Getting By With A Little Help From Our Friends
Hayley Felton - Align To Love
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Last week I decided it would be a really good idea to help out a friend.�� I knew I'd be helping myself out a bit as I was curious about what she was doing (running a stand and doing several talks), where she was doing it (The Best You Expo) and also I'd be staying over at her lovely flat near London (the couch).��
��
To be honest, there were moments in the next few days when we both wondered "What are we doing?" and "Can we even do this?" usually when we were carrying and dragging half of the gear for her stand with an eco take away cup of coffee in one hand and trying to swipe our cards at the train station with the other.�� Who knew that one stand could take so much stuff?�� At the end we both agreed that if it had been raining we just wouldn't have managed it.�� It's not to say that there weren't others helping ��� Hayley has a lot of friends and family but, in the year since she did this show last, Hayley has been working so hard and growing her business and her practice; her expertise and abilities so fast that we underestimated how much she had to share both in terms of the stuff and the amazing effect she and her stand would have on the people coming to the expo.�� We just did not stop for two days apart from when we sat down, bunked off or ran to get a sandwich out of sheer exhaustion and desperation.
��
The other thing is that both Hayley and I have had major personal challenges in the last few months, and at times like these, just like when I was teaching Zumba, it's hard to pick yourself up and stand up in front of an audience.�� Of course it's exactly when you do that that you realise how much you have to give, how your challenges can become a blessing as you reach out to others who are also suffering and struggling.
��
Hayley's stand was all about her Align to Love online course that she's launching next month.�� I'd already decided that it was the time for me to take some action on my love life as I feel whatever reasons I've been single up to now no longer exist, so when Hayley offered me the course for free as a Thank You for helping her out I grabbed it with both hands.
��
I've been friends with Hayley for around 10 years now - we met when we both worked in the City of London, but I actually met her at her leaving do, so it���s a wonder that we connected and became friends so quickly.�� We've done a lot of random things together ��� weird video shoots, holidays, nights out, she's one of a very few friends who have travelled to meet my brother, sisters and Mum and although we're not the kind of friends who go out together every few weeks, it���s become clear that we are travelling on similar paths and at times we are exactly what we need and able to give each other support and understanding.�� If you had told me when we met that she'd be the person I reached out to in my lowest points, and that she would help me as much as she has I wouldn't have believed you.
��
It's funny because that's the kind of disbelief one chap had when he came to her stand.�� "Well how does it work?" he said.��
��
"We���re just friends." We said.
��
"But how does that work for you?"
��
We looked at each other and shrugged.�� "But why are you here?" he asked me.
��
"I've just come to help her out.�� We've been friends for years."
��
And he left still shaking his head.�� We looked at each other and shrugged.�� Hayley and I can teach a lot, her with her online course and me with my books, but maybe if he needs to understand our friendship he needs to go and do both.��
��
Anyway, this isn't just a self congratulatory or sales newsletter (although here is a discount affiliate link and you'll have seen a few on your way down ��� I'm more than happy to recommend Hayley ��� I was doing it for two days solidly last week, and she's more than happy to pay me commission!) but about what Hayley did for me over those few days.
��
I know Hayley needed my help and I'm so happy to have been part of the event because I wasn't just helping out Hayley but also all the people around us ��� there was so much love in our little corner of the expo (and I enjoyed it way, way more than last year!) but I was surprised by all the things I got out of it.�� Partly it was the connections I made with others, but it was also being able to talk completely honestly about the challenges I've been facing.
��
I've nailed it down to a big fear of success, which I'm tackling, and a nasty habit of hiding (something which Zumba has helped me to overcome) and I've progressed from completely freaking out the first time I saw one of my books on the Free Amazon Best-Seller chart to being frustrated that my books aren't higher on the Paid Amazon Best-Seller charts, but I am still awfully good at hiding, when I need to be much better at pearling (i.e. standing out and shining!)�� Talking about this with Hayley we decided that I should look at the talks at the expo and find ones that might really help (hanging out with Hayley was also a good start).�� As we sat on the train after setting up I read out each talk����� She looked down at the page when I'd finished.�� "What about this one?"�� she pointed at a talk about��� dun, dun, dun��� "Fear of Success".�� I had literally not seen it.�� I had looked at and read every single description but had ignored this.
