✹The Call✹

What’s the time commitment?

Aside from our hour-long soul sessions every two weeks, you’ll need to find twenty minutes a day to spend out in nature. If you’re doing the shamanic healing option, you don’t need to set aside any time for shamanic healing, as I do that work. But some people like to lie down and tune in while I’m working. So a rough minimum is between two and four hours in a week when we have a session, and around three hours when we don’t. It’s not a lot when you break it down by day. It’s important to realise, though, that the journey to soul isn’t just about fitting this into your normal life. You’ll need, and probably want, to have as much quiet time as you can, so that you can hear your soul (for example, it’s pretty hard to hear your soul speak if you’re working all day and watching TV all evening). Soul-aligned living requires a shift in our way of being, so it’s about acknowledging and allowing for that, too.

What is shamanic healing, and how can it help me respond to the Call?

In traditional societies across the world, the shaman is the healer of the community.

To access healing and guidance for people, a shaman enters the spirit realms by altering their consciousness (for example, by ingesting certain plants or drumming at high speed) in a way that allows them to ‘see’ the energetic world of the client. In this vision, or journey, they are helped by spirits. It is the spirit guides and helpers that do the work, not the shaman. The shaman’s role is to be a channel for this guidance from other realms.

A shamanic practitioner in the West uses many of the same techniques for accessing healing and guidance as a traditional shaman, including drumming to bring about an altered state of consciousness to gain access to the spirit realms.

While Western medicine treats physical or mental ill health as purely a matter of the body and mind, in shamanism it is understood that people have spirits (as do all living things). Shamanic healing takes place on the spiritual level, not the physical, mental or emotional levels (although all of these levels can be affected by shamanic healing).

Shamanic healing is, of course, helpful in its own right. I specifically included the option of having comprehensive shamanic healing in The Call because of what I’ve seen in my work as a soul purpose guide. Even when people get in touch with their soul’s truth (or their purpose) I have found that they are sometimes held back from truly embodying it by energetic wounds from things that they may or may not consciously remember. For example, in their ancestral line, they may have had a family member who was ostracised by their community for speaking their mind. This might affect their ability to speak their truth today – even if they don’t know about the past event.

Another example of how shamanic healing can help is through the process of soul retrieval, which can help if we’ve been through traumatic events (which we all have, to some extent). Sometimes, in trauma (and it doesn’t have to be a ‘big’ trauma), part of our soul can leave in order to survive an experience that feels threatening. This is a positive thing, because it means we survive. But we’ve lost part of ourselves. When parts of the soul are retrieved, people can feel more whole and more joyful, and may also have access to gifts and feeling states that the lost part took with them.

What do you mean by ‘awakening’?

That’s a good question. There’s no straightforward definition of awakening. My meaning, in the context of this journey, is about waking up to the truth of who you really are, beyond the conditioning of society, events that have happened to you, and the influence of your family/culture. The Call is about helping you to do that, and supporting you in embodying your soul’s truth. If you stop reading here, you’ve understood enough! If you’re interested, read on.

Some spiritual teachers use the word ‘awakening’ to mean waking up from the ‘dream’ of what we take to be reality. We are able to separate ourselves from our ego’s view of things, and so we become aware of our place in a much wider web of existence – call it the universe, God, spirit, nature, the web of life.

That kind of awakening – spiritual awakening – is just a part of what I mean when I describe this as a journey of healing and awakening. I’m talking about awakening in a much broader sense. Spiritual awakening can happen just at the level of consciousness. It doesn’t necessarily mean that we deal with our shadow side, or heal in any way. In fact, we can use a spiritual awakening to avoid dealing with the messy, human side of life!

Another kind of awakening is soul awakening. For me (and others), spiritual awakening ‘feels like’ it’s about ‘up there’, ‘God’. It’s about our place in relation to the divine; the transcendent. Soul awakening, on the other hand, feels like a downward and inward journey. I think of the soul as the marriage of the divine spark with our humanness. Becoming soul-awakened is where the divine gets personal, and real. It’s about our divine-ness, but in a very human way. It’s about the very heart of who we are. It’s about our place on Earth, the journey we came here to take, and our purpose.

When we connect and communicate with our soul; when we commit to living life in service of our soul, instead of in service to our ego, then we are on track to live the life we were always meant to live.

It is a beautiful way; and to me, it’s the only real way to access our truth, feel fulfilled and give to the world in a way that doesn’t drain our energy.

Then there’s womb awakening. This type of awakening is talked about less – probably because it’s less known, and also because many of the spiritual teachers writing about awakening are male. Womb awakening is a crucial part of our journey, because it’s where you, as a woman, can access your unique power, and join your energy with the energy of thousands of others who are on a similar journey.

What do you mean by the Call?

The Call is an invitation from life to take some kind of action that leads us away from our normal life or way of doing things. How do we know when we’re being Called? We may find ourselves questioning our lives or relationships at a deep level. We may be thrust into reevaluating things by illness, or circumstances we didn’t choose. We may feel it as an urge to find ‘truth’ or ‘meaning’ - or simply to do something that feels quite different for us. When we feel the urge, it’s a communication from our soul telling us that it’s time. It’s time to grow – to become more powerful. To live our soul’s calling. To be truly authentic.

Joseph Campbell famously talked about the Call in his book, the Hero’s Journey. He calls it the Call to Adventure - where the ‘hero’ is asked to leave ‘his’ ordinary life and go on a Quest, where he must meet and overcome challenges, in order to experience inner transformation, and return home a changed person.

If you’re reading this, you may be experiencing your own Call. But you don’t necessarily have to physically leave your life and travel somewhere to complete your quest. Women in particular may be more bound by family ties or other obligations, and can’t always just up and leave. The quest can be more of an inward one; more integrated in our daily lives. That’s why I’m offering this journey - The Call.

You can refuse the Call – but not forever. If you’re hearing the Call, I strongly encourage you to pay attention, because there is great treasure and joy to be found when you respond.

How often can I contact you?

You can email me any time while during The Call. I’ll aim to respond within 48 hours (and probably sooner than that).

I see you are a trained soul purpose guide. Will doing The Call help me find my purpose?

In the future, I will again be offering a journey that’s focused specifically on purpose. But The Call is broader than that - it’s about waking up to your soul’s truth in every aspect of your life (which is actually the foundation for true purpose). If you want to live a purposeful life, it’s absolutely essential to be in touch with your soul. Once you’re on track with living from your soul, you may well find that you are doing things and living in a way that feels purposeful, because you’ll be more in touch with your absolute truth, and you’ll also be learning the tools you need to recognize and deal with the resistance of your ego to moving out of your comfort zone. So finding your purpose is entirely possible - but it’s not the main focus of this particular journey.

What about payment plans?

I love being able to use payment plans, and I’m very happy to offer them for The Call (and some of my shamanic work.) Get in touch to find out more.