35 YEARS!
That's how long it took me to start becoming self-aware
and truly getting to know "me".
That's how long it took me to begin questioning
everything I'd been taught about everything.​
That's how long it took me to stop living for the world
and start living for myself!
Each time you become aware of a lack of awareness,
you experience a rise in awareness.
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"From Engineering and IT to art and coaching? HOW???"
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If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked this question, I’d have…..a LOT of dollars!
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As far back as my memory takes me, I’ve always felt ’different’
and out of place - like I didn’t belong where I was and wasn’t meant to do the kind of work I was doing.
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Every cell in my body knew I was here for something else - something more creative, purposeful and soul-filling - but fear
(of my family, of society, of my own ego) and the cushioned comfort of a 'stable' job held me captive in the corporate world.
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"Stable"! HA! Clearly the joke was on me!
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Clearly the Universe knew I longed to get out of that world
and kept track of each moment that I felt a deep yearning to be free from that captivity, and as if to say "your wish is my command", it suddenly removed the obstacle from my path that
I never had the courage to move past myself!
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The initial couple of years after this 'loss’ were nothing short of brutal!
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This experience absolutely broke me, crushed my already low confidence and self-esteem, and pushed me beyond my already
stretched out saturation point.
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My mind and body fully shut down, my spirit was completely shattered and I hit absolute rock bottom - easily the lowest point I’ve ever experienced as an adult!
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But as it turns out, I absolutely needed to go there to shake
the comfort off of me and break out of the illusion I was living in.
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I needed to go there to find my answers and begin seeing my truth again. To discover what I’m really here for and start uncovering
the path to get there.
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I needed to fall that low before I could begin rising again!
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So the experience that crushed me was really the portal into
the life I was meant to live, and I’m here, doing what I do today only because of it!
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As I began reconnecting with myself, I rekindled my love for art that I’d let go of during my teens - when 'life began happening' to me.
Art came back to me as a form of mindfulness and self-connection, and it not only rescued me from the anxiety, anger, shame and embarrassment that came with losing my job, it also took me back to my childhood in more ways than I thought possible!
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It opened up a doorway into my deeply repressed past and for the first time I started becoming truly aware - of my traumas and emotional wounds, my toxic conditioning, my fear, insecurity and shame, and all the self-protection mechanisms I’d developed to cope with all of it!
And at some point along the journey of guiding myself out of this state, it became abundantly clear to me that I had to experience
all of this to discover my life’s biggest purpose - to guide and support others like me who’ve had similar experiences; who’re stuck
in their own cycles of fear, insecurity and shame and are unable to get out of their state of stuckness.
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That’s how emotional healing work came about, and that’s how I went from Engineering and IT
to art and coaching!
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It’s been quite the ride so far, this journey of healing and transformation.
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It has required me to go deep into parts of my psyche that I didn’t know existed!
But as challenging as that’s been, I wouldn’t have it any other way because it helped me unlock doors that I didn’t know I’d locked!
And only by going that deep and unlocking those doors
have I been able to get to where I am today and do this work
for you and with you!
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If you made it this far - THANK YOU!!!
If my story sparked any interest and resonated with you in any way, then I invite you take another step into my world so you can see
how it continues to unfold!
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