��
I needed a coach.�� Luckily Hayley is a great coach.�� So we decided that I had to head to that talk.
��
I'd like to share with you what I learned.�� The coach actually taught what he called a "medi-healing" which is a combination of meditation and healing and is designed to create immediate results (unlike many of the coaches who are selling an expensive program).�� As I sat in the session I went down into all the reasons I hide, and hide my gifts.�� Some of them are clear to me and so obvious (like when Hayley pointed out the talk in the brochure), and yet��� the coach/healer spoke about our heritage, our instincts and our DNA��� our family habits as well as our personal habits.�� In the session I realised that much of the stuff I can talk about so freely now (as can Hayley and this coach) would have got us sentenced to death as witches not so long ago, and locked up in insane asylums even more recently.�� So many of the things I've learned around the world about healing have had to go underground in order to survive.�� So the fact that I exist, with my DNA, with my family's heritage of artists, healers, intuitive people, people who stand up and write about things they feel are important is a miracle.�� When I went to Scotland I discovered so much about my father's family and how they had to keep going into hiding to avoid the soldiers who wanted to catch them, kill them or even send them to the Southern States of the US as slaves.�� 12 times they had all their possessions stolen from their land����� It is a miracle that I am alive.��
��
But my family, my DNA has survived because guess what, my family were all such good hiders for generations.�� And so the penny drops.
��
I've called what I do being a shaman (maybe a modern shaman) or a wise woman in the tradition of so many of the wise women of England who were sacrificed as witches, and I've felt strongly for years that one of my spirit animals is the leopard.�� After a very powerful dream I looked it up ��� the leopard is the spirit animal of the shaman.�� And perhaps this is because, like my family, leopards are extremely good hiders.
��
So perhaps that's why I am a pearl, because it's time now for who I am and what I do to come out of the shadows.�� Because like any spiritual seeker I am looking for what we all seek; truth, because truth brings freedom and with it finally, peace.
��
(I know this is a really long post ��� but a lot happened last week!)
��
Anyway, on the second day I got to sit in on Hayley's talk (I missed the first day because I was manning the stand, but luckily she's so good they asked her to do it twice).�� I didn't expect to get a lot out of it because it was a noisy venue and I was thinking about getting to the back and setting up the stuff for the end of the session but I tried to focus when she also did a meditation.
��
Although Hayley's course can work in a lot of different ways I was focused on romance and, as she walked us through the visualisation, what came up for me was something she had been talking about in her outline of her course.�� "Authentic Desire" - becoming honest about what we truly desire, not what we think we should have or even what we think is attainable or acceptable.�� "Authentic Desire."�� And in that moment I knew what I wanted to do and so I excused myself (after the talk and helping people) and went over to talk to a boy I liked.��
��
It���s not that I expected anything to happen with him, I just felt that it was what I truly wanted to do.
��
And later that night a boy sat next to me in the bar and started talking to me.�� Again, I don't expect anything from it ��� he made it clear he was taken, but it���s nice to practice, to talk to boys, to flirt, to be a girl and have weird and interesting conversations and remember that there's a whole big world of love out there, of people who want to meet me (or you!), people who would think of us as godsends and maybe even celebrate the day we met.�� Anything, and everything is possible.
��
I'm really looking forward to following Hayley's course (I mean that was the result of like 20 minutes of listening to her ��� can you imagine the result of doing the whole course) and I'm also doing a healing meditation daily based on some of her wisdom and some of mine and my heart is really happy to be sharing her with you (with the affiliate link - click here - you get ��100 discount before Sunday 24th February ��� this Sunday, and I get commission!)�� As well as my own result I sat with Hayley as she received email after email from women in the audience who had had powerful results from her guided meditation, and that's a rare and exceptional reaction.
