Lifebook was an amazing journey into what makes me, me and why I exist and more importantly what I need to do. The journey was challenging, and my emotions undulated like the waves upon the shore. At times it was a stormy sea and at other times it was a gentle soothing washing away of the sand below my feet.
The Lifebook course is like a pebble thrown in a lake, it ripples outwards and the same for each of the categories, each ripples and ripples with ever increasing Ah Ha moments. I have learned so much more about my self and reality and have begun to change in profound ways.
I am 64 (just turned on Jan. 20) I have two grown sons which, I raised alone since my youngest was 3 (now 32).
I know that we all face challenges in life, and I am no exception. I am the third oldest in a family of eight kids. And we had a difficult up-bringing. I rarely think about this stuff, but it is relevant to this course. My parents were undemonstrative, never told us we were loved or that we did something well. Neither had very good cooping, communication or conflict resolution skills. My father drank and my mother stormed. We were blamed for our father’s drinking; told we were useless and stupid and were disciplined by a leather strap or kettle cord. The oldest 4 kids were lined up and whipped until someone confessed to some minor crime like eating a piece of my mom’s Easter bunny. Once I came home and was beaten up by my father, who threw me to the ground and kicked me, while calling me all sorts of horrible names, funny thing was I was a virgin and a prude, so the names were un-called for. I lived in dread to go home because I didn’t know if I would get lunch or a whipping. My older sister and I were woken up at 1:00 am to re-clean the dishes (on a school night). I managed to put myself through university and studied sciences and psychology. I think I was drawn to psychology because I knew I and my family were damaged. Over time I reformulated my relationship with my mother and we became best friends). My father left us when I was 15 and life became hard as my mother fell apart.
I ended up marrying someone like my father instead of the man I really loved. That marriage ended when I came home from work and found my young children cowering in a closet while their father yelled at them. I was getting tired of the snide comments, when I was in the paper because of my job, or being slammed against the wall, but seeing those kids was the last straw.
I ran non-profits for most of my career, which are awash with politics and betrayal. I had a serious of staff members who wrote to the Board spewing garbage about witchcraft (I think it came from me talking about a trip to Malaysia where I saw a form of voodoo). Anyway, I got terminated, they later apologized but it was too late. This scenario repeated itself as well as Board Chairs sexually harassing me and once having to gat a restraining order because one wanted to kill me. I think the universe was telling me that this was not my calling, but I convinced myself that I knew nothing else. Eventually in my late 50’s I got breast cancer and took some time off but when I tried to return, I was let go. I tried for years to get another position but never did. I began to convince myself that I was too old and so on. A few years ago, I started to move my career into energy healing, so the career section was helpful in getting clarity and confirmation that this was my path.
The health category really opened my eyes up to some Brules I had. You see, I have severe arthritis and advanced disk degeneration of the lower spine. I have had one knee and one hip replaced and probably need the other two done. I just got over my third bout of cancer and totally bought into “I am too old and in too much pain. Well I got myself to start walking and working out. I used to be very fit and even ran marathons and my goal is to get back to that lean muscular body I had. I also changed my eating and I have lost weight, have more energy and feel good about myself.
Relationships was an interesting category. I have a friend that I went to grade two with, but we rarely see each other, and I realized that we just don’t have anything in common anymore. Most of my friends are people I met on Facebook healing groups and we have supported each other for many years. But what Jon and Missy talked about choosing your friends carefully and I am doing that. Oh, and I contacted a well-known Ancient Alien author to discuss my experiences and ides, never really believing that he would respond, but he did (thanks for the tip!).
My siblings and I do not speak to one another. After my mother passed, they did some very cruel things to me including refusing to go to my mother’s internment because I would be there. I have thought of killing myself many times but that was the closest I ever came. I decided that my family were toxic and that my continual forgiving was never going to change. I walked away from them and have completely gotten over the guilt. I call them when I hear they are facing difficult issues, even though none do so for me. I am okay with that and have chosen to create my own family.
I have been single for many more years than I have been with someone. I used to be told that men didn’t like intelligent women and that I intimidated them. When Jon talked about their friend and how she made an effort to connect with her Femine side, well that hit me right in the face. Yep, I’ve started to use that strategy as well. I had given up on love, but now I am looking, and I know what I am looking for.
The financial area is my most challenging. I haven’t fully worked in over nine years and had to sell my house (felt like a failure) cash in all my savings and life insurance and now have $30,000 grand to my name. I had to buy food and other things on credit so the little I did get from my house went mostly to debt. But I know I am destined for better things and have started to put myself out there. I have been on one tele-summit and have clients from all over the world. I love the work I do, and I get amazing testimonials, I just need to do more and one day I am going to be part of Mindvalley. I mostly work on negative energy/entity removal, reconnecting to your true self and massively raising people’s vibration. The thing is, I teach people how to do these things for themselves, so most of my clients only contact me to say how much their life has changed and to thank me, but I get few return customers but do get referrals. Oh, by the way I do some amazing mediations on removing limiting beliefs, so if you are interested, I would love to lead you through one (I know you are about to put some together).
Well this is getting long, so I will end it by saying that I have learned so much and I am grateful for your course. Even though money is tight, I’m in for mastery.
Much Love and Light
Simonne