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Before getting into today’s newsletter I wanted to share that my free workshop called Behind The Mask is happening on 3rd July 2023 6PM UK time.
My journey of self exploration led me to explore 5 specific areas and these areas affect everyone’s life. Your relationship to each of these will dictate how peaceful, connected, and authentic you feel in life.
They are:
Identity (who are you?)
Trauma (things that have happened in your past to shape you)
Love (what does it mean to you?)
Purpose (why are you on this planet?)
Death (how do you feel about it?)
This workshop will be for you if you want to:
Reconnect with your intuition so you can make decisions aligned to your soul
Deepen your confidence to show up more authentically in life
Better understand your emotions to remove the blocks stopping your progress
Expand your relationship with self-love for more inner peace
Explore your purpose and the impact you were born to create in the world
I’ll spend 45 minutes personally teaching you and then open the space for 30 minutes of Q&A.
Ok now for today’s newsletter…
Looking back at the last decade I noticed certain wisdom found me through books to help me navigate my journey and profoundly shaped my perspective on life.
These are books that I keep revisiting because each time I read them, the person who is reading is different, therefore, I learn something new.
After reading lots of books over the years I’ve come to appreciate reading a few books many times instead of reading many books just once.
So here are the 3 that have been life changing for me:
The Alchemist
Written by Paulo Coelho
“The darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn” - Paulo Coelho
This book found me in 2013 around the time of my first spiritual awakening.
It was the first time I was introduced to the idea of destiny. That there was something out there that was meant for me - a path I was meant to walk.
The Alchemist is the story of a shepherd boy called Santiago who has a dream about the Pyramids of Egypt and sets off on a journey to find the treasure that awaits him there. He receives wisdom from various people along the way.
The reason this spoke to me so much is because my identity was beginning to fall away.
Everything I believed about myself and the world around me was thrown into question.
Overnight, I became extremely sick.
I had eczema and hives all over my body. I was literally and metaphorically shedding my skin to become a new person.
I was in my final year of university studying Law and I began sensing that it wasn’t going to be the career path I’d follow for the rest of my life.
In the book Santiago is given black and white stones called Urim and Thummim to help him make decisions along his way.
Fun fact: these stones appear in one of my favourite tv shows, Lost.
I later realised that the concept of setting off on your own journey is actually called The Heroes Journey. Joseph Campbell was famous for writing and lecturing about this topic.
We all get a call to adventure, a calling from life itself, to follow a new path and it is up to us to answer it. I believe if we don’t, we are leaving an exciting life filled with passion, purpose, and fulfilment on the table.
3 lessons I learnt from The Alchemist:
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