This beautiful piece of wisdom from the late Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue that has been sitting with me lately.

I love how he speaks of the way life begins to find its natural rhythm when we allow ourselves to be who we truly are. And how so much of our sense of disconnection comes from living a life that is expected of us, rather than a life we love.

He describes this as falling out of rhythm with “the secret signature and light of our own nature.”

These words really resonate with me.

Because I am beginning to really appreciate just how much of my life has been spent trying to become someone, achieve something, or prove something in order to feel worthy of the love, belonging and support I was seeking.

And perhaps the greatest revelation of this season of my life is that I have always been worthy.

I have always been loved.

I have always been chosen.

I just couldn’t see it.

Because I believed I had to earn it through achievement. By being helpful and productive. By being needed and doing the right thing. By getting the approval and reassurance of others.

I thought my worth was not inherent to me. It was something that lived outside of me.

So in response to this, I became the woman who could hold it all together.

The responsible one. The capable one. The one who could be relied upon to get things done.

The woman who kept moving forward, even when something deep within her was asking her to slow down.

And for a long time, this way of being served me.

Until it didn’t.

The space in between

Over the past few years, and particularly the past few months, life has been gently inviting me into a different way of being.

And as projects, plans and possibilities have fallen away, I have found myself in a rather unfamiliar space.

A space in between.

No longer feeling quite at home in the woman I have been, yet not entirely familiar with the woman I am becoming.

At times, this has been deeply uncomfortable.

The things that once motivated me no longer seem to hold the same appeal.

The satisfaction I once found in being productive, achieving goals and moving on to the next thing has begun to fade.

There have been days when I have felt tired, uninspired, and frustrated.

And moments when I have wondered what on earth is happening to me.

Why am I no longer excited by the things that once lit me up?

Why do I feel less inclined to push, strive and make things happen?

Why do conversations rooted in fear, worry, criticism and judgement feel increasingly difficult to sit with?

Why am I finding myself being drawn towards simplicity, beauty, stillness and the smallest pleasures of everyday life?

I have noticed emotional waves moving through me, sometimes sadness or grief, sometimes frustration and annoyance.

And beneath it all, a growing awareness that something deep within me is changing.

I wonder how many women find themselves in this place, particularly in midlife, without having the language to describe what they are experiencing.

We live in a culture that celebrates progress, productivity, ambition and achievement.

A culture that encourages us to keep moving, keep improving, keep becoming more.

But what happens when the very things we have been taught to value no longer feel true?

What happens when it feels our Soul is asking for something completely different?

When we no longer want to become more, but simply want to become more fully ourselves?

Lovingly laying her down

I am beginning to understand that this season is not so much about becoming a new woman.

It is about remembering the woman I have always been, beneath the layers of conditioning, expectation and stories I have carried.

And in the process, lovingly laying down the woman I thought I needed to be.

The woman who questioned her worth.

Who craved external validation, visibility, reassurance and certainty.

Who felt responsible for making everything work.

Who believed that if she just worked a little harder, gave a little more, or got everything perfect, she would finally feel safe, secure and enough.

I don’t want to reject this woman. She has carried me through so much of my life.

She has worked hard, loved deeply, cared for others and done the very best she could with what she knew.

And I feel an enormous tenderness for her.

But I am beginning to see that I no longer need her to lead the way.

I can thank her for all she has done and gently invite her to rest.

Because there is another part of me, a trusting and wiser part, that is ready to lead the way forward.

A part of me that doesn’t need to prove her worth.

That doesn’t need to chase love or belonging.

Who trusts her inner knowing, even when the path ahead is unclear.

A part of me that understands that life is not something I need to constantly manage, control or make happen.

And perhaps most importantly, a part of me that is beginning to trust that I am supported by life itself.

Love has already chosen me

This is the understanding that has been gently landing in my heart.

Love has already chosen me.

I have always been held, guided and supported, even in those moments when I couldn’t recognise it.

There has always been wisdom available to me.

There has always been beauty, grace and possibility woven through the ordinary moments of my life.

But I was so busy searching for certainty and reassurance outside myself that I overlooked what was already here.

I was looking for evidence that I was worthy, when my worthiness was never in question.

I was waiting for life to show me that I was loved, when love had been present all along.

And now I am beginning to realise ...

If love has already chosen me, perhaps it is time for me to choose myself too.

In a way that honours the unique expression of life that I am here to embody.

To choose the things that feel true.

To trust the quiet guidance of my heart.

To give myself permission to rest without having to earn it.

To find joy in the ordinary.

To allow my life to unfold without needing to know exactly where it is taking me.

To stop abandoning myself in the pursuit of being accepted, needed or approved of.

And to remember that I belong to life, just as I am.

Finding my own rhythm

I am not entirely sure where this transition is leading me and maybe that is part of the journey.

To become comfortable with not knowing.

To loosen my grip on how I think life should look and allow myself to be guided by something deeper and more loving than my conditioned ego-mind.

I sense the woman emerging is softer, yet somehow stronger.

Less interested in being seen, and more interested in being true.

Less concerned with what she achieves, and more attentive to how she lives.

She trusts the wisdom of her body. She listens to her intuition.

She honours her energy and knows when to rest.

She no longer feels compelled to fill every space with activity, or every silence with an answer.

She is learning to find contentment in simplicity.

To experience joy and playfulness without needing a reason.

To appreciate beauty without needing to turn it into something useful.

And to trust that her presence, her love and the unique frequency of her being are enough.

I certainly don’t live from this place all the time - the old patterns still visit regularly!

There are still moments when I feel the familiar pull to prove myself, seek reassurance or push forward when all I really want to do is pause.

But I am better at noticing these moments now and I sense this is where real and lasting change begins.

In the noticing. In the remembering. In choosing, again and again, to return to what feels true.

And I wonder if this is what John O’Donohue meant when he spoke of coming back into rhythm with our own nature and to a life where we are no longer constantly working against ourselves. Where our choices begin to reflect the truth of who we are.

Where we are guided less by expectation and more by love, and the blessings we once searched endlessly for are revealed in the simple, sacred moments of everyday life.

So I feel I am coming home to the woman I have always been.

The woman who was always worthy.

Always loved.

Always chosen.

