Everything is energy. Using different tried and tested modalities we layer them for emotional and physical healing. Drawing from Feng Shui principles for the home and reiki techniques for heart and head.
The union between how we feel in our head and our home is so important, both need to be restorative safe spaces.
YOUR SANCTUARY
Let me introduce myself,
I’m Joanna, Intuitive Home Alchemist & this is my story
The boys and I found ourselves under an umbrella of care at one time in our lives. To access different help and support there was a process of tick boxes that needed to be completed. One of those was to attend parenting classes. As a single mum doubting her ability and worth as it was, this felt like hitting rock bottom. I wasn’t to blame for the situation we were in so it felt incredibly upsetting that it was implied that my parenting was at fault.
However I was willing to take whatever steps necessary to do anything to create the life my boys deserved. Keeping their heads and hearts as safe and as nurtured as I possibly could was my only aim.
‘If they’re okay, I’ll be okay’ was my relentless mantra in my head whenever anyone would even merely suggest I needed to look after myself or put myself first. I sat in my first class and had an absolute and utter knowing that one day I would stand in front of a group of women and lead a similar (but oh so different) ‘class’. Even on that very first day I knew from the work I’d done and the journey I had undertaken that there was so much more to empowering single mums.
I knew there was no one size fits all handbook to parenting. (Despite being presented a workbook claiming it) If only there was! I knew with absolute certainty each one of those women in that room held their own key to surviving - and ultimately thriving, and it would be different for each one.
At this time of my life, I’d already been deep diving into the rabbit hole that is personal development. Google searches into the wee small hours, endless YouTube video quests to find that golden nugget of advice, followed countless gurus hoping to find that one thing, listened to every Tedtalk going, stacks of books with dog-eared pages.
Even with no ‘professional’ experience at this time I wanted to stand up and say to these women ‘No! stop repeating your stories of who wronged you, whose ex is worse, whose kids behaviour is most off the scale. Just stop, breathe, quieten and focus on rebuilding the love for yourself. Quieten long enough to hear to the answers you really do have inside.’ The weekly get-togethers did however show me the value of coming together. The love and compassion that’s possible from shared experiences. The strength that comes from being heard when ultimately you feel like you have no voice and no one wants to listen to you.