Kerryn Slater

It’s ok not to be ok!

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I woke up today and the weight of the world seemed to crash down on me.

I have spent weeks with the mindset and intention that this whole virus thing would not beat me or get me down.

I have realised today that there has been an aspect within myself that has felt that there is a need to fight or defend against this.

I have taken it upon myself to be the light within this situation and I do feel that this is what my function is.

However, in order to be the light there must first be darkness in order to see the light.

Over the last few weeks I have been ignoring the shadow aspects of myself.

Your shadow is that aspect of you that you try very hard to pretend is not there, you distract yourself or you “up” yourself in order to not spend time with your shadow.

For many years this is what I did through my spiritual practices.

I believed that I could squash those aspects of myself that I was not so fond of by being the best spiritual version of myself that I could be.

I can see now that my spiritual practices are in fact the doorway through which my shadow self can step over the threshold in order to fully reveal itself so that I can be loved and accepted by all of who I am.

So today I sat and gave myself permission to not be ok.

As I am a person who always seeks for what it is that I can do to support myself in the best way possible.

I always open the pages of my journal to allow whatever is hidden within me to come to the surface so that I can shine the light of my heart upon it.

It is my belief that what we are experiencing on the planet at this time is a reflection of the internal fear that we have all been operating under for such a long time.

It is a reflection of our judgements of others, it is a reflection of our belief that we are separate, it is a reflection of how intently we have distracted ourselves from going within, it is a reflection of the fear that on some level we are fundamentally flawed.

Never before have we been given such a magnified opportunity to go within and review ourselves.

This is a time of great self reflection.

Never before have we been given this chance to stop doing and just BE.

All of those decisions that you have been putting off making are now sitting there in front of you shining like a bright neon sign.

Years of ignoring the voice of your intuitive heart can no longer be drowned out with the noise of busyness.

The voice of your heart is demanding your attention now.

So as I picked up my pen and started writing my permission to not be ok today, I noticed something wonderful begin to happen.

As each emotion that I was feeling was given a voice my writing shifted from the negative emotions that I was feeling and moved gracefully into gratitude.

This also bought to the forefront of my awareness what my internal dialogue was saying over and over “I am spiralling”.

Now a belief is just a thought that you continue to think over and over again.

This was my thought, I am spiralling and with that was a sensation of dropping downward and fear.

The sensation then felt like losing control which as many of you would know is not a comfortable feeling.

In this moment I made the decision to allow these feelings and thoughts to have my fullest attention.

This is where the magic happened.

The spiral that I not only felt but could also see as an image in my mind turned on its head.

The opening of the spiral was no longer facing downward it was now facing upward.

I began to say things like…

I am spiralling upward
I am spiralling up towards safety
I am spiralling upward towards happiness
I am spiralling upward towards joy
I am spiralling upward towards freedom
I am spiralling upward towards expansion
I am spiralling upward towards higher perception
I am spiralling upward towards creativity
I am spiralling upward towards light

It was through this that I began to feel my energy and vibration begin to rise up and the tightness within my body eased.

In allowing myself to express what I was feeling and thinking, I opened the doorway to higher perspective and freedom.

My negative thought in this moment became the springboard to completely move me out of where I was.

Just for today
It is ok to not be ok

Just for today
It is ok to feel frustrated

Just for today
It is ok to feel angry

Just for today
It is ok to feel sad

Just for today
It is ok to feel lost

Just for today
It is ok to feel lonely

Just for today
It is ok to feel uncertain

Just for today
It is ok to not have all the answers

Just for today
It is ok to unplug

Just for today
I will honour my feelings

Just for today
I am safe where I am

Just for today 
I am grateful for the roof over my head

Just for today
I am grateful for the friends that I can speak to instantly

Just for today
I am grateful for the ability to walk down my street

Just for today
I am grateful for the fresh water I have to drink

Just for today
I am grateful for my delicious coffee

Just for today
I am grateful for the love in my heart

Just for today
I am grateful for the beauty of life

Just for today
I am grateful for my health

Just for today
I am grateful for the food on my plate

Just for today
I am grateful for the company of my dogs

Just for today
I am grateful for the birds that I can hear

Just for today
I am grateful that I have to the choice to choose where I focus my attention

Just for today
I am free

When you bring the shadow into the light, the light holds out her arms and lovingly embraces and transmutes the darkness.

Blessings
Kerryn
xxx

The Power of the Divine Feminine Collective

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I have known in my heart for some time now that it is the power of the feminine collective that will ultimately create the greatest change in this world.

To see this an action on a large scale throughout my recent trip to Fiji at the Ultimate Girls Week Away retreat was mind blowing.

During the first day as everyone arrived I could see that they were unsure of themselves and uncertain as to what their place amongst the group would be.

Women had come from all over the world and many of them had travelled on their own.

As I met and spoke to each one hearing their stories of where they had come from and why they were there I noticed several things.

Many had never given themselves permission to go on such a journey before and they had to go through a lot just to be there.

Some were there with friends or family and were exited for whatever transformations were going to occur for them.

Others were so out of their comfort zones that they felt that perhaps they didn’t really belong there.

