So here we are , the year 2021. And if I’m totally honest I don’t know where the time has gone ! Yet when I look back on my life so far, and see how far I’ve come, the journeys I’ve taken, the people I’ve met. All roads lead here. I was always meant to be a lightworker and energy healer, that’s for sure. But I may have taken a few detours and crazy turns along the way to get here. But I got here nonetheless. And there has never been a more perfect time to make this my life’s work than now, on the edge of this global pandemic. The world needs some loving healing energy more than ever!
So my journey all began when I was a young girl. There are two things about me that you should know. Firstly my love for music runs so deep through my veins I can feel every beat as if it’s coming out of my own heart.
Secondly, I have always been a bit of a spook and sensed or felt energies around me. I was always the girl that knew when the phone would ring before it did. Thought about a certain person I hadn’t seen for a while to bump into them that very same day. I always have massive senses of deja vu and pick up on everyone else’s emotions even if they hid it well.
The signs were always there that I would one day work with energy, and how I got there was a pretty interesting story. I’d say I really began to study and start to understand crystals / auras / oracle cards when I was in high school. I never really had a huge group of friends, I had my select few and that satisfied me.I was never one for large groups and all the egos that came with it! My friends, mostly an older crew that were from the music or drama department. We would sit for so many hours creating music talking about life and how we liked it in our little musical bubble! I always seemed to be the one people came to get advice from, and it wasn’t until someone gifted me a french pack of tarot cards that I really began to tap into these to help my friends get all their unanswered questions about their lives answered. This began to fascinate me, how accurate it was and how I picked up on things that I never knew anything of prior to shuffling that deck. It soon became my party trick, and every student party I went to, the cards came with me. Soon I was reading for all the cool kids and the hippies and muso’s from the 6th form ( which to me then were total gods). I was in my element.
My love for crystals soon followed. I had always worn crystal jewellery like amethyst or clear quartz, but it wasn’t until I went caving in the North Yorkshire dales and saw masses and masses of them under ground that I really fell in love. I had this total feeling of being home, it was the most amazing feeling, I still to this day I can’t explain it. But it was as if someone had switched on a light in me and said, here you go Jo, this is for you. I could have stayed there all day, In fact I think the instructor literally had to drag me out of the cave !
When I returned home, I remember going to the local book store and buying anything and everything I could get my hands on about crystals and healing and chakras. In a very small town that wasn’t many so I persuaded my mum to drive me to York and dragged her to as many book shops as we could find. And on our journey we also found the most magnificent store that sold the most brilliant things. I was full of crystals , hippy clothes, lava lamps ,retro gear. It was as if someone had taken all the wishes out of my mind and put them all in one place. The 15 year old me was incredibly happy, I’m sorry to say my mums wallet wasn’t !
On returning to school after that trip, I soon became that chick that gave everyone she met a crystal for all their personal needs, or just simply because I liked them and wanted them to have a little bit of love. This was it, I had gone through that struggle of finding where you fit in a school full of people, I had found it, this was me…… I had found my true self and I was pretty bloody happy about it. I spent all of 6th form in performing arts and music courses and studying dance also. I performed performed performed. I sang and danced my socks off. It was all I had ever wanted to do. The theatre was my happy place, it still is to this day. I had found my home and found the way in which my life was to go……
Fast forward a few years and I have found myself living in Tenerife. And these were to be the best days of my young life. At 18 moving to a new foreign place, living my dream of being a performer. It was the most incredible experience. I was opened up to a world full of people that were the most colourful and talented people I have ever met in my life. My brain was opened to new ways , new theories, new people with amazing views of the world. My mind was blown!!!! It seemed as if the universe had said hey Jo, it’s time for you to learn so many new things and we are sending you the people you need to show you the way. I grew so much as a person in this time. As a performer, as a healer, heck as a person. I got involved in meditation classes on the beautiful beaches, I sat with hippies on the beach and made crystal macrame jewellery. I made my life long friends that I’m still inseparable from today. It truly was the most incredible way to spend your 20’s. I had attracted my tribe . I was having a total ball……. Until I got my heart broken!!!!!
Oh my, the first big heart break is always the worst isn’t it? And boy did I feel it bad. I had never felt so lost and out of myself as I did then. I had no idea how to heal my broken heart and get over the sadness of losing somebody that I loved so much. So what did I do? I ran away back home to my hometown for a change of scenery and found myself in a holistic shop about to get my very first session of Reiki. And here it was again, another big whooooosh moment. This hour changed the course of my life again. Not only did it introduce me to life force energy, It brought me to a wonderful lady called Di Wilson, who would take me on to work in her crystal/ holistic shop, and train me as a practitioner of Reiki, quantum touch, Indian head massage , meditation and seichem. I ended up staying here for 2 years. And I learnt so much. Again the right people came into my life just when I needed it most. Another nudge in the right direction. I guess the heartbreak was worth it after all!.
I then went back to Spain, back to my spiritual home. I of course went back into the performing world , but this time I set up a side business as a healer, and continued to read cards and give crystals to all my amazing friends. I had all the musicians come to me for hopi ear candle treatments too. I was back where I was meant to be. The next 10 years flew by. Like a blink of an eye. I continued to practice my healing, and joined a spiritual circle to help connect me more with spirit. Again another amazing experience to have under my belt. I had never felt so good, life was brilliant , the sun shone, I laughed so much my sides hurt. And then bang , as if I’d been hit by lightning, my future husband walked into my life. It really was like lightning, I wasn’t looking for it, it just happened. And it was instant, I knew right there and then that this was the man I was going to marry. Thank you universe!!!
We fell hopelessly in love, and soon became parents for the first time. And then for the second. And as all you parents know, life gets busy real quick ! When my eldest Luena was 2 we decided it was time for us as a family to return again to the uk. And we spent the first few years trying to fit back into this new way of life and find work wherever we could. I of course went back into performing and the healing took a back seat. Gigs took off really well for me, so between being on the road all the time and being a mum, I didn’t have much time for anything else. We found ourselves pretty burnt out very quickly, it was tough trying to re-create a life after 16 years of living abroad . It was quite a shell shock if I’m honest. We decided that we desperately needed a change , so we packed up from living in Shropshire and moved back to my husband’s home town of Lichfield in Staffordshire. And I’m so happy we did, we have My husband’s family all around us and live in a wonderful community. And just as we got settled, boom, a global pandemic hit! Now I’m not saying that I would ever want this to happen, but again it came at a time when I most needed a rest. I had burnt myself out working flat out and trying to look after my girls. And in that time I had also lost my darling mum and dad so had gone through quite a trauma. So it was the chance to just stay home, stay safe. Be with the ones I loved and rest!!!
So you have a lot of time to think while you’re at home. And I got back into a wonderful routine of meditating everyday. I began to give classes via zoom. I got back into giving oracle card readings , again over zoom and FaceTime . It was wonderful to connect with people in this way. And it was through one card reading that I connected with a lady that brought me to a shop in Lichfield. This shop is now going to be my full time business. Offering all the products that make me smile and feel good. Offering treatments and healing. And what a time to start! Again it all came to me at the right time and just when I needed it. The universe has a lot to answer for ( in the best possible way ) And even though at times I thought this would never happen , or life took me off in a different direction for a while, I always come back to the same. And although it has taken me 40 years to get here. I’m here now, and I am so excited for this new chapter to begin.
I can’t wait to connect with you all.
Love and light
Namaste
Jo