And who is finally learning, in this season of her life, to choose herself.

Reflection

Where in your life are you still trying to earn the love, belonging or worthiness that is already yours?

What parts of you are you ready to lovingly lay down?

If you completely trusted that you are loved and supported, what would you choose for yourself today?

Hi, I’m Sharon. I am an Australian woman in mid-life exploring what is possible when you listen to your heart and follow it unconditionally.

I have become to know myself as the Grounded Mystic, as my work bridges the seen and the unseen - turning intuitive insight into grounded presence.

I love guiding sensitive, heart-centred women with intuitive energetics and embodied awareness, helping them reconnect to their natural rhythms and inner clarity. My approach is grounded, yet intuitive; blending the structure of practice with the spaciousness of presence.

Feeling the call to go deeper with me?

1:1 Intuitive Energetic Sessions - Spiritual Mentoring.

I offer 1:1 Intuitive Energetic sessions where we lovingly meet the unconscious patterns that been shaping your life and gently transform them at their root using intuitive processes and energetic techniques.

Soulful Sanctuary Online Community.

A beautiful community of women exploring the deeper questions as we navigate the threshold of midlife through explorations in movement, meditation and ritual.

Mystical Mayan Mexico Retreat

In February 2027, I’ll be co-facilitating with my amazing teacher and mentor, Dr. Niikee, a small group women’s retreat in the Mayan jungle of Yucatan, Mexico: a journey into ancient places, sacred practices, embodiment, elemental energies, intuition, and the deeper wisdom that lives within and around us.

So if you are feeling life is asking something new of you, and you’re curious about meeting that invitation with presence, courage, and an open heart, I would love you to join us.

Recently in my online community we have been exploring the concept of truth.

Knowing your truth.
Trusting your truth.
Living your truth.

And when I speak about truth, I am not talking about something we know in our thinking mind. Not facts or opinions, or the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and what we believe.

The truth I am talking about lives somewhere deeper within us.

It is a knowing that doesn’t arrive through the mind or as a thought. It is something that is felt.

I believe we are entrusted with a unique expression of truth that we are here to share with the world in our own way. But for much of my life, I didn’t even know this kind of truth existed. I didn’t even know it was a ‘thing’.

I thought life was something you worked out logically with your head, with an invisible checklist to sensibly and rationally work through.

Be good.
Work hard.
Be responsible.
Look after everyone.
Do what is expected.
Achieve all of the things.

And so I did what so many of us do.

I started ticking things off.

Some of those things certainly brought me enormous love and joy. But beneath all of this doing, I felt there had to be something more.

Something that wanted to be known. Something that was more about being.

This subtle call towards something beyond the life I was living.

And I feel this is where my spiritual search really began as I started to question:

Who am I beneath everything I have been told I should be?

What is actually true for me?

What might become possible if I were brave enough to make the choices that allow me to live from that place of truth?

But knowing what is true for us, as I am now beginning to understand, is only part of the journey. The real work begins when we actually choose to start living it in our everyday life.

Because honouring our truth can ask us to make choices that don’t always make sense.

It might ask us to say no where we have always said yes.

To walk away from something we have outgrown.

To speak when we would normally stay quiet.

To begin something before we know where it will lead.

To trust the nudge before we have the evidence to prove that it will all work out.

And probably the hardest of all, to hold the faith that life has our back.

That we are not doing life alone.

That we do not need to know where we are going before we take the first step.

I am beginning to appreciate more and more that this life is a co-creation, where our responsibility is to listen in for what feels true in our heart, to take the next courageous step towards it, and then create space for life to meet us.

To participate with life rather than constantly trying to manage it.

To experience ourselves as vehicles of Love.

Love expressing itself through my very ordinary, imperfect, everyday human life.

To allow it to shape the way I speak.

The choices I make.

The boundaries I hold.

The work I offer.

The way I care for myself.

The way I meet another human.

The way I inhabit my humble corner of the world.

Rooting myself so deeply into what is true for me and allowing Love to move through me so that other people can feel it.

So they can experience what it is like to be in the presence of someone who is no longer abandoning themselves in order to belong.

Someone who is willing to listen inwardly and courageously choose their truth.

Who is willing to step forward and trust in life.

Someone who is willing to do her best to embody Love, with all her heart and soul.

Because I now know that our truth does not arrive with fanfare.

More often it arrives in whispers.

And perhaps our work is simply to become quiet enough to hear it, and be courageous enough to follow.

Connecting with our truth can sometimes prove difficult, particularly when strong feelings and emotions are muddying the pathway to that quiet wisdom we hold within our hearts. But if we are able to create a little space around those feelings and emotions, and view them through the eyes of love, we are better able to receive the wisdom they hold and access the truth that lies beneath them.

Below is an audio recording of a meditation I shared in a livestream recently in my online community. It is a beautifully simple meditation but potent, using an intuitive energetic process to create space and allow us see with the eyes of love. It is a process inspired by the work of my amazing teacher and mentor, Dr. Niikee. I hope you enjoy!

Green Ball Meditation - 16mins

Hi, I’m Sharon. I am an Australian woman in mid-life exploring what is possible when you listen to your heart and follow it unconditionally.

I have become to know myself as the Grounded Mystic, as my work bridges the seen and the unseen - turning intuitive insight into grounded presence.

I love guiding sensitive, heart-centred women with intuitive energetics and embodied awareness, helping them reconnect to their natural rhythms and inner clarity. My approach is grounded, yet intuitive; blending the structure of practice with the spaciousness of presence.

Feeling the call to go deeper with me?

1:1 Intuitive Energetic Sessions - Spiritual Mentoring.

I offer 1:1 Intuitive Energetic sessions where we lovingly meet the unconscious patterns that been shaping your life and gently transform them at their root using intuitive processes and energetic techniques.

Soulful Sanctuary Online Community.

A beautiful community of women exploring the deeper questions as we navigate the threshold of midlife through explorations in movement, meditation and ritual.

Mystical Mayan Mexico Retreat

In February 2027, I’ll be co-facilitating with Dr. Niikee a small group women’s retreat in the Mayan jungle of Yucatan, Mexico: a journey into ancient places, sacred practices, embodiment, elemental energies, intuition, and the deeper wisdom that lives within and around us.

