddhism and its quiet attention to suffering, presence, and compassion.

 

In 2016, a journey to Bali marked a turning point. There I met a Reiki master whose work set something deeper in motion. During a healing session, he reflected that my trauma extended beyond abandonment—that it was larger, older, and held in the body. This recognition became the beginning of a long period of inquiry and learning.

 

I went on to study Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and trained as a yoga teacher, deepening my relationship with the body as a site of memory and healing. After completing my yoga training, I felt a strong and unexpected calling to travel to India—despite having no affinity for the country. Wanting to understand this pull, I sought guidance through Theta Healing, where past-life work revealed a deeper origin for my resistance and fear.

 

Following this, I travelled to India and was guided to a Heartfulness meditation centre. From there, I continued my Reiki path and became a certified Reiki healer. Returning to the Netherlands, my search widened further, through energy healing and eventually leading me to plant medicine work. My experiences with ayahuasca revealed what my nervous system had been holding—bringing buried memories and emotional truth into view.

 

Alongside this, I studied breathwork and trauma healing. Through breathwork, I was able to release what insight alone could not. If ayahuasca helped me see what was held in the body, breathwork helped me to let it move through and softening me.

 

My writing emerges from this embodied path. Finding Sleep is not a record of methods or beliefs, but the result of listening—to the nervous system, to memory, and to what asks to be written when healing becomes a lived experience.