Claire Gillen
Holistic Life Coach, Reiki Master, Energy Healer, Shamanic Practitioner (Illumination, Soul Retrieval), Soul Collage Artist, Writer, Workshop Leader, Joy Seeker, Creative Soul and River of Life Rider!
I’ve been putting off writing this profile for a long time now. How on earth do you describe yourself? What to include? What to leave out? Formal, or informal? As you may have guessed, I’m not a great fan of Formal. In the end I just sat down at my computer and wrote. Here is what flowed out onto the page. I think, for now, it will do.
If you really want to know all about me, take a look at this website – I’m there. Revealed. On every page! But for those who want to know a bit more about my background, experience, and major influences, then here goes....
On 1 February 2009 I turned 50. However, I feel at least 20 years younger than that! Approaching 50 does rather focus you though.... it certainly inspired me to create this website - increasingly an ever growing and expanding love of my life. I’d say my 'self-development journey' began with journal writing. I’ve been keeping a detailed journal since I was about 12 years old (gosh, that’s nearly 40 years!) Journal writing has proved to be a wonderful tool for my own self-discovery, and one I fully want to share. It’s certainly a practice I will never relinquish. In a more ‘conscious way’, I guess I’ve been on the ‘self development path’ since the early 1980’s. I think it began when I worked in a management consultancy just off the King’s Road in London. One of my jobs was to prepare the handouts for upcoming courses. As I typed the handouts, I enjoyed reading about Leadership, Presentation Skills, Inter-personal Skills, and Communication. As I prepared the course material, I never thought I’d one day be running my own workshops. Around that time, I was browsing in my local bookshop (W.H Smith in Putney High Street if I remember rightly). In those days there was a very small ‘self help’ section. I came across it by chance and was particularly drawn to two books: ‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’ by Susan Jeffers, and ‘You can heal your life’ by Louise Hay. Both books literally changed my life and I became a self-help book and workshop junkie. One fantastic source of talks and workshops over the years has been Alternatives in London. I’ve met some great teachers through them and I’m very grateful to all the staff and volunteers who continue to provide wonderful speakers and workshops. These are some other ‘major influences’ that continue to colour (and transform) my life. Life Changing Books: You Can Heal Your Life, Louise L. Hay (and anything else by Louise Hay) Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan Jeffers Creative Visualisation, and anything else by Shakti Gawain The Woman’s Comfort Book, Jennifer Louden Inspiration Sandwich, SARK (Susan Aerial Rainbow Kennedy) Quest, and anything else by Denise Linn Living Magically, Stepping into the Magic, and anything else by Gill Edwards Living with Joy, Spiritual Growth - Being Your Higher Self, and anything else by Orin and DaBen (Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer) Recovery of your Inner Child, Lucia Capacchione The Dark Side of The Light Chasers, Debbie Ford The Work You Were Born to Do, and anything else by Nick Williams Loving What Is, Byron Katie Ask and It Is Given, and anything and everything else by Abraham- Hicks
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Vision Quests, (and anything else) with Susan and David Hill Living Magically course (Gill Edwards) with Susan Hill Life coaching course, Cert. and Dip. (Fiona Harrold/NCDL)
Learning Reiki (level 1 to master-teacher level) and incorporating it into my life Running my first workshops Discovering Soul Collage
The Healing the Light Body course (very intensive!) with the Four Winds Society Awakening Your Light Body course, Orin and DaBen (Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer) Discovering the wisdom and 'teachings' of Abraham-Hicks and incorporating them into my life, thereby transforming it beautifully. Building my website, being self-employed and everything that goes with it! Apart from wonderful books and courses that can and do transform lives, the very living of life, with its ups and downs, challenges and joys, provides us all with huge learning and potential for growth. We find strengths and qualities we never knew we had! I hope through sharing my (sometimes ‘hard-earned’) knowledge and journeys, I might inspire, encourage and support you on your journey. I’d love to hear from you with any ideas you have for how I might do that more fully. All my Love Claire X
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