Within you is treasure. Rich and vast. Colours more beautiful than anything you could imagine.

How do I know?

Ten years ago I was hit by an illness no one knew how to treat. Unable to be indoors, work, look after my children. I had to find ways to live.

On a recommendation from the doctor, I started training in meditation for one hour a day to rewire the brain. He'd heard people were doing better after the training. I trained every day for an hour, breaking it into fifteen-minute increments with the timer so my brain could stay focused.

The training did change things. I realised there is so much more to us than we are aware of in our busy lives. I wanted to know more. Who knew more?

If I couldn't go anywhere, I'd go everywhere.

Over the next five years I studied complete systems of transformation: Daoist and Buddhist seminary training. Master to disciple, lineage-based trainings.

In addition to the life-changing guidance of the Abbots, I was blessed to be taken under the wing of a Medical Qi Gong Master from China, Master Chunjie Liu.

Master Liu told me it was possible to get better. He was fierce and kind. Beautiful inside and out. One of the first humans I ever felt safe around.

Every week I would turn up. He would ask me what had happened during the training that week. I'd tell him my experience and he'd teach me the next step.

Layer by layer, he reinforced the process of transformation, guiding me back to the shore.

One day we had an argument because he told me my illness was not real. I got so cross at him. Being in and out of hospital was pretty real. He laughed and said, "Not not real." He just meant I could shift it.

And he was right.

The training gave me my life back physically. But it's deeper than that.

The training taught me to be here now.

That life will invite us into all manner of seasons. And that with the appropriate guidance, support, community, frameworks and connection to our core, we can navigate anything.

I've learned it over and over again.

This is why I do this work.

Not because I have the answers. Because I know transformation is always possible. Because I know how to guide you through the big seas. Because the treasure is already within you, rich, vast, colours more beautiful than anything you could imagine.

You just need the space, the guidance, and the permission to go in and find it.