Do you ever stop and think about where it all began for you? The journey you have been on to where you currently are in your life? What you have been through, overcome, achieved? What it has taken to get to where you are today?
25 years ago – pretty much to this day, I changed the course of my life.
I was reminded this weekend by my friend of a conversation we had when I suddenly realised, out of the blue, what I wanted to do with my life. That was July 2001, I was 29.
My tweens, teens and into my twenties were really difficult. I didn’t know who I was or where I was headed. After A Levels, aged 19, I fell into Financial Services administration work. I was asleep. I studied Psychology A Level at night school in my early twenties and at age 24, went travelling.
Back in the UK and back into Financial Services, aged 27, I knew I needed help and started counselling.
A year later I began working with a Psychotherapist. She was amazing. Transpersonal and an Astrologer. I saw her weekly and quickly blossomed, loving the self-discovery work we were doing.
It was one evening, in July 2001, I was sat in this same friend’s living room, having a cup of tea and a chat, as we always did and, suddenly the penny dropped, I knew I wanted to be a Psychotherapist. I wanted to do what my Therapist did for me.
As fate would have it, two weeks later there was the Open Day at The College for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education in Little Venice and the next January, 2002, I began their Transpersonal Foundation Training. I graduated with a Masters in 2008, specialising in children and families.
I worked full time during the days and attended college in the evenings and some weekends. The gap was widening and I could clearly see the difference in my conditioned persona and my True Soul Nature.
On 6th October 2006, I handed in my notice and took the leap to go fully self-employed with my own Private Therapy Practice. This October I will be celebrating 20 years in business.
I launched the Live Your Light Community in January this year, to help others in how to be Heart & Soul Led and live their truth, something I had wanted to do for years. I am also still writing the Self-Help Guide for Mastering Life Transformation – I currently have this week off work to continue writing!
Being a natural Empath and Intuitive I have continued to follow my Heart and Soul, learning about Consciousness, Energy, Healing and Spirituality.
My work now specialises in Soul Embodiment and our Lived Purpose – helping people find themselves, their purpose and path.
Everything that I have learnt, trained in and experienced to this point weaves the tapestry of who I am and the work I do.
I am so grateful for that reminder this weekend, of that catalyst day in 2001 when I changed the direction of my life, for the amazing journey that followed and where it has brought me to today.
I am still absolutely in my element, proud of who of I am and what I do.
It’s not often we take the time to acknowledge how far we have come in life and what it took to get here. It is so important and such a gift to reflect, to honour our life’s journey and celebrate who we are.
I hope this nudges and inspires you to take a moment and do the same – to recognise how amazing you are, how far you have come and the tapestry you have weaved to bring you to where you are today.
Dawn 💛
