“And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else’s life.” ~ from the movie A Home at The End of the World.

Who are you?
Underneath all the demands, pressures and expectations of your work, home and social lives, do many people know the real you? More importantly, do you?
This is a place to uncover the true story of you, to excavate it from all those fictional stories you were told about yourself by others. Those stories revealed more about their stories than yours, but you probably took on their meanings as part your story and began to live as though they were true. Now you’ve begun to feel trapped or lost without knowing why, as though you don’t fit in your own skin.

I was a barefoot bohemian flowerchild who was forced to wear corporate suits and high heels in order to earn a living. I had wild gypsy hair that wouldn’t conform to the requirements of the professional world I worked in. Everyone else seemed to fit in well, but it was as though I didn’t even speak the same language. I was the one out of step, therefore I concluded there must be something wrong with me.  It took me years to realise how off-track I’d gone from my essence.

It started as a teenager when I moved through three different high schools, never having the prerequisites to study the areas to which I was most suited. At heart I was an artist, writer and musician. I loved languages and literature, art and music, animals and nature. By my 5th year at high school I was studying politics and legal studies and I was getting E’s and F’s on my report card, the same report card that used to be filled with A’s.

I ended up having to leave school which meant I took whatever job I could get. I worked in a bank for a number of months, feeling completely bewildered the whole time about what I was doing there – working in a bank is a great career, but I had planned to become a journalist or a photographer or a vet. I was eventually fired. By the age of 18 I was a ‘failure’ – a high school dropout who had now been sacked.

It took me a long time to realise I wasn’t a failure, I had just been trying to be live someone else’s life. It’s a bit like a goldfish trying to thrive in a marine aquarium. After a lot of years and experiences and travel around the world and even counselling, I began to discover the right kind of life for me where I could feel competent and successful.

Now I aim to help you do the same. You will find out how to identify your SELF so you can begin to look like you again, sound like you when you speak, and feel like you when you interact with others. You’ll learn to make choices that are in alignment with your essence rather than the false stories you believed were the truth about you.

We will use intuitive creative processes such as art, writing, nature and even animals to help you unravel the chaos and find your way out of the labyrinth. If you are ready to start excavating, will the real YOU please stand up?