Of course all of what they were feeling was completely natural.

This however was not to last for long.

As each day arrived I witnessed the opening of the hearts of many.

Women fast became friends and bonded over the sharing of their stories.

Women worked together in groups and shared intuitive movement of the body, creativity and facing fears.

Women meditated together and tuned into the voice of their own intuition.

Women supported each other with hugs, shoulders to cry on, tissues, words of encouragement and a collective bubble of unconditional love was formed.

I watched as women voiced their deepest desires and gave themselves permission to do whatever that may be.

We as a collective have been brainwashed with competition and comparison from the day that we are born.

We are told through media and our own experiences that we cannot trust women to have our backs.

We are taught that women will be jealous of us if we are successful.

We are taught that our partners are not safe if we befriend a woman who embraces her divine feminine and is comfortable in her own skin and sexuality.

We are taught that we won’t get ahead if we are not attractive enough therefore we unconsciously are mistrusting of an attractive woman.

We are taught that it is not attractive to be overly confident so we dim our light.

We are conditioned that unless we look a certain way we can never be happy or loved.

We are brainwashed that it is the survival of the fittest out there and therefore collaboration of any form will only weaken you and prevent you from succeeding.

We are fed so much bullshit from the marketing world that we should buy this, eat that, drink this, weight this much, wear this thing, have this coloured hair, have this perfume, use this product, have this treatment, don’t do this do that.

The list is actually endless and it is all designed to keep us feeling less than which only results in us remaining separated and isolated from the collective.

Women have been told for a millennia that we are bad, dangerous, untrustworthy and unworthy just so that we can be kept separate and keep our mouths shut.

This is a belief that is dying by the minute as women around the world unite together in support of each other.

What I have experienced first hand throughout my week away with women from all over the world, from all walks of life, from all backgrounds is this.

Women thrive on community connection.

When women feel supported they give themselves the permission they need to step into their own truths.

When women are surrounded by loving support they shine brighter than the Milky Way.

When women come together in unity there is a sisterhood that is formed that no outside influence can diminish.

When women come together magic truly does happen.

We are all so hardwired for connection, in fact we will wither and die without it.

There was a love revolution that I believe was started in Fiji.

Every single day I was so filled with joy and love that I felt that my heart would surely burst.

Women all around me were open, smiling, warm and ready to support anyone around them who was in need.

We chanted together, we worked together, we ate together, we danced, we laughed, we sang, we swam, we healed and we loved.

There is no mistaking the fact that traditionally it was women to ran the tribes.

I am also aware that this too was flawed on some level as we cannot deny either the feminine or the masculine aspect of ourselves.

In embodying both the divine feminine and the divine masculine and come together in unity women can absolutely change the world.

I was on my way to breakfast one morning feeling so much love, joy and gratitude in my heart.

As I was reflecting on how incredible it was to see each woman shining from within with self love it instantly dawned on me.

We traditionally do not think lovingly or supportively of ourselves, in fact if we were to be completely honest the way that we treat ourselves really is abusive.

On this morning In this moment of clarity I saw a world where every single woman appreciated, accepted and loved herself for exactly who she was.

It was a wondrous moment because what was revealed to me was that if this in fact happened it would end all violence against women, we would all live in a world of peace, harmony love and unity.

This is how powerful the Divine Feminine Collective is.

So lets begin today by creating a ripple effect in this world that creates lasting and positive change in our world.

Start today by accepting all of who you are.

Start today by supporting a sister or creating your own sister circle.

Start today by daring to love yourself like no other has before

Start today by giving yourself permission to do whatever it is that your heart desires.

Start today by being brave enough to step out of your comfort zone.

Start today by choosing to fully live this life

Start today by knowing that you are worthy of all that life has to offer you

Start today by embracing your divine feminine.

Much Love 
Kerryn 
Xxx

“You are the one who opens the door for another to walk through in their own time”

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As healers, coaches, empaths, seekers of truth, lovers of personal growth and development and therapists, it becomes second nature to offer your tools and aid to those in need.
 
You probably find that people are randomly drawn to you and will openly and almost immediately share with you all that is not working for them in their lives.
 
Many of them will seek your advice and your help so that they too can live a life that is as aligned as what yours is.
 
They will be drawn to your light, your sense of wellbeing and all of your “togetherness”.
 
Many will fail to recognise that all of your togetherness is your commitment to implementing into your life your willingness to change your life in a positive way.
 
They may never witness your daily spiritual practices of journalling, meditating and commitment to changing your internal negative dialogue for one that supports you and raises your vibration.
 
They want the quick fix.
They want you to wave a magic wand and to give them the answers that will solve all of their problems at the wave of a hand.
 
We are so conditioned in society at this time for the quick fix, the magic pill that will change our lives for the better and make everything else that causes unhappiness to go away.
 
You and I both know that those of you who are the way showers have done the hard yards.
 
You have walked through the path of darkness in search of a better way, you recognised that the life that you were living was not serving you and you took it upon yourself to find solutions to your problems and you have done and are still doing the daily work.
 
This is why your light shines so brightly drawing others to you like moths to the flames.
 
