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Hi, I’m Jenny, born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa. I’ve lived and worked in London and Switzerland. I have a wonderful daughter who was born in the UK, and now lives in the USA with her husband, rescue dog and 2 cats. My career has been diverse, but my true passion lies in helping others to stop self-sabotaging (this is real man!), and to help others heal from within, through forgiveness, love, compassion and a deep understanding of who they are.
My Journey
I spent decades in HR Management, with qualifications and experience in Coaching and Mentoring, Labor Law, Union Negotiations, Security, Environmental Health and Safety, Training and Development and manpower planning. I am a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, an Energy Re-Sourcing Practitioner, an Ericksonian Hypnotherapist, and a Reiki Master. I’ve worn many hats – from Labor Law expert to Executive Coach – but now my focus is on personal healing and transformation through wellness and healing from within.
Career Shift
After years as a Senior Executive, Business Admin and HR Director, I felt unfulfilled. I left the corporate world in mid-2016, had my own HR consultancy, but it wasn’t my path. My life fell apart, and I started a journey of introspection. I published my first book, 12 Steps to Loving You, and discovered A Course in Miracles, which reshaped my mindset on love and spirituality. I was challenged in many ways, and at times, it felt like I just wasn’t going to ‘make it’. There were times in my life when I felt overwhelmed, like I’d never climb out of the abyss I had dug for myself. But I did, and now I help others do the same. Life is about living in the present, not being stuck in the past or worried about the future. It takes dedication, self-love, and a great sense of humor to sit comfortably in the uncomfortable moments.
Professional and Individual Coaching
As a coach, I help both professionals and individuals deal with daily stressors by focusing on the way they think and interpret the world around them. I help them change perceptions, stay grounded, and find balance and meaning in their lives. My coaching and teaching methodology is practical and hands-on, grounded in my own personal experiential learnings I got from growing in my career to becoming a senior executive, a director and now an entrepreneur.
My Values
Life is about giving more than you receive. We all have dormant potential, and creating a meaningful life involves aligning with our core values. These are mine:
- Compassion: Love for those who are suffering
- Honesty: Being truthful
- Respect: Considering others’ feelings and rights
- Integrity: Strong moral principles
- Simplicity: Uncomplicating the complicated
- Trust: Being trustworthy
To make a positive impact, we must live from a space of love, integrity, dignity, and respect. We are all in this together, hurtling through space and time on planet earth. Extend love wherever you can because you honestly do not know what someone else might be going through.
My Spiritual Path
I was raised by nuns from ages 3 to 9, which sparked my curiosity about life beyond the physical world. I’ve explored various religious and spiritual paths, ultimately realizing the truth lies within me. I’m not religious but I am spiritual, believing that love is at the core of our existence. I looked at duality, non-duality, Eastern Religions, Western Religions, shamanism, and so much more. It all comes down to this – we all seem to be seekers of the truth. Find your own truth which lies within the heart of who you are. I have found A Course in Miracles, which is a wonderful spiritual path, with principles that brings love and forgiveness to the forefront of our lives. It seriously is ‘mind-training’ on steroids!
Personal Philosophy
The greatest gift I’ve received is knowing that all paths lead us all home, no matter who you are or what you have done. We must choose paths that resonate with us and are meaningful. I love the teachings of Jesus, A Course in Miracles and non-dualism paths, and it is my aim to live with compassion, honesty, respect, integrity, simplicity, and trust. My philosophy is simple – be true to yourself, and do no harm to another.
Parenting
Raising my daughter as a single mom was one of my greatest achievements. She was easy to raise, and we have a special bond. Parenting, to me, is all about giving children the space to discover themselves. My daughter’s words, ‘I will raise my kids the way you raised me,’ are the highest compliment. One of the best lessons I can share with you, is this – let your child know that no matter what they do, they will always be loved. Unconditional loving is so missing from our world. Please don’t make it something missing in your relationship with your children. Yes, there is what we call right vs wrong, but let them know, if they are disciplined for something, you still love them. This is not a fine line. It is not a nice to have. It is something we must all do if we are going to grow great leaders for future generations to come.
RSA: Cape Town
I love to laugh, have fun, and spend time with friends and family. Mother and daughter love.
USA
My daughter who was born in the UK, raised in RSA, and now lives in the USA. Truly a global citizen.
USA: Indianapolis
My daughter and son-in-law in their bookstore in downtown Mass Ave, Indianapolis.
