From time to time on a spiritual healing journey, some old limiting pattern of behaviour is untangled just enough so that there is the first possibility, the first scary glimmer, of perhaps being able to ‘do something differently’. To not do the same safe habitual thing which keeps you, in some way, smaller than the grand truth of who you really are.

When you have become newly empowered in this way, you can guarantee that you will soon be tested as to what you choose to do with that power. Same old limiting response? – or rise to the challenge of stepping through that door which has finally creaked open a fraction, inviting a new and scary way forward into the unknown nature of freedom. The Universe will always present you with that opportunity.

This is what I encourage my healing clients to do as their paths unfold. I sit and tell them it is no good just transforming an energetic pattern, it is imperative to step into the new possibilities it offers and show your nervous system that it is safe to now try this once impossible thing. To keep the door wedged open if you like. It is the most courageous work.

With my own personal healing that came through writing my book “Heron and Asaph” – the long closed door towards speaking my truth, creaked open another increment and I knew it was necessary to find the courage to step through it. To walk the walk.

For decades I had arranged my life to avoid the paralysing spectre of speaking publicly. Of exposure. No school performances, no speeches, no committees, no work presentations, no workshops. A life carefully crafted from fear of having to speak up for what I knew or believed in. To declare publicly who I really was.

The prospect of a book launch loomed – a terrifying invitation to stand up in front of friends, family and healing clients, those who mattered most to me- and do just that. To walk the walk. So there I was with the first inkling that I might just be able to manage this ‘speaking publicly thing’. The invitation called from a higher knowing. Could I dare to be that vulnerable??

So please feel free to watch me nervously push open that creaky door and step through it and advocate for my most sacred truth. Another step from silence to voice. And the irony of course, is that once you find the courage to do it, you think ‘What was all the fuss about!’ and onwards you go.

And I celebrate your courage too, if you are stepping over your own once impossible threshold and are leaning into that scary edge on your own quest towards wholeness.

Love Janice

Watch the full event to hear more about how meditation, healing, and mystical experiences led to this book’s creation.