Stories are powerful.

Yet stories, like power can help or hinder growth and healing. How we work with story or even more importantly, how it works within us, is the key. The type of stories we tell ourselves and live out, can either open inner doors leading to authenticity and freedom, or keep us small and even stuck within a recurring loop.

CLIENT STORY: LADY WITH THE GOLDEN HAIR

A number of years ago I worked with a woman who began writing her life as a myth.  In her story she described the central character, a lady with long flowing, golden hair that fell in waves down her back.  As my client read this aloud she looked shocked.  Hearing herself tell this story she realised the person she was describing, the lead character of her story, wasn't her, it was in fact her mother! 

Imagine the shock and then the wonder to realise that in the story of your life you had not given yourself the central role! This insight became a turning point allowing her to write a new myth. One granting her the power and agency to step into the centre of her own life.

In my work as a Transpersonal therapist and mentor to other therapists, story also plays a lead role. As I begin this new chapter with the Transpersonal Soul Space, I'd like to celebrate and focus on the power of story.

On the ABOUT page of the new TTSS website, I talk about the power of story and share my own story in a short video. How I moved from a stressful and depleting role in TV production to receiving - literally - my wake up call and finding my true calling as a Transpersonal therapist. 

My wish to create a soul space for others was of course linked to creating this for myself. The Transpersonal Soul Space you know today, in part, actually began 17 years ago from those seeds. Emerging as small shoots that over time have grown into a deeply rooted Soul Space.  In fact my very first clinic was called Soul Space, Holistic Counselling and Wellbeing Centre.  

Here’s a some early photos of me back in 2012 in front of Soul Space on Brontë Rd, Sydney!

I share my story with the intention of inspiring you. I could not have known back then where my path would lead or how it would unfold. Paying close attention to those small shoots, tending the soil, watering authenticity alongside my emerging story has been the key. 

My wish is for you to uncover any limiting stories you may unintentionally be watering and to allow your own unique qualities to shine through. A garden is made up of many plants and flowers and each of these offers its own beauty and medicine.

The Transpersonal Soul Space community is that garden and one I hope continues, more than ever, to celebrate all of us and to nurture you.  After all;

“It is in the shelter of each other that people live.” (Irish Proverb)

AUTHOR: Kellie Miles