“ Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
ABOUT
MY STORY
It has certainly been a journey to get to this place. Having lived in 7 cities, one very remote outback town, in 5 countries and 4 continents, I have been lucky enough to get to know many cultures and people around the globe.
Starting out as a telemarketer for Greenpeace and a bartender when I was at University in Western Australia. Moving to the East coast of Australia to become a financial journalist in Sydney, where I knew not one person when I first started out there, I tended to learn things the hard way.
After an intense 4 years in the media industry working as a wire journalist where we had minute-to-minute deadlines, I came down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). I loved it but it was clearly not the best end destination for me, not a career that was going to make me happy.
That was a time in my life when I was down and out with CFS feeling intensive flu-like symptoms, exhaustion even after 10 hours of sleep, unable to digest most foods, and often in a lot of pain. It made no sense to me at the time, as I was previously a competitive swimmer and very athletic, and I was able to eat and drink anything.
When I really crashed, I had been working as a financial journalist for 6 years, I was married to a great man, I was living and working in London, UK and traveling all over the world. Doctors could not tell me what was wrong. I knew it was not my mind. But I could not figure out what was happening.
In the exploration of that illness, looking for answers, I moved with my then husband to London, UK and continued to work as a journalist. We traveled together, I traveled on my own, and started turning inside of myself for answers on an epic journey back to Africa where I was born.
Something changed for me when I returned to the place I was born in Malawi, Africa, when I was 27 years old. It was one of those epic journeys that could easily be the foundation for a novel or even a marvelous mythical tale. Oh yes it is definitely in the book – which you can learn more about here!
If you are like me, you might have experienced times in your life when you thought you should be happy. Everything looked on paper like it should add up to a wonderful daily existence of gratitude. But I was miserable, and it was not immediately apparent why.
Either I was in the wrong career, or the wrong relationship or something inside was just not working the way it should. Or it could be, as it was for me, that you have symptoms of pain and illness that do not seem to come from anywhere external. Something like burnout that drags you down every day even though you judge that you should be full of energy and enthusiasm.
That is what it was like for me in London, UK living with my husband who was a beautiful man and while I was working in a great job that I hated. I was miserable. It was no one else’s fault. I was simply not able to engage with joy in my life. Everything I thought I ever wanted was happening, but I felt like I was in a huge cage of physical suffering. Sleepless, in pain, unable to enjoy food, and often very sick.
The thing that always made me wonder was that when I was on one of these amazing journeys, I often felt incredibly good. In Africa on that bus through Mozambique when I saw those rats on skewers being eaten by the family sitting near me, I felt alive. Amazingly and totally alive. There was no cage, no box, no pain, no illness.
On another solo adventure in Europe, when I was hiking through the French Alps, sleeping overnight in my sleeping bag, eating little bits of food from the supermarket, with one new friend from Quebec, I felt amazing. Joy, Freedom, Energy, and no pain.
“After years of searching, I realized that my issues were not psychological, they were energetic. The physical symptoms were from a collapse in my body of energy or subtle bodies.”
Samantha Keen
This was when everything turned around for me. I studied with this school for many years, and still do now. I usually do at least a month of full-time intensive meditation practices and courses every year, as well as attending weekly classes and meetings, learning, growing and teaching regularly.
Not only was my health addressed at a very deep level through practicing these techniques. I had a full recovery. And I changed as a person, I got in touch with my own deep sense of inner joy and freedom.
For me, what I found out was that the underlying reason I am here is to serve humanity towards connecting to the highest light of Truth possible. I do that by working on myself, and supporting those around me who want to do this too, whether they are clients, friends or family.
For you, the thing that lights you up, that makes you feel connected to who you really are, that brings the light into your eyes, could be different. It probably is different because it comes from your unique essence of being.
Connecting people to this feeling of themselves is my greatest joy. In my private work, I work with men and women. But I have set up a group program for women who want to create the life and business they love.
This is usually for someone who has come through something like burnout or CFS or a big shake up in regard to their career and they are ready to start something new. If this is you, then you probably are aware that you want support to start fresh, from a different place. Maybe, like me, you tried several times to re-make yourself and you realized that it ends up the same if you do it from the same place in yourself.
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