My first blog - Baby Steps

Hello everyone, what a joy to be here. I'm so grateful to Nick & Niki for this gift they are sharing with others. I also say thank you regularly for the technology that allows me to now work from the comfort of my own home. The human mind is amazing!

I am here because I am building an information-based business around my work as a 'Light Coach' which offers conscious living skills, energy management & personal/spiritual empowerment for Lightworkers & sensitive/creative adults on their path of awakening. Everything is energy so I teach people how to apply awareness of energy & specific tools to create every day success at the core level which is graceful, holistic & sustainable.

Anyway, my story so far...

I was a highly sensitive, intuitive & creative child who experienced my young world INTENSELY! I didn't know it at the time but I am an 'energy intuitive' or what is known as a 'sensitive'. I spent a lot of time on my own reading, writing, painting, drawing & daydreaming & found my childhood home traumatic for various reasons. I have a painful biography like many people do but I don't regret one moment of it. My mother was a beautiful, spiritual yet disempowered & broken women with many unused gifts who died tragically. My father was violent. At the age of 9 I became a parent to my Mother & Brother whilst attempting to get through school & keep it together. I had to become capable, resourceful & mature very quickly.

For 11 years I was my Mother's carer as she walked her path with cancer which ended 11 years ago when I was 25. All I'd known was my role as carer, keeping my little brother out of trouble & trying to keep my Mum alive, so her death was cataclysmic for me & the family. After years of personal process I understand I had taken on far too much & there was some kind of messed up sense of responsibility for everyone that made me carry more than was healthy. Intense grief led to spiritual emergency (sudden awakening), breakdown & ultimately physical illness. At the age of 27 I was on the verge of getting my then orange disability badge, I had learned to push myself hard & put myself at the end of the list & my body had just had enough.

Then I received a Reiki Healing session. I was bed-ridden with Fibromyalgia at the time ( a result of the trauma & stress). After 8 months with no sleep I received this first Reiki Healing & slept like a baby for 18 hours! When I woke it felt like such a breakthrough, something stuck had shifted. Where there was no light before there were suddenly glimpses of something brighter. I can't tell you how dramatically different I felt. So, I continued with sessions eventually getting stronger & training in Reiki myself. I am now a Reiki Master with 10 years experience on that path & any remaining symptoms of Fibromyalgia have become dear friends guiding me, occasionaly poking & prodding me to make sure I don't get out of balance again or forget about myself. It does mean I have had to design my life around what is physically possible for me.

After discovering Reiki & getting stronger I synchronistically found my first spiritual teacher who trained me to develop my energy sensitivity into a power. In an 8 month period I went from near disability to helping out as part of the creative visioning team for international conferences on energy, consciousness & human potential. I clearly wasn't anywhere near ready to really step into that however as I was soon homeless & in an abusive relationship! Another cycle of growth!

I then found myself with another spiritual teacher taking me on another journey of personal mastery, this time of going deep into my own demons & clearing them using Rebirthing along with yoga, meditation, diet etc. This was very grounding & I learned an immense amount about how to master emotional energy, spiritual growth & to understand the path of the soul. All via direct embodied personal experience. The most important lesson I learned at this time was self-care & keeping things simple & grounded.

I feel so blessed to have had all of these experiences (plus dozens of jobs!) as it has allowed me to powerfully help others on their path. After years of travelling around learning from different teachers, then getting grounded & focussing on healing myself I moved back to my home town of Devon in the UK where I was born. I knew I was going home to plant roots & start my work. I had been moving around for 10 years & needed to sit still for a while! I have always been driven by a sense of mission & purpose but was only gradually making sense of what that might be.

Before moving back to Devon I was still quite raw & highly sensitive so had no intention of working anywhere that didn't feel right to me. What I decided to do was apply my own tools & write to 2 places about a job & that was it. They happened to be 2 businesses in Totnes I'd always admired. One was a spiritual bookshop & therapy centre with great energy & the other was a school of colour therapy & holistic design. I ended up working at both of them!

Gradually I transitioned into working above the bookshop at the therapy centre offering coaching & healing but I wasn't attracting the kind of people I knew I could help & I wasn't really enjoying it. It did allow me to establish my profile however & I became a regular feature writer for a local mind/body/spirit magazine & my practice was successful in terms of client numbers, I built a network of colleagues & contacts & got some good experience working directly with clients. However I was getting more & more exhausted as time went on.
My work was slowly evolving & developing, I changed the name of my business after just 3 years & then left the clinic where I was working. Everyone thought I was bonkers but it just felt right because that is how I live, by my inner guidance.

So I found myself at home in my new home-office working with a few clients that were happy to keep working with me by telephone. I had a couple of art commissions (I'm an intuitive energy artist too) but it really wasn't enough to pay the bills so I knew something must be waiting around the corner. I sat at my computer & was somehow guided to look up Nick Williams. I had heard his name years ago when working at the conferences but hadn't read his book (sorry Nick!). So in popped Nick's name & I found my way to the free e-course, not 'The Work You Were Born To Do' but 'The 7 Pillars of a Successful Information Business'. I didn't even know what an information business was & here I was signing up for a course!!

It was incredible what happened next! Something went off inside me, it was like my creativity was given global room to breathe! It felt amazing & I have been buzzing with energy, ideas & excitement ever since. It's been a few weeks now & I am in the process of redesigning my website. I've just set up a shop selling sparkly Lightworker T-Shirts which have already had great feedback & interest. I signed up for the affiliate scheme & am now a Premium Member of the Inspired Entrepreneur's Club!! Who'd have thought! My sensitivity & past health issues meant I had almost resigned myself to a smaller version of my dream because I couldn't see how it was possible if I couldn't put myself 'out there 'in ways that would be totally overwhelming & overstimulating for me.

In my telephone coaching I have already been able to inspire other potential Sensitive Entrepreneurs & Lightworker Entrepreneurs simply by sharing what I've learned & found on the internet. I now know there is a big space in the world for conscious, energetically aware entrepreneurs who can help transform existing business models that no longer work but particularly help develop a whole new way of working & creating & sourcing our visions, empowering those people who are here to help create a new world to do what they came here to do.

Baby steps though. Baby steps......

I'm here now seeking resources & 'how to' information to realise my ideas.

I can really relate to the other members here who speak of the isolation you feel when working for yourself & by yourself. With all the personal healing & exploration I've experienced I have to admit I am unsettled by just how much this conscious journey towards success is bringing up for me. Issues I thought I'd dealt with are coming up for a spring clean. This is a huge journey for me coming from a council estate, an abusive childhood & having low self-esteem. To get this far has been challenging & this is another step forward, along with it comes another level of confronting emotional issues that need working through if I'm going to do this.

So I'm also here to meet others & to find that all-important encouragement & support. If along the way I can offer encouragement & support in return that would be doubly satisfying.

So I'll keep you posted on how I get on with my new website & all the related systems that need setting up. My resources are very limited right now so I'm building this up with almost nothing financially but with a wealth of vision & passion. Your positive thoughts & blessings are very welcome.

Bye for now.

Kimberley x