Excerpt from Journeying with My Guides
Hope for the Future
by Emily Wells
Chapter 1 – The Extraordinary Begins
“Tell Emily we are genuine and not her imagination.”
I am Emily. This message was given to me by a woman I had yet to meet, when I asked her to verify that I was having conversations with spirit guides. As I read her words, I am shocked, puzzled, excited, and questioning—all at the same time.
Are spirit guides real? Can I really communicate with guides I cannot see? How could I be doing this? I can only answer these questions with, “I don’t know.” What I do know is that whatever is happening to me is highly unusual, and I am having conversations with unseen beings.
I invite you to join me as I journey into the unknown, where I experience conversations with these beings. I invite you to share my ups and downs as unique events occur. I invite you to hold compassion for me as my vulnerability is exposed. I invite you to walk with me as I struggle to accept the reality of what is happening—that I have no way to explain.
I had no experience with anything like this. I was raised in a family that did not embrace anything about spirit guides or speaking with the unseen world, outside of prayers to God. My family were wonderful, science, and fact-based people. They valued physical proof that something was real, or not real. This was well and good in my life, until I started having conversations with unseen beings with no proof of their reality other than the words I was hearing in my mind.
I read some books by people who talked to their spirit guides and knew from an early age that they had special guides to assist them, plus they were able to see their guides. As I was growing up, I didn’t have a clue there was such a thing as a spirit guide. And, I certainly did not see any guides—and still don’t.
My journey was quite different. I did not set out to talk to spirit guides. Instead, extraordinary events and unexplainable synchronicities started to happen in my life.
It all began when I had the same thought every few months for several years: “Is this all there is to life?” I did not have an answer, so I answered with, “Well, I guess so.” Then, I would dive back into overworking at my extremely rewarding, yet extremely demanding, position. Little did I know my life was about to take a dramatic shift. My repetitive thought kept coming until one day in April of 2006.
I attended a workshop called “How to Speak to the Holy Spirit,” given by David and Candace Doyle. I only went because it sounded intriguing. I didn’t really think it was possible. I learned a simple practice to connect with the Holy Spirit, ask a question, and listen for an answer. This was all new for me, but I was willing to see what would happen. To my surprise, I heard answers to my questions as words inside my head. Other participants heard answers, too.
This was one of my first answers:
HOLY SPIRIT: It is good that you have started this dialogue. I have been waiting. I love you, dear one. I give you a blessing.
I was fascinated! My Holy Spirit seemed to be a group, and I started calling them my Holy Ones.
April 25, 2006
I follow the process given at the above workshop. Here’s one of my first conversations:
EMILY: What does it mean to say, “I am love”?
HOLY ONES: Beloved, you are love. You cannot change this. You already are this love. It is not something you try to do. You only need to realize it is who and what you are. Relax, and let love flow from your being. It is easy. It is natural. It feels great! Give yourself love every day.
EMILY: I will try to relax and get my mind around this.
HOLY ONES: You will never get your mind around this. It is an experience of who you are. It is not of the mind.
I value these informative answers. But, I ask myself, couldn’t I be imagining this whole thing?
April 30, 2006
Something upsetting happened this morning, and I decide to ask my Holy Ones for clarification.
EMILY: Can you explain about the upsetting experience I had this morning?
HOLY ONES: It is a growth thing for you. Again, it is your choice. You can stay just where you are, or you can do some learning. Learning is usually not as easy as staying put, but you did not come to earth to stay put. Did you? Fear not, it will be alright.
May 1, 2007
I continue regular question-and-answer sessions with my Holy Ones for about a year, despite my doubts about the reality of what I am doing. The answers feel like blessings, and I find them beneficial. I feel very safe and loved when I do the process. The conversations only take place when I do the process and never at any other time.
Then, a series of synchronistic events occur, and my life changes forever.
May 7, 2007
I receive a diagnosis of right breast cancer.
