"I remember first visiting the doctor with a painful back at about the age of 13.  From then on it was a feature of life.  There are several memories of slipping a disc and being stuck in a position, unable to move, of being unable to get in the car or walk to the shop.  During my first pregnancy I was in so much pain that I had to crawl to get myself to the toilet.  After giving birth for the second time I was unable to walk and had to be carried to the car in order to get to an osteopath.  I lived around the pain.  I knew that if I had to sit for too long I would be in pain and so I avoided situations that would cause that.  I withdrew more and more from life, trapped in a deep depression.

Over the years I tried various anti-inflamatory / pain killing drugs and a myriad of therapies - conventional and unconventional.  Some provided temporary relief and some provided none, some affected my insides badly.   All of these modalities have a role to play in the healing process - and yet if we aren't ready to release the pain, if we have not learnt the lessons it is teaching us, then all is of limited use.

By 2003 I was in so much pain, I no longer took part in normal family life.  I was unable to work, unable to drive my children to school, unable even to put dinner in the oven.  That was when a friend gave me her copy of "The Journey" by Brandon Bays.  I read it in one day, unable to put it down and knew that this was a path I needed to explore.  

Luckily for me there was a Journey Intensive in Melbourne just a few weeks later.  It was during this weekend course that I experienced my first reduction in pain.  Gradually, over the last 3 years and through my work within the Practitioner Program, I have become free of pain and depression.   I now lead a full and active life.  For me, the reduction in pain has gone hand in hand with the release of emotional pain.  As stored cellular memory has been accessed and released through journey processing, as forgiveness has been found, the pain in the body and the shut down of the soul has fallen away.  This has left me free to enjoy this incredible gift of life and to enjoy my family, who walk with me on this journey.

There is an inner freedom I have never known before.  There is a stillness inside.  The mind has quietened and ceased it's incessant  noise.   I have found that endless, breathtaking, place of peace and beauty which is inside us all."