So if you are feeling life is asking something new of you, and you’re curious about meeting that invitation with presence, courage, and an open heart, I would love you to join us.

For a long time, I felt I had lost myself.

Somewhere between being the woman I ‘should’ be, caring for everyone else, trying to do the right thing, I could no longer hear my own voice. I wasn’t sure how I felt. I didn’t even know my opinion on things at times.

But looking back now, I don’t think I was ever truly lost.

I believe I had simply become disconnected.

Disconnected from my body.
Disconnected from my intuition.
Disconnected from my joy.
Disconnected from the woman buried underneath responsibilities, inherited patterns and faulty beliefs.

My healing journey back to myself has not been one extraordinary breakthrough.

There wasn’t one workshop, one book, one meditation or one moment that changed everything.

Instead, it has been so many ordinary moments of paying attention.

Listening.

Remembering.

As I look back over the past few years, I can see there were a handful of realisations that changed the way I understood myself.

They gave me clarity on how I had strayed from my unique path.

And they didn’t arrive all at once.

They slipped in, one at a time, as I slowly became ready to receive them.

The first one was this:

I wasn’t lost. I was disconnected from the essence of who I really am.

When you believe you’re lost, you think you need to reinvent yourself.

But when you realise you’re disconnected, you understand that nothing has been missing.

You’re simply finding your way back home to yourself, and then over time, more deeply to your Self.

I also realised something else.

I had forgotten what made me happy.

I knew what everyone else needed.

I knew what was expected of me.

I knew how to keep the peace, hold everything together and anticipate what others might need before they even asked.

But when someone asked me what I wanted ...

I wasn’t sure.

Somewhere along the way, I had forgotten what l liked, and confused myself about how I felt.

Then another truth arrived.

I didn’t trust my inner knowing.

I second-guessed almost everything I felt.

I searched outside myself for certainty.

I looked for expert opinions, books, teachers and reassurance.

Not because there isn’t wisdom to be found there but because I had forgotten that wisdom also lived within me.

Learning to trust myself again has been one of the most subtle, yet most radical, parts of this journey.

Then I noticed how difficult it was to make choices for myself.

Not because I couldn’t make everyday decisions.

But because I had become disconnected from the part of me that instinctively knew what was right for me.

Every decision felt like something to analyse, to check what others thought about it, instead of sensing within to understand how it made me feel – and to trust those feelings too.

And then came the hardest realisation of all …

I had confused love with self-abandonment.

Somewhere, I had learnt hat to be loved, I couldn’t be the real me.

That caring meant putting myself last.

That being kind meant making myself smaller.

That saying yes, even when my body whispered ‘no’, was what I was meant to do.

I didn’t yet understand that honouring myself was also an act of love.

That caring for myself didn’t diminish my capacity to care for others.

If anything, it actually deepened it.

Finally, I saw something that explained so much.

I could sense everyone else’s needs before I could sense my own.

I had become intimately attuned to everyone around me.

I could read the room.

Feel the energy.

Notice the subtle shifts in emotion.

Yet I had become almost deaf to my own inner landscape.

My sensitivity wasn’t the problem.

It was where I had directed it.

And so, my friend, my healing journey has been the slow and sacred practice of turning that awareness back towards myself.

Remembering how to listen to my body.

Learning to trust my feelings.

Discerning what was mine and what belonged to someone else.

Trusting myself, even when it felt unfamiliar or uncomfortable.

Surrendering to the discomfort of putting myself first.

Not because I thought I mattered more.

But because I realised I mattered too.

If any of these realisations resonate with you, maybe you are on the same journey of self-remembrance as me.

Perhaps you’ve become disconnected from the truest part of who you are too.

And if so, then please know you are not alone.

There are women all over the world remembering who they are, what they are here for.

Laying down burdens that were never theirs to carry.

Learning to trust the wisdom of their own bodies again.

Rediscovering joy.

Finding their voice.

And remembering that the journey home isn’t one giant leap.

It’s one small, loving step at a time.

One breath.

One boundary.

One brave choice.

One moment of choosing to listen within – and courageously trusting those whispers too.

Until one day, you finally realise

You have found your way back home

To the true and authentic YOU.

Hi, I’m Sharon. I am an Australian woman in mid-life exploring what is possible when you listen to your heart and follow it unconditionally.

I have become to know myself as the Grounded Mystic, as my work bridges the seen and the unseen - turning intuitive insight into grounded presence, appreciating the mystical in the mundane.

I love guiding sensitive, heart-centred women with intuitive energetics and embodied awareness, helping them reconnect to their natural rhythms and inner clarity. My approach is grounded, yet intuitive; blending the structure of practice with the spaciousness of presence.

Feeling the call to go deeper with me?

If my words have stirred something in you and you feel called to come home to yourself more deeply, then I would love you to consider this invitation.

In February 2027, I’ll be co-facilitating a small group women’s retreat in the Mayan jungle of Yucatan, Mexico: a journey into ancient places, sacred practices, embodiment, elemental energies, intuition, and the deeper wisdom that lives within and around us.

So if you are feeling life is asking something new of you, and you’re curious about meeting that invitation with presence, courage, and an open heart, I would love you to join us.

You can learn more about our Mystical Mayan Mexico Retreat here.

Over the past few months, I have found myself in a space in between.

A space where what I thought was mine to carry has fallen away.

Projects. Ideas. Beliefs. Ways of being that once felt really true to me.

Letting them go has not been easy. But beneath the uncertainty is a quiet knowing that they no longer belong in my hands.

Shedding what cannot continue on the path with me as I move into a season of deepening.

Of sending my roots deeper into the ground of my own true being.

Becoming less interested in curating a life that fits the ‘norm’, to one that feels more authentic, real and true.

And in this process, I have realised I must become comfortable with the in between.

To rest in the liminal space to allow whatever is wanting to be known to come forward.

Instead of wrestling my way through this space as quickly as possible.

Because what if this space is meant to be a sanctuary?

A place where nothing needs to be forced.

Where I don’t need to know where I am going, but simply cultivate a quality of presence that knows when the way appears.

As more falls away, I can see how much of my identity has been woven around what I do rather than who I am.

