It's 8 years since a wonderful soul crossed over. My best friend and Grandpa.

Due to a family fall out, he wasn't in my life for most of my childhood. We reconnected when I was 16 when he moved to London to be a Chelsea Pensioner, it's a retirement home for armed forces veterans. In a way, it was a gift. We made up for lost time.
I went to study in London and we lived a 6 miles apart. We'd often order a Chinese takeaway and sit and chat for hours about his life, my life, the meaning of life and everything in between. I even recorded some of his stories, I still have the dictaphone, the battery is dead but I wonder if I can retrieve the audio files.
As a healer, I sit and hold space for clients and for friends. I realised today that my Grandpa was the first person I sat with in my role as healer. Me 16 and him 82. I sat and listened, and held space, before I even knew what holding space was. He was a boy soldier in the army at 14, as you can imagine he had many traumas. He told me things he had never told anyone else.
Just like me, he experienced CPTSD. He was prescribed very strong sleeping tablets and couldn't sleep without them. One morning after we had spent an evening together where he shared particularly difficult memories, I received an email from him. After I had left, he fell asleep in his chair and slept through until morning without medication. Something he hasn't done in decades. Speaking out loud, traumas that had been buried for well over half a century, never spoken about, never shared, gave him peace, shifted their energy.
Before my training and qualifications, I was just a human being, a teenager, unaware of my healer path and look at the impact I had. It's certainly an antidote to imposter syndrome! It highlights that holding loving, compassionate space really is the core of my work.
I'm grateful as a psychic medium that I can still communicate with my Grandpa. Despite being dyslexic he had a beautiful mastery of language. He's helping me write this right now!
I share a lot of his qualities,
We are free spirits who carve our own life paths
We have an instinctive resistance to authority!
We think deeply
We are skilled with words
We are practical people, always making and creating
We love deeply despite not always receiving it in return
So I light a candle and say a blessing to this wonderful soul. May you fly free and at peace.
Thank you for being my first soul in my role as a healer.
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