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When I lived in the UK in the 90s, I had an aura reading from a woman I talked to briefly on the phone after a friend recommended her. She said that many people call her out of curiosity, but she could tell that I had more serious intent in wanting to know the colours of my aura, and she was right; I was looking for guidance. After we spoke and I gave her my address, she sent me a drawing of my aura and a cassette tape with a recording of her reading. One of the colours she saw in my aura was a deep purple, which she told me showed that I had the deepest calling to serve humanity. That people who have this same calling are doctors, nurses, and first responders. She said that this purple in my aura looked like a long and winding road with many curves and bends, and predicted that this would be my path of service. Now, almost three decades later, this prediction has come true. My path has indeed been indirect and meandering. I have worked to train and establish myself as a healer since then, alongside my own healing and spiritual journey, which informs the work I do. But it's precisely because I have continued to persist in learning, self-healing, and deepening into my path that I know the terrain well, even the curves and dead ends. I have trained and become certified in spiritual practices, coaching, therapy, and the healing arts over many years, but my ability to help others heal and deepen into their spirituality also comes from how I have navigated and processed my own life experiences in an embodied way. Traditionally, indigenous healers are called by spirit through difficult life experiences, like sickness and mental breakdowns, that open them up to different ways of seeing and being in the world. By working through their own life challenges, they expand their capacity to be with a greater range of emotions and life experiences, which enables them to help others. They also apprentice with elders to learn how to heal and build a relationship with their ancestors and the spirit world. They gain strength and power through the greater container and support that their relationships with their ancestors and spirit guides provide. My path has been similar in how I was called by spirit through illness and my mental and emotional struggles. It was only much later that I came to understand how these were initiations into the deeper currents of life and my path as a healer. Though I have had a desire to know my path from young—around the time I had the aura reading. Because I wanted to understand what I wasn’t getting about life and why I was struggling to function in a very basic way when I compared myself to my friends and peers. I thought that if I knew the meaning and the purpose of my life, I would be able to function better, be happy and fulfilled, and find peace within myself. But there were a lot of wounds that I had to work through that caused me to act out in self-destructive ways and perpetuated the shame I felt. This took time to address and the support of healers, therapists, and teachers. There were also practices I undertook over long periods of time to help me build self-awareness, nurture self-acceptance, and self-mastery. Faraway places I travelled to and numerous courses, workshops, and trainings I attended. People called me a perfectionist, foolish, and impractical because I consistently made my training and spiritual path my priority. A therapist I worked with asked me why I always had to be the best and why I couldn’t just accept average. But deep down, I knew what my goal was, and I was willing to sacrifice and persevere for it because it was meaningful to me. Christopher Wallis, a scholar-practitioner of Classical Tantra, said that you have to be called to go on a spiritual path because if you’re not, you won’t be able to withstand the difficulties of looking within and examining your life. He said it’s easier in many ways to live on the surface of life and focus on material things, but it’s much less fulfilling. That there are no guarantees of an easier life if you choose a spiritual path. But if you’re called to this path and align with it, it’s deeply fulfilling. This has been my experience. Knowing I’m on the right path helps me endure the times when life gets gritty and I’m in the trenches of my healing process. It helps me have faith in something greater and that, in time, what I experience and process will make me a better healer and teach me more about the curves and bends of life and what it means to be human. And after all this time, I’ve been able to gather all my training and experience to launch self-healing and self-mastery programmes, along with my new website. I wanted to share what has worked for me and how I have found alignment with my path and purpose so I put together all the tools I know work and are necessary for healing and self-mastery. If you feel called to heal or find your path and you’d like to find out more about the programmes I offer, go here to read about them: The Way of Self-Healing Programme​: https://thewayofselfhealing.com/self-healing ​ The Way of Self-Mastery Programme: https://thewayofselfhealing.com/self-mastery If you have any questions and would like to talk more with me about how I can help, you can contact me at ​[email protected]​.