Discovering Our Light To Nurture Power
A Power-full Story
She approached the bag apprehensively.
There was something wriggling inside of it wanting to get out.
“Take a nice slow deep breath out”
She hadn’t realised she was holding her breath.
One hand reached out to begin untying the bundle.
It froze, fingers outstretched.
“Are you ready?”
Was she ready to do this?
No.
Had she left it too late, or is it too early? The tornado of thoughts assaulted her.
Just as they were about to spiral out of control…
“It’s OK, take your time. What do you need?”
Her eyes flickered this way and that, seeking her answers.
She straightened up.
She lifted her chest. She acknowledged the tension in there and her neck.
She imagined her spine getting longer, reaching towards the sky, as her chest opened with a breath of fresh air.
She returned towards the bag.
“Are you ready?” came the voice again.
More eye flickers left and right.
Yes, this time she was.
She knew she had to be.
It was now, or much worse later.
She nodded her head with determination.
With a renewed confidence, she allowed her thoughts to drift gently down and settle. They formed a sparkling layer of fresh snow, calming her overprotective mind.
Her fingers worked the knot easily.
She released her breath. There was no going back now… it really was out of the bag!
The contents spewed out like lava, threatening to burn and drown her. Her breath sped up.
“What do you need now?”
Apon hearing this, everything slowed down as she breathed out and out, and out some more. Continuing to breathe out until she could not breathe out any more.
Feeling more settled and together, she knew what she needed to do.
Her hands slammed together and began rubbing each other in a blur.
She then turned them away from her, facing the source of the lava.
Time stood still, giving her the ability to build her focus within.
Her core was pulsing with power as gentle warmth glowed and sparkled from them.
The crackling was like music to her ears above the roar of the now immobile lava.
She remained in her centre.
Her breaths were focused on the outbreath, long, steady and smooth.
The firey glow illuminated her triumphant self.
A smile was beginning to form on her lips. She had this, it was indeed the time to face it.
She had the intention and complete focus.
The hissing was getting less and less, the heat losing its intensity.
Then everything became silent and still.
She breathed in the cool taste of the glossy smooth rock, now tamed in front of her.
She had intentionally changed her perceived, life-threatening darkness, into a powerful ally.
She ran her hand over the black obsidian rock.
She had done this.
She had conquered her fear.
She had faced the darkness within and became one with it, peaceful and triumphant.
She had met it as her powerful self, transformed it with acknowledgment, calmed and soothed it.
She had turned it into a source of power for her to call upon when she needed it most.
Instead of living in fear of it controlling her, she felt the solidity and steadfastness of its’ protection and comfort inside of her.
She beamed, pleased with herself as she stroked the reflective cool surface.
Her body pulsed with a renewed sense of purpose, full of possibilities and strength.
She was the power.
She had used her gentle power to face, and then soothe her frightening beastly power, never to be frightened by it or cowering away from it again.
It was out of the bag and she had done it.
She breathed out and opened her eyes.
“Well that was unexpected!” she laughed.
I replied with a warm chuckle, as I gently removed my hand from the now harmonious pulsing acupressure point.
“I feel so light. I am not afraid of it anymore! Who would have believed this was holding me back?!” A brightness was now emanating from her eyes.
“It sure is amazing what kind of things can build and fester in the background, when we are not aware of them, or if we try to ignore them.” I replied.
She nodded her head knowingly.
“It takes real bravery to faceup to how we are feeling. Only then can we make it possible to get our true power back. When we acknowledge that it’s our responsibility to face the fear of what lurks beneath, and not wait for someone else to do it for us, helps prevent it from controlling us. That is true power.”
She smiled “Thank you. Yes. Now, I am truly ready.”
“You are indeed” I smiled back.
There are so many ways to get to know ourselves, feel better and find our own true power, within an Integrative Holistic Kinesiology Session.
Anything is possible! We just need to give it a go, give it our best shot, and make the commitment to ourselves.
How Do We Nurture Our Light?
It is sometimes the hardest thing we can do, to acknowledge any damp or dark uncomfortable feelings inside of us.
However, it can be the most rewarding and relieving.
It can be so debilitating living with the, at times paralysing, fear of these feelings taking control at any minute.
We can spend so much essential energy keeping them down, managing them, trying to control them.
So much time can be spent just trying to get through a day without showing any signs of not coping. Struggling on, attempting to manage ourselves, feeling weak, or fearing we may unleash a monster at any moment.
Many clients have walked through my door experiencing inner tension. Having negative thoughts about themselves, feeling overwhelmed about something, believing they are frauds, feeling wrong, or not good enough.
I myself have experienced these too.
It is what we choose to do about these thoughts and feelings that can make the difference between wellbeing and dis-ease.
Thankfully, when we find them, acknowledge, or “name them” as written in Daniel J Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson‘s book – The Whole-Brain Child, they are given a chance to release their hold, shrink and shrivel, or disappear completely.