��
https://soulpassion.thinkific.com/courses/align-to-love?ref=2cbd60
��
Hayley is a gift and a godsend and I really hope you go check out her website and make the most of her talents.�� She is open about how she has struggled with finding and enjoying love (and I was there for those years too!) so I really enjoy seeing her so happy in her relationship with someone who respects and supports her (and buys her Valentine's Day Marmite because he knows it will make her smile).��
��
There are some incredible romances I have witnessed, most especially my grandparents (both sides) who showed me what love could look like, and sometimes I too question myself ��� why didn't I meet the love of my life when I was 16 years old?�� But I know that I had to travel and understand healing and I had to travel alone, but I hope and pray that I might experience a lasting love like my grandparents'.�� I know that I am enough, I know that there are extraordinary and wonderful men out there, so I hope with a little help from Hayley I can finally find someone I want to share the rest of my journey, and the rest of my life with.
��
Lots of love,
��
Pearl
Pearl Howie is the writer of ���free Feeling Real Emotions Everyday���, now available as a photographic paperback and eBook, a text only book and as an audiobook. The 8 other titles in this series, are already available as paperbacks and eBooks and are coming soon as audiobooks.
Follow Pearl on Amazon to see when her next audiobook "Japan Is Very Wonderful" is available on Audible. https://www.amazon.com/Pearl-Howie/e/B007HJFBH4
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(Without Pictures) eBook - free of charge
��
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��
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Colour paperback
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook - free of charge
��
(Without Pictures) ��� paperback
��
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��
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��
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
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��
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��
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��
(Without Pictures) eBook - free of charge (temporarily!)
��
(Without Pictures ��� paperback)
��
Camino de la Luna ��� Forgiveness
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��
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook free of charge (temporarily!)
��
(Without Pictures ��� paperback)
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��
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��
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��
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��
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Last week I decided it would be a really good idea to help out a friend.�� I knew I'd be helping myself out a bit as I was curious about what she was doing (running a stand and doing several talks), where she was doing it (The Best You Expo) and also I'd be staying over at her lovely flat near London (the couch).��
��
To be honest, there were moments in the next few days when we both wondered "What are we doing?" and "Can we even do this?" usually when we were carrying and dragging half of the gear for her stand with an eco take away cup of coffee in one hand and trying to swipe our cards at the train station with the other.�� Who knew that one stand could take so much stuff?�� At the end we both agreed that if it had been raining we just wouldn't have managed it.�� It's not to say that there weren't others helping ��� Hayley has a lot of friends and family but, in the year since she did this show last, Hayley has been working so hard and growing her business and her practice; her expertise and abilities so fast that we underestimated how much she had to share both in terms of the stuff and the amazing effect she and her stand would have on the people coming to the expo.�� We just did not stop for two days apart from when we sat down, bunked off or ran to get a sandwich out of sheer exhaustion and desperation.
��
The other thing is that both Hayley and I have had major personal challenges in the last few months, and at times like these, just like when I was teaching Zumba, it's hard to pick yourself up and stand up in front of an audience.�� Of course it's exactly when you do that that you realise how much you have to give, how your challenges can become a blessing as you reach out to others who are also suffering and struggling.
��
Hayley's stand was all about her Align to Love online course that she's launching next month.�� I'd already decided that it was the time for me to take some action on my love life as I feel whatever reasons I've been single up to now no longer exist, so when Hayley offered me the course for free as a Thank You for helping her out I grabbed it with both hands.
��
I've been friends with Hayley for around 10 years now - we met when we both worked in the City of London, but I actually met her at her leaving do, so it���s a wonder that we connected and became friends so quickly.�� We've done a lot of random things together ��� weird video shoots, holidays, nights out, she's one of a very few friends who have travelled to meet my brother, sisters and Mum and although we're not the kind of friends who go out together every few weeks, it���s become clear that we are travelling on similar paths and at times we are exactly what we need and able to give each other support and understanding.�� If you had told me when we met that she'd be the person I reached out to in my lowest points, and that she would help me as much as she has I wouldn't have believed you.
��
It's funny because that's the kind of disbelief one chap had when he came to her stand.�� "Well how does it work?" he said.��
��
"We���re just friends." We said.
��
"But how does that work for you?"
��
We looked at each other and shrugged.�� "But why are you here?" he asked me.