Achievement.

Producing.

Performing.

The one who adds value.

These qualities have served me in one way or another, but I now understand they are not me.

Life slowly dismantling where I have mistaken what I do for who I am.

As I cultivate a capacity to simply be with what is.

And create a loving space where I can come home to myself.

Not to become someone else, but to remember who I have always been.

Appreciating just how far I have come, and the beauty, wisdom and courage that have been excavated along the way.

Creating the space to allow what is wanting to reveal itself.

What is wanting to be known.

What is wanting to flow through me so that it may be shared with the world.

It requires me to learn to trust my feeling heart, more than my thinking mind.

Trusting what I cannot yet see.

Trusting what lies beyond the fear, the doubt and the need to have all the answers.

As this path is not taking me somewhere, but is shaping me into the woman I was always meant to be.

A woman who holds an unwavering faith in her own knowing heart.

Who believes in herself, her gifts and her capacities so deeply that she no longer seeks constant reassurance from the outside world.

A woman who is available to all of life.

A woman who has the capacity to feel it all and remains so deeply anchored in her own truth that she can hold compassion for others in theirs, no matter what it looks like.

A woman is willing to root in and stay when life feels uncomfortable, uncertain or hard.

Who moves through the world with open hands, not fixed expectations.

Who knows that the ordinary and the mundane are the temple of the Sacred.

That this everyday life is the very ground of being.

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But in order to be her, I cannot continue living in the ways that have brought me this far.

This season of my life is asking for a recalibration.

A different rhythm.

Where I can allow spaciousness, stillness, presence and rest.

A relationship with myself which honours the seasonal movement of my creativity and inspiration.

Not forcing myself to conform to a culture that tells me I should always be producing, achieving and moving forward.

Perhaps this woman I am unearthing is the Grounded Mystic.

The fullest expression of who I can be in this moment.

One stage in a lifelong journey of evolution.

But this space in between is full of paradox.

It often feels as though nothing is happening because there is no tangible evidence.

Yet when I look to nature, the most profound transformations happen where they cannot be seen.

Beneath the soil before the first shoot appears.

Within the chrysalis before the butterfly emerges.

In the stillness of winter before spring unfolds.

Perhaps this season is asking less of my doing and more of my willingness to remain present to allow the revealing of what is true.

Life emptying my hands so I can finally receive what was always meant for me.

Perhaps this is the way of the Grounded Mystic.

Open hands.

A knowing heart.

Faith in the unfolding path.

And holding myself lovingly as the way slowly reveals itself.

Hi, I’m Sharon. I am an Australian woman in mid-life exploring what is possible when you listen to your heart and follow it unconditionally.

I have become to know myself as the Grounded Mystic, as my work bridges the seen and the unseen - turning intuitive insight into grounded presence.

I love guiding sensitive, heart-centred women with intuitive energetics and embodied awareness, helping them reconnect to their natural rhythms and inner clarity. My approach is grounded, yet intuitive; blending the structure of practice with the spaciousness of presence.

Feeling the call to go deeper with me?

1:1 Intuitive Energetic Sessions - Spiritual Mentoring.

I offer 1:1 Intuitive Energetic sessions where we lovingly meet the unconscious patterns that been shaping your life and gently transform them at their root using intuitive processes and energetic techniques.

Soulful Sanctuary Online Community.

A beautiful community of women exploring the deeper questions as we navigate the threshold of midlife through explorations in movement, meditation and ritual.

Self-Paced Online Course: Everyday Sacred, Simple Rituals for Elemental Living

A pre-recorded video series created with the intention of giving you a felt experience of the elemental energies - earth, water, fire, air, ether and light - and how to access them through gentle somatic & yogic movement, sound frequencies, energy processes, and spoken affirmations using the chakra energetic framework as our guide.

This is a piece of writing I shared with my online community a few months back as I try to make sense of what this human experience is all about. I feel a little nervous sharing this essay with you because it seems too simplistic or rudimentary in describing something so enduring and indescribable - and I am certainly no scholar in esoteric, mystical or spiritual studies!

But I feel one of my gifts (and one of the reasons I call myself the ‘Grounded Mystic’) is I love to break down complex spiritual concepts and ideas into more accessible, digestible pieces to help me and others get their heads around what it is we are navigating in this human body, and how we might fit into the bigger cosmic picture.

So here is my very humble take on how the universe works (in 500 words or less, haha!), while at the same time acknowledging the complexity of our extraordinary and multidimensional Universe which is, of course, beyond words or explanation.

I would love to hear your reflections. Thank you so much for being here.

With love,

Sharon xx

Your human body is the home for your cosmic Soul.

Your body gives your Soul an opportunity to experience this earthly realm.

The essence of your Soul is one of love, harmony, and unity - all qualities of the heart.

Your Soul is eternal and endures long after the human body is gone. While it is here in this human body, your Soul is always looking to return to its essence of harmony and balance.

I love to look to the natural world as an example of this constant returning. The tides respond to the moon. The seasons turn in their own time. Nature continually moving towards balance by embracing change and resisting nothing.

We also have an Ego which dominates our thinking mind.

The Ego sees separation, competition, and thrives on fear, doubt and lack. The Ego is impermanent and dies with the body.

We get tangled up with the Ego because it likes to be very noisy and we believe all the stories it tells us.

Most of these stories are not true. They are generated by the preferences and prejudices of the Ego, which have resulted from life experiences, other timelines, as well as being inherited from our ancestors.

These stories filter the way we perceive the world, and how we perceive ourselves.

We try to change other people, our circumstances or we criticise ourselves in order to appease the stories of the Ego because deep down we want to return to the harmony, balance and peace that we know is us; our Soul wanting to return to its Source.

But we live in world of polarity.

Light and dark.
Yin and yang.
Masculine and feminine.
Expansion and contraction.
Life and death.

Opposing energies that are, at the same time, complementary.

Our world has been designed this way as we cannot know and experience one without knowing and experiencing its opposite.

We are here to experience these polarities so we can begin to understand ourselves, and help us discern what is true for our Ego and what is true for our Soul.

Yet the Ego often wants only one side of the equation.

It wants pleasure without pain.
Success without failure.
Love without loss.
Light without darkness.

