As a teenager I wanted to become a Physical Education Teacher. I was, and still am to some degree, fairly athletic and well-coordinated. However, life threw a curve ball in my direction; I injured my lower back playing basketball in grade 10. A full year of chiropractic treatments and a convincing chiropractor made me realize that teaching physical education was not a viable option.

 

Then I turned to my second love: sewing. I mainly worked for myself and built a clientele until the next step in that field was to open a store and/or have my own line of clothing. The business aspect of either option had no appeal to me. After 9 years as a seamstress, I transitioned into French Linguistics; languages, words and grammar being another love of mine. I entered Université Laval, Quebec, as a 25-year-old adult student. The field of French Linguistics took me to Italy to study Italian, to Greece to explore the history of Ancient Civilizations, and to West Virginia, USA, to study the Foreign Languages Education and to teach French and Italian.

 

At the end of my year in West Virginia, I spent almost two years in Germany teaching French as a Second Language to Adults and learning German. My stay in Germany gave me numerous opportunities to travel all over Europe. In total, I spent the following 25 years teaching French as Second Language to Adults in three Canadian provinces, the USA, and Europe, and for different organizations.

 

In 1994 I became interested in the spiritual side of life following a personal crisis, which I may recount at a later time. That crisis threw me for a loop. I dug deep into what life was about and why I was hurting so much. After couple years of that search and the end of my family, I realized that the spiritual knowledge I was learning was insufficient in bringing consistent and stable joy and peace in my life. That is when I turned to psychology in 1998.

 

I then decided that I would be a bridge between spirituality and psychology, thus my logo "My Mind Training". However, the detour into psychology brought considerable fear with it. The rules and regulations, the standards of practice and ethics, kind of paralyzed me. I felt confined and pressured to practicing within the evidence-based approaches; any techniques, concepts or approaches that do not show, through research, to be beneficial for clients cannot be used in therapy sessions. Within one year of university training, I slowly dropped the spiritual work and related inner search without really noticing I did.

 

For a while, I lost my enthusiasm for psychology; I felt disillusioned and disappointed. I loved the work I did with clients but felt so trapped that it kept me from feeling fulfilled in my work. I was having success with my clients; they would get better and express their gratitude for the help. Some of the models and approaches have been very helpful in shifting people’s mindset about who they are and how life works. However, I noticed a gap in clients’ growth; an understanding that we must develop an inner life, an understanding about our universal mind, along with shifting our mindset. It is then that I turned back to the spiritual aspect of my life.

 

On December 31, 2014 after I found my copy of A Course in Miracles (aka the Course) ‘by chance’ that I made the decision to study the Course again, which I had stopped doing in the spring of 1999. On January 1, 2015 I opened the Course and started with Lesson 1 in the Workbook and read the first chapter of the text.

 

Bridging the best of both worlds is increasingly bringing stable peace and joy in my life. What I am doing is helping me grow and I want to share what I have learnt in the hope that others would benefit. Ultimately, awakening to my true nature is the goal. We cannot do this work alone; it must be done in relationship to find out that we are not separate but that we are part of a wholesome and universal mind.

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