I wasn’t always living a Wonderful, Free and Purposeful Life. My life started in the corporate world.

In fact, it wasn’t all that long ago that I had to make some life changes due to challenges with my body.

Those were some of the hardest, confusing and defeating times of my life. I can still remember what it felt like to lay in bed all day for weeks on end, feeling like this is just going to be how life is now.

Some days I just wanted to give up completely. It was a dark time.

Then one day something really shocking happened to me. I started to take pills to help my mood. Apparently low doses of antidepressants can help to manage pain. Nobody warned me of the side effects! Wow! They were worse than the pain AND no matter what medications I tried, there was always a drawback that didn’t make taking them worth it for me. And it’s at that time that I decided things needed to change. I needed to change. So I made the decision to research more holistic solutions for my wellness.

It wasn’t easy and it took many years of trial and error.

At that time I was a newly wed just starting married life, so the health challenges I was experiencing were quite a kink in my plans. There were days that I didn’t think I’d ever have a life of meaning and purpose.

It didn’t help that other people didn’t understand what I was going through.

You have no idea how many times I heard people tell me things like:

• You won’t find anything holistic for your problems

• Pharmaceuticals are the only way

• You can’t do this because your not a Doctor

It’s at that point that I realized that all of these other things going on in my life, like my pain,my mood and my energy, weren’t really obstacles at all.

They were excuses.

And the only real obstacle I had was to Deconstruct My Thinking.

Now don’t get me wrong – I still needed to do and still do a lot of work in order to Deconstruct My Mind. I am learning a whole lot about Present Moment Awareness simply through the process of inviting a Conscious Breath as often as possible.

NO long Meditations, shutting off doors and shutting out the world.

Just One Conscious Breath. As often as I can. Wherever I am.

As I began to invite more NOW Moments I could observe and detach from my thinking mind. I watch the thoughts come and go. Sometimes it's easier to observe than others. Not to create any new layers to the narrative of my mind. Simply Watch and Witness.

Allowing myself to FEEL the FEELING underneath the noise.

Allowing myself to move into a space of Acceptance with pain, sadness, fear, disappointment, frustration, confusion and pretty much every good and bad emotion you can experience as a human.

Not Acceptance like I’m Totally OK with this. Acceptance is not about liking something or agreeing with something—It’s simply about acknowledging what IS happening, what is true in this moment.

One day I had a Huge breakthrough: So many of my stories became so clear. And suddenly, I Realized I AM a Creator of My Life.

How? Because I began to see that when I release the Stories of what I think and when I AM 100% Present, I AM in the NOW which is at the Center of EVERYTHING. All Dimensions. All Realities. All Possibilities are in the NOW.

And I also began to get Really Creative with my Stories, creating new narratives, paragraphs and chapters that are much more nourishing, empowering and filled with possibilities.

NOW I Live my New Stories.

Listen, I know it’s hard to get out of bed and live with constant pain, especially if you have fibromyalgia or another chronic illness as I have learned from this. However, I did it in spite of excruciating pain and fatigue. And I just know that if I can do it, then you can too.

It starts with taking that Breath! That deep, grounding, awakening breath that connects us back to All Possibilities.

I can help you with that!

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I didn’t always enjoy being around women. I grew up with 3 sisters and a whole bunch of women in my family.

Girls in school sucked. Bitchy. Judgey. Sucky.

It's only over the last few years that I have found a deeper appreciation for the Feminine and now I am convinced that our greatest potential lies in balancing female and male energy within ourselves.

If we can get both energies working and dancing together in a harmonious way, they allow us to better understand energy and creation.

Before I began connecting with this part of myself I was really in my masculine energy. I have a female body but my thinking, behaviors and habits were very masculine. I was goal-oriented, structured and focused because male energy corresponds to linear left brain thinking and behaviors.

Sometimes I would fall into the habit of over-giving, over-doing, always moving and seeking solutions. I wasn’t leaving space for my feminine, curving, creative, process-oriented, and flowing energy to come through enough.

Then one day on 22nd June 2019 a dear friend and I went on a pilgrimage to Pilot Mountain, NC. The native Saura people called this mountain Jomeokee, which translates to the Great Guide or Pilot. As I walked around the spiral path of this great mountain I began to feel myself aligning with a lot of new information coming into my consciousness. To be honest when this information began to birth into my conscious mind it was overwhelming!

It wasn’t easy for me to think about working with women.

At that time I had many deeply ingrained programmes and belief systems to deconstruct. I had so much Self Love to still Open up to.

It didn’t help that some of my programmes were telling me.

You are Not Enough

You are meant to compare yourself to women

Women are only valuable if they are young and sexy

When I looked at these beliefs and their roots, I realized that none of them are applicable to who I am today or who I want to be in the future.