But harmony is not found by rejecting one side of life.

Harmony is found by welcoming all of it.

The joy and the sorrow.
The certainty and the uncertainty.
The beautiful and the grotesque.

We welcome the whole of our being — both Soul and Ego.

And we can do this by practicing acceptance.

By practicing forgiveness.

By practicing loving without predjudice.

By slowly untangling ourselves from the stories our Ego want us to believe.

So we remember that all humans have an Ego, and all humans have a Soul.

And beneath our differences, we all originate from the same Source.

Trees, birds, rivers, fire, rocks, your favourite Aunt, and your worst enemy.

Everything belongs.

Everything is part of this Earth and Heaven story.

And our task here, in this human body, is to learn how to LOVE.

To love what is easy.

To love what is difficult.

To love what is within us.

To love what is beyond us.

To be the Love.

Because, in the end, Love is all there is.

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Hi, I’m Sharon. I am an Australian woman in mid-life exploring what is possible when you listen to your heart and follow it unconditionally.

I guide sensitive, heart-centred women with intuitive energetics and embodied awareness, helping them reconnect to their natural rhythms and inner clarity. My approach is grounded, yet intuitive; blending the structure of practice with the spaciousness of presence.

Feeling the call to go deeper with me?

1:1 Intuitive Energetic Sessions - Spiritual Mentoring.
I offer 1:1 Intuitive Energetic sessions where we lovingly meet the patterns that been shaping your life and gently transform them at their root using intuitive processes and energetic techniques.

Soulful Sanctuary Online Community.
A beautiful community of women exploring the deeper questions as we navigate the threshold of midlife through explorations in movement, meditation and ritual.

Self-Paced Online Course: Everyday Sacred, Simple Rituals for Elemental Living
A pre-recorded video series created with the intention of giving you a felt experience of the elemental energies - earth, water, fire, air, ether and light - and how to access them through gentle somatic & yogic movement, sound frequencies, energy processes, and spoken affirmations using the chakra energetic framework as our guide.

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I feel life is asking us to hold the faith, big time.

To hold the faith in the unseen,

in the unknown,

in the uncertainty,

in the unfolding.

As we are in the midst of a significant shift in global consciousness, moving from an age led by the mind to one that is led by the heart.

Many of the ‘mind-made’ structures and systems that have underpinned our society for generations are faltering, and in that faltering we are being gifted a precious opportunity to create the foundations for something new - a ‘new earth’ or a new way of being in the world.

Offering ourselves steady ground each day is so important in this evolution. It gives us space to hold our hearts and begin to untangle ourselves from looking externally for the love, support & understanding, and open to receiving it from within.

Sweeping back the layers of fear and scarcity to access the enduring state of peace that resides within every single one of us.

Remembering we are already the love, peace and joy that we seek.

To hold the faith and be the peace.

Peace as a state of being to be radiated out into the world.

And as we cultivate this heart-centred presence, we begin to shift the way we see ourselves and our precious world, and open ourselves knowing life is supporting us with all we need for our personal and collective evolution.

But this support can only be received if we are willing to give it the space to do so, and if we are willing to believe in the unseen.

For fear says: ‘What if it all falling apart?’

But faith says: ‘What if it is all unfolding to realise our wildest dreams?’

So, my beautiful friend, what do you choose?

For me, I am choosing to

Hold the faith.

Be the peace.

Lead with love.

Sharon xx

Hi, I’m Sharon. I am an Australian woman in mid-life exploring what is possible when you listen to your heart and follow it unconditionally.

I guide sensitive, heart-centred women with intuitive energetics and embodied awareness, helping them reconnect to their natural rhythm and inner clarity. My approach is grounded, yet fluid; blending the structure of practice with the spaciousness of presence.

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Your experience of the ‘everyday’ is the point.

In the here and now.

It is how you come to know yourself.

Through the light and darkness of life we come to know who we are.

Life knowing itself through us.

Nothing is ‘wrong’. Nothing needs to be fixed or changed.

No judgements are needed, no questions to be answered.

It just is.

Living the questions, life giving us the playground for this.

Curiosity is key. An open mind imperative. Beginners mind the starting point.

Embracing it all.

As it is.

Just as I am.

My perceived flaws, imperfections, gifts, abilities.

It all just is.

This very sacred experience to know what is possible.

What can be created. What can be destroyed.

What can be witnessed. What can be known.

None of it is right or wrong.

It is a dance of cycles, circles, expansion, contraction, light and dark.

Spanda.

And you are in the centre of it.

You are the centre of the universe.

and it all belongs to you.

*Spanda is a concept in Tantric philosophy where the fundamental quality of all consciousness is one of expansion and contraction; a pulsation or frequency.

Hi, I’m Sharon. I am an Australian woman in mid-life exploring what is possible when you listen to your heart and follow it unconditionally.

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‘I love and accept the whole of me.’

That’s a big statement.

And on the surface, a seemingly simple one too.

But if you reflect a little more, perhaps you may begin to sense the complexity, insight and potential freedom it holds.

It is a statement that has taken me a lifetime to begin to know and understand, and I am beginning to realise it may hold the key to true contentment and peace in this human life.

Deep down, all we want to know is what it feels like to be loved and to give love, wholly and completely. And there is a deep, quiet part of us that knows the way. This part is gentle, unassuming and patient, but its whispers are often drowned out by the drama, materialism and distraction of the world around us.

It is a deep knowing within us that is always calling us back to show us how this love can be found.

Calling us back to know love.

To be love.

For many of us, we have been conditioned from a young age to believe that we are inherently deficient or lacking in some way, and these flawed parts of us need to be fixed, removed or hidden in order for us to be deserving of love.

But what if our perceived deficiencies hold the key for us to enter the richness and complexity of life?

What if our perceived inadequacies are integral to our full expression of who we are?

What if they are opportunities for us to practice embracing imperfection, of learning how to love the whole of ourselves, so we know how to love the whole of life?

Maybe this is the only way that true love can be known and experienced.

By welcoming and accepting all the different parts of ourselves, our feelings, our circumstances, unconditionally. Just like the exquisite Japanese ceramic art of Kintsugi, where the broken pottery is repaired with gold to highlight and enhance the beauty of imperfection, it is only through practicing acceptance can we really understand that true love and contentment arises from embracing the light and dark.

