Like most of us, I was raised amongst all kinds of abuse, toxicity and darkness, not enough to ruin me, just enough to get well accustomed to life’s shadows. My father was an important figure for me growing up, he was grounded, often making jokes and keeping things light and was my stable, calm rock amongst many challenges. As a young adult I partnered up with characters who were unlike my father but reflected the challenges in my childhood. In my third relationship I woke up deep in this cycle, partnered with a psychopath.
I finally saw darkness, which masqueraded as anything but, I got safe and threw myself into the devotion of self healing and seeking light.
I began on my knees, with literally nothing bar my life endangered, 2 precious children, my father out of reach overseas, estranged from the rest of my family, a feeling of disconnection from self plus the conclusion that my human self had absolutely no idea how to navigate this earth life. In a quiet deep moment within, I announced to myself / god / spirit / source, this is not what I had planned, clearly I have no idea how to ‘do life’, tell me what to do, I’ll do whatever you ask. In that moment I handed my world over to a presence that I knew and felt was pure but which I had little relationship with yet sensed could guide me 100% better than I could alone.
What followed was an undeniable string of synchronistic divine interventions which called to me to take serious major risks.
I took all of the risks without delay which worked out far better than my human mind could have ever coordinated. Looking back, this began to give me my power back, as I continued to land on my feet, shocked but safe, clearly supported, with everything I needed. I finally knew what I was capable of and how to move in this world, not from my mind, but from my inner connection, my expanded self.
Over the following years I continued to live like this, as guided, navigating more of my sovereignty and devoted to my healing which included attending many years as a client in a range of professional therapies, healing sessions and natural modalities along with nature time and exploring my own innate healing power. Subsequently I unravelled my childhood, released masses of false programming, broke a multitude of generational patterns and connected within to uncover and embody an expanding, authentic, deep divine presence.
Looking back, as a little girl raised with zero religion or spirituality, I was aware of a presence far greater than what was commonly known.
Throughout childhood I remember closing my eyes and feeling myself as energy. I would say my name repeatedly and bring myself into a moment of self awareness. As a child, I was fascinated by feeling my energy everywhere. While this would alleviate the darkness I was experiencing growing up, I now know, I was actually clearing my energetics and connecting deeply within.
In my 20’s I consciously began healing from my childhood with physical health detoxification, somewhat familiar to me thanks to my mother who introduced me to the concept of natural health following on from her mother. I found further healing studying Visual Arts at my local Tafe, continuing onto a University degree which essentially all acted as years of self-lead art therapy which did develop into a successful arts career were I was locally known, paid professionally and exhibited nationally. Looking back, art provided me with an avenue to express and witness that which was within.. it was often rebellious and questioned society as a whole. Around six years into my arts career, even though I was being awarded major grants and public commissions, I felt irritated by what I saw as the professional art world’s ego and would dream into careers in natural health. A guy I was seeing, who presented as my ideal ‘knight in shining armour’, offered to travel Australia together and as I previously mentioned, this turned out to be a highly abusive relationship with an incredibly charismatic, intensely manipulative and dangerous psychopathic, in which I slowly lost everything, at the very least, my arts career.
I escaped after 2 years to face an ongoing aftermath from connecting with such a character. My life was now both rich in serious challenges yet also rich in fate and synchronicity. One example was being unexpectedly awarded 100% custody of our son in the midst of child custody court cases he pursued. I had no substantial evidence against him and sadly I knew he didn’t want custody for sane reasons. I’ll never forget my lawyer saying, I suggest you prepare yourself as he will get shared custody likely as supervised visits. I realised how big this was and the long term traumatic impact this would have on our entire family. I also realised I could not control the situation and that the system was not going to protect us. I realised it was crucial to let fear go and to refrain from feeding the situation any lower energies entirely. So I engaged very little with others about it and attended court on my own in unfounded solid faith and trust. In any moment in which I found myself in any form or level of fear, I would stop and hand the situation over, seeing my son completely surrounded in protective light. Then one hearing, which was far from intentionally the last, he turned up in his full psychopathic glory, chaotic and via phone, without his lawyer, representing himself and proceeded to rudely argue with the judge about everything starting with refusing to address him as your honour. Within minutes the judge abruptly slammed down his hammer and yelled “Enough, 100% custody to the mother, case closed!” I walked out completely shocked, streaming with tears and a clear knowing that we were divinely protected, as this was far from the first serious close call.
