EPISODE · Nov 28, 2025 · 2 MIN
The Long Return
from The Place Within · host Niamh O’Shea
This offering began during a deep drumming journey nine years ago. The steady rhythm pulled me into a place I had never seen before, a place where fire moved with me and something inside me awakened in a way I did not yet understand. When I came out of the journey, I drew everything I had seen and wrote the number 212 in the corner without knowing why.That moment stayed with me for almost a decade. Recently I found the drawing again and the feeling returned. The heat. The movement. The sense of becoming. I wrote these words soon after. And when I recorded them, the final audio landed at two minutes and twelve seconds entirely on its own.It felt like a confirmation, a circle returning to itself. Like the woman I became finally met the woman I glimpsed all those years ago.This offering is for anyone who has ever felt themselves change before they had the language for it, and for anyone who is still growing into the self they glimpsed long ago.Thank you for listening and for giving this work a place inside your inner world. It means more than you know.I share private audios on The Place Within, my members only podcast on Substack. These are my deeper offerings, holding spoken word, reflections, insights and the quieter truths that do not live anywhere else.You can also find my guided practices, somatic journeys and healing songs on Insight Timer, along with courses created to support your own return to wholeness.
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This offering began during a deep drumming journey nine years ago. The steady rhythm pulled me into a place I had never seen before, a place where fire moved with me and something inside me awakened in a way I did not yet understand. When I came out of the journey, I drew everything I had seen and wrote the number 212 in the corner without knowing why.That moment stayed with me for almost a decade. Recently I found the drawing again and the feeling returned. The heat. The movement. The sense of becoming. I wrote these words soon after. And when I recorded them, the final audio landed at two minutes and twelve seconds entirely on its own.It felt like a confirmation, a circle returning to itself. Like the woman I became finally met the woman I glimpsed all those years ago.This offering is for anyone who has ever felt themselves change before they had the language for it, and for anyone who is still growing into the self they glimpsed long ago.Thank you for listening and for giving this work a place inside your inner world. It means more than you know.I share private audios on The Place Within, my members only podcast on Substack. These are my deeper offerings, holding spoken word, reflections, insights and the quieter truths that do not live anywhere else.You can also find my guided practices, somatic journeys and healing songs on Insight Timer, along with courses created to support your own return to wholeness.
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