That welcoming me is my personal portal to knowing what love really feels like.

That true love is known only when I accept the whole of myself.

That peace is found when we realise that love welcomes it all.

The light, the heavy. The tight, the fluid. The beautiful, the ugly. The joy, the despair.

By welcoming ourselves and welcoming life with open arms, mind and heart, we let the love in, individually and collectively.

Being the love, the healing balm for our beautiful, troubled world.

S x

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Maybe you can relate my friend …

Moving through another week and there I am again.

So much activity in my head trying to make sense of things.

Why did that happen?

How will this play out?

If not now, then when?

Thoughts looping around with all the feels; frustration,
worry, sadness, tension.

Craving to make sense of things, keeping me stuck in the
surface level drama.

Closed off to the deeper wisdom that is wanting to be shared.

What if life is unfolding around me, just as it needs to.

Divinely planned. Governed by Love.

Everything just as it is, and there is nothing I need
to do, fix or know.

Other than relax my body, soften my palms and ask ‘what
is deeper than this?’

Opening myself to an undercurrent of wisdom that already knows
the way.

A way that is supportive, sustainable, loving and free.

A force that is sharing experiences with me so I may learn
how to bring compassion to the table with patience and acceptance.

While still setting loving boundaries that honour me and my
needs.

A way that feels like tender, simple, deeply rooted support.

Encouraging me to grow and bloom into my rose-like Self.

As I unburden myself of the beliefs and patterns that were
never mine to carry.

A way that is part of a Divine plan that has me at its heart
- and you too.

A Divine plan that is powered by Love.

So we may be moved by Love.

So we may be Love.

Because in the end,

Love is all there is.

🕊️

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I have finally made it back to Jamieson in the Australian high country after several full weeks teaching, 1:1 clients, and study, as well as having all my daughters home after a year of uni and travel, and a revolving door of lovely house guests.

It is so good to be writing to you from this beautifully natural place of mountains, birdsong and flowering tea-tree to catch my breath and be with myself once again.

Reflecting on 2025, it was another incredible year of personal growth, particularly with the ‘remembering’ of my intuitive abilities through my explorations in Intuitive Energetics.

This modality has helped me connect with a true felt sense of ‘self belief’ in my body - a feeling that have not known before in my life.

I have struggled with my self-worth resulting in me believing that I am inherently a ‘faulty’ person and so must go above and beyond in service of others, and not make choices that are good for me if they disappoint or are disapproved of by another.

Energetically these beliefs sat in my solar plexus and felt like a constant tightness or clenching, and was the first place from which my anxiety would make itself known to me.

Physically this clenching caused poor digestion, weak core strength, the beginning of low bone density (as I did not know an inner source of support), as well as finding it difficult to rest and relax.

I am finally feeling a freedom from these limiting patterns. I now know what self-belief feels like in my body: a robustness in my solar plexus, as though the fire in my belly is burning steady and strong, giving me the inner strength and knowing to hold true to me no matter what another might say or what might be happening around me.

It feels like I have finally have a felt sense of my ‘truth’ and it is so freeing and empowering.

It is my resolve to continue to ‘feed’ this inner fire by making choices and taking action that feels aligned to this feeling within, and catching myself every time I sense myself falling back into my default patterns and consciously choosing another way.

To also allow more softening and receiving after many, many years of (falsely) believing I am doing life alone.

I have realised, deeply, that I am worthy of being held too.

Of receiving the sustenance I need in real, embodied and tangible ways in order for me to do what I am here to do.

Building a life rooted in nourishment, not depletion.

And creating sacred communal spaces where we can heal and grow together with presence, slowness, safety and depth.

Cultivating soft strength, quiet clarity, gentle power.

Simple. Sacred. Everyday.

Much love x

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I recently came across a term from Taoist philosophy that spoke directly to how I have been feeling over the last little while – that as a post-menopausal woman I am entering my Second Spring.

In Taoist philosophy, life moves in natural cycles that mirror the rhythms of nature — birth, growth, harvest, and rest. The Second Spring refers to the period after menopause when a woman’s energy begins to flow inwardly, to nourish her and alchemise her lived experiences into an embodied wisdom.

A time in her life where she feels called to slow down, let go of expectations and judgements, and follow her creative impulses and intuitive whispers.

Tending her inner ground so she may be more fully here in the now. Rooting deeply to create the inner stability to move through this transformative time in her life with presence, patience, spaciousness and vitality.

A phase where her energy shifts direction to nourish her heart, replenish her spirit and feed her inner radiance.

This is the era of the wise woman.

Where her natural gifts, abilities and subtler ways of being are remembered, cultivated and shared authentically.

In our first spring in life, our energy is focussed outwards, cultivating relationships, families, homes, careers and creative endeavours. Our energy is in motion, expansive and full of growth.

But as dynamics of life shift, just like nature’s seasons, we enter this phase of life with a quieter rhythm that invites us to rest and turn inward to metabolise and receive the healing insight from all of our life’s experiences.

Healing insight which is shared with others through our being, rather than our doing.

Through our presence, rather than our performance.

And this is exactly where I am at.

Sifting through and healing from patterns I thought were mine to carry, realising they were actually someone else’s expectations on how I should be.

Choosing my truth over being nice so I may walk the unique path I am here to walk.

Surrendering the story we are doing life alone, and putting
my faith into something greater than me, something that lives through me.

Releasing attachment to rigid outcomes so I stay open to all magical potential.

It is not what you do that makes the difference, it is who you be.

And we are here, in this human form, to remember our Divinity.

Our body a teacher of presence so the Soul may sing its own
true song.

What do you feel is ready to fall away?

What within you longs to be tended now, in this next season of you?

What quiet joys rise naturally when you realise you no longer need to prove or perform?

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The tears rolled down my cheeks as the realisation dropped in.

Honouring my need for quiet presence and peace is not a weakness.

It is wisdom.

What brings me joy, what lights me up holds a softness and subtlety.

It does not fit with society’s story that ‘all that glitters is gold’.

And for that I thought I was weak.

I felt I had to be bigger, better, louder, busier.

Isn’t that what ‘success’ is?