So this message my friend is for you.
 
It is natural to want to share all that has worked for you with others and that is fantastic.
 
In these instances that is all that is required of you.
To pass onto to those that the Universe brings to you what you have learned.
 
Your role in this moment is to open the door – it is then the complete responsibility of the one you are aiding to walk through that door.
 
There are many reasons why one chooses not to, and that is not your responsibility and in no way reflects your worth or your value.
 
Many people will for a variety of reasons find comfort, worth, value, status and even their identity in holding onto their pain and their unhappiness.
 
There will be many who for whatever reason will refuse to believe that they are worthy of love, they will choose to continue to believe that they are unlovable and they will resist any offerings of ways in which they can change this.
 
There will be those that you offer the tools to create change in their lives that will give the perception that they are doing the work, and are not.
 
Then there will be those who will turn to you and state that it does not work and that it is all a lie and go back to their old ways and that is ok.
 
Real change requires a need greater than the comfort that their old patterns of behaviour provides them with.
 
Real change requires a willingness to see another way and to do whatever is necessary to create lasting change, peace and happiness.
 
The desire to be well must out weigh their old friend pain and suffering.
 
You are the light bearer, you are embodying the change that you wish to see in the world and that is your purpose right now.
 
So continue to do the internal work no matter what, to be the change regardless of what is going on outside of yourself and to open the door when someone comes knocking.
 
You can lead a horse to water but you cannot force it to drink the water.
 
You are the water, it is up to those who wish to change to drink the water.
 
So the next time that you find yourself becoming frustrated or disappointed that someone has not chosen to walk through the door know this:
 
You have planted the seed within their consciousness of how they can step over the threshold.
You have shone a light on what is not serving them and they now hold the key in their hands.
You have served your purpose in that moment by handing them the tools they require should they choose to take action.
 
The rest is completely up to them to do what they choose to do with it all.
 
You just keep on doing your beautiful way shower.
Keep on seeding the light by allowing the light to shine from within you.
Continue with your own daily practices and self healing.
Your alignment and your commitment to living your best life is the greatest healing that you can provide to another.
 
Go forth and open as many doors as you can and let that fill your heart with joy.
 
Blessings
Kerryn
xxx

Nurture your Faith

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“The more energy and intention I bring to my faith, The more Fearless and Free I AM.”
 
Your faith can move mountains and as you harness the energy of that faith in your Higher Power the more fearless you become.
 
This is an opportunity as we move into the powerful energies of 2020 to put into place all of that belief and to fully walk your talk.
 
Your faith is like a beautiful flower, you first plant the seed, then you water it, it receives sunlight which in essence is your daily love and commitment and as you do so you can stand back and watch its magic flourish right before your very eyes.
 
We live in such a quick fix world, everything is literally at your fingertips, yet if you went to the gym it would take a regular commitment in order for you to gain the fitness that you are seeking.
 
Your faith is just like this, it requires commitment and regular attention in order to grow and flourish.
 
Fear can only be fuelled by the belief that you are alone, unsupported and lacking the resources that you require.
 
When you place yourself into the arms of your faith fuelled by love then miracles really can appear in your life.
 
The right people, places, ideas, and resources manifest for you at the perfect time.
 
Choose to place your energy and your intentions into your daily spiritual practices and your faith and in doing so you release yourself from fear and doubt and become the free spirit that you are at your core.
 
Blessings
Kerryn
xxx

Do you recognise your patterns of behaviour?

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We all have strategies that you use unconsciously to cope with life.
 
In the last week and today I have had several epiphanies about myself.
 
I have been using several strategies to avoid feeling my emotions and they have snuck up on me over the last few months.
 
Now I have never proclaimed to have all of the answers and I recognise that I am a continuously evolving work in progress.
 
What I do know however is that as I learn and discover more about myself I feel inspired to share them with you in the hope that you too might learn more about yourself and what makes you tick. 
 
For the last four months every time that my husband has gone off for work my lower back has gone on me.
 
This always coincided with me doing hours of driving as I still travel to Churchill every fortnight to see clients and run classes. So I have put it down to driving in the car.
 
When my hubby is home my back is fine, when he goes my lower back goes.
 
A week ago when my hubby headed off to work for a new job and a new rotation of three weeks – my lower back went again.
 
It has taken me months to finally have the ‘ah ha’ moment that my back has nothing to do with driving and everything to do with him going away.
 
Yes, I am a huge Lousie Hay fan and have followed her work for more than 20 years.  And yet I still missed the signs.
 
Each time that my hubby goes away unconsciously I feel unsupported.
 
As well as this, I have recently started watching a series on Netflix, this is a new habit for me and a new way of numbing my emotions, and again this has taken me a little time to recognise my addictive pattern of avoiding my emotions.
 
Each time that he would go, it went a little like this.
 
I would grab some food, some good and some not so good and start watching my show.  I would tell myself that I would just watch one episode, then of course this would lead to another episode, then that would lead to some more food and then just one more episode until I am so tired I crawl into bed.
 
I have also realised that I am avoiding going to bed.
 
