What is Intuitive Counseling?

Many people wonder what Intuitive Counseling or what an Intuitive Counselor is. This question comes up because it isn’t very clearly articulated for the public. There are many people who use Intuitive Counseling for psychic or intuitive readings. Some of my clients want a reading for the purpose of knowing what is coming up and this is a wonderful gift to give yourself every once in a while. However most readings don’t assist you to grow and some readings can even create a self-fulfilling prophecy – which has a lot to do with how much power you give to these readings. And sometimes readings can go ‘off’ if the reader/psychic/intuitive is not so clear around their own triggers and maybe have even failed to work on their own triggers.

For me: I focus on the ‘counseling’ aspect as I have professional qualifications which include a degree in Social Work, certification in Neuro Linguistic Programming, and coaching and teaching certification in mBraining. This allows me to combine my professional qualifications with my natural intuitive abilities. I am an empath with both clairsentience (feeling) and claircognizance (knowing) abilities. Plus with extensive studies, teachings and sacred texts I have learned over 30 different healing modalities and I continue to learn and grow towards love because it is important to me and for the work I do.

However does this answer the question “What is Intuitive Counseling?” Not necessarily. To me intuitive counseling – given by professional intuitive counselors – should be very clear and connected when they provide space for a session. The counselors should not be focused on their own problems but fully present for their clients. This requires the intuitives to have done a lot of work on themselves and to be a clear conduit for connecting to their Higher Selves, Healing Teams, Divine Sparks or Heart of Source for the benefit of the clients. Holding space for others and being able to actively listen is a gift for the clients. Often most people just want to be ‘seen or heard’ for who they truly are! When you can offer this gift people can see for themselves what they may want to change to assist them to evolve towards love.
Who can benefit from an Intuitive Counseling session? Everyone can benefit as such sessions can be helpful to people concerned about their health, wealth, purpose, career, relationships, or their Spiritual Growth. Sometimes we reach a point where we feel depressed or anxious about something occurring in our lives. Or we are looking to change something that is happening or to modify or transmute a pattern that continues to show up in our lives. This is where being able to feel or know your blocks will greatly assist you to be more conscious of your choices and therefore able to take greater responsibility for your life!

Readings are a wonderful gift. However they only offer a snapshot of what is happening right now – with the energy that you currently hold. Meaning, what a reading shows is only what could happen as long as you stay the same. Once you change something, your belief, your fears or what you want, then the outcome will change. Also a reading shows what the future holds but since you now know what the outcome is just knowing it may already change the outcome. Our future is not fixed – it changes with our choices and our evolution – once we shift who we are our whole future changes. An Intuitive Counseling session will focus on what is blocking you from achieving your Dreams. It will assist you to understand what energy is keeping you in the pattern you want to change. And then, as a professional Intuitive Counselor, I can offer you the tools to change what you desire. Please understand that we all change when we are ready! Sometimes no matter how many different teachers or healers we see, until we are truly ready to let go, we probably won’t. Sometimes it is to accept who we are as already being perfect and whole! An Intuitive Counselor who can hold space to See or Hear you for Who you Are will accept you for who you are and see you as perfect and whole! This will allow you to BE your True Essence! And this opportunity to be your True Essence is the value of working with professionally qualified Intuitive Counsellors who have worked on themselves and therefore understand who you really are and can encourage you to accept who you really are because in that acceptance lies the change and the knowing that people want.

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Spring into New Beginnings

I always get excited as we move into Spring. Even though we have had snow this week, I feel change in the air! I feel more empowered and ready to start some new things or to follow through on the goals that I know are for my highest and best interest.

The challenge is to come from a place of Being instead of doing. Instead of feeling the need to fix, change, heal or do something different, I know that what I want must come from a change in my state of Being that is in alignment with my highest good and Soul’s essence.  It must come from a place of Love rather than fear; and from my heart over my head.

However, we typically come from a state of trying to fix, change or do because we don’t understand the difference and because we focus on the problems and things we don’t like in ourselves as well as in others. These reactions are usually met with resistance and eventually frustration. Our patterns of sabotage resurface as we hold the same unconscious beliefs.

Our first priority is to discover what our motivation is. Here is my example. I made a commitment to my health and wellbeing this past week, making 3 decisions to support my Soul’s desire to be healthy. For the first time after making 2 major purchases, I did not doubt my motivation or worry about the decision and cost. Typically, I fret and worry restlessly that I made a bad decision or choice. This is a result of past experiences where I regretted my choice or had been scammed in some way. I also know that when I worry about my choice, my motivation comes from a place of fear. These decisions were motivated for the health of my Being. So, I knew I felt supported.

It may seem like a subtle difference but it makes all the difference in the world. If your motivation is from a place of love, self-love, self-acceptance and appreciation, then you begin to align with your inner and higher powers and these energies all work together to assist you to achieve your goals and create magic. Synchronicities occur that show, you are in alignment with your highest potential.

