I’ve been on a strange old journey over the last 6 weeks and beyond with some physical health stuff that the universe sent my way, in the form of a little parasite teacher who hitched a ride back with me from India. It seems we’d been acquainted for some time.

I named the parasite teacher Jimmy G. Today, it was confirmed that Jimmy has gone on his merry old way, having taught me some mega lessons while him & his friends knocked about my physical vessel.

Like all things in life, it’s been a journey!!

There’s a bit of a story to it and I don’t know how much will spill out of me in this moment. Some readers may know this, but for those who don’t, I’ve been following the guidance of spirit in terms of how I “run my life” since 2020 – it’s an odd way to live your life and always filled with curveballs and adventures (understatement), especially this year!! I’ve white knuckled it most of the way 😂

One of the things I’m quite good at is ignoring the guidance from spirit, going my own way, and then realising later down the line why spirit might have guided that thing (the guidance of spirit ALWAYS retains an element of mystery, but I love trying to second guess “the plan” 😅)

On return home from India/Thailand adventures in August, I was being strongly guided to rest and gift myself until the end of November 2024 as time for myself – to honour the season of rest & letting go I imagined. And to trust (maybe) that I’d be able to earn enough money to live/pay rent and bills/do nice things through doing healing work, and that alone. I’d left the corporate world of BBC media land in Oct/Nov 2023, so post-travel, this was going to be the first time I would be truly self-employed, without a salaried job rolling alongside it.

Of course I ignored the guidance, got 2 part-time jobs, and very quickly started to feel like juggling those plus healing work/admin/life admin/changing my whole life post-India (as it threw EVERYTHING up in the air, big ass tower moment year 😂), might not quite be honouring the season of rest & guidance I’d received.

I started noticing I was losing weight, and then I lost my appetite (which is HIGHLY unusual for me – even in the depths of depression, I can still find it in me to eat), so went to the doctors and found out about Jimmy G. Then the universe prescribed me some forced-rest, in the form of antibiotics playing with my body in very odd whackamole physical health/energy ways, which has been ongoing for the last 6-7 weeks or so.

There have been quite a number of not-following-the-guidance tower moments like this in 2024 and beyond, but blimey – I’m in a new space of insaaaaane trust with the guidance, the divine plan & just how crazy amazing our intuition is. Let’s see how long it lasts 😂… It seems I was being guided to rest for good reason after all.

When I found out about Jimmy G, I tuned in and asked –  what are you here to teach me? Jimmy G spoke and said that they were here to teach me boundaries and the balance between giving & receiving. A theme that showed up earlier in the year, when the land in Dharamkot, India told me a similar thing.

I re-tuned in a few times and asked Jimmy G what the lessons were along this journey – just to double/triple check y’know, and always got the same/similar reply, until a few days ago – when I asked about the lessons and got no response. Hmmmm… this made me wonder if Jimmy G might have moved out, and that was confirmed this morning with a negative test result. Intuition is just so frikkin cool.

I’m getting bored of writing now. So I’m going to summarise/probably not summarise the many many lessons and gifts that Jimmy G bestowed on me.

~ bringing a new level of awareness to the subtle and insidious ways of how the energy of shame can impact on relationship to self, health, how I relate to others & how much of the authentic Sally I “show” to “the world” ~

~ the antibiotics kinda caused my body to shut down and do weird things on day 4 of the course and beyond, but day 4 was really really gnarly… I can be a bit Leo moon dramatic at times, but on antibiotics day 4 (when the thing I’m about to tell you happened), I was making peace with it being the end. I could barely move, and when my body was in this vulnerable state, it led to one of the biggest somatic trauma releases I’ve had and a huuuuuuuge download/insight from spirit that made me flabbergasted/awestruck at the beauty and intricacy of the divine plan, humbled the fuck out of me, and also changed my perspective on my entire life/mental health “story”/the last 16 years in particular… more on that one day, needless to say, I’m integrating A LOT 😂 ~

~ continuing to fall in love with myself, loving solitude and my own company, laughing A LOT (at my own humour), being weird, embracing my many shades of odd, talking to myself in a possibly Transylvanian accent most of the time for the last week or so, even when out in public… farewell inhibitions 😂 (warning: embarking on a healing journey may do this to you), hello embracing my inner child 24 hours a day ❤️) ~

~ finding beauty and gratitude in being unwell, as it showed me how far I’ve come in terms of health anxiety. Between 2018-2020 I reeeeeeally realised that my health anxiety had gotten way out of hand, but with the Jimmy G journey (which would have completely spun me out not so long ago), I was able to sit with it, (mostly) in trust, and surrender to whatever life/my body has in store for me. It felt like a big win, despite sometimes barely having the energy to get out of bed, walk down the stairs and feed/water myself.