Shocked, I ask my Holy Ones about this. I clearly hear the following:
HOLY ONES: It is alright to call your doctor, but your healing will come without surgery.
I am comforted by the idea that I will not need surgery.
May 9, 2007
Two days later, I meet with the doctor and am scheduled for surgery—a “lumpectomy with possible lymph node removal.” All sense of comfort received from my Holy Ones vanishes. Doubt and confusion take over. I make a phone call to Alandra, a gifted intuitive I have known for years. Before I have a chance to tell her my diagnosis, she says I need to speak with a medical intuitive, and she gives me a phone number.
May 11, 2007
I happen to get an immediate phone session with the busy, medical intuitive, Marisa Morin. This is what I hear from Marisa, who relays the messages so calmly and lovingly:
MEDICAL INTUITIVE: Your guides want to explain something they said that confused you. When they said “…your healing will come without surgery,” they did not mean you might not need some surgery to support your healing process. What’s causing the cancer, however, is something that cannot be healed with surgery. This is a disorder that flows much deeper.
Your guides are coming to work with you at this time to open your circuits to receive more love—love being the prana, or chi, or life force of the Universe.
Some old beliefs are going to go through a death process—any beliefs where you feel like a victim.
You are going to regenerate, and you are going to shine and be so magnificent, you can’t even imagine at this moment what’s coming.
You are about to change the way you survive in this world, and this is profound. You have lived your whole lifetime one way, and this is the place where you do a complete shift and your life is going to be entirely different, for the rest of your life. A year from now, you won’t even recognize yourself.
I sit quietly after this call. I am astounded by all that I hear, especially that my Holy Ones are real, and I was actually connecting with them!
Some of the doubt that I was indeed connecting with the unseen world begins to leave, and I feel the outer layer of the doubt onion peel off.
Comfort returns with this information from the medical intuitive, and I am infused with determination to actively participate in my healing.
Extraordinary events continue to occur.
May 18, 2007
I happen to meet a woman who teaches Spring Forest Qigong, a powerful Chinese healing practice. I have an inner sense this will be good for me, and I immediately begin the practice. Then, my Qigong teacher attends the annual Spring Forest Qigong conference in Minnesota.
It is the first night of the conference, and I know my Qigong teacher will be asking Qigong Master Chunyi Lin to help with my healing. That night, I have three visions. I have never had a vision before, but they are unlike anything I have ever experienced. I know they are not dreams. Here are my visions:
First Vision: I am using a hand scraper to remove yellowish, sticky substance from an object. It returns, and I scrape it away again. I continue to scrape as I know I must remove all of it. Finally, it stays away and the surface is clean.
Second Vision: I am standing in front of a group of white-robed beings. I am being given a new name. My new name means “Beginning of Life.”
Third Vision: I am in an underground, earthen chamber and I’m watching a small hole in the wall. I see white vapor coming through the hole, and I know air is flowing through. Then, a brilliant blast of sunlight beams in through the hole!
I am thrilled! This is a completely new experience for me. I am active in every scene; as one scene fades, the next begins. I know I am being given a gift from the Universe.
Here is my interpretation of the gifts of these visions: first, the cancer is cleared; second, I begin a new life; and third, something amazing happens!
December 31, 2007
I complete six long months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. I am in survival mode most of the time, focusing on meeting my basic needs and allowing only uplifting messages into my body. I walk outside every day and stop listening to most of the news. I am able to continue my work as a full-time college instructor. I continue my new practice of Spring Forest Qigong, usually several hours a day. During the night, when I wake every two hours with intense hot flashes or whenever I start to go into fear, I put on my headphones and move energy with my mind as I listen to the Spring Forest Qigong guided meditations. I also receive Qigong healings from others.
Twice my doctor mentions she is surprised I don’t have anemia, a condition marked by a reduction in the number of red blood cells. This is usually not mentioned as it is considered a normal reaction to chemotherapy. My doctor mentions it only because I do not have the condition. I shrug and say that I am just doing my Qigong.