Dismissing my inner knowing believing she was too gentle and slow: qualities not valued by a society that loves viral activity and instant results.

But as the tears rolled I acknowledged her whispers as MY truth.

Truths leading me to my greatest joy and deepest contentment.

And honouring my needs is my responsibility to honour my heart first.

To choose meaning over metrics.

Authenticity over mimicry.

Presence over performance.

Soul over circus.

I now understand this is true wisdom.

It was never, ever weakness.

Your intuition is your feminine superpower

Why else would patriarchy want you disconnected from it?

To keep you stuck in your mind; second guessing, ruminating, confused.

To keep you disconnected from your body; ungrounded, destabilised, tense.

To keep you feeling inadequate and afraid so you will keep looking outside of yourself, consuming what you need, to feel validated, in control and safe.

For thousands of years women were revered for their intuitive gifts and abilities, and held spiritual authority in many indigenous traditions and religions, including the earliest form of Christianity.

But with the spread of the Roman Empire around the 4th century, some male leaders decided that many of these nature-based & goddess-centred traditions were a threat to their power, thus creating the patriarchal systems that led to the Dark Ages, and the modern society we know today.

It is interesting talking with women about their intuition and their natural ability to connect with a greater knowing. So many say they were intuitive as children and somehow ‘lost’ it along the way. Or they express a fear of their intuition, unsure where it might lead them, or that they will appear crazy or ridiculous by following it.

But our intuition is a beautiful gift. It is inherent in all of us (including you!)

It is our superpower that allows us to navigate this human life with greater ease, joy and grace.

Because we are multi-dimensional beings – Souls having a human experience.

Sparks of the Divine. Like lights reflected off a mirror ball.

And being connected to your intuitive knowing helps you align and move with the natural, universal forces at play.

It empowers you to follow your heart, to dance to the beat of your own drum.

It helps you make choices that nourish and support you.

It connects with you with your natural creative expression (yes, you ARE creative!)

It cultivates a deep trust in the natural unfolding of life.

It frees you from the limitations of the thinking mind and opens you to all possibility.

And it is a superpower that does not serve the interests of patriarchy and capitalism where control, consumerism and domination are central.

But increasingly more and more women are waking up.

Waking up to the realisation that they do not need to perpetuate the stories of the patriarchy any more.

Waking up to this natural intuitive superpower they hold.

Waking up to the wise woman within.

Waking up to the freedom that is found when they break free of the systems that bind them.

Waking up to the quiet revolution that begins with them.

So my darling, it is time. Reclaim your intuitive knowing.

You are more beautiful, more radiant and more powerful than you could ever, ever imagine.

Post Script: I was reflecting how in recent years I have evolved from a primarily yoga movement teacher to an intuitive energetics guide and spiritual mentor. This shift is a reflection of my own personal healing and spiritual journey and how I have ‘woken’ up to my own intuitive abilities.

Ever since I was small I always knew I was intuitive (astral travel anyone?) but the difference now is rather than dismissing what I feel to be true, I am more trusting of my instincts and intuitive knowing. Over the past couple of years my spiritual practice has deepened and I have been cultivating my intuitive abilities to receive channelled insight for myself and also for others embarking on this path of personal remembrance and reclamation.

I see myself less of a teacher and more of a guide holding space for women wanting to remember their multi-sensory and multi-dimensional Self, empowering them with tools and practices so they can harness and cultivate their own intuitive knowing, and remember their innate beauty and grace.

If you had asked me even a couple of years ago that I would be doing this work, I wouldn’t have believed you!

But I truly believe this is the way of the future. The systems and structures that have created our current state of world affairs are faltering and I firmly believe the feminine holds the healing power and intuitive ability to steward the birth of a New Earth firmly anchored in compassion, kindness, understanding, love and light.

I would love to hear your thoughts and whether you have been feeling the call too.

The times they are a changing my friend, and your unique light is needed now more than ever.

I have kept this photo of me as Lululemon ambassador hidden for many years in the back of my wardrobe.

It is quite big and used to hang behind the counter at my favourite local Lululemon store years ago.

This is the very first time that I have openly shared it.

I really struggled with being an ambassador. Imposter syndrome, big time.

I felt embarrassed and a fraud, and was dreading the moment when I would be found out.

I hid the photo and played down my ambassador role.

In my eyes, I did not measure up.

I would continually look outside of myself for anything that would finally validate me or puff me up enough to prove my ‘enoughness’.

Because I was afraid to fully claim my magnificence.

Afraid to embrace my inherent beauty.

Afraid to unconditionally love and accept myself.

I was held captive by the critical voices in my head who would not let me get too big for my boots.

The critical voices that wanted to keep me safe from ridicule and rejection.

So in meditation recently I connected with my ‘ambassador‘ self again.

I could feel her sadness from me rejecting her. Not allowing her to revel in her moment and embrace all the opportunity held for her.

By reconnecting with her again I realised I was incomplete without her. It was time to lovingly reclaim her as part of my story.

Letting her know that there was nothing wrong with her in the first place.

I asked her for forgiveness. Forgiveness for abandoning her out of fear of judgement and criticism from others.

She asked for forgiveness too. For not speaking up and holding true to herself when she knew she was holding herself back.

So many of these voices we hear in our heads are voices we inherit from our life experiences, our family, ancestors and the collective.

These voices affect our beliefs, our behaviours, our way of being in and seeing the world.

And the healing path is about honouring and forgiving these voices.

Acknowledging where they have come from.

Accepting how they have affected us.

Then gently untangling ourselves from them as we remember they are not who we are.

And through the untangling we begin to allow that which we have been all along.

Grace. Beauty. Strength. Love.

A return to our whole, full and holy Self.

The true, beautiful YOU.

Post Script: It is interesting to note how I feel as I share this story with you. I can still feel a part of me cringing.

But it is these stories we carry that need healing if we are to be in the world standing fully in our own truth, not only for ourselves but for our kids and loved ones too – so they can see what it looks like when someone attends to her wounds and lives to tell the tale.

Is there are part of you that is waiting to be seen, heard and felt?

What would you say to that part of you?

Would you be open to acknowledging and reclaiming that part of you?

