Here is a write up from a client that speaks so powerfully to a woman determined to follow her heart, uncover what was blocking her, and now moving confidently in the direction of her dreams…all with a little help from the power of an oracle reading and guidance session…
I felt lost and didn’t want to stay on the path of not being true to myself.
I realized I was caught in a downward spiral of comparing myself to everyone else and feeling as though I was falling short. It seemed to me that my fellow travel blogging friends were way beyond where I thought I should be. While I love to travel and share my experiences, I knew I was not being myself, only a version of others.
I wanted to explore the “feelings” side of travel as a guide for other women. I wanted to tell my story, how travel made me feel and the healing that can take place when you let go of fear. I just needed a little guidance as to how to go about that.
I’d been wanting to have a reading done since I learned Barbara became an oracle guide. I myself have a couple of decks of oracle cards and they have helped me ponder life’s little questions, but this was a job for the professionals.
Listening to our intuition isn’t always easy. The hustle and bustle and the outside “noise” that follows us in our everyday lives, can contribute to not allowing answers to come through and so sometimes we just need a little guidance.
After confessing my nervousness, but not being able to explain why I felt this way, Barbara assured me that I had nothing to fear. She said the session would be like a conversation.
After a brief introduction to how the reading would unfold and answering a few questions, Barbara guided me through a short meditation. We then began to explore the question I wanted guidance with which was about what direction I wanted to take with my writing and creative life.
Barbara then drew three cards explaining the meaning of each, as well as, how she saw it relating in regards to my question. We then dove deep into examining my thoughts, ideas, and true feelings pertaining to each card.
Looking at the cards separately, they were like mini aha moments! After Barbara helped me explore each card and the message it was suggesting for my particular situation, Barbara then walked me through how the cards read all together showed me my story in motion.
It was like each card was a puzzle piece and putting them all together made them a complete picture of me at this time in my life! Adding her signature touch, she pulled a card from the Spirit Animal Oracle deck to see what animal would be my guide as I move forward with plans to follow my dreams.
I can say this was mind-blowing! The answers were right there in my heart all along. I was just too afraid to realize them.
Fear of not being good enough, fear of failure, fear of not being accepted— the list of fears were enormous. With all those fears, came a list of reasons why I needed to follow my dream and what my heart had been trying to convey to me.
All I needed, in the end, was validation. Validation that what was in my heart was the right direction to take.
I learned it’s not a question of what I should do, but what I HAVE to do.
While my reading helped me to look at some painful memories of insecurity and periods of my life that I try to keep buried, I realize now that without those dark and painful experiences, I wouldn’t be who I am today.
Before the reading, I felt like a fish flailing about with uncertainty, but now I feel lighter than I have in a long time and have more clarity and focus.
Today as I write this, I just finished re-writing, and am beginning, the editing and illustrating process on my first children’s book, plus I have begun writing my memoir about how travel changed my life.
~Lori Katte Helke, blogger at Lori Loves Paris (excerpt taken from Lori’s blog post and edited with her permission)