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Five Aha Moments That Changed My Healing Journey (and Might Change Yours Too)
We often imagine transformation as one big breakthrough – a single defining moment when everything suddenly makes sense. But I don’t believe it ever works that way. And certainly my experience was very different. My healing journey came through a series of aha moments, each one a small but seismic shift in how I saw my body, my beliefs, and my place in the world.
Each moment peeled back another layer of conditioning and invited me to see myself, and healing, in a completely new way.
These are the five that changed everything for me
1. Understanding How the Body Really Works
My first real turning point came when I discovered functional medicine – and met the practitioner I still credit with saving my life, Dave Hompes.
Until then, I’d grown up like so many of us do: you get sick, you go to the doctor, and you trust that they’ll fix it. Health was something that happened to you, not something you needed to understand.
But my very first conversation with Dave changed that. He explained how the body actually works – not in complex scientific terms, but as an elegant, self-correcting system that’s always trying to find balance.
He summed it up so simply it stopped me in my tracks:
“There are really only two reasons anything goes wrong. Too much of something, or not enough of something.”
That one sentence flipped a switch in me. Suddenly, health wasn’t a mystery; it was a conversation. If I could listen, adjust the inputs, and support the body’s natural intelligence, healing became possible.
That was the moment I stopped outsourcing my wellbeing – and started becoming an active participant in it.
2. Rediscovering Faith and Free Will
Shortly after, my life took a terrifying turn. I was told I had six weeks to live.
Panicked and desperate, I did what many of us do when fear takes over – I ran. I jumped on a plane to Texas to stay with my friend Tamara for a few days. Somewhere between the open savannah and the stillness of a porch swing, I found the quiet I needed to begin listening again.
I’d been given a book I was recommended to read. It was called Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. I was assured it wasn’t religious, which was important to me – I’ve always had faith, but I’ve never aligned with any single religion.
That book changed something fundamental in me. I can’t even point to one specific line – it was more like a steady remembering. One passage struck me deeply, I can’t remember the exact words but I sum it up as:
“Why would I give you free will and then judge you for it?”
It made so much sense. It redefined my relationship with life itself. I realised I wasn’t being tested; I was being invited to choose.
That insight stayed with me long after I got better. When I later launched my first business, I called it Conscious Action from his famous quote:
“A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.”
That’s what healing really is: a conscious choice to participate in your own becoming.
3. Realising That Belief Shapes the Body
Soon after coming home, Dave introduced me to a clairsentient healer named Adrienne in Australia. We met on Skype, and I honestly had no idea what to expect.
During that first session, she began at the top of my head and worked all the way to my toes, describing every scar, illness, and pain I’d ever had. She knew things no one else could have told her. Then she paused and said something that shook me to my core:
“It’s all related to just one issue, manifested on each meridian. It’s simply the belief that you are not enough.”
In that instant, everything I’d been learning clicked. I finally understood that illness wasn’t just physical – it was emotional, energetic, and deeply tied to what I believed about myself.
For the first time, I felt seen. Truly seen. And in that moment, I made a conscious decision: I was going to live.
That understanding – that belief literally shapes biology – became the bridge between my physical healing and my inner transformation.
4. Becoming the Chemist of My Own Biology
The next layer unfolded when I discovered Dr Bruce Lipton and his work, The Biology of Belief.
Bruce’s message resonated through every cell of my being:
“Your mind is the chemist that creates the chemistry of your body.”
It was the science behind what I’d already begun to sense. Our thoughts, emotions, and beliefs aren’t abstract; they’re biochemical. Every feeling sends a chemical message. Every intention shifts our internal state.
Through Bruce’s talks, I understood that we are not victims of our genes – we are authors of our biology. The brain and the heart are constantly communicating, shaping the physical reality of our bodies in real time.
What I love most about Bruce is that he teaches the science with heart. He speaks about neuroplasticity and subconscious reprogramming not from a place of theory, but compassion.
To this day, I never miss an opportunity to see him speak. Even when he repeats the same lessons, they land differently each time – a reminder that mastery comes from practice, not novelty.
That was the moment I fully stepped into ownership of my healing.
5. Experiencing the Power of Collective Healing
The final aha moment came in 2020, when I took part in Dr Joe Dispenza’s Coherence Healing project.
It felt like the culmination of everything I’d learned – a perfect merging of science, spirit, and consciousness.
Each week, eight meditators got together in-person, in the US, and focused their collective intention on reducing my chronic pain, while I meditated simultaneously in the UK. For three months, we tracked the impact.
The results were astonishing. My pain, which had been a constant companion due to my doing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), began to dissolve. It didn’t disappear completely, but it reduced to maybe 10% of what it had been.
Beyond the physical relief, what truly moved me was the evidence: eight people, thousands of miles away, holding a shared intention, created measurable change in my body.
That experiment proved to me that consciousness is not confined to one person. The state of each individual shapes the state of humanity.
And that realisation accelerated the development of The Alchemy of Being – a space to share knowledge, stories, and tools for transformation. Because not everyone’s path looks the same. Some arrive through science, others through spirit, intuition, or experience. But ultimately, we’re all part of the same great experiment in awareness.
Closing Reflection
Looking back, these five moments were never separate events – they were stepping stones on the same path.
Each one dismantled a layer of fear and replaced it with understanding:
- That the body is intelligent.
- That we are co-creators of our reality.
- That beliefs shape biology.
- That science and spirituality are two sides of the same truth.
- And that healing, at its core, is both deeply personal and profoundly collective.
Every aha has added another tool to my toolbelt for life, and if sharing them helps even one person see themselves differently, then that, to me, is alchemy.