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25.01.2022 This is one of my favourite places, Wanda Beach. It makes me feel so peaceful. It really calms down my nervous system and grounds me. This week has been tough. It’s taken me a few days to write and share this post. I worry about how I am expressing myself, if anyone wants to hear it, if I can express how I feel clearly. About putting more of the real me out in the world. Over the last few months I have been doing a lot of work on my childhood trauma. It’s really hard and cha...llenging work. This week was tough. Talking about specific memories during my first 6 years in a war zone. Verbalising things that I don’t talk about. Remembering what it was like. I am getting better at recognising and separating the childhood trauma from me. That panic feeling that rises up in my throat and my chest and makes everything super urgent. It feels like we are in immediate danger. It’s such a quick, rising fear. This is the point where my logic is out the window. My brain does not realise I am actually safe and there is no urgency to do things. It does not realise I am not in a war zone and that I am safe. This week was probably the first time I have been able to separate myself and the trauma. My psychologist called it a gremlin. It made me giggle but it’s also a good way to separate it from me. The gremlin is the thing that can silently creep up on you without you knowing. It jumps out and surprises you when you least expect it. I am not my trauma. I realised this also means I can deal with it. That it doesn’t have to define who I am and call the shots. For anyone who is dealing with heightened mental illness or that is finding this time really difficult to navigate I am with you. I feel like the mental health impacts from this time will be much bigger than anticipated. I feel like we are not talking about mental health enough. If you need someone to talk to, I’m here. If you need help, reach out to your doctor other health professionals, your support network. #essentialcourage #selfhealing #reikihealing #reikihealer #healingthroughreiki #healingandtransforming #innerchildwork #consciousrelationshipbuilding #livewhatyoulove #womenempowerwomen #guideforothers #teachingother

25.01.2022 Today I gave myself a day off. You heard it right. I chose to walk along the beach with two of my fave friends, buy a coffee and lunch and eat on the beach alone. I sat in nature, listened to the waves and soaked in the glorious Sydney sunshine. Don’t get me wrong. I do have plenty of things to do, I am really ‘busy’ but I (and you) get to choose what I do and to prioritise myself. I knew after a busy week that I was nearing the signs of exhaustion I know well - waking up at night, sore neck that turns into a migraine. Instead of getting to that point, I slowed down for the day and feel glorious. I am so excited to pick up my kids and have a fun weekend together rather than going into the weekend already exhausted. I get to choose every day what works for me, and so do you. What are you choosing for yourself today?

21.01.2022 Do you ever feel like you have a vulnerability hangover? I have had the worst headache all day and was in and out of bed til 2pm. Very unlike me. But as a beautiful friend reminded me, I have shared very vulnerably and openly over the last week and made changes to my social media accounts to reflect what feels good and right for me. I have cleared a lot energetically over the last few weeks and have also participated in a reiki class (the intensity always seems to hit toe wee...ks later). Once the headache fog clears (it has started to) I see more clearly and I see that the changes I have made and boundaries I have created were what I needed. I am getting better and better at listening to my body when I am making decisions. I have splenic authority in Human Design language. This means I get an instant yes or no to what feels right for me. It can be faint but I am better at listening out for it. I am also learning to listen when my body is craving for me to stay in bed all day, even when I can’t explain it. What can you do to listen to your body more? See more

18.01.2022 This is our new coffee machine. We overused our old one during this time of being at home. This represents some really interesting changes for me. Bear with me for a minute. Our old machine was super high tech, full colour LED screen, fully automatic everything - you could press one button and everything would happen for you. When my husband went into the shop the sales person couldn’t understand why we were downgrading to a fully manual machine where we had to do the work, e...ven though the fancy machines were the same price. It’s simple really. We realised we didn’t need all the bells and whistles to make a good coffee. In fact they were getting in the way. Life is the same isn’t it? We think we need all the extras and bells and whistles but they get in the way. We over complicate things that could be really simple. We feel like we need more. Our partners feel like a simple hug or a few calming words won’t be enough. But I’m finding more and more in this time of being at home and looking inward, the simple things are the things we forgot we needed. We don’t need the bells and whistles. There’s something else too. I think we need to do the work, not in a hard pushy way. In a way where we are in control of ourselves, where we push the buttons, we make the choices, we don’t just sit back waiting. Who thought a new coffee machine could be so deep? I’m off to make a coffee now! #essentialcourage #selfhealing #reikihealing #reikihealer #healingthroughreiki #healingandtransforming #innerchildwork #consciousrelationshipbuilding #livewhatyoulove #womenempowerwomen #guideforothers #teachingothers #livingmybestlife #coachingothers #soulcoach #changemaker See more

