The path I have walked
As a corporate lawyer, elite athlete, wife and mother of two, I fully embraced my conditioning and went full out to create the version of success that I been taught to believe was the “right way”.
Only to find myself stressed, anxious, depressed and full of self doubt and very STUCK.
Yet I KNEW IN MY BONES, that life had the potential to be so much more and that I had so much more to give and to experience.
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My life’s work and mission came to be to understand what it would really mean to create the life of excitement, magic and deep satisfaction that I knew was possible.
I delved deeply into seeking wisdom on how life really works.
It took me deep into the realms of the spiritual and the quantum field.
As soon as I understood everything is energy and that the physical, “3D” realm which we call “reality” was not happening to us, but being created by us in the energetic realm, it became my mission to master the energetics of my life.
I then embarked a journey of deconstructing the life I had created and re creating it in alignment with my soul…
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I let go of the job in the big London law firm. Then I let go of the legal career altogether. I went searching for my soul calling, deep inside myself which drew me to coaching. I trained with one of the UK’s top transformational coaching schools (Animas), only to find that it felt that there was still something missing from my ability to create transformation in my clients.
I joined a year long deep intensive coaching training with Claire Zammit of Feminine Power in California. This is where I learnt that truly powerful transformation is only possible when you connect and work with the feelings and sensations in the body.
This work not only allowed my to exponentially increase the power of transformation I was creating for my clients, but it also started a process of deep transformation within my own being.
That’s when I started to take back my true INNER POWER from my societal conditioning
I learnt that my struggles in my legal career had been inevitable, as the truth was, my sensory capacities are extremely good….meaning I feel and sense at a very deep level….in other words, I am what empath/highly sensitive person. This means that I feel things DEEPLY (as do all my clients). So being in a “dog eat dog” environment which is competitive and hostile and puts profit before purpose felt REALLY BAD in my body and sent my nervous system into a fear response.
I learnt that it was this fear response that was at the bottom of my struggles with negative thoughts, self doubt and depression and feeling that I was in no way achieving what I was actually capable of.
I understood that this, more than anything, was the reason I felt so stuck in my ability to change my circumstances and to create and succeed in my career and in my life as I knew I was capable of.
This lit a fire under me to discover what it would take for me to free myself of the fear response that would send me into a downward spiral.
I also found that I drew toward me, equally “highly sensitive” clients, who were gifted with high levels of intuition, creativity and inner knowing, but who also suffered with vicious inner critics and self sabotaging behaviours.
I became an expert in mastering the feelings, emotions and sensations in the body, so that I could shift myself and my clients out of their fear mode and into their “flow”.
I discovered, to my delight, that there is one incredible powerful alchemical agent that we ALL have the capacity for which transmutes fear, guilt and shame into power.
And that is LOVE.
I also discovered that we have all been conditioned to suppress our own natural power to create joy, well being and abundance in our lives, by the parts of ourselves that we have learnt to suppress. I learnt how to find and reclaim this power through shadow work and learning to end inner self abandonment which stops us trusting ourselves.
As I started to show up more and more in my truth and my power, my marriage started to fall apart. It had been based in co dependency and “pretending” in order to keep the peace.
When we finally separated, I discovered the extent to which I had outsourced my judgement of my own self worth to everyone else to decide.
I then began putting everything I knew about mastering emotions and reclaiming inner power into practice.
And piece by piece, I took back my own personal power.
The way I feel inside myself and about myself is now night and day since my days as a young mother and corporate lawyer.
Whatever happens I know that every experience is ultimately happening for me, which gives me a trust in myself and life and the Universe that changes everything.
I am able to surrender to the flow of life and therefore to allow it’s power to flow through me.
The more that I allow the divine to flow through me, the more powerful I become to create an experience of life that is beyond what I thought possible in its richness and magic, for me, for those around me and for everyone and everything.
Contact me.
elizabeth@elizabethgilmour.com