My Story
My story is long and varied, but if I can keep it in a nutshell I will !!
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I have always been involved in working with women, from the younger generation a number of years ago by being involved for over twenty years with a Girl Guide unit, supporting and proudly watching young girls grow into capable, strong women, many of whom I now consider to be my friends.
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I was very much a part of the UK sugarcraft industry for over ten years, travelling the world teaching others the art of sugarcraft modelling, however, my biggest personal achievement was realising the difference I had made to many of my students lives - I ran regular sugar modelling groups around my kitchen table, bringing mainly women together to learn how to model, but those regular meetings developed friendships which stand firm to this day, they have supported each other through various life events and this touched my heart.
So much so, I founded a network of teachers globally to bring the same experiences and create supportive networks around the world, at the end of 2019 I had 23 teachers around the world ready to launch classes in the February of 2020 - and as we all know the world changed on a drastic scale and we were unable to run our face to face classes. I could see that things were not going to be the same and as much as we tried to work around the limitations, the die was cast, and the future of the classes for the distant future became unworkable - reluctantly I stepped away from the industry as I tried to find a way forward.
As I watched the decline of our health service during that time, I found myself drawn towards plant medicine and enrolled on a herbal medicine diploma course with Heartwood College, fully expecting to be told this plant did this and that and use it for x,y and z, I was completely surprised to be told to make friends with the plant, sit with the plant, learn it's folklore, drink it as a tea and see where it went in my body and how it made me feel and who would I think this plant would be as a person - I loved it, it captured me, and it took me along a path of so many questions, so much reading - The secret language of plants, the secret language of trees, the biology of belief by Bruce Lipton and that one got me ..... something sparked in my mind, at a cellular level we are energy, everything is energy, and then quantum physics introduced itself, not that I understand it completely, but it showed me that what I may once have considered 'woo woo' actually had some basis in science.
My sketch of Lady's Mantle, the cover for my final herbal medicine research - proud to be awarded a distinction and best monograph
And then this wonderful human came back into my life, Claire, and she had just started a menopause support group after her own traumatic experience with it, she asked if I'd like to help her. And here I am now, working alongside Claire and a team of trustees, running regular monthly support groups in our local area for those experiencing the menopause, this has been such a humbling experience as again I start to watch women flourish, just by knowing they are not alone on this journey. Involvement in this led me to start studying to be a Functional Menopause Wellness Coach - this involves working with your nutrition, being a life coach to deal with stresses and supporting you with your health and wellness.
I started to delve deeper into my own spirituality, I started to become more open to synchronicities I felt were happening around me, I started to notice signs I couldn't explain, and then my dad became very unwell with dementia and as I watched him decline, I watched the veil becoming thinner, I know that what I witnessed wasn't just his brain failing him, I know deep inside me that he was being visited by his ancestors, getting him ready for the next part of his journey - it is never someone that is still here that they see, it always those that have already stepped away from this world and into the next.
My dad's passing led me to become a funeral celebrant which has brought it's own spiritual experiences, many that really can't be explained without the belief that we are energy and energy does not disappear.
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This along with so many other experiences since that, feel that I've been fast tracked to how I feel today about life and death. I also know that the person I was in my 30's, 40's and beyond, the person that was terrified of anything that even resembled death has grown into someone who truly trusts that there is so much more than just our earthly experience - ultimately it brings me immense peace. ​
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The next part of my own journey in developing Heureka and working with mainly women to help them find their own inner peace, to maybe set them on their own spiritual journey, whatever that may look like.
Supporting women through circle work, giving them a safe space to share and talk, bring them joy and friendship through meeting other like-minded women, holding space for them, wellness coaching and life coaching on a 1-2-1 basis, sharing knowledge, offering meditative session through sound baths and movement, this all feels deep in my being the path I need to follow and I am excited to see just where that path takes me, I hope to meet you on it along the way.