This is then how we are able to create the space for our light to be nurtured and grow.
The light is always there.
We empty out our waste buckets, to then allow our joy buckets to fill, feeding the light.
Finding out how to do this is the key, the journey.
Shh, It’s Mental Health
Is it easier to chat about physical accidents, and show physical injuries to someone and get support?
Versus… identifying with having troubling mental thoughts, and disbelief in our ability to cope day to day, with our friends or family members?
Do you find yourself, or notice others looking uncomfortable, getting glazed over or startled eyes, or looking like they want to run away for fear of catching an invisible disease when we start talking about uncomfortable thoughts or emotions?
Are there more stigmas attached when admitting there may be something troubling our mental health?
Maybe people do not know what to do, or how to respond. They may struggle with what they can or cannot say.
Is that why we may have so many negative thoughts, because it isn’t the norm to easily talk about them?
Would it be better to help people with what to say, and how to express themselves? To say, it’s OK.
To make it easier to talk about emotions and uncomfortable things, by making it part and parcel of life, and socially acceptable?
Having done the Mental Health First Aider course and refresher every 3 years, has been one of the most helpful thing I have done. I wish I had this valuable resource whilst I was working in Mental Health. If anyone is considering doing this, I highly recommend it.
It is research backed, and provides information and reassurance of knowing it is OK to ask someone if they are having suicidal thoughts, to get them to talk about it. It does not put the thought into their head. It can be a release for the person to say it out loud.
And… an important note here… it is not a crime to die by suicide. Please be aware, it is not “committing suicide” it is “taking their own life by suicide”, or “dying by suicide”.
It so important to be aware of our language, what we say to others and ourselves.
The Shame Of Getting Help
I remember being filled full of disbelief, shock, rage and shame when a social worker whom I was working with, dare suggest that I may benefit from some help, that it would be good to find someone to talk to.
How dare she suggest I wasn’t coping with something as simple as daily life, she was supposed to be my friend.
I was an Occupational Therapist for goodness sake!
I was a Professional!
I taught people how to manage stress, their energy, and how to manage their lives. ME! I did this for my job!
Why was she calling me out, as I perceived, to be a fraud, to not be good enough to do my job, to not be able to help others, and not able to cope.
Rrrooooaaaarrrrrr! Oh the shame of it.
I can still see her face as I walked away from her. The nervous tension on her face, the genuine concern, as I interpreted her words as singling me out as a failure, being wrong.
That was a true friend and colleague.
She knew the potential cost of her words and action.
She said them anyway.
She’d given me an option, made a suggestion, given me information.
I am so grateful she did.
Once I’d had time to process through these shocking words, and had time and space to allow the dust to settle, I realised she was right.
I needed to do something, I needed help.
I needed to face my shame, I’d struggled on for too long, it was time to get some support.
I did what she suggested and booked in to see the hospital’s staff counsellor. Thank goodness they had her, and I had easy access to use her services!
I remember my first session clear as day. “Why do you believe that”? she asked me in my first or second sentence. It stopped me in my tracks.
It got me thinking, considering, questioning why I needed to do things on my own, why I believed certain things. It opened my eyes and my world.
Mental Health Needs Caring For Too.
I needed support for everything I was going through at that time, and every time since.
It helped me see things clearer, and get support when I needed it most.
During these sessions, I went on to realise how important counselling and talking was.
Over the years later, however, I realised it wasn’t enough. It wasn’t enough to just talk.
It was wonderful to talk and be aware of patterns and beliefs, however, it needed something else.
Talking on its own, may just activate a whole torrent of more thoughts, and can get us burrowing down many rabbit holes and even stuck in some feeling alone!
Especially when we are someone who tends to get overloaded with thoughts to begin with!
I needed something to help settle these thoughts, understand the patterns and to be able to find what could help really shift and then integrate these realisations.
After Chronic Fatigue, where my body was straining to maintain itself with all the negative thought patterns, I needed something. When I was bullying myself to do things, and generally beating myself up for being me, I finally found what I was needing.
Finding The Right Therapy
They say, we find what we need when we are ready for it. I so was ready!
I was practically pushed in to Holistic Kinesiology by an invisible hand! Some higher power, bigger than myself, had helped me find a way of beginning to understand about myself, talk, then integrate and calm my body’s tension into feeling better.
I don’t believe we are meant to wage a war on ourselves, to get better and feel better. It is a journey of reconnecting back with our true nature, coming to terms with who we truly are, making peace with ourselves, our choices, and our experiences.
Becoming a partnership, having a real meaningful relationship with ourselves can be healing in itself.
The more I understood about myself, the easier it became to be honest and be myself, it took the pressure off having to maintain a mask.
With adding in energetics, body work, and biochemistry to the talking, I was able to find what I was looking for.
Over many years during my study, I was both Therapist and Client, swapping between these roles which was the most intensive process I have ever been through!
