I entered a new stage in my life a few years back, after my husband and I agreed to finish a heart- breaking relationship that had spanned over 30 years. The confusion and fear involved adversely affected all areas of my life. Even though I threw myself into studying natural therapy and counselling (which turned into my life passion), I found it difficult to be there for anyone else when I couldn’t solve my own problems – so most of my work was about getting my own head straight. It was years later that I accidently discovered why the marriage had been doomed from the very beginning. Fortunately, our 2 beautiful sons turned out to be kind, compassionate, hardworking and simply good people.
After we agreed to end the marriage, what I thought of as my new start - just sort of petered out. My ex-partner and I both love where we live and we also want to keep our finances together for our children. So instead of making a clean break, we live side by side in separate dwellings on our 5 acre block in Rural Darwin. Had either of us met anyone else, it would have been different; but neither of us did or have. On the positive side it forced me to do some deep work around forgiveness; and we’re now friends and help each other in the upkeep of the block.
I retired from part-time work around 63, and as I gradually freed myself from the destructive binds of the marriage, I decided my best healing would come through helping others – sharing what I had learned over the years. And so I have a facebook page where I teach energy psychology techniques for free. I also have a website where I explain everything in more depth. Apart from this, I’m a volunteer visitor for the elderly in aged care. It was while doing this work that I was told I would excel as an end-of-life doula – and I hope to be taking classes soon.
It sounds like I had it all together. But before Lifebook this was far from the case. I had no focus and no self-discipline. As Jon said we live in a world where there are so many opportunities – I became so overwhelmed by so many shiny objects that I found myself doing nothing at all. I would sit in front of the computer from dawn until late at night – starting one exciting project after another. Never completing any of them. It depressed me to make up lists because at the end of the day I could see I just wasted another day. And at my time of life, the wasted time was seriously disturbing. So it was in this situation that the story of my Lifebook experience began.
I signed up for Lifebook with the knowledge that if I didn’t complete this project I’d lose money I couldn’t really afford to lose. And this was the push I needed. The results have been magnificent.
My boys are adults with their own families – so I just have myself to care about in the house – and my daily living had become very sloppy. I didn’t prepare meals – instead I compulsively nibbled on nuts and dried fruit in front of the computer (I thought that I was making a healthy choice but I always felt too tired to exercise and my focus didn’t even exist). I left dishes in the sink until the next morning (yuk) and the trash had to start smelling before I took it out. After the health and fitness category I upgraded my diet and started eating 6 small meals a day and added more protein to each meal; plus I had one green smoothy. I now wash my dishes without fail before going to bed and put out the trash. I used to do yoga intermittently – now I do it religiously every morning and after meditate for ten minutes before walking the dogs – and I feel so focused, energised and ready for my day.
I’ve been incorporating the law of attraction in my life for a long time now; but I just couldn’t form any goals to work towards – as long as I had my work and my computer I didn’t think I needed anything else.
Lifebook opened up my world. Each category provided the ‘language and pictures ‘that I immediately connected with and recognized were true for me. I had spent so many years focused on trying to fix the marriage that when I came out of it – I had nothing left except my work in counselling and energy psychology to lean on. That small area was my world. Now I recognized that the bad times had been building a very rich internal life that I hadn’t been conscious of. Everything I saw and heard was already inside of me – If I hadn’t done Lifebook I would never have known that I had achieved the worldview I had always wanted for myself.
I started Lifebook with a fear I would discover I was dreadfully lacking and that it would confirm my worst belief - that I had wasted my entire life and it was too late to do anything about it. I realized just the opposite. While I can only describe the marriage as the worst thing I have ever lived through – the event had unknowingly moved me toward becoming the kind of person I had always wanted to be. I just never knew it until I did Lifebook.
I will be eternally grateful!
Jenny Sherrell
After we agreed to end the marriage, what I thought of as my new start - just sort of petered out. My ex-partner and I both love where we live and we also want to keep our finances together for our children. So instead of making a clean break, we live side by side in separate dwellings on our 5 acre block in Rural Darwin. Had either of us met anyone else, it would have been different; but neither of us did or have. On the positive side it forced me to do some deep work around forgiveness; and we’re now friends and help each other in the upkeep of the block.
I retired from part-time work around 63, and as I gradually freed myself from the destructive binds of the marriage, I decided my best healing would come through helping others – sharing what I had learned over the years. And so I have a facebook page where I teach energy psychology techniques for free. I also have a website where I explain everything in more depth. Apart from this, I’m a volunteer visitor for the elderly in aged care. It was while doing this work that I was told I would excel as an end-of-life doula – and I hope to be taking classes soon.
It sounds like I had it all together. But before Lifebook this was far from the case. I had no focus and no self-discipline. As Jon said we live in a world where there are so many opportunities – I became so overwhelmed by so many shiny objects that I found myself doing nothing at all. I would sit in front of the computer from dawn until late at night – starting one exciting project after another. Never completing any of them. It depressed me to make up lists because at the end of the day I could see I just wasted another day. And at my time of life, the wasted time was seriously disturbing. So it was in this situation that the story of my Lifebook experience began.
I signed up for Lifebook with the knowledge that if I didn’t complete this project I’d lose money I couldn’t really afford to lose. And this was the push I needed. The results have been magnificent.
My boys are adults with their own families – so I just have myself to care about in the house – and my daily living had become very sloppy. I didn’t prepare meals – instead I compulsively nibbled on nuts and dried fruit in front of the computer (I thought that I was making a healthy choice but I always felt too tired to exercise and my focus didn’t even exist). I left dishes in the sink until the next morning (yuk) and the trash had to start smelling before I took it out. After the health and fitness category I upgraded my diet and started eating 6 small meals a day and added more protein to each meal; plus I had one green smoothy. I now wash my dishes without fail before going to bed and put out the trash. I used to do yoga intermittently – now I do it religiously every morning and after meditate for ten minutes before walking the dogs – and I feel so focused, energised and ready for my day.
I’ve been incorporating the law of attraction in my life for a long time now; but I just couldn’t form any goals to work towards – as long as I had my work and my computer I didn’t think I needed anything else.
Lifebook opened up my world. Each category provided the ‘language and pictures ‘that I immediately connected with and recognized were true for me. I had spent so many years focused on trying to fix the marriage that when I came out of it – I had nothing left except my work in counselling and energy psychology to lean on. That small area was my world. Now I recognized that the bad times had been building a very rich internal life that I hadn’t been conscious of. Everything I saw and heard was already inside of me – If I hadn’t done Lifebook I would never have known that I had achieved the worldview I had always wanted for myself.
I started Lifebook with a fear I would discover I was dreadfully lacking and that it would confirm my worst belief - that I had wasted my entire life and it was too late to do anything about it. I realized just the opposite. While I can only describe the marriage as the worst thing I have ever lived through – the event had unknowingly moved me toward becoming the kind of person I had always wanted to be. I just never knew it until I did Lifebook.
I will be eternally grateful!
Jenny Sherrell