As a Registered Psychotherapist, I started on the path of being a ‘healer’ later in life, after having spent 30 years in the Human Resources field. Looking back, I realized what I most loved about my job was the human interaction with employees. I listened to their issues and challenges, both personal and professional. It was humbling to know that, although I was the ‘Head of HR’, they trusted me enough to help them navigate their way through these challenges with the knowledge that it wouldn’t impact their job. During those 30 years, I also was dealing with my own challenges. After my divorce, I had my bouts of depression and anxiety; I struggled with rage, being a people-pleaser, controller, perfectionist; I went through a period of thinking that my healing was dependent on other people.
Out of all the losses I had suffered in life, the most heartbreaking was loss of Self. It was this loss of Self that had me question whom I had become. I felt as though that wasn’t the real me. I wanted to rediscover my True Essence, my Light, the joyous, spiritual person that I knew was really me.
My journey to self-discovery began. The first step started with seeing a psychotherapist to help me voice my thoughts, uncover my feelings, and express my emotions; to understand what my triggers and defenses were. Like the turtle, I was slow, but steady in letting go of all the familiar patterns in my life. As I did so, I lost people along the way who had something to gain from how I used to be. I started to make decisions based on love and not fear – fear of not being liked, fear of being judged. I detached from other people’s expectations so I could better attach to my true self. I responded to situations rather than reacted to them.
There came a time when I felt that my development and growth were stagnating. What more was there to learn? Although I had done much inner work, there was still a sense of disconnect, an intuitive knowing that there must be more to the human experience than our day-to-day existence. It was during this time that I came across a diploma program on ‘Spiritual Psychotherapy’. It spoke to me and I immediately signed up.
Being a Spiritual Psychotherapist is my vocation, my calling. Although I have formally come to my calling later in life, I believe the wisdom and life lessons I have gained along my own healing journey from loss of Self to rediscovering my True Essence have been a strong advantage in my soul’s purpose – helping people to live a more awakened life. My aim is to guide individuals on their own healing journey to reclaim the joy they had when they entered this world.