Time to get real. If I heard someone talking about loving myself and trying to get me to buy into their definition of what love is, my emotions got adversely triggered. I don’t like being force-fed other people’s ideological, religious and/or spiritual views, beliefs and opinions on love. All I wanted was an open mind to experience love for myself. I wanted to feel it flow through every cell in my body. However, what I found was that thoughts of my past, present and future, kept getting in the way. Eventually I just gave up and said, ‘to hell with this. If I cannot experience love for myself, then I will accept that and let it be.’ And that is more or less when things started to change for me. I have since learnt to:
- love and forgive myself, no matter what
- release fear, guilt, anxiety, shame, depression and worry
- let go of past hurts and anxiety for the future
- release toxicity from my life
- build personal resilience and experience self-expansion
- remove obstacles standing between me and love
- know who I truly am
- work on my emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing
Once I started figuring this out, I was able to welcome love into my life. You can too. All it takes is a little willingness to try. But don’t take my word for it, try this for yourself and let it become an experiential journey of your own truth back to love.
Gift yourself the gift of love, forgiveness and healing, and examine what is keeping you from experiencing joy, love and peace.
Remove all the barriers that is keeping you from identifying your true nature, and find a clear direction to step into your future, by your design.
It really is all about love and forgiveness.
More often than we care to admit, we project our inadequacies outside of ourselves, and onto others.
Instead of seeing our own shortcomings, we are all to eager to pass it off onto someone else. The responsibility lies within each one of us to take the time to do some seriously deep dives into the parts within us that stop us from living the lives we want to create, by our own design.
Love is not a luxury.
Loving yourself is not a luxury.
Love is your birthright.
Love is who you are.
Love is the answer to all suffering, and there is not one person on this planet who is excluded from receiving love.
After spending decades believing I loved myself, I found out, much to my bewilderment, that this was not true. I loved certain parts of me, and hated other parts. I loved the parts of me that were kind, honest, funny, helpful, generous and loving, but I hated the parts of me that were angry, hateful, critical, frustrated, and especially the parts of me where I had hurt others, and especially the parts of me based on guilt, shame, lack and fear.
And here I was thinking I was so loving and great.
So what happened?
How could I have got this so wrong?
After many years, tears, anger, fearful thoughts, regrets, hatred – and many other adjectives could be used – I decided to stop. I stopped being hard on myself, and instead, decided to have some fun finding out who I truly am.
I found out that at the core of each of us, is an intelligence that connects all of us. But why could I not access and live from that space all the time? That space of love and truth.
I had let barnacles grow and stick to all parts of my soul, and these barnacles covered the truth of who I am and hid the light within. The Love Plan is based on my own personal journey of letting go of that which no longer serves me, and bringing love back to its rightful place within. I learnt to forgive myself and others, but most importantly, I found my way back home to myself. We are all evolving, and I practice loving myself daily, and only then am I truly able to extend this love outwards to others.
All wellness and peace of mind comes from within. And it all starts with the investigation of your thought system, and being willing to change to a better way of thinking and living.
We project our inner turmoil and chaos outwards, and we lay blame at others’ doorsteps, yet we fail to notice our thinking patterns, habits, beliefs and other programs running in the background of our minds.
This changes when we finally stop living on autopilot and under the influence of others, and when we finally take accountability for the way we think, and more importantly, what we think.
We then learn to stop playing the victim and feeling sorry for ourselves, instead, we finally recognize the truth of who we are.
If you truly want to change your emotional and mental health, then you need to change the way you look at yourself, and the world. Consider this, even if just for a moment, what actually lies beyond our physical material world of form, and then consider the possibility of there being something more than what we see with our physical eyes, and perceive with our other body senses. Some call this intuition. I call it the flow of love. An intelligence that pervades and connects all things.
When you show just a little willingness, doors will start to open for your healing and wellbeing.
USA: Chicago
For decades, I focused on healing from within. It made sense to me that we project our inner world onto our outer world, and that our outer world in turn reflects back to us our own internal conditioning and programming. It was from this vantage point that I began to research as much as I could about the human condition, our true identity, and how we can shift and shape our own lives by our own creative design.
For years I have felt a strong pull towards helping bring love and healing to the world through emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing, having had my own challenges in these areas in my life.
I am hands-on and practical in my sessions, both through experiential and practical learnings. Change really takes place at the very heart of you. The core of who you are.
