Wed 17 Aug, 2022

A Warm Welcome

Greetings Dear Ones,

I am so excited for you to join me on this journey and I am looking forward to seeing how our community can grow together.

I have had a few comments and messages wanting to know more about me and my journey into the online coaching space, so I thought I would share this via my first ever newsletter! I will be sending letters to you every month to keep you up to date with what I’ve been up to, as well as share useful insights into my daily practises and routines that have kept me grounded, connected and open hearted throughout my journey.

My name is Ayesha and I am a former Primary School Teacher and have been in the education industry for around 9 years. I graduated in 2010 with a degree in Business and IT and I had no idea what I wanted to do or where I wanted to be. I was surrounded by people who didn’t love their jobs, who found the day-to-day life mundane and they were tired of living their life on a hamster wheel. Whenever I questioned whether or not they could or would change this, I was met with a barrage of excuses. I had a deep knowing I didn’t want to live my life like this and that I wanted more.

A couple of years later, there was a devastating turn of events  when my father sadly passed away. My worst fear had been realised and I didn’t know how to process this information. As you can imagine, life was pretty tumultuous at home, I lost all purpose and meaning in my life but also I also realised I had nothing left to fear as my biggest fear was losing my father.

It was shortly after my father’s death that I stumbled upon a post to teach in South Korea as a native English Teacher. It was in South Korea, that all of the layers and the walls I had built around myself started crumbling around me and I found that I had hit rock bottom. I didn’t know it then but it was the start of my ‘Spiritual Awakening’. It had been a long, hard road up until that point and little did I know, it was about to get worse. Unfortunately, it took the death of my father for me to start opening my eyes after I had been asleep for so long. I questioned my whole existence, the purpose and meaning of life and what I truly wanted. If you’ve experienced a close death, then you know that your whole perspective on life is changed forever. There are cliché’s for a reason, life really is too short. I wrote this on an instagram story once:

‘Death can be the most transformative period in your life or it can be the end of yours too, which one will you choose?’

Living in a country enriched in culture, religion and immense unity, I started to find myself gravitating towards the shrines, the temples and the beautiful teachings of Buddhism. I am not a religious person nor do I follow a particular religion but the more I learnt about Buddhist culture and their beliefs, it resonated so much with my soul it was hard to shake off or ignore. Many things I read and learnt also reminded me of the things my father used to tell me growing up, which made this path even more special and sacred to me. My awakening process was painful, messy, confusing and incredibly exhausting. But it was these teachings that kept a small part of me alive, it was here I learnt about the breath, about stillness, about non-attachment and suffering. It was here my journey began into spirituality and to where it has lead me now.

My time in education was short-lived because little did I know, you don’t just have a Spiritual Awakening once! After South Korea, I came back to the UK to study and do my Postgraduate degree in Primary Education. I lived and worked in the UK for 3 years before I made the move to Italy to ‘progress in my career’.

I was living in Milan, Italy, where I fell in love and my whole world got turned upside down yet again. I left a good job at the school I was working in because my mental health took a huge nose dive again. I stayed in Milan to ‘figure things out’, I started questioning where I was, who I was, what I was doing and what my purpose was in this world again. Then lockdown hit and I spent 2.5 months locked in my apartment with nothing to do but to dive deeper into my healing journey. I started to think more about how I wanted my life to ‘look’. The structures and rigidities of the ‘normal’ working life wasn’t sitting right with me. It wasn’t aligning with who I am as a person or my values and beliefs and I knew I had to start making a change.

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to help people. My path hasn’t been an easy one but I have made it to the other side unscathed! I have more confidence in myself now than I ever have done, I trust myself more than I ever did and my heart has finally found the peace and love it has been yearning for, for all these years. The layers came off piece by piece, it has taken 11 years to get to this point but I am here, I am alive and I am free.

Amongst my quest to pursue my passion I found coaching. The fundamentals of coaching gave me the freedom to pursue a passion my heart has led me to. As well as allowing me to build a career and future that aligns with me and my soul. I am on a mission now to help other women unlock their own true potential and inner power. To be able to live a life free from the constructs that society has placed upon us and find a freedom in their hearts and minds. Being a heart led and a heart minded woman we can unleash a New Generation and New Era for our New Earth.

Sending so much love and light,

Ayesha
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