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TestimonialsAdult - 1 -1 Journey sessions Young woman 2009 ...... I did want to tell you about K - you were one of the first ppl I thought of when we first got togehter, but life happens and i never got round to emailing you sorry. Thank you so much for all you have done for me to help get me in a space where i could even contemplate a relationship, let alone be in one that is successful. Woudl love you to meet K one day - he is funny, and arty, and tough, and plays the guitar and has me laughing all the time while doing what he can to make me happy. I could rave all day :)
Young woman 2008 I have been meaning to email you and say thankyou for the session!
Woman 2008
Well things have certainly changed. I am so happy. I now have a baby girl, her name is Zara and she was born at home on the 7th Jan. Everything with the pregnancy and birth went really well. Zara is doing very well, a really determined spirit who was so meant to be. She is gorgeous and Jeff is totally in love with her!!
It is amazing how life can change so much.
Wanted to say thank you, I often think of you and all the talking we did. You were really wonderful and helped me so much through a really difficult time.
The counselling and the journey work was fantastic. I may be in touch in the future to do/ learn more about the journey as it was really inspiring.
Young Woman 2007
Woman 2006
After ‘my journey’ I went home as you suggested and had a quiet evening, reading and spending time with myself. I adore music and usually when I am on my own I fill up the CD player, turn up the volume and let the music fill me up. However, that Friday night I just felt like having silence I enjoyed listening to the pages rustle as I was reading and even noticed the sound of my own breathing It was a calm and peaceful evening. When my husband came home from the rugby and was keen to hear how I had got on, I asked him if he would wait until the morning. I had a lovely sleep didn’t remember any of my dreams. When I did wake I felt enormously energetic and suggested that we get up and go for walk we walked up the western hills in with hardly any traffic, it took about 1hour 40 minutes lots of it uphill. It was very exhilarating and I felt really energized when we got home. The weekend was lovely we had nothing big going on, I just pottered around in the house and in the garden. When I did relate my experience to my husband It felt really easy, without any expectation, justification or indeed any feeling like it was big deal. Mostly since then I have felt really peaceful, not like an enormous overwhelming change, but more like a gradual awareness of being calm. Some of my feelings ( in regard to my earlier family ) that I have been carrying around seem to just have the sharp edges smoothed away. I am still having thoughts of how things were for me back then, they just seem to pop in my head, however I don’t seem to be able to make these thoughts solid or rigid in my head. They just seem to float in and then float out with me having to hold onto them. I have had a couple of incidents at work where I have had to speak with two different people, both churlish demanding and abrasive in manner. It has been interesting to note that I seem unable to “play the game’ and I have remained in charge calm and professional and able to let the situation dissolve in my head very easily afterward. To be faced with this sort of attitude is not a usual occurrence at my work in fact I can barely remember any other such incident in the 6 years that I have been there. However these type of people pop up in my personal/social life from time to time. Whilst when confronted with such a situation of anger and aggression, I appear outwardly to be rational poised and unemotional. Inside I am in utter turmoil uptight tense and tend to relive the situation over and over in my head and relate it many times to others to keep it alive. I am usually a very positive, energetic, outwardly calm person. This is still the case, only now I mostly feel inwardly calm as well. These things that have happened since the “Journey” just feel ‘right’ and I feel ‘great’ not in the sense of an epiphany or a thunderbolt but more in the sense of a gradual flowing calm. Sadness/Depression October 2005 Dear Christine Three months ago I was struggling to cope with life, I felt lost, hopeless,. amd had uncontrollable sadness wash over me at strange times. Sometimes when the sadness came I was own my own and sometimes I was surrounded by people. I knew when it came that I had to go home and go to bed because I wouldn't be able to stop it. At my worst time the sadness would come five or six times a week. I was really depressed and it made me sad because I didn't really know the reason why or even if there was a reason of why I was feeling like this. When my friends and family confronted me and said that they were concerned about me and my wellbeing I decided that it was time to do something about it. My mother recommended the Journey process as she had done it before and thought it might be of benefit to me. My first Journey process went for around two hours. It brought up issues that I didn't even know bothered me. Scenes from my childhood when I was little as two were still affecting my life in the present day. High School, family life, friendships and relationships all had efects on the way that I was feeling. The campfire scene where I got to confront the people who were pushing me