When I was ten years old I had my first vision. Make no mistake, a vision is completely unlike a dream. That experience changed the trajectory of my life. It frightened the crap out of me and yet it wasn’t frightening at all. It was actually calm and beautiful – yet, it was a very clear directive and I was in trouble. I was being instructed to ‘be good’ because I would be doing something important when I was older. I had been stealing money from my mother to buy hockey cards and cigarettes and my friend Becky and I had almost set a forest on fire playing with matches. I can still see the fire accelerating and am thankful, with Spirits help, we were able to extinguish the flames. Looking back, I believe had I not had that vision – moment of truth, I would be significantly different.
During the vision, what I call a ‘pure conscious’ experience, I was energy (no physical form) floating in darkness with another higher energy floating in front and above me. It was Divine and words can not articulate what I felt. Beyond our blending energies was a gorgeous scene which included a lake, a mountain, trees and sky. The next day I took my mother’s Bible off the shelf and began reading a passage a day, without fail, until I was twenty-two years old.
Another experience, as a teenager, ensured I was scared good. When I was about eighteen I fell asleep on the chesterfield after school. I remember hearing a noise in the distance that startled me. I remember being fully awake – in my mind and out of my body simultaneously. I can’t explain the sensation other than I felt sheer panic because I could not move. I tried frantically to wiggle but I was paralyzed. I know my eyes were closed and yet I saw the full scope of the room – I was the witness per se. Somehow I knew to surrender. There was a moment of unconsciousness, then I took a breath, relaxed and returned into my body. I had no idea what happened and I never laid down on that chesterfield again! It was another moment of knowing there was more than one reality and it was watching me.
There have been many experiences such as these in my life. I remember being very young and friends were playing with a Ouija board. They thought it was funny, however I could feel the darkness pulsating and I was terrified. I left the area. They laughed at me and I wondered why they didn’t feel what I felt. I remained silent – silence wasn’t judged nor teased. I share many of these experiences in the book I am currently writing called In My Secret Life – A Spiritual Tapestry.
I kept my experiences to myself for years telling only a few people until I was in my forties. At that time, everything shifted again. The experiences began happening more often and in a variety of profound ways. I was walking early one morning under a beautiful canopy of tall trees in Calgary when I ventured out onto a broken dock on a lake. To my surprise, when I looked up I saw the familiar beautiful scene of my original vision. It took my breath away – I was instantly that little girl again and recognized it was another message. I knew I was on the right path – signs and synchronicities such as this are constant guides.
After I returned from Calgary it was time to embrace and explore what I was experiencing. I was no longer afraid and felt I could deflect the dark energies, which were what had prevented me from seeking to understand my experiences sooner. It was like the source or sources of the experiences were no longer nudging me – they were hanging me over the edge of a cliff and saying, “It is time.” I did everything I could to search for more Spiritual meaning: Re-birthing, sweat lodges, firewalls, trance-dances, channeling, personal growth training all around the world…….then I decided it was time for a formal education.
In 2015, I decided to learn about Spirituality in a way I had not previously. That meant registering at the Transformational Arts College (TAC) in Toronto. I enrolled in the Spiritual Psychotherapy program after taking a series of classes called ‘Total- Selves.’ For the first time I was surrounded with people who I could talk to about visions, knowingness, songs that were downloaded into my mind, my book Unlock The Door – Beyond Sexual Abuse which I was told to write in a vision that included intense flash-backs I had never experienced previously, followed by a download of questions, the name of the book and how to write it….on and on. TAC was an opportunity to put my experiences into words I could make sense of and a safe place to embrace my experiences with like-minded people.
I had not attended school on a regular basis since I had graduated from York University with an Hons BA in Psychology in 1988. More than anything, what I learned at TAC was that I was not alone. I was able to lift the veil of silence and release the fear that people would think I was crazy. I shared my experiences and people were actually curious and encouraged me to share more and to develop my abilities.
So here I am – sitting in front of my computer creating this website because during meditation, I saw the words ‘Intuitive Power Coaching.’ It lit up my soul and I got excited to think I could serve people with my intuition and raw coaching style. During Psychotherapy with clients I often get a knowing feeling but Psychotherapy is not the place to coach. I began to offer my Intuitive Power Sessions and one person told another and now I am busy with coaching, which I love, along with Psychotherapy. Why am I surprised? Spirit always knows and I no longer argue or avoid the messages. The teenager in me is still searching and seeking while the adult is cultivating and sharing a knowingness (which we all possess BTW).
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