The only challenge was to deconstruct many of my negative thinking patterns and start honoring the balance of masculine and feminine energy within myself.

This is an ongoing endeavor. I created the Sacred Feminine Priestess Path as a powerful tool. I began integrating and embodying the teachings and guiding many other women through the same journey. I have been learning so much through women. Simply through the Willingness to walk with women on their journey and Witness without judgment, without expectations of her or myself.

I have observed such a transformation within myself for bringing these two energies of the Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine into Divine Union. It has been teaching me how to work with energy and to Create a Life I absolutely LOVE!

I Look at the Shadows and LIGHT them Up. We all have a shadow side. The shadow is a psychological term for everything we can’t see in ourselves. BUT many don’t realize that the inverted self is not a negative. The Dark simply is the balance of Light. Dark/Light. Night/Day/. Feminine/Masculine/. Right Brain/Left Brain. Curving/Linear. Light and Dark are always serving each other. It’s only when they are out of balance that things get crazy!

One day this just all CLICKED and I truly knew this in my heart. This has allowed me to be far more Accepting of all the parts of mySELFs.

Many of you will agree that the ‘Programming’ we receive as Women is Disempowering. In spite of this there are tools to help us REMEMBER to Take Our Power Back.

I have one of those tools for you!

I encourage you to download the Free Sacred Feminine Priestess Path eBook as a tool for your Journey of Womanhood. Simply CLICK on the link below

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Her self care today was to carve out some play time, just a few hours in the afternoon.

In the past she had struggled to allow herself to play. She was always so focused on her responsibilities, on doing, on achieving.

This is what she believed made her worthwhile. As long as she was doing something productive she was a worthwhile human being.

She empowered herself to challenge that belief and decide if it truly applies to who she is and who she wants to be at this moment.

She decided that it didn't support her and she began taking action and making changes to support a more compassionate understanding.

This self care allowed her to reparent herself. To change that story to one that is far more supportive of who she wants to be in this world.

The weather was perfect so she set up her teepee and brought refreshments along.

She built her own little fort and promised herself to be fully present with this wonderful experience and detach from her thoughts, responsibilities and worries for this time.

In this playful present moment awareness she laid some of her crystals that had asked for a sunbath around the water fountain and she could hear the crystal frequencies raising and feel the energies vibrating and rippling out around her as they were activated and charged by the sunlight. She could feel this in her own body too.

Her hips were tight, she knew this is where emotion is stored, so she spent some time moving her body in ways that felt good for her.

The movement medicine began to open her sacral chakra and allowed her inner child's sense of wonder and joy to emerge more and more as the hours flew by.

She played like a child that afternoon. She was simply in the moment. Fully in her body. Enjoying the fresh air, the sounds of nature and the water around her. She picked flowers and went for an afternoon dip in the lake.

She honors how play is a basic need for her. She knows how important it is to feel this freedom on a regular basis which is why it is an important part of her self care.

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Her Self Care today involved carving out time to sit in one of her favorite places in the garden, with a lovely cup of tea, her amethyst crystal and write in her journal.

She sat and took several deep breaths and became Present with the moment. She thanked herself for making this time for self care. She acknowledged the perfection of the moment.

Lately, she had things on her mind that she knew only pen and paper could help her process.

Her journal was for her only. It was not like the kind of journal she kept as a teenage girl, writing about crushes, how annoying her sisters were and how much she loathed her parents.

No, this journal was definitely for emotionally mature adults. This is the kind of journal that only a person who values accountability and personal growth could write.

In this sacred book, she writes her thoughts, feelings, experiences, and dreams. She can express what is in her heart without any judgement. No concern about grammar and paragraphs or if it's in order at all. She understands it and that's all that matters.

This process has always been powerful for her because it allows her to connect to the layers between her conscious mind and her subconscious. It helps her to uncover her limiting beliefs and the patterns that create them. It helps her to process life.

With this knowledge and awareness she can rewrite her stories in any way she chooses. As she creates new stories that are supportive and inspiring she literally changes her beliefs and reality.

In presence, journaling is a doorway to her inner world and a powerful tool for creating self awareness. It activates her intuition and strengthens her connection to her higher self wisdom.

She sat in contemplation with her kitty watching over her and many insights began to emerge as she integrated the pages she had just written.

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Her Self Care today was to include things that helped her to tap into her heart centre.

She walked in nature and found a Mother Tree to connect with.

The mother tree told her to take a deep conscious breath and place both hands behind her head, at the base of her skull.

As she breathed she allowed her chest to expand and her upper back to tilt ever so gently as she gazed up to the sky.

She consciously Breathed into her heart space.

She listened to Mother Trees wisdom.

She was Fully Present.

In this awareness, the veil between worlds began to thin and the world of form began to melt into the background.

