07/12/2026
READ THE STORY of NOTES TO SELF here - by Diana Lang
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I am a spiritual teacher and counselor in Los Angeles since 1980. I first began as a yoga and meditation teacher. It was during the early years of teaching, and especially privately, that I began to see that you couldn’t change your body until you changed your mind, and out of this, slowly but surely my counseling practice emerged.
Over these many years of deep and profound conversation, I have had the privilege of standing as a guide and witness to thousands of people's processes, ”little miracles," I called them.
These Notes to Self came out of these conversations. They represent the nature of the soul in relation to each person during a particular phase of their healing journey.
At first they were written on notepads that I called spiritual prescriptions. I would give them to my clients to keep with them. Some of these little notes, people still carry in their wallets and pockets years to this day.
One day during a session, it came to me to write directly on the body, where one of my clients had been "cutting." I thought to myself, "I'll write these right on her leg where she cuts. Maybe she won't cut through them." She didn't.
It became so powerful in her process that I began to use it more and more in my work. We called them temporary tattoos. I made them with Sharpies. The images would last anywhere from a few hours to a whole week. We would laugh at which ones would disappear the day I wrote them, while others would "stick" for many days, and either way, we took that to be an important sign. Some people even turned them into permanent tattoos!
The photos themselves were taken right in the moment, arriving out of a long conversation. They were taken spontaneously and live, without special lighting, on my iPhone.
Every single letter I scribe on people's bodies is specific and exact, including punctuation, whether it’s all capitals or caps and lowercase, script or printed, size of letters, a phrase or a word–NEEDS to be taken in. It is something that the individual doesn’t know how to say to themselves. It is spiritual medicine.
There is something mystical about the ritual of physically writing on someone's body. For me, I was functioning as a soul scribe, making an indelible impression that I wanted to "sink in." For them, it was an embodiment of our conversation. They would feel the love, the care, and the spiritual intention that went into it, as I would slowly and deliberately write the words onto their body.
It takes a lot of courage to do this kind of deep, personal work. I am still in awe and admiration of the courage of these individuals as they walked the path to REAL healing. It truly is a road less traveled. And I am humbled and grateful to be part of their process. The backstories here would take your breath away. From self-esteem issues to brutal and repeated violence, suffice it to say, the photographs represent hours upon hours of deep personal work and transformation.
As a spiritual counselor, I am always guiding the personality back into relationship with the soul. And I can tell you for sure that, no matter what our backgrounds might be, we are redeemable, healable, lovable, and holy. As a healer and teacher, I stand in that space between the soul and the self with all my heart and mind.
What you see here are simple phrases that represent an entire recalibration of the psychology of the personality in direct relationship with the soul. Real healings happened with real people.
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Diana Lang ~ 2026