I follow a suggestion by the medical intuitive, Marisa Morin, to be with “people who vibrate at a higher level.” One of her suggestions is Sonia Choquette, who happens to be deeply connected with her own spirit guides. As I read Sonia’s books, I become open to the possibility of spirit guides, and I learn many life-supporting things I didn’t know existed!
January 2008
I believe there is a connection between our emotions and our physical bodies. My life thus far has been a roller coaster of intense emotions, and I tend to overwork. All of this contributes to my medical challenge.
I follow my commitment to fully participate in my healing process, however, and begin extensive personal counseling. I learn emotional freedom technique (EFT) and I learn about the Perelandra Medical Assistance Program (MAP). I continue benefiting from the counseling for over a year, and I still do EFT tapping. I begin the MAP process, but I don’t continue at this time.
January 2009
I am determined to remake myself in more positive, healthy ways, and I do almost everything that comes along to help heal my body and my life. I happen to learn about an intense, personal transformation process called Psycho-Spiritual Integration (PSI). I sign up and attend.
As a part of the process, I meet my first guide. I am told I will have a guide for this course, and that I am to learn the guide’s name. When I ask for my guide’s name, I am surprised to hear the name Elise in my mind. Elise becomes very real for me as she assists me in deep, inner work. We dialogue regularly in my mind as a part of the PSI assignments. As soon as I complete the course, however, Elise no longer seems real, and I forget about her—for now.
For the next few years, I continue my quest for healing. Extraordinary events continue to occur.
Spring 2010
Determined to learn more about people who “vibrate at a higher level,” I attend a Louise Hay “You Can Heal Your Life” event. I walk into a large auditorium and stop at the first booth. A lovely woman takes one look at me and says, “You can walk into a room and know what has happened there before. You know if there has been a fight or some disturbance.” Surprised, I reply, “Well, yes. How did you know?” She answers, “I can see it in your face.”
This is how I meet Jean Haner, master of energy clearing and face reading. I attend many of her wonderful, informative workshops, including “Clear Heart, Clear Home” and “The Wisdom of Your Face.” Jean sparkles with love and joy as she shares her knowledge with everyone she meets, as well as through her many books. She introduces me to the use of a pendulum to clear energy, and she encourages me to be open to my intuitive gifts.
I am beginning to be aware that each person or event comes with what I need at the perfect time on my journey.
January 2012
I attend a marvelous workshop given by an intuitive named Alandra. While at the workshop, I have a private session with Alandra and learn much helpful information. When we are almost finished, she makes a comment that puts me into deep fear. Her words are, “And, this summer, you may experience some health challenges, but nothing to fear. You will get through this. You just need to relax. You will be alright.”
Relaxing is the last thing I can do after hearing these words. Five years previously, I’d been treated for breast cancer, so fear was an automatic reaction to any mention of health issues. I contact Marisa Morin, the medical intuitive, and ask for help. Marisa tells me if I do inner-child work, I can avoid all health issues.
I learn that inner-child work addresses unmet needs from our childhood. And, I happen to know Georgie, a spiritual counselor who has assisted many others in their inner-child work. I make an appointment with Georgie.
I discover Alandra’s words were a pivot point and I was being led to something entirely different for the rest of my life.
The night before my appointment, I have an unusual dream I call “Prisoner.” In my dream, I am a prisoner in a camp where the guards are called Rigid Taskmaster and Stern Enforcer. I am allowed to leave, but they warn me, “It is very dangerous out there.”
April 7, 2012
I have my first session with Georgie. When I tell her about the unusual dream, she says the dream aspects have been with me for a long time and they have a purpose and gifts to share. She suggests I investigate this.
April 24, 2012
Intrigued, I accept her suggestion. I sit quietly alone, and in my mind, I ask Rigid Taskmaster and Stern Enforcer if they have anything to share with me.
I am so surprised to see images of them in my mind’s eye, and hear them speak, that I am not prepared to record their words, but I remember them:
“We are your protectors. You were too frightened to take on the role of keeping yourself safe. We are freeing you.”
