What does mentorship mean to you? Where do you sit with letting yourself be seen and held? Where does your capacity to receive lie?
I’ve committed to several long term mentorships over the past few years.
These have included about a year with Josea Tamira Crossley one of the best somatic and trauma release mentors you will EVER have on your team. My work with Josea was a saving grace. It was everything I needed at the time. I will forever be grateful for her and the way she showed up for me. She gave me the skills to move beyond those times I was a potential danger to myself, to support myself and a belief in myself began to grow. She showed up for me in a way that reprogrammed that part of me that expected abandonment. Honestly, honestly, this woman. The integrity that she lives with. Just wow.
I’ve done 6 months with Johanna Parker, specifically choosing her for her blend of counselling and business coaching skills. I needed support with the specific push back from my nervous system that was triggered by marketing. I wanted to be able to show up differently in my business. With more power. I had to constantly hold myself and my nervous system and lean into the expansion. It was work with constant internal push back and constant frustration from me for not being able to create more business momentum. Jo kept holding me through that, pointing out all the ways I had grown and supporting me to recognise all the ways my nervous system was pushing back so we could find a place where the work could happen without the nervous system freak out. It was work that was full of lessons about capacity and I will forever be grateful.
Last year I spent 9 months with Tamala Ridge in her detox program and then her mentorship program going further into the realms of spirituality and subconscious and getting an EFT qualification. Thsi work changed my relationship with food and gave me a deeper appreciation of my power. The deepening into mindfulness, the virtues project and EFT will all remain with me forever.
I’m currently working with Anita Bentata for a second time, this time in a year long container looking at epigenetics, energy management and neural plasticity and we apply this to a whole bunch of life areas. It’s my experience, witnessing my expansion and growth over the past few months that this work, this container has been like a catapult on the trajectory of my recovery, building on everything else I’ve done, integrating even more. And then popping on the turbo button. Anita has supported me in all areas of my life and her generative statement are the freaking bomb. I received permission from her to teach them, and so I now share them with all my clients and they LOVE them too.
I’ve seen my current therapist for longer than I’ve had children. She witnesses me and now that my nervous system is stronger and my ego less active, she also challenges me. She frames things for me in ways I can’t always see for myself. I now have the personal solidarity that if what she frames doesn’t feel quite right I can easily ask for clarity or express my sense that it’s off the mark and we go back and forth. Witnessing this growth in capacity where I can ‘challenge’ (lovingly) within this setting has shown me my growth. EMDR with her and a previous therapist interstate have been one of the most profound tools for my recovery. I also use this space for my own ‘supervision’ which is a common practice within mental health practitioners.
I’m also currently working with Kelly Moriarty and have signed up for 9 months in her mastermind. This suits me so unbelievably well because I constantly have kids around and I don’t have to do any calls. I get all the courses she offers during my mastermind time which means I can receive her magic in different ways while picking and choosing what I need. In this work I’m moving deeper into an aligned business, building the ‘strategy’ so I can ‘scale’ and supports thousands of people to shift the shame outta s.ex and the guilt out of pleasure.
So what do *I* think of mentorship? I dig it. I’ve pushed beyond previous limits in even letting myself have it. And now, it’s a support mechanism, but also a deliberate expansion technique.
Being immersed in the energy of someone who embodies what we want for ourselves can help us tune into that next level embodiment.
Mentorship – the pathway of supporting us to lead ourselves.