If instead, you try to manipulate, control, fix, heal and change something from a state of fear, because it isn’t working or because you are upset, angry, frustrated, unhappy or worried about the future, then you recreate the very patterns that created the problem in the first place. When we work from fear, then we are working against ourselves, and resistance and sabotage come into play.

Align with your highest good and Soul essence when you make your choices in life and watch how the world creates magic all around you!

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Empowered Choices

I believe I have understood a huge piece of the puzzle this past couple weeks. I’ve understood how when it comes to relationships, it is never about the other person (which at the time was a huge learning for me). This past month when something occurred that triggered my feelings of victimhood I was able to step out of the pain and fear and observe my reactions (after a few hours of pity, anger and fear). I was able to understand that something wasn’t being done “to me”. I had a choice how I could respond. Instead of being outraged and fearful, I came into a place of acceptance that although I didn’t know how, I would be okay and this would be my choice.

As I faced this situation where I felt the need to do something to change, fix and heal my situation, I instead came from a place of Being. I chose to come from a state of my core essence, not my reactionary state of fear about my future or a past pattern from my childhood. I chose to accept the situation and myself for who I was. I also chose to see how I use situations that “happen” in my life to play out an old scenario of pain and victimhood. I chose to grow from a place of love, instead of allowing my ego to react from fear.

I completely understood that you have to be in the Now moment, or present to acknowledge that you even have a choice. That if you are in your past patterns of sabotage and fear or worrying about the future, you only can react from your perceptions of fear. We all go through our own unique issues, based on our experiences. I saw, just like in relationships, where we think or believe that this is ALL about the other person, that there are always two people (like every situation has two or more sides). What we believe is about the other person, never is. It is our illusion of fear based on our experiences, conscious or unconscious, real or imagined that influences us to perceive the events as we do. We may also perceive events in our lives through our parent’s judgements, hidden triggers from our past lives or our genetic lineage. Ultimately, we experience what our Soul wants us to experience which is in divine order. It is so much more complex than we imagined. And it’s not about blame or accepting blame; it’s about responsibility. But again not what you expect or imagine. Seeing our true responsibility is freeing, not restricting. It means we have power, and the ability to choose.

What I learned is that we truly can be in charge of how we respond. However, the important piece was that I had to be fully present. When I was in rage and fear, I was mostly reacting from my past patterns and worrying about my future. To be fully “in charge” I had to step into my power, see my reactions for what they were and accept that I had a choice. An empowered choice to not be bullied or taken advantage of, to do what I felt was right (my perception of what I felt was right for me, which may or may not have been from ego) and choose to respond from a place of empowerment. It was completely freeing and I could see how many of my choices felt like they weren’t choices but reaction from being a victim. It opened up infinite possibilities for me to see and allowed me to feel empowered as I made the choice instead of feeling guilt, shame or powerless.

It can be very difficult to SEE ourselves. We often get stuck in a pattern that IS our life, until we DECIDE, enough! When we make the decision that we want more or that we want something different, that is when we look through the window to get a glimpse of who we truly are. The more we open up and become curious about discovering the truth of us, that is when we begin to see that we have the power to choose something different – we have the power to create the most miraculous life.

May this empower you to see another side to your story.

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Present, Grounded and Balanced

During these interesting times, I find it increasingly important to be Present. Practicing mindfulness and being in the moment is always a great morning exercise to ensure you are ready to set your intentions for the day. Echkart Tolle suggests that you practice being present by becoming aware of your body and its responses or feelings. This means you can’t be in the “past”, thinking about past events or responses you could have, should have or would have, because then you aren’t aware and can’t be fully present. You also can’t be worrying about the future, financial worries, or what you will be “doing” because once again, you cannot be present and fully aware.

To be grounded, first you must be present in your mind and body and from that place of inner balance, connect in with the earth.  Lately, this seems to be a great topic for my shows; I had fabulous interviews with both Tracy McBurney (CBS interview from 12/04/13 Grounding and Quality of Energy) and David Watson/Willows (CBS interview 20/05/13 Alternate Dimensions, vortex’s and Sun Calendars) where they offered exercises on Grounding. Often we think of connecting with the Divine and forget to connect with the earth. However, the earth is where we reside and grounding into the earth and connecting with the Divine Mother is crucial for our manifestation and creation process. The earth offers the best outlet to send the energies you need cleared. Our Divine Mother is the nurturer, not only of this planet but she can and will nurture and heal us when we invite her in our hearts.

Which brings me to balance; I believe that the last exercise we require in the morning before we rise is to balance ourselves. Balance has different definitions to many people. We can balance our chakras (energy centres), meridians or our body’s magnetics. Recently I bought an EMF device that balances wifi, cellphone, electromagnetic radiation and geopathic stress within my home that has allowed me to feel very balanced. Whatever method or technique you use, grounding has the ability to have a significant impact on your health and well-being. When these exercises are all done in sequence, it offers you the best option for setting your intentions for the day.