Rigid Taskmaster says, “I am the one who helps you get something done with determination and commitment. I am tenacity.”
Stern Enforcer says, “I am the one who gives you the push to get something done. I am courage.”
May 3, 2012
I meet with Georgie to share my inner-child work, as well as this first dialogue. We decide I have connected with aspects of myself who have a beneficial reason for being with me, and I am forming a team. She suggests I learn about this team and why they are with me.
May 8, 2012
Bubbling with curiosity and apprehension, I sit alone and ask Rigid Taskmaster and Stern Enforcer if they have a beneficial reason for being with me. I hear Rigid Taskmaster say, “I am tenacity,” and Stern Enforcer says, “I am courage.”
I welcome the first two members of the team and begin my inner exploration.
***
I share this life-changing journey in my first book, Discover Your Unknown Inner Self. I reveal how I identify aspects of myself through my dreams and my inner-child work. I share the dialogues I have with my aspects. Through these dialogues, my aspects share their wisdom and love, and lead me on a path to wholeness and healing. My aspects are all inner parts of my own self; I just didn’t know they were there.
Extraordinary events continue to occur. This next event cracks open the boundaries of my carefully constructed worldview.
July 26, 2012
After four months of dialoguing with my inner aspects, I come to accept dialogues with my inner aspects as normal. These dialogues happen so easily and, after all, my aspects are parts of me.
My friends are enthusiastic about hearing what my aspects have to say. Today, I am sitting with a group of friends reading my aspect dialogues when one friend says, “I keep getting an image of this man standing behind you. He is dressed in a turquoise necklace, white shorts, and sandals. Who is he?”
Shocked, I reply that I have no idea.
Inside, I am reeling. Could this be a real guide? Do I really have guides? My work with Elise was always only in my mind. This is different. How could I be making this up if someone else can actually see a being beside me? This is disquieting! I have to let it sit for now. My worldview is shaken to its core!
Excerpt from Journeying with My Guides
Hope for the Future
by Emily Wells
Chapter 1 – The Extraordinary Begins
“Tell Emily we are genuine and not her imagination.”
I am Emily. This message was given to me by a woman I had yet to meet, when I asked her to verify that I was having conversations with spirit guides. As I read her words, I am shocked, puzzled, excited, and questioning—all at the same time.
Are spirit guides real? Can I really communicate with guides I cannot see? How could I be doing this? I can only answer these questions with, “I don’t know.” What I do know is that whatever is happening to me is highly unusual, and I am having conversations with unseen beings.
I invite you to join me as I journey into the unknown, where I experience conversations with these beings. I invite you to share my ups and downs as unique events occur. I invite you to hold compassion for me as my vulnerability is exposed. I invite you to walk with me as I struggle to accept the reality of what is happening—that I have no way to explain.
I had no experience with anything like this. I was raised in a family that did not embrace anything about spirit guides or speaking with the unseen world, outside of prayers to God. My family were wonderful, science, and fact-based people. They valued physical proof that something was real, or not real. This was well and good in my life, until I started having conversations with unseen beings with no proof of their reality other than the words I was hearing in my mind.
I read some books by people who talked to their spirit guides and knew from an early age that they had special guides to assist them, plus they were able to see their guides. As I was growing up, I didn’t have a clue there was such a thing as a spirit guide. And, I certainly did not see any guides—and still don’t.
My journey was quite different. I did not set out to talk to spirit guides. Instead, extraordinary events and unexplainable synchronicities started to happen in my life.
It all began when I had the same thought every few months for several years: “Is this all there is to life?” I did not have an answer, so I answered with, “Well, I guess so.” Then, I would dive back into overworking at my extremely rewarding, yet extremely demanding, position. Little did I know my life was about to take a dramatic shift. My repetitive thought kept coming until one day in April of 2006.