A world of Light began to emerge and she saw clearly what it was like to Live a Heart Centered Life.

She took another conscious breath and allowed herself to integrate this knowing into her Being.

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Acceptance is something I kept circling around in February. Accepting thoughts, accepting feelings, accepting circumstances, accepting others, accepting myself, the list goes on and on. ACCEPT.

I had a conversation with my husband about my trip to Little Switzerland, NC. This location is 3500ft elevation in the Blue Ridge mountains and the week that I spent there with my parents was quite an experience to say the least. Just when I thought driving off road through massive big dipper style sand dunes in Outerbanks was WILD, here comes the Blue Ridge Fog!

I have been to different parts of the Blue Ridge mountains over the last 8 years. I have traveled this mountain along North Carolina, lived in the foothills of the mountain in South Carolina and traveled the mountain in Virginia and Tennessee. I am always blown away by the different landscapes and terrains. More than half of my trips have been in the winter months so I have experienced how harsh and dangerous the mountain can be with weather conditions but never as much as this last trip.

The first day in Little Switzerland I experienced the worst fog that I have ever been in. Keep in mind that we were driving winding mountain roads, some places had no barriers and at some points the only thing we could just make out were the yellow lines in the middle of the road. I knew there was a 3500ft drop to the right of me and it was terrifying! I barely breathed the entire journey, I was in full on FEAR and I had to keep bringing myself back to the moment with conscious breaths. Inviting acceptance instead of resistance.

This tack tick got me through that drive along with my Dads ninja pigeon driving skills but the fog didn’t end there. For the week we were pretty much fogged in, like dangerously cocooned in thick dense fog that you could barely see your hand in front at times. It was wild and bizarre to observe it moving around the mountain and then head in your direction. Within 5 minutes you had no visuals outside and our cabin was engulfed. My mind wanted to create many stories about that fog. All the stories were filled with fear and suffering, the only thing I could do was take conscious breaths and make peace with each Moment. Out of Resistance into Acceptance.

So, my husband says to me ‘’how can you accept fear?, that doesn’t sound right to me’’. I explain that unfortunately acceptance has a bit of a negative connotation because it can imply to some people that you are giving up, however, I do not see acceptance in this way.

Accepting for me means that I am acknowledging What IS. I am not saying I like it. I am not saying it is OK. I am not saying it’s right. I am recognizing What IS arising right Now.

When I move into acknowledgment and recognition of What IS. I am accepting things as they are. From this space I can make choices because I am not stuck in resistance and suffering. 

If I am in resistance to What IS (things out of my control) I am suffering.

I choose not to suffer as much as I possibly/consciously can.

Fear was here, It was happening. Nothing I can do about that. Do I jump on those fearful thoughts and suffer? I was frozen in this place, Or do I use my breath to ground into my body, into the moment and accept that fear is here? When I move into that acceptance the fearful thoughts still come, however, I can witness them. I don’t feed into them, believe in them or add any layers to those narratives that keep me suffering. I honor what is arising in me. I acknowledge my fears. I observe those thoughts as I observe clouds in the sky. I witness the thoughts and I breathe deeply. I see the thoughts and I know that they are not me and they are not true. My breath anchors me into the Moment deeply and in this space I am not limited by my thoughts.

What an amazing tool a conscious breath is and how grateful I am for the Source Course teachings that bring me back to Presence and keep me accountable for the stories I create.

I was far more conscious of my thoughts during the fog and conscious of the stories my mind wanted to create about getting out when we have to check out. I did my best to detach from those thoughts and accept each moment without a story.

Leaving the mountain was wonderful. I mean truly. The sun was shining and I felt enormous gratitude for that. I feared the heights and winding roads far less and felt great respect for this majestic place.

I feel like the fog was a portal that helped me in overcoming my personal blocks. I was in another dimension of Little Switzerland, NC on the 02/02/2022 alignment and I came out the other side of FEAR.

That fog represented my fear. Things I had to face. Things that are out of my control. Things that cause me deep anxiety and suffering. I needed to look them all in the eye and I did!

What a gift I received. The opportunity to make some kind of peace and invite Presence when fear arises so strongly. I can’t say that I have been as conscious as that with thoughts of fear in the past. It was an enlightening experience and I feel really grounded and clear.

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I don’t know about you but I have had challenges in the past with food, weight and body image.

I had no idea that there was anything wrong with my body until I got to school and was exposed to kids and their thoughtless comments. With each year in school I became more and more conscious of how I looked.

When I was about 14/15 years old I discovered amphetamines. I vividly recall being away one half term or something, I had been partying lots and lost quite a bit of weight in a short time. So, when I came back to school all the comments I received about how great I looked really were encouraging. It made me feel better about myself.