I have recorded a meditation process to forgive a part of you that was hurt, you felt ashamed of, or felt unsafe, and you would like to welcome that part of you home again.

Keep your mind open through the process and allow whatever part of you that comes forward to be there, even if it is surprising, disappointing or uncomfortable.

You might also find it helpful to have your journal and pen handy to free-write about your experience of the meditation.

I would love to hear how you go. Here it is, with love.

I am a mystic.

I never thought that I would ever call myself that.

I always imagined mystics were fundamentalists who renounce all material belongings, live alone in a cave, and feed on nothing but their breath (lol!).

But after many years of following the spiritual bread crumb trail, I now realise that I AM a mystic. I always have been, I just didn’t know it.

Ever since I was a small child I have always been curious about the larger forces at play around us. Raised Catholic, I remember as a young teen saying to my mother I would not attend church anymore as I could not relate to the old man and his dry sermons at the pulpit. I knew, deep down, I could be with ‘God’ anywhere I chose whether that was sitting under a tree, riding my bike by the creek or doing cartwheels on our front lawn.

I have always asked the big questions of life. To understand what this human experience was all about. To see if it was possible to cultivate an ease in, and love for, the mundane unfolding of the everyday. Where I appreciate life’s greatest joys and deepest sorrows as integral parts of this sacred human experience.

Understanding what is it to be spark of the Divine in human form.

Even my business name, Simple Sacred Everyday, has taken me several years to get my head around – a business name that could not be more mystical if I tried! The name intuitively came to me and even though I did not fully understand why I had to call my business this name, I followed the whispers and tentatively began the journey.

And I am beginning to appreciate now what these whispers have been trying to share with me.

That I am here to find my sacred ground in my everyday life. To connect with the divine in the rising of the sun, in the comforting of my daughters, in the stirring of my tea, in the tending to my garden.

Where I engage with simple rituals that wake me up to the moment, to fully appreciate the beauty and joy of being alive.

Lighting a candle. Holding my heart. Quiet words of prayer. Long, slow, deep breaths. Mindful movement. Soothing mantra.

To know an inner stillness that is steady and pure.

To connect with and trust in a benevolent force that wants to hold, guide and encourage me.

And so my explorations, revelations, breakdowns and break-throughs, are the fodder from which I teach and share my work; to help others remember the simple sacredness found in their everyday.

For me to hold sacred space for you, so you can hold sacred space for your Self.

This is the path of the mystic.

I am a mystic.

And by being on this path with me, I sense you might be too.

‘My worth and love-ability is conditional upon my achievements and productivity.’

This is a belief I have held for pretty much all of my life.

A belief that fuelled my actions.

A belief that kept me second-guessing myself.

A belief that held me down and wore me out.

A belief that is consistent with the old-world paradigm of fear, lack, control and distrust.

And now I realise I must prepare for failure.

Fail at achieving. Fail at producing. Fail at controlling.

Failing at all of the traits that I have prided myself on for so long.

Failure, because I have done my level best to avoid it all my life.

But now I understand feeling failure is my sign that I am headed in the right direction.

Feeling failure at achieving, producing and controlling.

So I can course-correct back into alignment with the knowing of my heart.

Course-correct back to self-love, self-acceptance, self-responsibility and self-sovereignity.

It has taken me 54 years to wake up to this.

But I am here. I have finally remembered.

My worth and loveability is not dependent upon my achievements and productivity.

I AM worthy. I AM loveable.

And I am ready to feel failure so I can breathe life into the divine light and presence that is the REAL me.

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‘Ease yourself in
Relax yourself back
Rest assured, my darling,
It is all working out for you.’

I am entering 2025 as quietly and as consciously I can, reflecting on the qualities that I wish to flavour this year with.

There is a lot of pressure at this time of the year to set goals, clarify strategy and action our plans. But so much more wisdom and insightful guidance is available when I give myself the space to open to softness, slowness and surrender.

So, just for now, I am giving up any ideas that I have to make something happen straight away, or getting tangled in believing things should be different from how they are.

Maybe all I have to do is cultivate space for presence and reflection, and savour the beauty that is available to me in everyday things.

To ease myself into this season of life.

I would love to know …

What does ease mean to you?

How do you connect to the feeling of ease in your body and in the moment?

Do you have rituals or daily practices that create a container for you to nurture this sense of ease?

Who would you be if you embodied ease?

What beliefs or stories do you hold which affect your ability to embrace more ease in your life?

Love you xx

Singing and mantra is my doorway to HER

It is my heartfelt prayer to call her forward

Calling her forward after hiding in the shadows.

I have heard her whispers and felt her presence for so many years

But considered her to be too frivolous,

A time waster.

Unnecessary.

I now know now the time has come to give her my full attention. 

To embrace and nurture HER who

Expresses herself freely.

Follows her joy.

Receives creative impulses.

Gifts herself space for rest and reflection.

Loves herself deeply.

Because she is the embodiment of who I really am and what I really love.

Beauty. Nature. Self Expression. Simplicity. Authenticity.

She helps me understand what it feels to be whole, nurtured, accepted and appreciated.

And what could be more important in this fleeting, precious life?

Can you feel HER calling you?

Are you willing to take the first step towards her?

It is time my darling.

Give her your whole heart and your full attention. 🧡

The morning was quiet and dark. The fog hung low over the valley. I slid onto my cushion, my hands holding my heart, bowing my head in honour of this time I offer in devotion to the life within me every day.

After silent prayer I began to play my harmonium, deep resonant sounds which my body softens to. My voice humming slow and deep, the vibrations sweeping rumination and tension through and away, leading my mind and body back home.

Om Aim Hrim Shrim. Om Aim Hrim Shrim. Om Aim Hrim Shrim.

This time on my cushion is my sacred time for me.

I belong to no one except myself.

It is here I remember who I am.

It is here I remember I am not my emotions, I am not my thoughts. I am not the beliefs that have corralled me for a lifetime.

I am not my kids, my work, my responsibilities, my likes and dislikes.

In remembering this, I remember freedom.

I remember who I am not in order to remember who I am.

And this sacred time in my day, where I belong to myself, is the daily healing self-care balm that sets me, and my loved ones, free.

Practice with me now and find that place where you belong 🧡

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