The Dual Helix of Healing

Why do people return to familiar emotional patterns even after profound insight?

Why does healing so often feel like progress followed by collapse?

The Dual Helix of Healing offers a new way of understanding human change. Rather than viewing healing as a linear journey toward an end point, Madonna Gott introduces the Dual Helix—a framework that reveals healing as a self-organising process shaped by movement, nervous system regulation, relationship, and time.

Drawing on observations from nature, human movement, and lived experience, this book explores why return is not regression, why insight alone rarely transforms us, and why genuine change depends less on force than on the conditions that allow intelligence to organise itself.

Written for practitioners, coaches, therapists, educators, movement professionals, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of personal transformation, The Dual Helix of Healing invites readers to see healing not as something that must be driven, but as something that unfolds when interruption gives way to continuity.

This is not a step-by-step method.

It is an orientation.

One that changes how we understand healing itself.

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