He put darkness in my face, I used it to uncover my light.
Challenges continued with him working hard to locate me, then intimidating and threatening me in which authorities said they could do nothing about until ‘something happened‘. I refused for us to be his victims. I knew he was dangerous and had happened upon statistics that in Australia, one woman is murdered every week by a current or former partner. There were many signs and synchronicities pointing to take this very seriously. So I bravely took our lives into my own hands, trusted my gut and made a bold move. Overnight I completely disconnected from our life, where I had grown up and had solid roots. I told very few we were leaving and even less where we were going. I asked a close friend who would benefit if she would pack up my house rental, in return she could have everything and donate anything else to the local women’s shelter. I had lost everything years prior when I first left him so it was easy this time as I saw it going into good hands plus I had time to pack essentials. Then I said to my then little kids… “who wants to go on an adventure..”, both excited I told them to pack there favourite things, we have one backpack and one suitcase each as long as you can carry them by yourself. My daughter only 6 and my son nearly 3.. we were quite a travelling sight.
They had their suitcase’s packed with toys, lego, drawings, clothes and a holiday attitude.. I had my suitcase packed with my whole life and an attitude of survival.
In the morning, hardly slept with my life in a suitcase, no solid plan, financially unprepared with a mere four hundred dollars in the bank and a roll of cash from a concerned friend, my kids and I boarded a 25hr train south to Brisbane. I knew I wanted to go to Tasmania but I didn’t know how I was going to get there, yet Brisbane was in the right direction and I had an undeniable feeling that this will somehow work out. Only a few hours into the trip, a domestic violence service I had been talking with contacted me with an unexpected string of events that led to ‘making me a special exception’. “We don’t normally do this“, the lady said, “but we can book and fund your flights straight to Tasmania“. So the very next day I stood completely mind blown in Hobart, Tasmania, still with my roll of cash and $400 in the bank! I remember deeply inhaling the incredible fresh air, knowing not one person there yet feeling fantastic. Mind blowing synchronistic blessings rolled in one after another and I continued to line up with everything and everyone we needed, in circumstances that still amaze me. I officially changed our names immediately with more special exceptions and created a whole new life in which we have been safe ever since. For many years I spoke of this to no one, yet I am now able to share, as I have learnt that he, my sons father, mentally unwell and clearly in a world of pain of his own creation, has been killed in a car accident.
Ten years after loosing pretty much everything.. twice, I began a new career path and pursued a Certification as a Holistic Health Coach.
In my 30’s and safe haven in Tasmania, I formally studied what I had felt calling me for many years, Natural Health in the form of a Health Coaching Certification with a non-government institution based in New York, IIN, the Institution of Integrative Nutrition. I was deeply fulfilled exploring all things health but then mid year quite rapidly I experienced immense personal healing while practically working with gut health and fermented foods. Many of my long term physical health challenges resolved. It was very exciting so naturally I stepped out into my new community super passionate with this work. I started with 4 ladies around my kitchen table which quickly turned into years of large workshops and a business called Wild For Wellness. I continued to expand my gut health knowledge in partnership with increasing my own gut health. I travelled with this content and quietly worked with hundreds of people across Australia sharing all I knew and had experienced personally. I continue to receive heart warming feedback and all kinds of self healing stories as a result of my Gut Health Workshop and while I no longer offer this content in-person, I’m currently finalising my own Gut Health eBook.
In my early 40’s with a level of physical health embodied, I experienced an intense type of spiritual awakening. I experienced a spiral like string of dramatic synchronicities, energetic activations, deep triggering and ego death over the course of a solid year with a level of continuation over a few following years. I found part of myself and the life I had been living, slowly dissolving as I continued to experience all kinds spontaneous and advanced spiritual experiences. Effortlessly I deepened, while I felt like I was completely falling apart yet simultaneously deepening my connection to a rich and fulfilling presence within. I began to intuitively just know and know at will. I received visions seemingly out of nowhere that later showed accuracy and meaning. I felt and experienced all kinds of guidance and support of absolute new heights. I genuinely ‘felt’ much more, became highly sensitive, aligned in profound ways and aware of a multi-dimensional interconnection, that continues to naturally expand today. I felt a solidifying zen-like inner peace, an underlying trust for life, just as it is and an all encompassing love that is unconditional and always present.