��
"I've just come to help her out.�� We've been friends for years."
��
And he left still shaking his head.�� We looked at each other and shrugged.�� Hayley and I can teach a lot, her with her online course and me with my books, but maybe if he needs to understand our friendship he needs to go and do both.��
��
Anyway, this isn't just a self congratulatory or sales newsletter (although here is a discount affiliate link and you'll have seen a few on your way down ��� I'm more than happy to recommend Hayley ��� I was doing it for two days solidly last week, and she's more than happy to pay me commission!) but about what Hayley did for me over those few days.
��
I know Hayley needed my help and I'm so happy to have been part of the event because I wasn't just helping out Hayley but also all the people around us ��� there was so much love in our little corner of the expo (and I enjoyed it way, way more than last year!) but I was surprised by all the things I got out of it.�� Partly it was the connections I made with others, but it was also being able to talk completely honestly about the challenges I've been facing.
��
I've nailed it down to a big fear of success, which I'm tackling, and a nasty habit of hiding (something which Zumba has helped me to overcome) and I've progressed from completely freaking out the first time I saw one of my books on the Free Amazon Best-Seller chart to being frustrated that my books aren't higher on the Paid Amazon Best-Seller charts, but I am still awfully good at hiding, when I need to be much better at pearling (i.e. standing out and shining!)�� Talking about this with Hayley we decided that I should look at the talks at the expo and find ones that might really help (hanging out with Hayley was also a good start).�� As we sat on the train after setting up I read out each talk����� She looked down at the page when I'd finished.�� "What about this one?"�� she pointed at a talk about��� dun, dun, dun��� "Fear of Success".�� I had literally not seen it.�� I had looked at and read every single description but had ignored this.
��
I needed a coach.�� Luckily Hayley is a great coach.�� So we decided that I had to head to that talk.
��
I'd like to share with you what I learned.�� The coach actually taught what he called a "medi-healing" which is a combination of meditation and healing and is designed to create immediate results (unlike many of the coaches who are selling an expensive program).�� As I sat in the session I went down into all the reasons I hide, and hide my gifts.�� Some of them are clear to me and so obvious (like when Hayley pointed out the talk in the brochure), and yet��� the coach/healer spoke about our heritage, our instincts and our DNA��� our family habits as well as our personal habits.�� In the session I realised that much of the stuff I can talk about so freely now (as can Hayley and this coach) would have got us sentenced to death as witches not so long ago, and locked up in insane asylums even more recently.�� So many of the things I've learned around the world about healing have had to go underground in order to survive.�� So the fact that I exist, with my DNA, with my family's heritage of artists, healers, intuitive people, people who stand up and write about things they feel are important is a miracle.�� When I went to Scotland I discovered so much about my father's family and how they had to keep going into hiding to avoid the soldiers who wanted to catch them, kill them or even send them to the Southern States of the US as slaves.�� 12 times they had all their possessions stolen from their land����� It is a miracle that I am alive.��
��
But my family, my DNA has survived because guess what, my family were all such good hiders for generations.�� And so the penny drops.
��
I've called what I do being a shaman (maybe a modern shaman) or a wise woman in the tradition of so many of the wise women of England who were sacrificed as witches, and I've felt strongly for years that one of my spirit animals is the leopard.�� After a very powerful dream I looked it up ��� the leopard is the spirit animal of the shaman.�� And perhaps this is because, like my family, leopards are extremely good hiders.
��
So perhaps that's why I am a pearl, because it's time now for who I am and what I do to come out of the shadows.�� Because like any spiritual seeker I am looking for what we all seek; truth, because truth brings freedom and with it finally, peace.
��
(I know this is a really long post ��� but a lot happened last week!)
��
Anyway, on the second day I got to sit in on Hayley's talk (I missed the first day because I was manning the stand, but luckily she's so good they asked her to do it twice).�� I didn't expect to get a lot out of it because it was a noisy venue and I was thinking about getting to the back and setting up the stuff for the end of the session but I tried to focus when she also did a meditation.
