I believe that we have an innate ability to heal ourselves and we can start this healing through self-reflection, where we learn to trust our deep intuitive inner voice. At times this may mean we turn back to the past and help the wounds that have been buried deep to finally heal. The ground work to becoming a counsellor begun when I took the opportunity to look back into my own historical and psychological issues to heal my own traumatic life events. Peter Kingsley's book in the Dark Places of Wisdom (1999) provided the catalyst for this exploration. I realised that for many years I had been mourning something that I could not see, yet there was an internal voice that I needed to speak too. The words of Micheal Meade resonated at this stage, as he observed in his book Fate and Destiny, 'when the story of the world becomes less clear, it is the unfolding of the inner life of the soul that might provide the best guidance for how to proceed' (2010, p. 9). I felt an inner call from my own soul to remember, which is why I decided to embark on the journey of counselling, where I  found myself a witness, another counsellor who had already been down this path, one who is able to gently guide and witness my story. I am now ready to be the guide to yours if you will allow yourself to start your own inward journey to a path of freedom. 

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My key question to begin with is not what is wrong with you, but what has happened to you? It is at this point that we can work from. 

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