down was great, I felt like I could forgive people and understand why they treated me like they did. After my first Journey porcess I went away feeling eighty percent better. I had a better understanding of myself and the people that I share my life with. Over the next couple of weeks I could feel the normal, happy, bubbly,confident me shining through. The sadness only came twice in one and a half months. The second Journey process was shorter but again, I dealt with issues within my life that were affecting me emotionally. After the second Journey process I can offically say that theysadness has gone and I'm back to my normal self. It feels fantastic to be on top of the world again. I am going to continue doing the Journey every couple of months as I regard it as an amazing self-healing process. To learn to love oneself again when I was at the very bottom is an amazing accomplishment and I only have the Journey and one amazing caring person to thank for that. Thanks Christine I'll see you soon. Megan aged 22yrs, Wellington. Self esteem and Confidence July 2004 Dear Christine I don't think I will ever be able to thank you enough for what you have done for me through the Journey. One Journey achieved for me more than many sessions of counselling I have attended. Now four Journeys down the track I feel like a new person. I have so much more self esteem and confidence and I no longer rely on other peoples opinions for my own happiness. I feel independant and POSITIVE!! I have been living at home for the past few months with none of the stress,tension and arguments/fights I used to have with my Mum(and sisters). I feel like I have shed years of baggage and walking out from some of my journeys I have felt as though I could just FLY. I would never have come all this way without the Journey, but also without you Christine. You have been so supportive and have always made me feel comforable and safe. I cant wait to see you again for another Journey. Love Sarah aged 23years, Wellington Sexual Abuse September 2005 Dear Christine I wanted to briefly say thankyou so so much for my Journey last week. I am still feeling the effects of it. I feel so golden - full of pure goldenness. ... I bought a wee gold earing and did a integration with it. I am feeling so wonderful to have a permanent reminder in my ear. I have been checking in with the mentor and more importantly the 2yr old me which gives me a clear indication of where I am at. She enjoys dancing around a lot. And I mean a lot. It is so great and all this happiness and energy just seems to bubble inside me. Also I don't have that nasty little voice inside of me all then time telling me that I am fat and ugly and no good and a bad person. Its amazing. I am so incredulous at how good I am feeling. I can appreciate myself. And my Goldenness. So thankyou so so much - I really don't know where I would be without you. I feel like a whole person. :) I really feel as though I have fully dealt with the abuse - I can talk about it without curling up inside, and certain things that my friend mentions that before would have made me feel gross just don't bother me any more. If more stuff comes so be it, but at the moment I am just going totenjoy my pure goldenness. Once again thank you so much. Love 24yr old woman, Wellington Lack of Motivation June 2005 Hi Christine Thought you may wish to know where I am at the moment, it is very obvious to me that my journey only started with you and now is in full flight. I have been able to open up further than I ever had (with a total stranger as well) last week blew me away, that I could reach that far into myself and see some of my issues was an emotional roller coaster. I have just finished with the Naturopath and that has also helped, I feel I am going through a huge learning curve. The dope is holding me back so that is the first task, I have been hiding behind that for far too long, I even got up and did some exercise this morning, first time since my wife passed away three years ago. All is good at the moment, I will be seeing you again in the near futrue as I feel I can do it now. One very happy person Male aged 40's, Wellington Two day workshop for adults - Bangalore, India, July 2004 Dear Christine I enjoyed being your fellow traveller in the Journey process. I learned a lot and one beautiful insight from that workshop was that language is not a barrier in this work - that working at a being level was what was important. I experienced this in that workshop, because neither my partner nor me were able to understand each other’s mother tongue, but we were able to successfully finish the process. I thank you, Lali and the team for providing me that experience. Ram Dear Christine, I am Khurshid - you helped me with the Journey process. I worked on my son, whom I lost before I was given the opportunity to know him. Remember me? Thanks for you patience and understanding on that day. I did come to the workshop with the intention of working on a problem I was facing then, but when the process started it went on to an absolute different direction altogether. What surprised me most was I did not till then realise that I was holding on to so much pain and grief for the baby I lost 27years ago. Believe me, after the process I feel so much lighter and at peace with myself. We would love to have you amongst us again on your next visit here. With love Khurshid Teenagers Counselling/Journey 1-1 work Life Purpose Dear Christine Thankyou for helping me with all