Awareness That something needs to be healed. This can be anything in your life that is not working for you. For me it was my body telling me something was very wrong and a car accident that exacerbated things further and bought to light in a big way that I needed to make changes. Often we are sent little signals along the way in our life that we are out of balance and the sooner we listen the sooner we can heal.

Taking Responsibility Our bodies and our lives are our own and our own responsibility. Once we realise this it allows us to take more ownership of the process and not simply flailing about in the wind of life. We may not have full control but in most things we have choice. I learnt at an early age that others don’t always have our best interests at heart. Only we have that in this life as our lives are our lives. It seems so obvious but just look at the areas we give our power away … the food we eat do we know what's in it? The medicines we take and the vaccines we give to children. Do we know there are side effects that can effect some people more than others? Or do we blindly just take them and trust the govt and companies that make these that they are for our best interest not for their monetary gain? … The technology we sign up for does this help or hinder our lives. In my experience it does both but we need to be aware of what is good for us and what is not. And we need to take ownership of our own consumption be it information, drugs, food, things we spray into the air at home, perfumes etc. A lot of it can effect our physical and emotional health. If someone sprays perfume around me that for me is an instant migraine. So what toxins are in these perfumes? What toxins are in the air through farming techniques? Do we even know how to breathe properly anymore? What can we do to best help our own health and our own lives? Again the choices and outcomes are different for everybody but the responsibility is ours to take.

Seek Help This can be through research (books, podcasts, information gathering), healers, speaking to someone, anything that resonates with you. For me it was all of the above throughout my life. Early on I ignored things and they just come out through behaviours, self sabotage and self hate. But I didn’t realise these were signs that I needed to heal. Whenever we feel uncomfortable, out of balance or things just keep going wrong, then many times this could be an opportunity to heal.

Do the Work Once you have found your help it’s a step by step process to keep doing the work. It takes work. A lot of work. But it’s good work, so empowering and really interesting. It is a chance to truly get to know ourselves and be active not passive in our own lives. Once we start doing the work things will start to change and we can change with them. Maybe a health practitioner is no longer working for us. So we can take time to feel in our bodies, hearts and minds whether we need to keep seeing them. We can listen to our bodies. They are miraculous and they communicate with us. Our minds can be rather conditioned through simply growing up (parents teachings, religion, books we read, what we watch on tv over and over again, education, what leaders in our friendship groups tell us). But as adults we can make up our own minds and change anything or any beliefs that no longer work for us. I found inner child work through different practitioners and done in different ways extremely healing. Especially for Trauma. Trauma healing is unique to every one of us and trauma can be related to anything and can even happen as babies. Which is why it is so important in this life that we heal, so we can grow and learn and teach and live more fully.

Authenticity As we get to know ourselves, our own natures, as we grow through our healing and as we own our own stuff. Then we can become more and more authentic and aware of the energy around us. Everything on this planet is energy and as such we all affect each other. There is power in that. There is power within us. Once we find our voice healing becomes automatic. Like learning a sport we practice the same thing over and over and over and over. We tweak and tweak and try new things specific to our body. Different things work for different people in the same sport as our bodies and minds are not the same. Authenticity is working out what works for you so that you can win against yourself and create more positive energy in the world through healing. As we heal ourselves we automatically heal others, as they are attached to our energy.

Keep healing Never stop. There is always something to heal and mostly we learn this through other humans and the way they trigger us. It doesn’t feel like it at the time but this is a blessing. Not something to be ashamed of or make excuses. But to own, apologise, become aware and make changes. When you want something in life, when we want to heal then we can attract it simply by putting our energy there. Like when you decide you want to buy a yellow car and start seeing yellow cars everywhere. Or when we are thinking of someone and then the phone rings or they contact us somehow. It is basically the law of physics and the more we look for it the more we see it. It is quite beautiful and so amazing when we learn how to flow with this energy in life.

One of the things I am still healing is resistance. I have come a long way but I still naturally resist help, which can stop the flow that I have attracted into my life. So I am constantly learning to trust. It is different for all of us and our healing is our own.