Hi Beloved, I am Angel and here is my own story... 

A mother of two children and married I started my first episode of therapy at the age of 27 due to the sexual abuse of my daughter and the realisation that I was deeply unhappy, anxious, overweight, and constantly depressed.

This led to the breakup of my marriage and me leaving the religion I grew up in (Jehovah’s Witness). I was in therapy for 7 years exploring and uncovering the reasons why I behaved the way I did and struggled with low self-esteem; I found some peace and remarried. However, this marriage lasted only 4 years and I ended up in rehab for food addiction and the onset of alcoholism.

Undergoing therapy and being in rehab were major turning points in my life. I learned that my childhood was so dysfunctional which is why I suffered with anxiety, depression and addiction. A major insight was that I also had been sexually molested as a baby; addressing the addiction allowed me to remember what I had locked away securely in the limbic part of my brain. As harrowing as this was it also allowed me to liberate myself and I started to experience inner peace and released a lot of weight quite effortlessly. Dare I say, I knew what happiness felt like.

Attending the anonymous fellowships during and after rehab helped immensely with my transformation from a woman with low self esteem to a woman who valued herself. Little did I know that the transformation had only just begun.

I left my job in the banking industry and studied to be a coach in 2008 and in 2009 I went to university and studied to become a counsellor; ending up with a first class honours degree, something I never believed I would be able to achieve prior to rehab. In 2011 I started my own business as a self-employed coach and in 2012 added counsellor to my repertoire.

My evolution continued and my healing went deeper as I encountered psychics and spiritual healers along the way. I had a huge spiritual awakening after leaving my third serious relationship with a narcissist. I stopped running from my spiritual gifts and started to embrace them and became a sekhem energy healer, a shamanic practitioner and a sacred celebrant. 

At the anonymous fellowships I heard someone say “we are spiritual beings having a human experience”; that stuck with me and has continued to be a mantra of mine and enabled me to connect deeply with my soul. The more I removed the traumas and pain the more I had space for my soul to evolve. 

I realised how the addiction was stopping me from connecting to my soul essence, the weight was being used to protect me from men and from feeling my emotions on a deeper level. I learned that I am an empath (a highly sensitive soul).

I realised that as an empath with a huge heart and also due to my dysfunctional childhood, I became a people pleaser and was very co-dependent.