Health and Safety

Committing to self-inquiry, recovery, or another form of healing, can be a long process, one that requires honest truths to be faced alone with yourself (or if you’re blessed, with a professional of some kind). You run the risk of decline when you delve into your depths, mostly because what lies inside of you can be unpredictably depressing, destabilising, and perhaps even unforeseeably dark.

Not Ana Maria Ltd, the author, publisher, or any third-party service or product, shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion presented in print or digital mediums, which includes this website and all its materials, including the connected social media accounts. This Health and Safety Policy encourages the visitors to acknowledge and own their autonomy as a human being, and asks them to claim personal responsibility with regard to safeguarding themselves against mental health decline. Let self-awareness be your friend, since only YOU, can save you!

Ana Maria Santuario trusts that those who commit to self-help efforts will endeavour to protect themselves from decline and deterioration by ensuring they also commit to self-preservation. Instinct often plays a part here and should step in on your behalf anyway, the mind and body are powerfully intuitive when trusted to be. Please listen to yourself above any other, including Miss Ana Maria, or any of her recommended vendors, since she cannot save you, or anybody for that matter… she may only guide you towards the ways you may save yourself, and perhaps nudge you towards ways to protect your young from repeating any inheritable patterns.

Trust yourself, this is the best advice we have all come to learn from our mini evolutions, and it is a journey in and of itself, because trusting yourself also means accepting yourself, which feels nigh on impossible for some of us. This is deep work that a person can feel called upon to do, this exhausting, destabilising, invisible work can be scary, lonely, and very daunting… so, perhaps when it gets too much or you are at risk of drowning, speak up, and Ana Maria may direct you towards gentler realms of self-support and care. Yet, she can only ever point the way, you must walk with decisive, persistent and constant action, every tiny step matters, for there can be no skipping any of them.

Sometimes, the self-work needs a pause, it needs time to readjust and redirect. Sometimes it hurts too damn much to carry on. So never feel like stopping the work is wrong or a bad thing, it is truly necessary at times; and we each return to our pain when the moment feels right, when we have the sustenance and energy enough to do so. It is important to also let go of any shame of being human, which includes the need to rest and recover from intensive self-reflections and other contemplative internal invisible work.

Moreover, sometimes, the reason you receive ‘a call from within’ to stop and press pause, well, it can also be because you need to reach out for aid, and you just haven’t acknowledged it yet. Therefore, we call on all who come to this platform for advice, solace, and support, to find their voice and ask for help from the right people and places when required, because we all need help at times. A key to your own successful journey within is to learn to identify and express your own needs, and find ways of meeting them, either alone or with somebody else’s assistance.

It is this kind of change, that of stepping into a world of awareness, self-responsible action, and a reliance on the ancient arts, modern knowledge, and self-empowering healing modalities, that we, as a collective of partnerships, seek for the children of the world. Self-compassion and awareness, reflective living, is the new age revolution, one that presents the world with very steep learning curves…

Any learning curve, post-developmental years, will be an uphill struggle for fully developed adults, is it not far wiser to optimise every child’s sponge-like nature, and empower them with such learnings from an early age? It can save them from decline later in life, and provide them with the ‘internal equipment’ needed to climb their own mountains of life!

As for you, the adults, we just hope the glimpses you receive of the view from the top will push you onward, since the journey can be slow and is full of plateaus and pit-stops. Some of these happy pauses will present you with the option to accept that you’ve done ENOUGH, and they welcome you to sit comfortably exactly where you are, there’s no finish line, so it’s ultimately up to you how far you walk back into yourself.

Sometimes, ‘enough’ is a helpful word to explore, since enough can mean you stopped having panic attacks at the thought of leaving the house, simply because you stopped trying to go out (don’t worry, you might get there in two years); or, that instead of anxiously departing when meeting a new face, you made a momentary friend, smiled a bit, but chose not to meet them again, all while fully recognising that more friends await in the eaves of this new future you’re exploring, but you’re just not ready yet. Enough means you accept yourself and find peace in who you are.

Oftentimes (always actually), who we are is already enough, we just failed to see it, and the only thing that we need to change is our self-perception. This is the change Ana Maria provokes, a complete reinvention of the self you see in the mirror. Not the physical self, not right now, since for that endeavour you’d need a private chef and personal trainer; yet we do not see physical transformation as the answer to one’s happiness, rather, we see it as a potential result of a person’s happiness (where no disabilities or complex illness have been diagnosed of course). Look no further than celebrity suicide and mental health collapses for evidence that happiness does not lie in the glass mirrors, but in the faces of human connection and community, in togetherness.

One’s perception of themselves is the thing to assess, re-evaluate, and potentially aim to inflict change upon, because when you’re enough for yourself, an internal peace becomes the place you reside, and that place looks and feels a lot like love.

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