16.01.2022 Do we ever know how truly lucky we are? Today I do. As my country of birth Lebanon goes through another devastating blow from an explosion which rocked the capital and has likely killed many many people and injured thousands of others I wonder when we will rise up as a collective and say enough Is enough. Enough corruption, enough crappy economy, enough blows for a country that in its history, especially in the last 40 years has taken so much. I sometimes feel guilty that I a...m one of the lucky ones. That my parents escaped after 10 years of war and three children to a life that is safe. That we don’t have to deal with the things that several generations of people living in Lebanon have to. I pray and hope for a time when this trauma does not exist for generations to come. That they don’t remember or experience the devastation that keeps impacting this tiny resilient country that just hasn’t been able to catch a break for long enough. I am forever grateful that my family living over there are safe. But enough is enough. How long will we let this go on in the world before we end corruption and devastation in those countries like Lebanon that aren’t ‘important enough politically’. I pray for all those who have lost their lives or been impacted and can only work towards a future where all countries are as lucky as we are. See more

15.01.2022 She is me Image taken by @blackedition001 This little girl. 7 minutes after the catastrophic explosion in Beirut last week. This photo has been haunting me since I saw it a few days ago. She is me. I am her. She is every child that has experienced trauma and wars. I keep watching videos over and over. The sounds, the explosions, the fire, the smoke, the crashing down of windows, doors and walls. The smell of chemicals. The darkness. I know these things. I learnt them in... the first 6 years of my life, living in a highly targeted Christian area of Beirut. An area that has been destroyed countless times and has been destroyed again. I know her pain. The pain and trauma she will experience for the rest of her life. She may grow up hiding it, even from herself for 35 years like I did. She may achieve so much like I did that the world calls her high achieving and high functioning and praises her for these achievements. But the world will not know that all the things she does are merely distractions. Things to bury those memories and nightmares deep within. Things to distract from her from her feelings. Things to try and make the feelings that she is in danger all the time go away. That even when her body starts telling her as an adult that she needs to stop she will not. She may take up running incredibly long distances and ignore injury after injury to forget. She may not sit still when she contracts adrenal fatigue or glandular fever. I am her. She is me. And every other child in the world that has faced this trauma. She won’t know yet that the trauma will paralyse her and stop her in her tracks. She won’t know for a long time that the trauma is not her. That she is safe, even in a county thousands of miles away from this heartache. I am telling you this because this is not ok. Because the psychological impact of this disaster cannot be measured. Because my goal is to live in a world where this kind of trauma and suffering does not occur. As long as it does in my homeland I will continue to tell you about it and how you can help people on the ground. See more

15.01.2022 Two and a half years ago when I was absolutely exhausted, diagnosed with glandular fever and on the edge of chronic fatigue I had a phone conversation with this woman that changed my life. It was the first time I had talked about my childhood trauma. It was the first time I had listened when someone gave me tough love. I started to work with @belle_flowers_energy_healing for healing regularly, such as inner child healings, emotion code clearing and my favourite reiki. I’ve lo...ved reiki since that time but resisted practicing for awhile. My not good enough self talk was loud. Finally, in January this year I started my reiki trainIng. On the weekend I became a reiki master, meaning that I can now teach others how to practice reiki. Since the first day I learnt 227 days ago, I have practiced it on myself every single day for 29 minutes. This has become my daily meditation/stillness practice. It has enabled me to work through a lot this year - childhood trauma, relationship issues and multiple other things. It has allowed me to forgive myself and provide calm and safety for myself every single day. It has allowed me to move forward and create a business I love, a relationship that was in so much trouble that is now thriving and helped me to quiet my always busy mind. It’s taken me awhile to realise that I am powerful in the energetic healing space and that I can heal myself and others. Thank you Belle for mentoring me through this super special journey. Want to know more about reiki? Send me a message! See more

