For many years, I collected tools. We all do, we just don’t usually notice it at the time. What I noticed was, I would often feel like ‘this is it, this is what I am going to do’, every time I came across something new that excited me and I wanted to learn about. Before long, I’d get bored or feel like I’d had enough. I was never interested enough to become an aromatherapist or a numerologist or astrologist or a ‘whatever’-ologist. I just learnt the foundations and moved on. I would continue to use them in my life, but wasn’t interested in studying them more or making them my career. Then one day, a course popped up and it seem to cover so many of those things I had been interested in but I hadn’t taken my studies any further. I was curious about the course, but I got side tracked with something else, until it came up again a year later. This time it really caught my attention and I decided to jump in.
The course was Master Holistic Counsellor Certification Course. I had started to notice that both my card reading and my energy work sessions with clients were becoming more and more like therapy sessions. As Universe always works, this course came up at that perfect time and seemed to wrap all those tools I had been gathering together in one neat package. The first half of the course I struggled with. It was all psychology and clinical stuff. I seemed to need to read things a couple of times for it to make sense. I felt like this was the part of the course that was important for me though, because it was the clinical and practical parts of counselling I had not learned about before. The second half, I flew through. There wasn’t much I hadn’t already studied. It was all the tools I had gathered over my whole life and had been living with and using. Those tools that I had thought, ‘maybe this is what I am supposed to be doing’. Turns out I hadn’t quit, I hadn’t been on the wrong path, I just had a lot of tools to collect. Now things were starting to fall into place. Now all the paths were coming together, no longer separate, now one path bringing all the tools together to work side by side. Which makes sense doesn’t it? I mean, we are not all the same. Some people like some tools and others like other tools. Some people will connect with one way of healing and others will connect with something else. I needed to gather all these tools to have a collection that I could use to support many people, not just one.
I don’t feel quite comfortable with the word Counsellor. To me, it sounds like someone sitting in an office with pen and paper taking notes and telling you there is something wrong with you and that you need fixing. For the last 5 years, I have not used the word Healer for a similar reason. I believe we all heal ourselves and as a ‘Healer’, I am merely reminding your body what it needs to do to heal itself. I am now starting to see that a healer can be the catalyst for someone to heal too. So for me now, I am a supporter and guider for my clients on their path looking for peace and clarity in their lives. Not a Counsellor. Perhaps that will change one day too.
As I am at the beginning of this new Holistic Guidance and Healing journey, I am not sure yet how it will unfold. I am sure Universe will lead the way though. I have started to see the start of this transition during my studies, in how my sessions with clients play out. I don’t see myself going down a clinical path, but I feel my readings and energy facilitations will continue to evolve as my clients continue to test me with their needs. As always, Universe has sent me different clients to guide me down paths that have made sessions become more like counselling sessions over the past year. I am so grateful for each client who has walked through my door and taught me something new about what I have to offer. I am very excited to start bringing more of those tools into my sessions, or offering them to clients as ways of coping with and healing what they are going through.
I am so happy, after all these years to feel like I have found ‘that thing’ we are all searching for. I do know though, that we never stop looking and moving forward, so I have no doubt that there is more to learn. For now though, I am loving watching my clients grow and find peace as we play with the tools and look forwards.
Enjoy your journey
💜 Donna