I justified this by saying to myself – I am eating my emotions right now and thats ok because I am consciously aware of it.
 
Total BS I know and this is how good our mind is at helping us to justify our behaviours. 
 
Our patterns, the habits or strategies that we have for avoiding what is really going on in our lives can come in so many forms. 
 
Some of them may be retail therapy, some of them are eating food even when we know we are not hungry, some are the games you play on your phone, some are the endless scrolling though Facebook, some are YouTube and Netflix and some of them are perpetual busyness and the list goes on.
 
So what are my strategies for helping me overcome this now that I have REALLY identified what is going on?
 
1. Sit quietly with the uncomfortable feeling of emotion in my belly and let it be heard.
By giving this my fullest attention, breathing into it, allowing my tears to fall and honouring how I am feeling, I am allowing the emotion to have a voice and be heard.
 
2. Stop and ask myself – what am I really avoiding right now in this moment and be brutally honest.
Journal it.
Say it out loud.
Tell a friend.
 
3. If I really want to watch an episode of my show watch only one.
As soon as my one episode is finished shut down computer.
 
4. Set an intended bed time and honour it. 
By doing this I am resetting my sleep body clock and creating a new healthy routine.
 
5. Do not beat myself up for taking so long to recognise my patterns. 
Awareness is power and empowering so instead of getting annoyed or disappointed, see this for what it is.
Another opportunity to learn and grow.
 
6. Introduce new strategies that are healthy and empowering.
 
Here are just a few that I am working on right now to create new healthy patterns for my day.
 
1. Earlier bed time 
Get back into my nightly routine half an hour before my intended sleep time. Eg: Face routine
Read an empowering book for 30 minutes
Meditate
 
2. Get up when my alarm goes off and not hit the snooze button.
Leave phone in Kitchen and use an old fashioned alarm clock.
 
3. I will not get up and get my phone until I have finished my morning meditation and journalling.
 
4. Set aside half an hour a day to walk.
 
It’s so easy for all of us to get caught up in the busyness of life and if we are truly honest with ourselves those “things” that we think are so incredibly important aren’t really that important.
 
All they do is take us away from the things that we know in our hearts that we should be doing to assist us in our own wellbeing and peace of mind.
 
2019 has been such a big year for so many people, myself included.
 
I have kept myself so busy and distracted the last 4 months simply to avoid facing all of the changes that have happened in my life and of course those beautiful emotions.
 
I am sharing this with you in the hope that you too might recognise some familiar patterns in your own life and some of my strategies might just help you take back control of your life too.
 
Much love
Kerryn
xxx

Are you Listening to your Body?

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Why is it that we have this bullshit belief that we have to soldier on no matter how badly we may be feeling.

You could literally be dripping with sweat high with fever and still you will say to yourself “suck it up and get on with it”.

I really do feel that as women (sorry guys) we often feel the weight of responsibility with some underlying need to prove that we are superwomen and can be all and do all regardless of how this will impact ourselves.

Your body is the hub of your intuition, that’s why you will say you have a gut feeling or that something doesn’t feel right.

This is your body sending you signals to let you know that something is out of alignment and usually it is an area of your life that is no longer serving you.

Maybe you have been saying to yourself for some time that you really need to find a job that you feel good about going to everyday instead of feeling nauseous and filled with anxiety.

Perhaps you have been getting the signal from your stomach that particular kinds of foods don’t agree with you, yet as a whole we take a pill that allows us to continue to eat those foods instead of taking notice of what our bodies are trying to tell us.

The list is endless really.

Over time if you continue to ignore those intuitive nudges that your body is sending to you it will get louder and more intense.

You will begin to get aches and pains in your body, your nervous system will begin to play havoc and worse case your body will create an illness in order for you to stop and listen.

This has happened to me just recently.

I fell into the story that I have a responsibility and people are relying on me – Which of course is true and what I have had ever so lovingly placed in front of my face by my body and the Universe is not at the expense of myself or my own wellbeing.

I have been pushing through caught up in the busyness of all that I have done this year both within my own work and in my personal life.

I had been ignoring the gentle nudge from my body that I needed to take some serious time out, to completely unplug and to settle more fully into the present.

So my body first took my voice so that I wouldn’t be able to talk for long periods, then it gave me a cough so I wouldn’t be able to fully do the work I needed to do, then of course it gave me the body aches so that I would not want to physically do anything…

Thankfully this is not life threatening and as I give my body the nurturing, space and time out that it needs, it will recover fully and quickly.

The reason that I am sharing this with you is because I am listening to my body, I am giving my body my undivided attention and providing it with all that it is asking for so that I can continue to give to others all that they need.

What are the intuitive messages that you are currently ignoring that your body is trying to get your attention with?

I recommend taking 15 minutes to just sit and be fully present with your body.

Start by focusing your attention on your breath, following it all the way in and all the way out of your body, noticing gently where in your body your breath flows to.

Gently bring your attention to your heart, breathing into your heart centre.

Bring to mind something in your life that you feel deeply grateful for.

Now move your awareness to the tips of your toes and your feet, notice the sensations in your body as your move your awareness all the way slowly to the top of your head and back down to your toes.