Being in a state of balance is about more than our energy; it is about finding a way to harmonize all areas of our lives. It is like the 7 of cups in the tarot, which represents, to me, how we can find balance in all the areas of our lives that we have dreams in. Often we desire a relationship, but forget to visualize or understand how a relationship fits into all of our life. Relationships play a much more important function in our lives as women then they do for men (listen to any of my shows with Thomas Campbell on relationships www.intuitivesoul.com/thomas-campbell). However, this relationship we seek may not fit into our career as a whole and may take sacrifice to maintain the relationship we seek. So, it is very important when wanting to create something, to find balance within all areas of our lives.

Grounding ourselves and finding balance within the chaos that exists on this planet, and perhaps in our lives, is Key to living a mindful life. We often are taken off balance when events occur in our lives or when events occur to our planet. If we begin with becoming present, then grounding and balancing ourselves, it can open us to finding a way to be in harmony with all areas of our lives. When we integrate living from this place of harmony, we become more aware of when we are unbalanced and can stabilize ourselves before we get caught up in the chaos. Living in this way enables us to take on the responsibility of our own growth, well-being and our spiritual evolution.

Now go walk barefoot on the earth, stretch your energy deep into the soil, really connect and breathe into all that living in the present offers you.

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What I learned in a year and a half of Frozen Shoulders

I’ve learned a lot in past year and a half. It started slightly earlier when I discovered that I had heavy metal poisoning. Searching for the cause became the catalyst to an intense period of learning about myself. First I began noticing all of the symptoms and effects like: weight gain, lethargy/exhaustion, itchy skin, Candida, frozen shoulders, hormonal changes, etc. Many professionals claimed they could heal me by uncovering the cause. They explained to me that it is the cause that creates all the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual effects and if my problems hadn’t healed it was because I hadn’t uncovered the true cause.

Engaging in this process and looking for the true cause of my symptoms lead me on an incredible journey of discovery. I uncovered many unconscious beliefs and patterns, deep core wounds and decisions I made as a child newly born and some still in the womb, and core lessons I chose to experience in this life from numerous past lives on this planet and others. I kept going deeper and deeper into my unconscious to help me understand why I created these symptoms in hope of alleviating the discomfort and pain. My life had felt so stagnant and I was hopeful that by following this process of self-discovery that I would find the answers I needed in order to move forward in my life.

Of course there is nothing like physical pain as a motivator! In the beginning, up to and including last summer, I had never experienced such pain. As time went on and I passed through the different stages of Frozen Shoulders, my pain eased; however, my motivation never wavered. I was determined to heal, fix, understand, analyze, control and manipulate my life to stop creating these symptoms.

I uncovered incredible stories and decisions I had made in the past that continue to affect me! Despite all of the discoveries I made about the driving force of my subconscious, not once did they appear to be alleviating any of the symptoms I was experiencing. I learned pretty early on that just changing my mind wasn’t impacting anything. Also, changing my focus from stopping the pain to focusing on Optimal Health and well-being wasn’t changing anything either. I knew that my focus on validating my outside world by needing my symptoms to be alleviated was definitely a part of the problem. I found it difficult to not focus on the pain or weight loss (things clearly outside of me) when I still could feel pain and my weight wasn’t dropping as quickly as I wanted. This helped me realize I was still looking outside for validation!

Therefore, after you try everything you can THINK of and there is nothing left to do, it is time to surrender! When we resist change, as so many of us do, SURRENDER becomes the worst case scenario option, reserved as a last resort. Ironic how it is our BEST option! So I was on a journey to surrender. Let go of my need to try and control and manipulate my conditions to be how I “wanted” them to be (Pain free and from a place of optimum health and well-being). To acceptance of where my body was. Sometimes supplements helped, more than often this appeared to be a time game, waiting out the body’s or Frozen Shoulders 18 months.

Maybe the cause lying deep in our unconscious or from our Divine contract isn’t any of our conscious business. Perhaps digging in the past to help us understand our present is just a distraction from being Present Now. Our life, in one way or another, often is not the way we would like it. Things happen. It may be in the form of frozen shoulders or extra weight we do not want but either way our body has a process to go through. Regardless of how much you learn or “do” or search, you cannot by the sheer force of your will or desire change what IS. Ultimately, it is how we respond to these events that determines our experience. We can try and be in control and try to change and manipulate things to the way we want them or we can surrender! When we get out of our heads and into our hearts and surrender to the natural capabilities of our bodies, we let the wisdom in the cells of our being lead us forward.

I may still have one shoulder that has limitations and pain, approx. 20lbs to go before my optimal weight, but I’ve learned a lifetime of valuable lessons this past year. It was all invaluable to me. And I wouldn’t have changed a thing!

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