One minute I was coming to terms with deep dark stressful patterns I had been holding onto my whole life. The next minute, I was the one holding space for my training partner to come to terms with their deep dark thoughts and feelings, then help them to calm, integrate and feel clearer.
Together, with our Holistic Kinesiology teachers, we found limiting beliefs that had created tension, pain, and inability to do things, giving the possibility of letting them go.
We then used many different techniques to integrate, soothe, and calm our whole selves.
All the while we were being guided by our own body’s innate knowing and wisdom, finding the right paths for our own individual healing needs.
We gently (well, sometimes less gently, whilst being the client in front of a whole class, which had it’s own learnings itself!) transformed underlying raging battles of dis-ease, towards returning to a harmonious partnership. We learned to care for and appreciate our most precious selves, our true healthy way of being.
So yes, my journey has been a bumpy one.
However, over the years, I have been taught so much about myself…
…I have faced and acknowledged these bumps, I have been in the depths of despair and out again to reconnect with my light.
…I have learnt from them, been guided by them, and appreciated them leading and guiding me to my true honouring profession.
…This profession is such a gift to be able to help others navigate over and around their bumps in life, having done my own work, and continuing to.
…This profession, even though it can be confronting and bring up raw feelings at times, can truly help us integrate all of this into finding our healthy way of being.
…We can find out how to help ourselves be comfortable as our true selves.
My Commitment To You And Your Fur Companion
Together, we can help you get to know, make friends with, and begin to understand yourself.
We make it possible to conquer any darkness within, towards feeling comfortable in your own skin.
So please, if you feel a little tug in your gut towards me, listen to it, together we can help you make that shift.
If you have a fur companion, they too may need assistance. Click here for more information on K9 Kinesiology…
Our fur buddies are like little sponges soaking up all of our stuff.
They are wide open to our emotions, and can get overloaded, overwhelmed, or stuck.
Together, they, you and I can team up to understand how to empty all those waste buckets.
We can then explore how to refill them with the good stuff instead, helping each other return to a comfortable canine companionship family once more.
I feel very honoured to be a part of this nurturing process, towards building self confidence, and comfort inside and out and watching as true joy is free to blossom in life.
I look forward to seeing you soon, to help reconnect you to yourself, your family and your fur companion.
Events Coming Up Soon…
KEEP CALM CONNECT AND CREATE WITH KINESIOLOGY GROUP This Saturday!
There are still spaces, I’d love to share this fun empowering group with you and your friends. Will you be joining us this Saturday?
We would love to see, connect and create with you at the KEEP CALM CONNECT AND CREATE WITH KINESIOLOGY GROUP.
Let’s find our calm centre, and learn more about ourselves.
You know you want to!
Exciting New Groups…
Optimising Energy Group for Adults and Seniors Are Here!
This is a time for relaxation, a time for refreshing.
We will explore tips and tricks for optimising all that precious energy.
Here is a time to take life by the horns and guide it to where you want to be now.
1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month 11am-12pm. Starting 6 August 2025! Book now to save your seat, and bring along a friend or share, to help others.
Invest in yourself for $25 to receive an immersive, enlightening and entertaining hour. See the SPECIAL below…
As per the Keep Calm Connect and Create with Kinesiology Group, there is a SPECIAL when booking 2 or more people, or groups in advance. Get 10% off using the code 10%OFF2-4.
Teen Tips for Navigating Life Coming Soon…
This group is currently taking shape, with the collaboration of teenagers, to find out what would be helpful and welcome, to navigate life successfully as themselves.
For example joining together to explore ways to assist with: exams; relationships; mind and body development; hormone cycles; mental and physical self care; emotions and much more.
There will be a theme for the group each time, and always a time to be supported for play, relaxing, gaining insights, creating and having fun.
Forming soon. I look forward to being an honoured part of these special people’s lives.
If you are someone, or know someone who fits this group, please reach out, to either contribute to its birthing process, or put their name down to be a part of it.
Watch this space for details of its creation and beginning.
Thanks To All!
Wow this was a big one, well done for continuing to the end!
Thank you again for taking time to read this and prioritising your self care.
I hope you receive what you need in someway or other.
We are all living and learning together.
I would like to thank everyone who has been placed across my pathway as my teacher at some time along the way.
Family, friends, acquaintances, strangers, animals, creatures, guides, beings, etc. Some very challenging, and some a lot of fun!
I hope you have all found your light, or at least, know it is possible to find it, because I assure you, it is definitely there.
All the very best in freeing, greeting, maintaining, nourishing and nurturing it.
You’ve got this, you can do it!
I appreciate and feel honoured to be a part of your journey, 1:1 or as a member of one of our groups.
I am sure we are not meant to go it alone, let’s make life easier and do this together.
See you sooooooon!…
As Dumbledore says to Harry and Ron in JK Rowling’s amasing Harry Potter book The Chamber of Secrets…
“…Help will always be given… to those who ask for it“