Ask your body what it wants you to know right now, ask your body what it needs from you and what action it would have you take.

Blessings
Kerryn
xxx

 

You are Greater than Your Fears

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OMG – I walked on fire!

I literally walked across hot coals that were over 650 degrees Celsius and I was terrified. 

So many of us live a life that is ruled by fear. 

Fear of what people will say, fear of rejection, fear of not being loved, fear of failing, fear of being ridiculed, fear of making decisions, fear of success, fear of being hurt, fear of things that go bump in the night. 

I know that there are many of you reading this right now that can totally relate. 

Many years ago I learned an acronym for fear. 

F – Fantasied
E – Events
A- Appearing
R – Real 

What does this mean?? 

Anxiety/Fear is when we imagine a fearful event occurring in the future. 

As a parent I have done this many times with my kids, imagining events happening to them while they were out, and OMG, let’s not even get started with what my mind created when they first started driving.  

It hasn’t happened, it’s not real, yet we are creating this scenario in our minds and as the unconscious mind does not know the difference between what is real or imagined, your nervous system responds as though it is indeed happening and happening right now. 

And if we are all honest the majority of what we imagined, the stress and anxiety that we have placed on our bodies, was for nothing because the worst that we imagined never came to be. 

In my excitement, I did try and share this with some people, and I have to say that they were not overly impressed with my simplification of their fear. 

I get it though, my life has been one ball of fear after another and it led to extreme anxiety and stress.

If fear has been your go to for most of your life, if it has appeared to you as your great protector, then of course the fear of letting your fear go would be very real because then who are you without your fear.  What reasons would you then have for not living life to the fullest. 

Fear can feel like the warm cozy coat that you pop on in the middle of winter, it wraps around you, it keeps you warm and it keeps you safe from the outside world. 

Fear also keeps you limited, it keeps you in a dead end job that is sucking the life out of your soul, it keeps you in toxic or abusive relationships, it keeps you single, it keeps you isolated, you keeps you in one place.

Fear sees your potential for growth and creativity and convinces you that this isn’t for you because of XY&Z. 

Fear holds your heart trapped within self imposed iron gates so that it can never feel pain.

Fear watches your dreams and hopes sail off into the sunset locked up in a solid gold treasure chest.

Fear tells you that you aren’t worthy of a loving relationship. 

Fear convinces you that security long term in a job that does not make you happy is safe.

Fear shows you all of the reasons why it’s not safe to trade outside of this country.

Fear gives you all of the outs that you could ever need, all of the reasons why you can’t. 

Fear my friend is not your friend.

Fear is your jailor. 

My motto for the last 6 years has been to feel the fear and do it anyway. 

Which is to say that I only really decided to fully live this miraculous gift of life that I have been given 6 years ago. 

The moment that I fully recognised that there was more to life than just existing was the moment my life began to change forever.

When you desire change and it becomes more than just a wish a hope or a dream and becomes a must, want and a need, then those chains of fear begin to loosen their grip. 

Each time that you choose to face your fear and take action being prepared to accept whatever the outcome may be is a step closer to fulfilment that you become.

As you take each step the fear that prevented you in the first place recedes in the face of your determination and courage. 

You see your fear is like a hungry bear, the more that you feed it, the more of your fear it begins to crave and the larger that it becomes.

Each time that I have faced a fear I had the belief and the fear that I would not be able to do what I was asking of myself.  I was afraid that I would fall flat on my face or make a fool of myself. 

Each time that I have successfully completed a goal that I have set for myself it has felt amazing, euphoric and freeing, and the thought has always been, OMG what was I worrying about.

None of the horrendous outcomes that I had dreaded have ever occurred.

So, this leads me to my most recent leap of faith and facing my fears. 

While at a Tony Robbins event we had the chance to overcome our fears and do the walk of fire. 

Now I will not lie to you, I had already started to prepare myself by telling people that I may or may not actually do it and I was going to wait and see how I felt in the moment and then decide. 

My fear was really starting to creep in, so I began visualising in earnest myself successful completing, in this I kept seeing myself jumping up and down in celebration and excitement at the other end. 

Then came the time to leave the building and head outside to where all of the fire pits had been set up, still not knowing what I was going to do I took off my shoes and socks, rolled up my jeans and followed the crowd chanting all the way to the sounds of drums.

As we were lining up, I happened to see one of the attendants stoking the red hot coals and flames coming out from beneath – now that just added fuel to the fear that was bubbling away inside of me.

Closer and closer I came to my turn to go, all the time calling in all of my team of Spirit and Angels to surround me, then I had a visual of all of the gorgeous people that I work with, my friends and family and in that moment I felt the awfulness of how I would feel if I didn’t do this.

This honestly felt terrible to me, in that moment I saw how disappointed and upset I would be at myself if I let fear control me. 

I knew that the rest of my time at the event would be filled with regret if I chose not to go ahead with the walk. 

The fire you see is the metaphor of overcoming fear in our lives.

It represented really, if you look at it, fear at its highest form. 