14.01.2022 I was talking to a dear friend this morning and she got me thinking. We often look to other people or professionals such as coaches, healers and psychologists to tell us what to do. But the truth is we already know what is right for us. What feels good. What direction we want to head in. We already have all the answers within ourselves. We just need the time to look. We are often so busy (I was guilty of this for a long time) and exhausted doing things for everyone else and i...gnoring our needs. It’s really simple to listen to ourselves and our bodies. But it can be hard to put ourselves first, not help everyone we come across and not prioritise everyone else’s needs before our own. It’s hard work to take responsibility for ourselves and to curate what’s around us - from people, their energy, what we consume on social media, what we are involved in. It can be lonely too. But once we really look at our own lives and choose what’s important to us it changes everything. We need to be ruthless about what is for is and what isn’t. It’s that simple. Some people won’t understand or may have certain views based on how they feel about themselves. That’s for them. My job as a coach and healer is not to tell you what to do. It is to help you see what you already know is true for yourself. Only you can decide that. See more

13.01.2022 This guy! 23 years of being together and supporting each other through life. We’ve had some great times but to be honest over the last year or so it’s been really hard. On top of everything else, I was navigating healing from long term on and off adrenal fatigue and what comes with that, as well as starting to address my childhood trauma of living the first five years of my life in a war zone. I don’t lie. It’s been a really tough 12 months that I’m only now comfortable to ta...lk about. Dealing with trauma that you have held in your mind and body for as long as you can remember is hard. Some days it feels like it’s all too much and I’d rather crawl into a hole. But more often now, I feel like I’m climbing out of the darkness. There had been so much light over the last 6 months in the darkness. My husband and I both committed to doing the work. I have done so much healing (there’s still work to do) and we have started to rebuild our relationship from the ground up. We are figuring out what we both need as adults in our early 40’s as opposed to assuming we’re still the same people as those young 20 year olds. I never thought that relationships would be an area of passion for me, or something I could help others with. But I truly believe that we have navigated our way through the hardest times of our lives through working together and using tools consistently like reiki healing, human design and coaching. Helping couples navigate transformation through these tools is where I’ll be at. Combining my unique experience with couples and family human design readings so you can understand the best way to work together for each of your individual designs. I’ll be starting these from next week. If you’re keen to find out more, send me a message. I’d love to chat xx See more

10.01.2022 This is me, unfiltered, no make up. The real me. For a long time I have held back from sharing the real me. I’ve shared parts along the way but my head spins with the experiences I want to share and the stories I want to tell. When I was a child I didn’t much like my name. I hated being different, I hated having a name people couldn’t pronounce. As an adult, I’ve grown to love it. It is who I am. So you’ll notice my Instagram is now me. I’ll be talking about what I’ve learnt over the last three years of having my own business and how I have found the best sweet spot of combining my coaching, human design and reiki I’ll be sharing what I learnt over one of the most difficult years of my life. I’ll be sharing all of me.

08.01.2022 ALWAYS SPEAK YOUR TRUTH Last year at a conference I declared I wanted to change people’s view of war and ease suffering. To highlight people’s suffering and the long term trauma impacts of war. We say to people ‘be yourself’ and ‘speak your truth’ but do we really mean it as a society? Do we really want that or do we want everyone to fit into our truth, our way of thinking? I have noticed that I’ve been unfollowed this week.It got me thinking. Are we making people uncomforta...ble when we share things they would rather look away from? It makes me angry that what’s going on in Lebanon, my country of birth and where I spent the first 6 years of my life, during a war is not deemed as important enough as other issues or countries around the world. Why is it not getting as much airtime as Black Lives Matter? Don’t all lives matter? Don’t people living in countries with disaster after disaster, from war to political corruption to a failed economy matter? A few months ago I promised myself I would only share what was true for me. That I wouldn’t share something just for the sake of it. This matters to me. It matters that people I know and love are still suffering from a civil war that started in 1975, 45 years ago, longer than I’ve been alive. It matters to me that another generation of children will know trauma and suffer with it for many years like I have. That it will shape their lives and who they are. That it might take them years and years of pushing the trauma away before they finally deal with it 30 years later like I did. It matters to me that I make others aware of what’s going on in Lebanon. It matters to me as a collective that we recognise what’s going on in the world and how we can make a difference especially to places that are not known or recognised. It matters to me that children continue to experience the trauma and impact of a war long ‘finished’. If it doesn’t matter to you, I ask you to be curious and learn more. Just like I did when something mattered to you. It’s taken me my whole life to discover that I am here to help others through their trauma and healing journeys. To talk about the things that matter to me. I will continue to do it. See more

