Community Story: Nicco on Reconnecting with His Inner Child at NAKED

Community stories share what NAKED means to the people in it. This is Nicco’s story, in his own words.

What NAKED is for me

I got the priceless opportunity of reconnecting with my deepest dreams, my inner child, the most profound core of my reason to be alive.

My first NAKED, in 2016 in Portugal, led me to cross paths with the one person I was meant to meet in this lifetime, so I could remove and grow beyond all the masks and personas I had built around myself. The retreat itself laid the foundations for all of this. I can only picture it as the transcendence from a reality of fear, self-judgement and scarcity to one of trust, integrity and abundance.

When I disappeared, and how the community caught me

I got so deep into the reality I co-created with my then wife that I detached and disappeared from the NAKED community. Only when the relationship ended did I get back in touch with Simon and share my depression and frustration. He picked me up and gave me time and space to put the broken pieces back together. Together with Dara, they decided to gift me a place in NAKED The Retreat 13 in Tuscany, along with the 21-day Orgasmic Yoga course and an introduction to Charles Eisenstein’s courses. I recommend all of it to anyone I meet.

My second NAKED was profound and enriching. It put me face to face with the greatest struggles and contradictions of my life: earth care and self-sabotage, love and lust, care and greed, realignment and integration, self-judgement and self-appreciation.

Thank you for all this, and for all I haven’t been able to share in such a short feedback. From the deepest part of me, I love you.

Nicco, NAKEDeer

Check out Nicco’s purposeful project: thetreeandthewater.com.

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