So, as it came time for me to go, I thought what the hell, the worst that can happen is I might have a couple of blisters on the bottom of my feet, so be it, I’ll survive.

I took a deep breath, my heart beating 10000 miles an hour, feeling absolutely terrified and took my first step, I took the leap of faith, chanted my mantra and made it safely to the other side feet fully intact and whole.

There are no words to fully describe the elation and euphoria that this moment in time filled me with. 

I have never felt so empowered and liberated as I did in that moment. 

What that one action installed in me, what it reinforced within my entire Being is that there is nothing that I cannot do when I put my mind, focus and intention to it.

This will serve as a reminder moving forward in my life that no matter how real the terror, no matter how big the bear, no matter how outside of my comfort zone I may feel, I have the power within me to rise above it and shine.

So, for you who may see fear as the iron gates or the brick walls that you have no way of going over or getting around I say to you, grab a shovel and start digging your way underneath. 

Fear is the greatest illusion wrapped up in limiting beliefs and self doubt.

You are greater than your fears and you have the right to live this life as fully as you choose.

As you face your fear it no longer has power over you.

As you face your fear and succeed you free yourself from the chains that have bound you. 

As you face your fear and open your heart and your mind to the abundance of opportunity that life has on offer for you. 

Big Love

Kerryn

My New Studio Magic

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My hubby and I seriously downsized when we moved to Phillip Island and as I said goodbye to my old beautiful space I began to feel the limitations of my new small space.

Also, my husband got tired of watching me move everything from my small room into the spare room to make space each time that I ran a class or had a client. 

Building another space out the front of our home has been on the cards for about 12 months now and in that time I have visualised what it is going to look like, what colours I am going to have and more importantly how the studio will feel once it is completed.

I am even going to have my beautiful Reiki Practitioners along for a ceremony so that we can invoke together the presence of Angels to bless and activate the studio. 

Earlier in the year while at Byron Bay I visited the very gorgeous Crystal Castle. While there I was in awe of the work that they have done with all of their incredible and very beautiful crystals.  All of the buildings and the pathways are lined with magical crystals. This has inspired me with the idea of having my new healing space also filled with the magic of crystals. 

My mum told me recently that when I was a child I was always collecting rocks and I had one favourite rock that I carried with me everywhere and I even slept with it.

I love working intuitively with crystals, to me they seem to call to me whenever I walk into a shop or when I am preparing for a client.

For me personally I prefer to work intuitively with crystals.

To do this I always calm my mind by focusing on my breath and placing my attention on my heart.

Then I ask who would like to work with me.

I say who because each of the crystals seem to have a personality of their own and as you tune in this way you will be connecting with the crystal whose properties you or your clients are most in need of. 

Over the last 3 months I have been gathering all of the crystals that I have been intuitively guided to include.

With the help of a good friend of mine who loves crystals as much as what I do, we have come up with the idea and plan of a crystal mandala that will be laid underneath the floor of my healing space.

Thankfully the builder is a good friend of mine and he has worked out the way in which we can do this so that the crystals will not be weather effected or lose any of their incredible healing qualities.

As you can imagine this is an incredibly exciting time for me as it will now allow me the space to do more of the work that I love to do such as running workshops, larger group meditations and teaching.

So, I thought that I would share with you the crystals that are going into my mandala and what they will each bring to my space.

Firstly, what I have done is I have added a coin to symbolise prosperity and abundance in each of the holes that have been dug for the footings.

In these I have also placed clear quartz, rose quartz and a variety of grounding crystals.

The Mandala itself will have the following crystals included in it. 

Rose Quartz

Rose quartz with its gentle pink essence, is a stone of the heart, a Crystal of Unconditional Love. It carries a soft feminine energy of compassion and peace, tenderness and healing, nourishment and comfort. It speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates a Divine loving energy throughout the entire aura. Reawakening the heart to its own innate love, it provides a deep sense of personal fulfilment and contentment, allowing one the capacity to truly give and receive love from others.

As all of the work that I do is heart centred and to guide others to a place of self love and acceptance this seemed more than fitting.

Clear Quartz 

Clear quartz is known as the master healer and amplifies the properties of other crystals. It balances and revitalises the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes.  Cleanses and enhances the organs and subtle bodies and acts as a deep soul cleanser, connecting the physical dimension with the mind and also enhances psychic abilities.  Clear quartz stimulates the immune system and brings the body into balance. 

Angelite

Angelite raises the state of conscious awareness representing peace and brotherhood. Angelite facilitates contact with your angels and spirit guides and connects you with your higher self.  It also enhances psychic healing and telepathic communication and enables astral travel and spirit journeys. Angelite also helps you in speaking your truth, encourages forgiveness, and is a powerful stone for healing providing protection for the environment and the body. 

Fuchsite 

Fuchsite crystal infuses the heart chakra with healing vibrations that promote peaceful relaxation and creative, positive thoughts. The magical vibes of Fuchsite also reminds us that joy and happiness are our natural state of being and aids you in restoring joy and happiness in your life. Fuchsite provides healing and cleansing, releasing you from thoughts and emotions that are no longer healthy for you. Fuchsite brings emotional, mental and spiritual balance. 