I attended a workshop called “How to Speak to the Holy Spirit,” given by David and Candace Doyle. I only went because it sounded intriguing. I didn’t really think it was possible. I learned a simple practice to connect with the Holy Spirit, ask a question, and listen for an answer. This was all new for me, but I was willing to see what would happen. To my surprise, I heard answers to my questions as words inside my head. Other participants heard answers, too.
This was one of my first answers:
HOLY SPIRIT: It is good that you have started this dialogue. I have been waiting. I love you, dear one. I give you a blessing.
I was fascinated! My Holy Spirit seemed to be a group, and I started calling them my Holy Ones.
April 25, 2006
I follow the process given at the above workshop. Here’s one of my first conversations:
EMILY: What does it mean to say, “I am love”?
HOLY ONES: Beloved, you are love. You cannot change this. You already are this love. It is not something you try to do. You only need to realize it is who and what you are. Relax, and let love flow from your being. It is easy. It is natural. It feels great! Give yourself love every day.
EMILY: I will try to relax and get my mind around this.
HOLY ONES: You will never get your mind around this. It is an experience of who you are. It is not of the mind.
I value these informative answers. But, I ask myself, couldn’t I be imagining this whole thing?
April 30, 2006
Something upsetting happened this morning, and I decide to ask my Holy Ones for clarification.
EMILY: Can you explain about the upsetting experience I had this morning?
HOLY ONES: It is a growth thing for you. Again, it is your choice. You can stay just where you are, or you can do some learning. Learning is usually not as easy as staying put, but you did not come to earth to stay put. Did you? Fear not, it will be alright.
May 1, 2007
I continue regular question-and-answer sessions with my Holy Ones for about a year, despite my doubts about the reality of what I am doing. The answers feel like blessings, and I find them beneficial. I feel very safe and loved when I do the process. The conversations only take place when I do the process and never at any other time.
Then, a series of synchronistic events occur, and my life changes forever.
May 7, 2007
I receive a diagnosis of right breast cancer.
Shocked, I ask my Holy Ones about this. I clearly hear the following:
HOLY ONES: It is alright to call your doctor, but your healing will come without surgery.
I am comforted by the idea that I will not need surgery.
May 9, 2007
Two days later, I meet with the doctor and am scheduled for surgery—a “lumpectomy with possible lymph node removal.” All sense of comfort received from my Holy Ones vanishes. Doubt and confusion take over. I make a phone call to Alandra, a gifted intuitive I have known for years. Before I have a chance to tell her my diagnosis, she says I need to speak with a medical intuitive, and she gives me a phone number.
May 11, 2007
I happen to get an immediate phone session with the busy, medical intuitive, Marisa Morin. This is what I hear from Marisa, who relays the messages so calmly and lovingly:
MEDICAL INTUITIVE: Your guides want to explain something they said that confused you. When they said “…your healing will come without surgery,” they did not mean you might not need some surgery to support your healing process. What’s causing the cancer, however, is something that cannot be healed with surgery. This is a disorder that flows much deeper.
Your guides are coming to work with you at this time to open your circuits to receive more love—love being the prana, or chi, or life force of the Universe.
Some old beliefs are going to go through a death process—any beliefs where you feel like a victim.
You are going to regenerate, and you are going to shine and be so magnificent, you can’t even imagine at this moment what’s coming.
You are about to change the way you survive in this world, and this is profound. You have lived your whole lifetime one way, and this is the place where you do a complete shift and your life is going to be entirely different, for the rest of your life. A year from now, you won’t even recognize yourself.
I sit quietly after this call. I am astounded by all that I hear, especially that my Holy Ones are real, and I was actually connecting with them!
Some of the doubt that I was indeed connecting with the unseen world begins to leave, and I feel the outer layer of the doubt onion peel off.
Comfort returns with this information from the medical intuitive, and I am infused with determination to actively participate in my healing.
Extraordinary events continue to occur.
