Coming out of my shell has been a lengthy process of 2 steps forward one step back. I, like most of us, was brought up to believe that if you had a good job, you had made it. You were a success. So after school, I knew that I wanted to be in communications but wasn’t sure where to start. At 17 years old, I looked at my strengths and following the strong results in languages, set off to France to learn more French, not really knowing where it was going to take me.

Fast forward 9 years working in the European HQ of the world’s biggest communications agency in Paris and London – I had made it! Isn’t that what every 25 year old believes? Head strong and heart broken, I returned to Ireland after my father’s passing. I continued along the communications line but something was wrong. I no longer felt I had made it. Little did I realise at the time, that my heart was cracking open, not breaking.

Although at 30 I decided I wanted to be self employed working on projects that served a higher good, something was still amiss. It was incredibly difficult to keep my head above water, whilst raising a child. Needing to stay afloat, I returned to employment in sales. Oh it felt great to have a salary again! There I was back on the road to success, selling communications.

What I was unaware of, was that the process of opening my heart was unstoppable. Cold calling with an open heart? Enough to send you stir crazy. Two steps forward one step back for a few more years, in and out of being employed and self employed, trying to find solid ground, whilst all the time, opening my heart more, getting comfortable with who I really am and my connection with Life.

I realised that those internal breakdowns, were in fact breakthroughs – readjusting my centre of communication from my head to my heart and awakening my connections above to the Divine presence of all that is, and below to the Earth that sustains and grounds us. I am really feeling that sweet taste of success. It comes with the internal knowing that I have been hired by God – or for want of another term, my Divine purpose, the Spirit that flows through all Life.