Amethyst 

Amethysts are powerful in assisting in spiritual healing. Amethyst aids you in obtaining a calm, clear mind that is better able to receive communication and guidance. Amethyst is thought of as mostly a protective stone as it is linked to the crown chakra, it is helpful in purifying the mind and clearing it of negative thoughts.  It is a powerful tool in clearing negativity of stress and anxiety, making it wonderful to meditate with. The amethyst also increases intuition.

Black Tourmaline 

Black Tourmaline is a powerful stone for protection against negative energy. It is also a strong spiritual grounding stone.

So as you can see I have all of my basis covered for all of the work that I love to do and I cannot wait to feel how beautifully they will all resonate together to enhance the sacred space that I am so blessed and excited to be creating. 

I can’t wait to share the progress with you all.

Blessings 

Kerryn
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The Power of a Daily Spiritual Practice

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Many of you would know by now how passionate I am about the power of meditation. 
 
I am passionate about this because it was what I was guided to do 6 years ago now when my life was completely out of control. 
 
I was living day to day with migraines, I was under a ridiculous amount of stress in my working environment and my relationships were not healthy.
 
In addition to that, I was struggling with so many addictive behaviours that I was spiraling out of control.
 
I was addicted to the game Candy Crush and my beautiful daughter still mentions how unavailable I was for her as I always had my head in the game. 
 
I was also addicted to substances both prescribed and unprescribed. 
 
The more intense my emotions became and my sense of not being in control of my life, the more I buried myself in my addictions in order to numb the pain, stress, anxiety and overwhelm that I was experiencing. 
 
I felt a complete sense of isolation and disconnection and I did not feel that there was anyone that I could speak with or that could help me with what I was going through. 
 
I felt a deep sense of shame and embarrassment and also a complete inability to change or stop what I was doing. 
 
You see I had turned my back on my Spiritual Self and because I felt so deeply ashamed of myself for being such a wreck and a failure in every area of my life I believed that I was not good enough to seek the help of the Universe.
 
I had always been such a “good” person and had always done the “right” thing.
 
I had a strong connection to the Divine for as long as I could remember and in turning my back on what was once a daily practice for me, it only served to deepen my sense of isolation and disconnection. 
 
The further away that I moved from that connection the more intensely I sought solace, connection and fulfillment in all of the things that could not give me what I was so desperately seeking.
 
Wholeness, love, acceptance, worthiness, appreciation, validation, respect.
 
My darkness moments were filled with self hatred and self loathing, it was suffocating, oppressive and I felt that I might drown and never again be able to breath.
 
This would just see the cycle begin again in the attempts to numb the pain. 
 
So in a moment of despair I begged the Universe to please save me from myself because I knew that I could not go on living the way that I was.
 
As the Universe is always there to help us, my help come in the form of assisting someone else and in doing so I came across a meditation app. 
 
The rest they say is history, but I don’t want to just brush over it. 
 
Introducing a daily meditation practice into my life was my recovery.  
 
In the blink of an eye my life literally changed forever.
 
I surrendered myself into the faithful and loving arms of the Universe and followed where It was guiding me. 
 
I started out with just 5 minutes meditation morning and night. 
I deleted all of the games off my phone.
The TV, Radio and all media went off.
I cut out all addictive substances and I started to eat clean. 
I bought myself journals and I started the journey of self love and self forgiveness.
 
Each day my meditation experience filled me with hope, hope that I could heal, hope that I was lovable, hope that the Universe was supporting and loving me in spite of all of my actions.
 
It was through my daily meditation practice that I began to feel the connection and wholeness that I had spent so long searching for outside of myself. 
 
It was in these moments that my faith in life was renewed, my connection to the Divine was rekindled and I began to build a relationship with myself. 
 
It was during this time that I reconnected with the spiritual tools that I had once known so intimately.
 
I started my daily reiki self healing again also.
 
Within 5 months my world was vastly different. 
 
My home was filled with beautiful relaxing music, candles burning, a sacred space had been created, I completed my Ascension Reiki Master level and I started doing my healing and intuitive work again.
 
Most of all I started to share with others my love and passion of meditation. 
 
I introduced daily spiritual practices into my life such as:
 
Meditation 
Healing 
Reading and listening to spiritual teachers
Journalling – manifesting, setting intentions
Getting out in Nature
Self love exercises and positive affirmations
Reframing negative self talk 
Forgiveness
Exercise and healthy eating 
 
I can see now as I look back over my life having been born with such a powerful connection to the Divine that my period of darkness was for a higher purpose.  As are all of our experiences. 
 
Mine was this… 
The connection that I have now with myself and the Divine is beyond anything that I had ever experienced before my darkness.
The love and compassion that I feel for myself, others and life is so profound and so much more than I had ever experienced before my darkness. 
The level of understanding and empathy for the pain and suffering of others is more than I could have ever appreciated before my time of darkness.
 
If you are ready to step out of your darkness, to come back to love and wholeness then introducing daily spiritual practices is the vehicle in which you can do so in a way that lovingly supports you. 
 