May 18, 2007
I happen to meet a woman who teaches Spring Forest Qigong, a powerful Chinese healing practice. I have an inner sense this will be good for me, and I immediately begin the practice. Then, my Qigong teacher attends the annual Spring Forest Qigong conference in Minnesota.
It is the first night of the conference, and I know my Qigong teacher will be asking Qigong Master Chunyi Lin to help with my healing. That night, I have three visions. I have never had a vision before, but they are unlike anything I have ever experienced. I know they are not dreams. Here are my visions:
First Vision: I am using a hand scraper to remove yellowish, sticky substance from an object. It returns, and I scrape it away again. I continue to scrape as I know I must remove all of it. Finally, it stays away and the surface is clean.
Second Vision: I am standing in front of a group of white-robed beings. I am being given a new name. My new name means “Beginning of Life.”
Third Vision: I am in an underground, earthen chamber and I’m watching a small hole in the wall. I see white vapor coming through the hole, and I know air is flowing through. Then, a brilliant blast of sunlight beams in through the hole!
I am thrilled! This is a completely new experience for me. I am active in every scene; as one scene fades, the next begins. I know I am being given a gift from the Universe.
Here is my interpretation of the gifts of these visions: first, the cancer is cleared; second, I begin a new life; and third, something amazing happens!
December 31, 2007
I complete six long months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. I am in survival mode most of the time, focusing on meeting my basic needs and allowing only uplifting messages into my body. I walk outside every day and stop listening to most of the news. I am able to continue my work as a full-time college instructor. I continue my new practice of Spring Forest Qigong, usually several hours a day. During the night, when I wake every two hours with intense hot flashes or whenever I start to go into fear, I put on my headphones and move energy with my mind as I listen to the Spring Forest Qigong guided meditations. I also receive Qigong healings from others.
Twice my doctor mentions she is surprised I don’t have anemia, a condition marked by a reduction in the number of red blood cells. This is usually not mentioned as it is considered a normal reaction to chemotherapy. My doctor mentions it only because I do not have the condition. I shrug and say that I am just doing my Qigong.
I follow a suggestion by the medical intuitive, Marisa Morin, to be with “people who vibrate at a higher level.” One of her suggestions is Sonia Choquette, who happens to be deeply connected with her own spirit guides. As I read Sonia’s books, I become open to the possibility of spirit guides, and I learn many life-supporting things I didn’t know existed!
January 2008
I believe there is a connection between our emotions and our physical bodies. My life thus far has been a roller coaster of intense emotions, and I tend to overwork. All of this contributes to my medical challenge.
I follow my commitment to fully participate in my healing process, however, and begin extensive personal counseling. I learn emotional freedom technique (EFT) and I learn about the Perelandra Medical Assistance Program (MAP). I continue benefiting from the counseling for over a year, and I still do EFT tapping. I begin the MAP process, but I don’t continue at this time.
January 2009
I am determined to remake myself in more positive, healthy ways, and I do almost everything that comes along to help heal my body and my life. I happen to learn about an intense, personal transformation process called Psycho-Spiritual Integration (PSI). I sign up and attend.
As a part of the process, I meet my first guide. I am told I will have a guide for this course, and that I am to learn the guide’s name. When I ask for my guide’s name, I am surprised to hear the name Elise in my mind. Elise becomes very real for me as she assists me in deep, inner work. We dialogue regularly in my mind as a part of the PSI assignments. As soon as I complete the course, however, Elise no longer seems real, and I forget about her—for now.
For the next few years, I continue my quest for healing. Extraordinary events continue to occur.
Spring 2010
Determined to learn more about people who “vibrate at a higher level,” I attend a Louise Hay “You Can Heal Your Life” event. I walk into a large auditorium and stop at the first booth. A lovely woman takes one look at me and says, “You can walk into a room and know what has happened there before. You know if there has been a fight or some disturbance.” Surprised, I reply, “Well, yes. How did you know?” She answers, “I can see it in your face.”