my problems this year. It really helped me having someone to talk to that I trusted. Thanks 4 everything Leticia aged 14yrs 2003 Panic Attacks/Depression Kia Ora Christine Thank-you again for all your help - you are such a lovely person Christine. I don’t believe I would have got through the begining of this year without your support. Love you heaps! Jess 18yrs, Wgtn Sep 2004 Grief/Anger/Fear Hello Christine, Just wanted to say thanks so much for working with Tim. ... Since his brother died over two and a half years ago (of suicide) he has been unable to sleep in his room, especially when his dad is away at work. Yes, now he has been sleeping in his own room for over a week and while his daad was away. His Journey with you has enabled him to release his fear he had about his rom and whatever else. He goes off happily to his bed now - thankyou! He eagerly tells people about his Journey and said that he feels much later now and feels as if he can cope with things he wouldn't have been able to before. With many thanks Suzy - mother of 14yr old November 2005 Back to Old Self Dear Christine Many thanks for the assistance you gave to Emma and myself , even though it was brief. In recent months Emma has been a changed gitl - back to her old self. She is communicative, responsible, and doing all the right things "long may it lst". This year she is confident with her school work, positive and so far One never knows what tips the balance so thanks for your input. Regards S G (Mother of 16yr old) March 2006 Teensdownunder Dear Christine, My daughter attended your Teenage Journey in June this year. When you phoned to see how she was ,following the Journey, she had not wished to discuss her experience with me in any great detail, and I respected the fact that she wanted to keep it to herself. Since that time however she has shared at different times, bits and pieces about her journey with me. Since her visit to you in June, she has made steady progress, with positive changes to her physical and emotional wellbeing showing apparent. She has reduced her weight by two sizes, her self esteem has reached a new height, and her persona has become a lot more calm. She still has her 'moments' as all thirteen year old girls do, but it is most evident that the journey has proven to have cleared some of her emotional bagage, and in doing so, has helped her become a happier, healthier teenager. Unfortunately I was unable to meet you at this time as I was attending a NLP training. My son came to meet her at the end of her day, and he expressed to me the warm and positive atmosphere created by you and your partner. I have just been informed that you are going to be a guest speaker at our NLP meeting in September and I so look forward to meeting you there. Many thanks to you and the 'the journey' from both my daughter and myself. I will not hesitate to recommend you to parents and children who would benefit from your services in the future. Love, Light and Laughter - Lynda - mother of 13 yr old Teensdownunder grad. Children 1-1 Journeywork Christine Thank you very much for all of your support and guidance. Our son really enjoyed spending time with you taking his first Journey downunder. He had a really good day at school yesterday and we have been advised that he is still welcome to participate at the extra curricular activity club - so that is good news! Thanks again for being so helpful and flexible - we really appreciate it. See you when you return - ENJOY your holiday. Parents of a 9 year boy, Wellington August 2004 Junior Journey Dear Christine Thank you so much for being such an amazing support for us both in Auckland. Your love for this beautiful work and for the children is so evident - you radiate this love. With Love and gratitude from Sharon and Faizel Facilitators of the Junior Journey, Auckland October 2003 Dear Christine I found the Junior Journey very useful. It really changed me and I feel that I am a better person now. I get along much better with my brother now because I can talk to him like he is an equal person. It also helped me see how wrong I was in the way I treated him and I actually really love him. The JJ gave me some inner happiness and it really helped me to see who I really am which is more loving towards other people and I can see the truth and don’t have to change it to suit myself because I am the same as IT! I thought that the world was against me so I didn’t want to do anything but I feel that that has already changed and I am more open and joyous towards other people and myself. Now I want to go to NZ and help other kids and people so that they can see the truth. Hope to see you soon Love Bella aged 12 Melbourne after the Junior Journey there 2003. Kidsdownunder Feedback from children on the day I learned that feelings are more important than you think. I would tell my friends that if they are feeling sad you should do the kidsdownunder course. It will help you with your feelings I would tell my friends that they have to do it. I learned to be calmer and relax about things. Its a fun activity day and its like a holiday programme Feedback from parents on the day This was obviously a positive and comprehensive experience for my son. There is a calm yet motivated presence about him. I am so glad it worked better than I hoped for my daughter. Thankyou A very powerful way of connecting with memories that hold you back from being who you are - I recommend it highly. |
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