Breaking Out Gently

My long time dream has been to free myself from the fear of speaking my truth and spreading my love. I heard my inner voice tell me hundreds of times over the past eleven years of working one-on-one with clients that I was meant to show this work, in particular the emotional healing and laser coaching and the transformation in my clients that resulted. This book, the coaching guide book Living Your Purpose and the accompanying videos on my website www.BeingLove.Community are the first step in showing this work. The idea, desire and vision of showing the work came from the filmmaker inside of me. Since I was a child, the movies have been a love of mine. My father took my sister and me to see many of the black and white comedies at the local cinema in Heidelberg, Germany where I grew up: Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, Children Of Paradise. Capturing what I saw through imagery, and putting my thoughts to it started early on. When I was about nine or ten years old I was given my first camera. It wasn’t the best quality, but I didn't mind. Capturing images, and putting my thoughts to them in the form of writing became my refuge when tension arose at home. Pasting a photo that spoke to me, usually a black and white one I had cut out of the local progressive newspaper my parents subscribed to, into my diary, then letting my thoughts and feelings flow onto the page next to it had become my own form of therapy. As long as I had im-ages that spoke to how I felt and I had a way of letting my feelings pour onto the page, I could stay whole, despite the tension at home. My love for photography and film continued into my teens. Straight out of high school, I landed a job in Berlin working for an art photographer, assisting his photo shoots and doing all of his black and white photo developments by hand. I spent a whole summer in the dark room. Eventually, after interning and then working for film directors in Berlin, I got into film school in Melbourne, Australia, my mother’s hometown, and studied film directing. How do you stay sane? What is your own form of therapy? Do you go on hikes? Meditate? Do yoga? Collect stamps? Punch a punching bag? Ride horses? Write letters? Ride waves? Run? Dance? Sing? Create Art? Call a friend? Help someone in need? Looking back on your life, what has kept you going? What do you do to make it through? Write about it in your journal.