Don’t get me wrong, there have definitely been many moments of impatience/frustration/anxiety/berating the universe during the Jimmy G journey, but in general, I’ve been peppy as hell about it – and it feels amazing to land here after so many years of challenges around health anxiety and mental health… I’ve worked hard on myself to get here, so I’m smelling the roses in a BIG way, trusting so much in the power of holistic healing modalities & how meeting with our inherited and experiential trauma in order to witness, heal and release it holds so much power and freedom (as much as it can be an icky as hell process and certainly not a “pleasant” or “easy” journey to get there) ~

~ taught me how to cook: have been getting super creative with cooking & trying to practice what I preach and see food as medicine (I’ve always (mostly) hated cooking until now and saw it as a huge chore)… I really believe the power of the plants has been a huge part of this healing journey. I was tested for the parasite after antibiotics and tested positive.

So I went all out, followed an anti-parasitic diet, stuffed my mouth full of pumpkin seeds whenever possible, laughed at how nature’s kitchen provides SO much hilarious medicine to support us during parasite journeys, cut out refined sugar & processed food completely, ate homecooked (mostly) organic food, and marvelled at how despite feeling unwell/having very depleted energy, my channel was the clearest it’s ever been & how joyous you can feel when following a way of eating that supports your body. I also noticed how some hormonal body stuff all seemed to quite quickly correct itself once I stopped eating refined sugar, processed/non-organic food, and seed oils ~

~ witnessing how the more I rested, the more I committed to watching Disney, taking salt baths, being joyous despite having incredibly low battery power, meditating, doing “nothing”, never venturing far from home except to sit on benches and watch the sea or feed crows, the more my healing income increased. Not the first time this has happened – particularly at this time of year.

We are in the season of rest and receive, the divine feminine energy, yin, wintery, dark, underworld energy. The more I test the rest hypothesis, the more life shows me that rest = reward, contrary to what the “culture” tells us. If you’d told me this a few years ago I wouldn’t have believed me either… I’m still early days “testing out” this hypothesis (this has been a 2 year pattern so far), but the pattern so far is undeniable… less is more (particularly at this time of year) ~

~ boundaries: yes, Jimmy G taught me what it came to teach me. I’m still on a journey with boundaries, and I’m still VERY MUCH on my own healing journey, but yaaaay I’m getting much better with boundaries. I learned a lot about energy expenditure through undertaking a 10 day vipassana meditation (silent meditation over 10 days) in the summer, and the journey with my energy post-antibiotics has really brought more awareness to our energy in & out (including speaking, thinking, movement, external stimulation, the people/places/situations that drain vs energise and support you, the tools and practices that “charge you up”).

As my energy levels continue to rise and get back to “normal” (which is the journey I feel I’m on now), I’ll be trying to bring these lessons and this awareness into my “ordinary” day to day in a more focussed way. I’m still needing to take things slow, honour my body and energy levels, and I’m trying to put my own needs before the needs of others as much as possible… not selfish, self-love 💞 ~

I’m really bored of writing now, and I’ve written quite a lot – so well done if you made it this far!! There have been so many more lessons from this strange old journey, I hope to share more on them soon. I feel once again, that I’ve been in a process of initiation for whatever the universe has in store for me next. I’m still kinda being guided to rest, so I’m going to continue to honour that, but am hoping to maaaaaaybe see a few friends, get out of Tynemouth a little bit more often and hopefully get creative on the run up to Christmas.

Sitting on various eggs for next year, they’re all incubating. Spirit is giving me glimpses and guidance of what’s in store for 2025… I think we might collectively meet with very strange times, eek. It is and is going to be important/vital to cultivate and maintain a sense of deep trust. I’m holding my cards to my chest for now and awaiting further guidance, but as a lil heads up, I’m not sure how much I’ll be in Newcastle next year, particularly for the first half of the year… so if you’ve been considering an in person 1:1 session for a while, or bobbing along to an in person ceremony or circle, it would be lush to connect while I’m still around. That also might all change, it depends on what I get guided in terms of next moves.

I’m still hoping to continue offering 1:1 sessions & group ceremony online, and potentially offering 1:1 in person sessions and ceremonies in various locations that might not just be Newcastle, but time will tell, and I’ll try to update you as spirit updates me (… & when I’m ready to share).

& here are the bits of the email that have the info on the other things I wanted to share, before I got swept away with my Jimmy G energetic adventures  😂❤️

Sending love!!

Sally xx