This time last year I met a fantastic woman called Maxine Smillie who me helped through a challenging time with some awesome shamanic journey work to help me retrieve my emotional self. Shamanic journeying is a form of meditation to the rythmn of drums. Maxine took me on a long journey to ice fields deep in the recesses of time. We met a seal, representing joy and a turtle representing Grandmother energy and wisdom and we dived deep, deep into a cold, cold ocean where a chest waited for me it was unlocked and just needed to be opened allowing me to drop all my masks to my true emotional self.

The work was extemely lovely and rewarding. It is now coming up on a year and a day since this work and all that needed to be integrated has been. I have over the last year been through some real turmoil of emotions, it has been worth it as now I am able to be honest about my feelings and truly honour myself. Miracles can happen if you open yourself to them. It was only a few years ago that my heart was completely shattered not once but twice and I could have spared myself all this trauma if only I had understood that it is ok to speak your emotional truth as keeping it locked away can be damaging. I guess we all have lessons to learn, the trick is to learn them, absorb them admit that you are human and move on into the new beginnings that welcome the new you. This is exactly what I am doing at present and loving it..