Much Love 
Kerryn
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You are NOT bad

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In all of the women that I have worked with, spoken with, and especially read for, there always seems to be an underlying thread. 
 
With all of the women that I have worked with the common thread is that they are worried that the cards, the universe or myself will identify that they are bad in some way or that there is something wrong with them. 
 
I am always fascinated by this and I believe that each and every one of us on some level have this underlying belief that there is something wrong with us, that we are going to be punished for our deeds or that we are not good people. 
 
Now I for one am not immune to this thinking as it has been an underlying belief that has followed me throughout most of my life.
 
This of course can most often be traced back to our earliest childhood. 
 
For those of you who have had religious upbringings this of most likely links back to the church.
 
There were rules of how you should live your life and then the regular confessing of your sins that helped to ingrain the sense of wrongness or badness within you.
 
Then there were the old belief systems that sex was an act that could only be performed within the sanctity of marriage. 
 
That’s even if you had a clue what sex was growing up because back in my day sex was not talked about or taught in anyway.
 
Sex was not something that I took lightly. I was absolutely terrified at the thought and I was lucky enough to have had an amazing first love that waited until I was ready and unlike so many women I only have good stories to tell about my early experiences. 
 
This however did not take away the awful feeling that ran through me that I was bad and quite frankly it messed with my head in a huge way.
 
What I know from being a Time Line Therapy & NLP Master Coach is this, all of our decisions and limiting beliefs come from the following:
The ages 0-7, 8-14, from within the womb, past life or are passed down genealogically.
 
Many of us are not even aware of the decisions that we made we just know that it must be true even though we cannot logically explain it. 
 
So you can see that in making a decision at such a young age about yourself is only then reaffirmed throughout your life as things happen:
For example – you may feel rejected by someone = I am not loved or lovable 
You may be asked to be quiet in class and everyone looks at you or the teacher embarrasses you = It is not safe for me to speak
You may be full of joy and dancing around and someone says something negative about it = I cannot be joyful.
 

I remember once I was home on my own and I was in my lounge room at home singing my favourite song at the top of my lungs and my recorder was my microphone. 

I did not hear my parents come home and as I used to lose myself when singing I got a shock to see them, my dad thought it was hilarious that I was using a recorder as a microphone and made a joke about it.

I was so deeply humiliated and embarrassed that it effected my confidence to sing in later years as the underlying embarrassment was that people would laugh at me.  
 
Now my dad is the most beautiful man in the world and I love him dearly, he would never have done anything intentionally to hurt me and he would be so upset to know how deeply that had burned into my heart and my soul.
 
We all have lists of stories and events like these and worse that have accumulated throughout your life and decided that it must be truth. 
 
What I am trying to convey to you is that it is our own internal judging that goes on long after these events or circumstances have passed.  
 
We believe that because someone else said it or thought it of us it must be truth.
 
At the core we all feel a deep sense of shame on some level, shame for our actions, shame for the words that we have spoken, shame for our thoughts and shame that we are not all freaking perfect, we aren’t the right weight, we don’t have the right hair, we don’t wear the right clothes, we aren’t the greatest mums, we don’t have enough money, or we just think that we have failed on a colossal scale. 
 
The work that I do now as a Self Discovery Coach is to undo all of that wiring of limiting beliefs and decisions.
 
I have spent the last 6 years rewriting all of my own programming.  
 
Each time that I have had a negative thought about myself I have shifted into these affirming words:
I love and approve of myself
I am enough 
I am perfect just as I am 
The Universe loves me 
I am a great person. 
I can do this 
I’ve got this
I am safe
Life loves me 
Everything is working out for me 
The Universe has my back
I am doing the best that I can right now
 
Yes it still rears its ugly head if there is an emotional trigger but I am now equipped with this undeniable knowledge.
 
There is nothing in this world that you can do, be, say, think or have that would change how powerfully and unconditionally the Universe loves you.
 
In the eyes of the Universe you are perfect in every way.
 
In all of the women that I worked with the Love of the Divine has shone through with so much compassion and appreciation for all that everyone of her children has been through, and shown nothing but deep love for their pain, their sorrow, their shame and their fears and for who they are just as they are.
 
NEVER has there been any form of judgment coming from the Divine there is only love. 
 
The only judgment is coming from you yourself. 
 

It was through my regular meditation practice that I first encountered this incredible sense of unconditional love rising to meet me. 

At first it literally bought me to my knees and initial reaction was to deflect it and flinch away from it because HOW could the Divine possibly love me after all that I had done “wrong” in my life.
 
And even though I wanted to deny that this could be true I continued with my daily practice.
 

I began to sense that if the Divine could love me so intently then maybe just maybe I could begin to believe that I was worthy, that I was good, and that I was lovable.

It was through this journey that I could begin to forgive and accept myself.
 
After all of the work, seeking, soul searching and connecting to the Universe that I have done this is what I now for sure. 
 
You are not bad.
You are beautiful, you are perfect, you are loved, you are lovable, you are doing the best that you can and that is more than enough.
 
Everything about you is perfect in the eyes of the Divine.
 
Much Love
Kerryn
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