I was quickly guided to share my healing, clear connection and ability to see, hear and know intuitively with ease with others.
One day while walking past my local spiritual health clinic, I heard the intuitive call to walk straight in and enquire about offering my services. I was shocked as I felt completely unprepared and wasn’t at all clear exactly what I was offering, but I knew to follow this kind of guidance, so in I went, blind. I told the lady at the desk I’d had a spiritual awakening and was guided to offer sessions that combined aromatherapy massage (which I previous experience for) with intuitive guidance and spiritual healing. She happened to be the clinic owner and practicing psychic who I later understood was not often on the front desk.. she looked me up and down, which I felt as if she was reading me with her extrasensory abilities. She then warmly invited me to join her and work at the clinic, Earth Mother in Cygnet and asked me to begin with a session on her!
“Bridget creates a healing space that holds you in perfect Love. I felt completely safe, nurtured and cared for. The beautiful energy that Bridget works with is powerful and clearly from divine Source… This healing helped to clear fear-based blocks that I had held for a long time, allowing me to feel more confidence in my work. Thank you so much Bridget.”
Kathy, Earth Mother, Cygnet Tasmania 2018
All through my 40’s, I worked with people, mostly face to face, in various intuitive healing sessions. My work developed and transformed beyond what I could have imagined possible. It is obvious to me, and others, that I am able to clearly tune in, to a deep level, able to articulate one’s inner truth, energetic dynamics and positive pathways forward. I became consistently, often heavily booked, doing what feels like downloading and articulating hundreds and hundreds of profound healing sessions. My guidance moved me location wise to work from various, sometimes multiple, healing rooms and community centres around Tasmania but also back in Queensland. The covid era gifted me a dramatic increase in distant sessions, which pushed me deep into this format, providing me with ample professional experience. It is clear however, that ‘my actual work’ is to remain sovereign, follow my senses plus maintain and increase physical health for a clear, connected human vessel, enabling the continuation and expansion of my alignment, intuitive clarity and energetic light.
Towards the end of my 40’s I sensed to deepen my priorities to myself and my children, so shifted to offer just a few healing sessions per week. I complemented this with a fun, light retail gig at a spiritual styled store ‘Sacred Space’ in the same rural town Cygnet, where my healing work had originally begun, in fact, right next door. In this joyful work life balance, I continued to enrich and expand intuitively. During this time, you’ll be pleased to read I witnessed my children grow into healthy, well functioning, capable young adults, such a clear testament to my choices and way with life, rather than any of our early family-life challenges. This is an enormous gift for me which continues to shine big, bright, clear results of my personal accomplishments plus like any good teacher, relentlessly tugs at any areas I still need to heal. Being a parent has proved to be a superior gift that’s actually reciprocal in nature, a gift that keeps on giving, to both.
As I approach my 50th, I’m slowly converting a van, to transition into a life of nature based, nomadic freedom partnered with a serious and deeper dive to ‘unplug from the machine’. I am in love with all things real, wild, natural and authentic and am a seeker of truth, expansion and freedom. My sense to return more self empowerment, location transience and inherent peaceful presence is strong plus feels important, as does radical letting go into life’s synchronistic flow, opening up to more of the magic of being human. My healing work continues to transition alongside me, deepening in my abilities yet I’ve sensed to retire from in-person sessions and proceed with distant sessions predominantly, which offers many advantages, including receiving deep healing insights in ones own chosen space.
Nomadic life is not new to me plus feels inherent and natural. I adore time adventuring outdoors amongst wild nature. While I grew up in Far North Queensland’s intense tropical hot climate, I’ve raised my two children predominantly in Tasmania’s cold, seasonal climate. My ability to adapt, be resourceful and creative has been throughly tried and tested, all foundational to nomadic life. It is now so abundantly clear that my entire life has been the ideal training ground for both the healing work and lifestyle that I am here to lead, live and provide.
Let me leave you here with the fundamental truth that you are worth it. Our healing is worth every effort, every sacrifice and every challenge as we do what we must for ourselves. I believe our healing is interconnected with everything of real value, including our purpose, hence is the single most important thing any of us could possibly be attending to. Through our healing, our authenticity ripples out into the whole, positively impacting far beyond our comprehension. If you feel resonance with my words, then perhaps I’ve some further and more personal insights to guide you along your way, as you navigate your path home within, the true gift to self, and all.
