A little of my story...

Why Reflexology?

In March 2013, I was excited to learn that I was expecting my third child. Within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, my body began releasing an overload of hormones to relax the ligaments in my pelvis, for my hips to accommodate the expansion of my womb. This caused a severe amount of chronic pain through my hips and sacrum, and for most of the pregnancy my hips and belly were strapped up and I struggled to walk without the aid of crutches. It was one of the most challenging experiences of my life, also having to care for a 3 and 2 year old, while their father worked away. I birthed my beautiful baby boy at home, and he was perfect in every way. I regained the ability to walk unaided almost immediately, however I suffered constant chronic hip and lower back pain, and very little seemed to help. Physiotherapy and Bowen Therapy, as well as some topical herbal anti-inflammatories would ease the pain for a short while, but never more than a day or so. Then I came across Reflexology and it changed my world! After just a few treatments, I was experiencing long lasting relief from the pain and inflammation I had suffered daily for over 2 years. Not only that, I experienced improvement in my mental health, sleep quality and digestive system too. The benefits of Reflexology truly speak for themselves and I have made it my mission now as a Clinical Reflexologist to focus my intention on helping as many others as possible. 

Why Reiki / Energy Healing and Meditation?

As a child I always had the ability to see spirit, and spent many nights with the blankets over my head unable to sleep due to all the paranormal activity. It was my normal, and something I didn't discuss, as I just assumed it's how everyone experienced the world around them. Somewhere around 7 or 8 years old, I closed the door on the spiritual world and did anything I could to fit in with those around me. It wasn't until moving to Perth, Australia at age 12 that the door was flung open again due to the affect of hormones and the change in my energy. Very soon I was experiencing constant spirit presences, precognitive dreams and strange coincidences multiple times a day. I confided in my parents, who gratefully, were open minded and found me a mentor of sorts to help me understand the who/what/why. I was able to call upon her when I needed advice, or needed the spirit world to back off to be able to focus on schooling. 

On completing school, I began sitting in a psychic development circle hosted by my mentor. For almost 10 years I met, sat with, confided in and held space with the most remarkable group of human beings. We laugh and we cried on a weekly basis, as we learned the process of unravelling through self healing, psychic development and mediumship. I am forever grateful for these incredible years of spiritual growth and the skills and understanding I learned.

Since then, I have continued my studies in the intuitive arts in between growing and raising my three children. I have hosted meditation groups and development workshops, I have trained to Reiki Master level, worked with nature and herbs, crystals and animals and directly with spirit guides and other dimensions to deepen my understanding. Having an awareness of spiritual process and an understanding of meditation are skills that I honestly couldn't function without. It is an honour to offer these skills and share them with those who feel drawn to healing and/or their own personal development in whatever form that may be.

I am always in awe of the way our life experiences shape our future, and our choices and even how that goes on to affect everyone around us. I am grateful for all of the experiences that have led me to this exact moment, and I am hungry for a life that continues to be filled with more learning and adventure eventually becoming the shape of my future.

With love xxx

How To Fine Tune Your Intuition

Today I'd like to share some tips on how to fine tune your intuition. 

Just like when learning any new skills, the key to developing and harnessing the potential of your intuition and psychic ability is discipline and practice.

Create a sacred space
A sacred space can be a comfortable spot in your home or a quiet spot in nature. My sacred space typically hosts crystals, cards, candles, runes, incense, orgham sticks, fairies, a singing bowl, sage and abalone shell, red cockatoo feathers, a skull and menstrual blood. It changes weekly to suit rituals or intentions that are present. 

A sacred space for you could also be a gathering with a community, such as a psychic development circle, on a regular basis. Only commit within your means, so that you are more likely to continue with the practice. Once the discipline integrates into your lifestyle, you can add in another element and gently build your focus to a level that feels right for you.

Meditate
Start with ten minutes of meditation each day, and then build to thirty minutes over time. Meditation practice helps you to hear your inner voice and strengthens your connection to your higher self and spirit. Just a few minutes a day can bring a sense of calm, focus and grounding to your day.

In my meditation practice, I always use 'white lighting' technique to help quiet my mind. I imagine either a star above my head that showers me and everything in white light, or I imagine the points of light expanding from my heart and then around my whole body until I am just made of light. This then expands out and into the rest of the world. 

Next, I imagine roots from my feet anchoring me into the earth and thank the mother and the fairies for their wisdom, and imagine my crown opening and connecting up into the cosmos, thanking starbeings, guides and other spirit for their wisdom. 

Lastly I focus all energy on expanding my heart and the journey unravels as required. Messages, images, symbols and spirit will come through. 

Expand
Once you feel ready to add other elements to your lifestyle, consider some other activities to help fine tune your intuition and meet like-minded people to share in your journey. It could be a yoga class once a week, or a monthly spiritual development workshop.

When I was 13 years old I became hypersensitive to the unseen realm. I spent nights wide awake, talking with spirit presences or experiencing precognitive dreams about events days before they happened. My energy was so concentrated at times that lights would flicker and electronic devices would falter in my presence. I felt out of control and did not know how to deal with the world around me. Fortunately, my parents were incredibly open-minded and
understanding. They were referred to a psychic medium through a local spiritualist church for me to talk with. This woman would become an incredibly important influence in my life. She provided understanding and mindful tools to ground and protect myself, and to switch off when I needed to. I kept in contact with her for many years, and shortly after graduating high school, I began sitting in her psychic development circle.

The key is to find what is driving your passion and development and work with it, so that it can unfold organically, as opposed to being projected and forced into a completely new way of being. This will create resistance presenting as self-sabotage or victim archetype, and may cause more harm than good.

Be aware that as you embark on the journey to understanding yourself on a deep level and tuning in to subtle vibrations, that you may find yourself becoming increasingly sensitive to the world around you. This is because any dis-ease (physical disease, but also emotional traumas) is being reflected back to you for acknowledgement and healing, to clear your pathway to truth.

I'd love to hear where you are at in your journey, if you have any questions, or if you'd like me to expand on any of these tips. Please leave a comment below.

With Love,
Laura