About
Hello and thanks for visiting Master Your Life. My name is Jacquie and I’m here to help people on their spiritual journey, with special experience in dealing with depression & anxiety. Having recently experienced that very scary path myself, I feel passionate about helping others find themselves and their Light again.
My sister recently found this old photo of me, aged about 5. And the one below is who I Am now! It’s been an interesting journey. In the young photo I was “sweet”, loved my dolls and Mummy and Daddy, and it was before my challenges began. Before I was “abandoned” at boarding school, aged 7, and a long time before my husband cheated on me and I felt abandoned once more. My divorce and subsequent relationship breakdown and children leaving home (empty nest syndrome) all took me right back to feeling like that little 7 year old girl again. Somehow, although I was right in the middle of all that crap, I was always able to look at things objectively and learn from it … quite an education in life! And I now know that it was my Higher Self that was the part of me that was watching objectively, while my lower, ego self scrabbled about in the dark, tread watering much of the time!
Me aged about 5 years old
Me in August 2011, older and wiser yet still sweet, I hope!
I studied with Margaret McElroy in 2003/2004 with a Metaphysics course in Australia and New Zealand! What a great excuse to travel to the antipodes again! I’d lived there in 1982/83 where my Webmaster daughter Frances was born, and she moved out to Sydney in 2006 to live and work. She’s now created The Happi Empire and I work with her developing her business and selling her products in the UK. See www.thehappiempire.com. At this point I must also mention my first child, son and No. 1 Heir, Russell. Born in the UK, he travelled out to Australia with my husband and I, aged 8 months! He and I are both now A Course in Miracles students and teachers. Russell and I have saved each others lives on numerous occasions, sounds rather dramatic, but we both have Leo in our charts … !
Prior to studying with Margaret Russell and I had studied Buddhism, attending retreats with His Holiness the 12th Gyalwung Drukpa and with the New Kadampa Tradition in England. With Frances we recently stayed at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Buddhist abbey in northern California, and met some wonderful Tibetan Buddhist teachers in San Francisco, who will be coming to England in the summer of 2012 for a Prayer meeting, which I’ll be organising. It was the American Buddhist Lama Surya Das that initially inspired me with his book Awakening the Buddha Within.
Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life was also one of my early inspirations, which I refer to regularly for positive affirmations & to check which part of my body is telling me something! I wrote a Life Plan for myself back in the early 1990s, a bit like a business plan for a company, and it really helped me to focus on that stage of my life.
I learnt about the mind initially from Betty Shine – with her set of books on Mind Magic. She was an English clairvoyant who taught me about visualisation and the use of energy. Our thoughts and minds are key to everything. THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS. Mike Dooley being my current source of amusement and inspiration!
I’ve done Hatha Yoga on and off throughout my life, since I was 17, and am now really appreciating the flexibility and calm influence it’s had on mybody & life. I’ve drawn some wonderful yoga teachers into my life here in Guildford. One being an Indian who teaches his take on Yoga spirituality and the other an excellent British Wheel of Yoga teacher, Sarah Hallett.
I’ve been swimming since as young as I can remember in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where I was conceived and brought up. I still swim regularly and feel great afterwards. Exercise is so important in helping to keep our minds clear. I was told by a Ugandan in Kampala that I was an Honorary African as I was conceived in Sierra Leone! It was “home” for me and my sister as we grew up, I was so sad when there was a civil war in SL and I now support www.slwt.org … a charity in the UK working with poor communities in SL. They have a Fun Run in Battersea park every September which is hilarious as I’m not a runner…. I jog/walk the 5k and chat to other women in my league, but the annual Jazz Evening is in my league and it raises lots of money. I tell you…. dancing the night away with all those uninhibited Sierra Leoneans is quite a moving experience!
I’ve been teaching metaphysics since 2004 and learnt Reiki in 2002. My courses and workshops (usually on a one-to-one basis) are evolving as I do, and I teach all ages, genders, religions, skeptics (I like those!) and you are ALL welcome. Happy people, unhappy people, troubled people, but mainly people who need their questions answered. Spiritual seekers!
I work as a professional fundraiser to pay the bills, which I also enjoy as I love to mix with people and feel I’m doing something worthwhile.
Do contact me with any questions.
With love, as ever,
Jacquie
This is my new logo …. but I still love my old logo….. a bit like me loving the new me, but still loving the young me!
Old Logo
