HAVE YOU EVER FELT BROKEN BY AN EVENT IN YOUR LIFE❓

COULD IT BE THAT THE SHATTERED SHARDS OF SELF HAVE CREATED THE SPACES FOR YOUR INNER WISDOM TO SHINE THROUGH❓

Having been run over at 100km/hr and thrown 25m from the collision, striking my head on the road, semi-conscious and having seizures. I know all too well the long, arduous and often frustrating journey of accommodating and rebuilding after a traumatic brain injury. It will be coming up to 20 years (April 13) since that life-altering afternoon coming home from work. A 28-year-old mother of a 3-year-old daughter, struggling in an abusive marriage, finding my place in a new regional community; coming home from my new job as a Disability Support Worker, my life turned upside down in a split second. Every story I told of my self before this collision got scrambled after my head hit the ground. For the past 20 years, I have spent my life trying to piece together the old stories of my self within the newly forming jumbled patchwork of an injured brain, faint awareness of my life pre- head injury. It took a decade to finally assimilate and drop the pre/post head injury me as I adjusted and accommodated to my new cognitive perception and process of living. During this time completing 3 uni degrees in Psychology, finalizing the post-injury legalities and stepping out of my abusive marriage on my return from a 3-month Buddhist retreat in Spain. In this second-decade post head injury coming to terms with the reality of having lived in abuse, recovering from a brain injury and trying to find meaning on my new Faith journey as a Muslim. Disconnected sense of self, trying to expand my threshold for sensory stimulation, so that I could function in this busy urban environment like 'normal'. Through the haze of those days, I failed to fully connect with my daughter and the trauma she went through in her own reality of a toxic father and a mother who was barely a shell of a person; sinking in the quicksand of an injured brain. Alhamdulillah, today we have come together in greater understanding, mercy, and compassion for each other.

🌈 Now, I can see that the suffering of this life-altering event was not the brain injury but the misidentification with the stories of self as being a reality that I had to recover and recreate.

🎉 The brain injury happened, my memory and brain processing was physically impaired, I had become disabled from what was my previous abilities. This is all true! A physical fact. But the search for meaning and conclusions I made about myself and others - this is where the moments of frustration, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt arose from. Today, having gained my Back to the Fitra Certification in the Inside-Out Paradigm I am able to see that this life-altering event did not break me and that I no longer need to waste my time trying to piece together the shards of self. Living in the shadow of my self-story has been the thing that prevented me from living in my present-centered innate wisdom. Do you want to step out of the shadow of your life story in 2020❓

Join me for ESSENTIAL AWAKENING WOMEN'S MASTERMIND 💡

🗓 We will start Saturday, January 25 th, 7:30 am AEST (Friday evenings/afternoons for my UK, US, CANADA women) and meet Fortnightly in ZOOM ( replays will be available)

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