This is how I meet Jean Haner, master of energy clearing and face reading. I attend many of her wonderful, informative workshops, including “Clear Heart, Clear Home” and “The Wisdom of Your Face.” Jean sparkles with love and joy as she shares her knowledge with everyone she meets, as well as through her many books. She introduces me to the use of a pendulum to clear energy, and she encourages me to be open to my intuitive gifts.
I am beginning to be aware that each person or event comes with what I need at the perfect time on my journey.
January 2012
I attend a marvelous workshop given by an intuitive named Alandra. While at the workshop, I have a private session with Alandra and learn much helpful information. When we are almost finished, she makes a comment that puts me into deep fear. Her words are, “And, this summer, you may experience some health challenges, but nothing to fear. You will get through this. You just need to relax. You will be alright.”
Relaxing is the last thing I can do after hearing these words. Five years previously, I’d been treated for breast cancer, so fear was an automatic reaction to any mention of health issues. I contact Marisa Morin, the medical intuitive, and ask for help. Marisa tells me if I do inner-child work, I can avoid all health issues.
I learn that inner-child work addresses unmet needs from our childhood. And, I happen to know Georgie, a spiritual counselor who has assisted many others in their inner-child work. I make an appointment with Georgie.
I discover Alandra’s words were a pivot point and I was being led to something entirely different for the rest of my life.
The night before my appointment, I have an unusual dream I call “Prisoner.” In my dream, I am a prisoner in a camp where the guards are called Rigid Taskmaster and Stern Enforcer. I am allowed to leave, but they warn me, “It is very dangerous out there.”
April 7, 2012
I have my first session with Georgie. When I tell her about the unusual dream, she says the dream aspects have been with me for a long time and they have a purpose and gifts to share. She suggests I investigate this.
April 24, 2012
Intrigued, I accept her suggestion. I sit quietly alone, and in my mind, I ask Rigid Taskmaster and Stern Enforcer if they have anything to share with me.
I am so surprised to see images of them in my mind’s eye, and hear them speak, that I am not prepared to record their words, but I remember them:
“We are your protectors. You were too frightened to take on the role of keeping yourself safe. We are freeing you.”
Rigid Taskmaster says, “I am the one who helps you get something done with determination and commitment. I am tenacity.”
Stern Enforcer says, “I am the one who gives you the push to get something done. I am courage.”
May 3, 2012
I meet with Georgie to share my inner-child work, as well as this first dialogue. We decide I have connected with aspects of myself who have a beneficial reason for being with me, and I am forming a team. She suggests I learn about this team and why they are with me.
May 8, 2012
Bubbling with curiosity and apprehension, I sit alone and ask Rigid Taskmaster and Stern Enforcer if they have a beneficial reason for being with me. I hear Rigid Taskmaster say, “I am tenacity,” and Stern Enforcer says, “I am courage.”
I welcome the first two members of the team and begin my inner exploration.
***
I share this life-changing journey in my first book, Discover Your Unknown Inner Self. I reveal how I identify aspects of myself through my dreams and my inner-child work. I share the dialogues I have with my aspects. Through these dialogues, my aspects share their wisdom and love, and lead me on a path to wholeness and healing. My aspects are all inner parts of my own self; I just didn’t know they were there.
Extraordinary events continue to occur. This next event cracks open the boundaries of my carefully constructed worldview.
July 26, 2012
After four months of dialoguing with my inner aspects, I come to accept dialogues with my inner aspects as normal. These dialogues happen so easily and, after all, my aspects are parts of me.
My friends are enthusiastic about hearing what my aspects have to say. Today, I am sitting with a group of friends reading my aspect dialogues when one friend says, “I keep getting an image of this man standing behind you. He is dressed in a turquoise necklace, white shorts, and sandals. Who is he?”
Shocked, I reply that I have no idea.
Inside, I am reeling. Could this be a real guide? Do I really have guides? My work with Elise was always only in my mind. This is different. How could I be making this up if someone else can actually see a being beside me? This is disquieting! I have to let it sit for now. My worldview is shaken to its core!