07.01.2022 These are the things I have been hearing over and over. I can’t tell you how good it makes me feel. As a projector in the world of human design, I love to be seen and appreciated. And as a human having trudged through the murky waters of trauma healing, relationship building and 9 weeks of being at home with 3 other humans 24/7 this makes me feel so lit. All the more because a few months ago I didn’t feel like I could do any of these things for myself, let alone for other hum...ans. I didn’t know what would happen and I didn’t know what the plan was. But I went with whatever happened (and still do every day) because I know the universe does not give us more than we can handle and that our time right now is part of the greater plan for our lives, our destiny, the reason we are here on earth right now. This has made the hard days more bearable and the fun days even more fun. This has made me feel that I didn’t need to have all the answers and that I couldn’t have them anyway. I have learnt to appreciate simple things, to have more fun, to be more internal. To spend more time on my own. And truth be told, I’m a bit sad to come out of my bubble. I am looking at ways to keep the things we have loved doing as a family and the things I have enjoyed on my own. After all, I feel like the last few months have been a huge lesson that everything we need is already inside of us. We just need to let it shine #essentialcourage #selfhealing #reikihealing #reikihealer #healingthroughreiki #healingandtransforming #innerchildwork #consciousrelationshipbuilding #livewhatyoulove #womenempowerwomen #guideforothers #teachingothers #livingmybestlife #coachingothers #soulcoach #changemaker See more

05.01.2022 Letting go is such a hard thing. Often we hold on to people and things that we know don’t serve us. We might be afraid of what people will say. We might be afraid of the gaps that might leave. For those of us who have trauma in our lives it can be so much harder. I just left another thought provoking session with our marriage counsellor. I’m still learning stuff about myself every single time. Still surprised about what I do and don’t know about me. The more we know about our...selves the less we know sometimes! I’ve had to make so much space for my healing. Every single day. Some days like today, I just want it to go away (yes I even asked the psychologist if that was possible). But it my heart I know it’s not. I know I can’t ever be ignorant to the trauma and experience I have had. I can’t be someone in that hasn’t experienced it. I know I can’t just forget it. But I also know it doesn’t have to define me going forward. That I can continue to choose to change my life and the way that trauma does or doesn’t impact me daily. So if you’re doing the hard yards and wanting it to go away, I hope you know that it won’t. But you can change how you view it and how you live your life going forward. Be easy on yourself but always remember you are not your trauma. It is not you. For anyone else who needs to hear this today I see you and I am here for you See more

03.01.2022 Do you ever feel the pressure to launch something a certain way? That you ‘should’ have a website, you should’ have beautiful photos of you in a flowing boho dress looking serene and happy? I certainly do! The frustrating thing is it comes from me internally. I have all these voices in my head reminding me hoe it should be and how I am not good enough. So I have stalled this process over the last few months. But here I am in all my glory and my messiness and humaness. You may... know I have been studying Human Design with the magical @iambrittanyeastman over the last few months. When she introduced me to this incredible world almost a year ago it felt like home to me. Getting to know and be in my own authentic design (1/4 projector with splenic decision making for my HD friends) has been life changing. Knowing that my quirks and the way my body responds to certain things is the way I was designed to be. So friends, I am learning to be an unpolished, raw and real version of me. Friends, I help you live a life that is energetically aligned with who you are combining my three loves, human design, reiki and coaching and leaning on my life experiences gained in the corporate world, having my own business for three years and my healing journey both from childhood trauma and in my relationship. If you want to work with someone who is uncompromising and compassionate, who will meet you where you are at and journey with you where you want to go, I’m here for it. Business launch in a way that feels incredible to me! See more

