A Journey to Spiritual Enlightenment

I could see the power greater than myself in the trees, the flowers, the sky, the sun and the sea. This would take me on a journey of spiritual awakening. It was the beginning of a spiritual awakening and overcoming childhood fears that would carry me through my life. The first step in my spiritual awakening was learning to trust food again.  Getting on an organised eating plan that would put my body back into balance and give it the nourishment that  it had been lacking over the years.   When I felt like eating food that was not on my food plan was when it was most important to surrender to a power greater than myself.  I embraced this earnestly as I had had enough of the yoyo eating, and not feeling good.  After about three months, I noticed a change in how I felt physically.  My body was more in balance and I was eating good meals.  It was a blessing in itself. On a spiritual level I was becoming calmer.  I was operating from a space of ...

As a young child I was born into an Irish Catholic Family.  However my parents were divorced when I was still a baby.  I was born in 1965, this was a era in the Catholic Church where the church had a lot of power and there was not a lot of forgiveness.  Even though this is the core of the teachings of Jesus Christ. I lived with my father.  After my parents separation, my aunt (fathers sister) came over to Liverpool from Ireland to live with my Dad and help him take care of us.  My mother had left the house.   My fathers family were staunch Irish Catholic, we would visit his family in Ireland as the years went by, in the back ground my aunties and uncles were always saying things like what are we going to do with these children, as the children in my family were he product of a divorced union. When we went to school which was a Catholic School.  There was always teaching on the faith. In all of the teaching it was always reiterated that divorce was...