��
Although Hayley's course can work in a lot of different ways I was focused on romance and, as she walked us through the visualisation, what came up for me was something she had been talking about in her outline of her course.�� "Authentic Desire" - becoming honest about what we truly desire, not what we think we should have or even what we think is attainable or acceptable.�� "Authentic Desire."�� And in that moment I knew what I wanted to do and so I excused myself (after the talk and helping people) and went over to talk to a boy I liked.��
��
It���s not that I expected anything to happen with him, I just felt that it was what I truly wanted to do.
��
And later that night a boy sat next to me in the bar and started talking to me.�� Again, I don't expect anything from it ��� he made it clear he was taken, but it���s nice to practice, to talk to boys, to flirt, to be a girl and have weird and interesting conversations and remember that there's a whole big world of love out there, of people who want to meet me (or you!), people who would think of us as godsends and maybe even celebrate the day we met.�� Anything, and everything is possible.
��
I'm really looking forward to following Hayley's course (I mean that was the result of like 20 minutes of listening to her ��� can you imagine the result of doing the whole course) and I'm also doing a healing meditation daily based on some of her wisdom and some of mine and my heart is really happy to be sharing her with you (with the affiliate link - click here - you get ��100 discount before Sunday 24th February ��� this Sunday, and I get commission!)�� As well as my own result I sat with Hayley as she received email after email from women in the audience who had had powerful results from her guided meditation, and that's a rare and exceptional reaction.
��
https://soulpassion.thinkific.com/courses/align-to-love?ref=2cbd60
��
Hayley is a gift and a godsend and I really hope you go check out her website and make the most of her talents.�� She is open about how she has struggled with finding and enjoying love (and I was there for those years too!) so I really enjoy seeing her so happy in her relationship with someone who respects and supports her (and buys her Valentine's Day Marmite because he knows it will make her smile).��
��
There are some incredible romances I have witnessed, most especially my grandparents (both sides) who showed me what love could look like, and sometimes I too question myself ��� why didn't I meet the love of my life when I was 16 years old?�� But I know that I had to travel and understand healing and I had to travel alone, but I hope and pray that I might experience a lasting love like my grandparents'.�� I know that I am enough, I know that there are extraordinary and wonderful men out there, so I hope with a little help from Hayley I can finally find someone I want to share the rest of my journey, and the rest of my life with.
��
Lots of love,
��
Pearl
Pearl Howie is the writer of ���free Feeling Real Emotions Everyday���, now available as a photographic paperback and eBook, a text only book and as an audiobook. The 8 other titles in this series, are already available as paperbacks and eBooks and are coming soon as audiobooks.
Follow Pearl on Amazon to see when her next audiobook "Japan Is Very Wonderful" is available on Audible. https://www.amazon.com/Pearl-Howie/e/B007HJFBH4
FANTASTICAL BOOKS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Japan Is Very Wonderful
Colour paperback
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook - free of charge
��
(Without Pictures) ��� paperback
��
free Feeling Real Emotions Everyday
Colour paperback
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook - free of charge
��
(Without Pictures) ��� paperback
��
Audiobook
��
Camino de la Luna ��� Take What You Need
Colour paperback
��
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
(Without Pictures) eBook free of charge
��
(Without Pictures ��� paperback)
��
Camino de la Luna ��� Unconditional Love
Colour paperback
��
Colour eBook- free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook - free of charge (temporarily!)
��
(Without Pictures ��� paperback)
��
Camino de la Luna ��� Forgiveness
Colour paperback
��
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook free of charge (temporarily!)
��
(Without Pictures ��� paperback)
Camino de la Luna ��� Compassion and Self Compassion
Colour paperback
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook
��
(Without Pictures) ��� paperback
Camino de la Luna ��� Courage
Colour paperback
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook
(Without Pictures) ��� paperback
��
Camino de la Luna ��� Truth
Colour paperback
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
��
(Without Pictures) eBook
(Without Pictures) ��� paperback
Camino de la Luna ��� Reconciliation
Colour paperback
Colour eBook - free of charge on Kindle Unlimited
Part 1
Part 2
(Without Pictures) eBook
(Without Pictures) ��� paperback
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