03.01.2022 One of my favourite spots. There is still beauty in the storm. Yesterday I quietly high fived myself for getting to my 100th day of practicing reiki healing on myself every day. Without fail. This was huge for me. You see, even though I always intend to practice meditation, journalling, affirmations every day, the novelty wears off. It doesn’t come easily to me. So I stop. But there was something so different about reiki for me. And I realised this week it has been so power...ful and easy to do every day because I have finally learned stillness. Resting for more than a few days was something I could never do. I was always itching to get back to doing all the things. To ignore the opportunity for stillness. I refused to rest. The busyness stopped me from having to delve into my trauma, my relationship and my own issues around self worth and where I was at. I was too afraid of doing the hard work within myself and for me. Now even though I still have bad days, I can tell when I have reached my limit. And when I need stillness. When I need to nurture myself. Don’t get me wrong. The last 12 months for me have been really hard. First I was forced to finally take notice of my fatigue issues. The signs kept getting louder and louder. I was forced to rest over a long period of time. And then I found the courage to start doing the tough inner work. It has been life changing as well as super hard. I can tell you this. I would never have done any of these things or be where I am today if I continued being busy. Are you continuing to be really busy, and avoiding the hard stuff? #essentialcourage #selfhealing #reikihealing #reikihealer #healingthroughreiki #healingandtransforming #innerchildwork #consciousrelationshipbuilding #livewhatyoulove #womenempowerwomen #guideforothers #teachingothers #livingmybestlife #coachingothers #soulcoach #changemaker See more

03.01.2022 I’m not sure who first said this but it couldn’t be truer for me. At 42 years of age I have finally found my groove. After 18 years in the corporate world (with two kids in between) and trying out a few different business ideas over the last three and a half years I can say hand on heart I am loving what I do every day. Through my own healing journey I have been able to discover some incredible tools that I am now helping others to use in their lives. Over the last six months... I have become a reiki practitioner (and qualified teacher in a few months). I have started to do things that feel good for me without worrying what others may think. I am in the middle of a crystal healing course and learning how to teach my clients to use a gorgeous Hawaiian prayer Ho’Oponopono in their healing. I am delving more into the Human Design world that I have fallen in love with and an now training with the HD QUEEN @iambrittanyeastman. I am finally putting myself out there as a soul coach. Combining my experience in the world and especially the work I have done in healing and relationships to show others how they can also heal. I’m loving it and as much as I appreciate the support, for the first time ever, I’m doing it for me first. And it feels f%#^en awesome!! Strap in boys and girls. You ain’t seen nothing yet (and I know I haven’t either lol!) #essentialcourage #selfhealing #reikihealing #reikihealer #healingthroughreiki #healingandtransforming #innerchildwork #consciousrelationshipbuilding #livewhatyoulove #womenempowerwomen #guideforothers #teachingothers #livingmybestlife #coachingothers #soulcoach #changemaker See more

03.01.2022 Welcome to Essential Courage. Thanks for dropping by! Essential Courage combines my love and belief in essential oils with my wellness and lifestyle coaching to help you create and live your best and most authentic life. Over the last few years, I’ve learnt many tools that I use daily, including dTERRA essential oils, meditation, yoga and healing. As a business owner, I have learnt many things over the last three years that I share through my coaching. Head to my website www.essentialcourage.com.au for more information or to https://www.mydoterra.com/essentialcourage to get started on your oil journey!

02.01.2022 Make space in your life for the things that are meant for you. Spent this weekend in nature, enjoying the incredible beauty and expansiveness of it all. A beautiful waterfall in the Blue Mountains. Every time I make space, I am rewarded with a beautiful connection, an invitation to do something I love. Every time I make space I am rewarded. Energetically and physically. The deep connections I am making with people are profound and authentic and raw and real. Over the weeken...d I had a six hour conversation with a beautiful woman. We could Not stop talking. About our childhoods, our goals, the world, what lights us up, what’s makes us feel amazing, creating boundaries, energetics, money exchange, the economic state of the world, investment, love, career, kids, joy: before we knew it, it was 12.30am and then we talked for another half an hour. Forever grateful for the graceful, strong, inspiring women that keep lighting up my life. Ive had a lot of stuff to deal with in the last twelve months both physically and relationship wise. As a projector in the Human Design world with limited energy and living in adrenal fatigue and exhaustion for a long time, I realised I had to be really discerning with my energy. Even ruthless. Both work wise and with other people. The more I lean into my authentic self, the more space I make in my life for what is meant for me. #essentialcourage #selfhealing #reikihealing #reikihealer #healingthroughreiki #healingandtransforming #innerchildwork #consciousrelationshipbuilding #livewhatyoulove #womenempowerwomen #guideforothers #teachingothers #livingmybestlife #coachingothers #soulcoach #changemaker #humandesignreader #humandesigncoach