As I tell this story I can see a seed got planted. The seed was a subconscious belief that if I do drugs I will keep my weight down and be more acceptable to others. My gosh, that’s not healthy for me now. I am grateful for the wisdom.

I really did have a weird relationship with food. At one point I got my tongue pierced and it was easy to eat mashed potato. This went on for longer than my tongue needed to heal. I ate mashed potato only. Sometimes I put sweetcorn or baked beans or a little bit of cheese in but all I wanted was mashed potato.

In my late teens a friend introduced me to a ‘special’ doctor who was getting amazing results for women who wanted to lose weight. I went to see him and was prescribed amphetamines legally. That caused drastic weight loss. I had to stop the pills because I would never eat otherwise. For months I survived on one slice of toast and one pill in the morning and I would be good for 24 hours.

It's funny cause I’m thinking nobody expressed any concern whatsoever about the drastic changes in my body. Maybe it wasn't as obvious as I thought? My clothes told me differently.

Before I got married I was surviving on chocolate for ages. I wasn’t getting much nutrition at all. I barely ate and the chocolate was just energy.

In the first year of being married I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and it got me questioning my body BIG time. Up until that point I had taken it for granted so much!

One of the things I was just starting to sort of learn but not embody was that nutrition and food had a major role to play in my health. This knowledge came through books like Gillian McKeiths ‘you are what you eat’ and Dr Joe M. Elrods ‘the fibromyalgia nutrition guide’.

Those books were definitely new seeds for me but like I said, I wasn’t ready to embody their wisdom yet.

In the earlier years of my marriage I had a better relationship with food. Having my husband enjoy my cooking and really honouring our dinner time together as a special time was a new perspective.

After several years I began to notice that I was overweight and not feeling in sync with what my body wanted. Many times my husband would eat late and I would join him and honestly, it was too late for my tummy to have a full meal. I had a real conflict about creating a cut off point for my last meal of the day because it is just a special thing for us. I knew he would be upset if I didn’t join him.

As usual, when I communicate my needs to my husband, even though he may not always agree, he will always honour them and empowers me to do what is good for me.

So I began eating more intuitively. Becoming more aware of how much food my body wants and when. I discovered that I prefer to eat little and often and make my last meal around 6pm.

Don’t worry, hubby and I still eat together. He makes a conscious effort to eat a bit earlier because he knows it's good for him. I try not to be too rigid on time. It's even more special now cause it's not all the time but many times a week we sit down early evening and enjoy our meal.

Anyway, in 2015 I did my first plant medicine journey and part of this journey is to follow a dieta for two weeks leading up to the ceremony.

The diet encompasses both food and other nutritional sustenance that we take into our bodies. This includes what we take into our physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual bodies. I followed the diet to the letter and I do believe it helped my journey so much.

When I came back from the plant medicine ceremonies I no longer had a taste for many of the things I used to enjoy. I easily eliminated many things from my diet and became more and more conscious of food as medicine.

Food is not bad. Food is good. Food is wellness. Food is medicine. The earth gives us food and we can be powerful when we have the knowledge of this.

So, I have been enjoying the work of the medical medium and learning about Ayurveda. Bit by bit with the knowledge I am more likely to make healthy choices.

Nutrition wasnt enough for me though. I had to go deeper because besides the fibromyalgia and slipped disks, I still didn’t feel comfortable in my body.

That’s when yoga came into my life, around 2016. The breath, the movement and the philosophies had such a powerful impact on me.

I could and will share some wonderful yoga stories with you but for now, just know that learning about the movement changed the game for me and I finally got back into my body.

Yoga was great for the first year or two when I had instruction and a group to keep me accountable but I moved to an area far away and had to continue the journey in solitude which took my willpower to whole new levels.

I learnt that the struggle to get myself on the mat every day was really about self love.

Reprogramming myself to see yoga as an act of love for myself was hard to do, it's an ongoing journey, a lifelong practice.

I am heading towards my 40th year in this body. I have found that working with more self love, honouring my needs and being true to myself puts me in alignment with a healthier more balanced body weight. It doesn’t fluctuate the way it used to and I have maintained it for years.

I focus on health, strength, balance and self love and this mindset pulls me into alignment with wellness.

When we treat our bodies with love and honour, they blossom, bloom and open up into their radiance.

I know that it starts with me and ends with me. I know that I am going to be with myself for an eternity so I may as well start operating from a place of self loving than self loathing. It's working much better for me.

This is when the magic happens, your body reacts to it. It starts letting go of what no longer serves you and opening up for the new. It literally starts replacing old cells with new shiny ones. Your energy starts to glow and you feel increased happiness. You start feeling more at home in yourself.

It’s all about the journey, the ongoing, unraveling, spiraling road and all that we learn along the way.

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