Author: Dr. Jodi-Anne M Smith

Jodi-Anne is a Wellbeing Educator, Counsellor and Healing Facilitator. She shares information via her videos, website, workshops, books, and coming soon online courses. She conducts individual appointments in person and online assisting individuals to heal and find peace. She is a qualified counsellor specialising in healing from trauma and abuse, utilising Family Constellations, Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), Psych-K, and Crystal Light Bed Therapy. To learn more visit https://www.jodiannemsmith.com/

Free manuals on healing from child abuse.

by Dr. Jodi-Anne M Smith, posted in Healing from child abuse, Self help techniques
Early stages of the healing journey

There are a lot of resources available that can be accessed for free to assist individuals with their healing journey. Most focus on the early stages – where an individual may still be feeling controlled by their past, filled with buried emotions and desperate for relief. These can be a little ‘heavy’ as they share snippets of people’s journey – including expressing judgement, anger, blame, shame and grief. If this is the stage that you are at then you may find them extremely valuable as examples of the healing process and how to go about it.

A free manual on healing from child abuse.

Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA) provide a wide range of support services for Adult Survivors. www.ascasupport.org. This includes a regular newsletter and support groups. They have a free manual called ‘From Surivor to Thriver’ that you can download.

Link to download manualCatherine House have a manual for women on healing from childhood sexual abuse. It is called ‘Reclaiming myself after childhood sexual abuse’. It can be downloaded for free from: http://www.catherinehouse.org.au/Portals/0/pdf/research_projects/WomensResource_FINAL_Oct05.pdf

Its not my fault coverRespond SA is a part of Relationships Australia. They provide support for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. www.respondsa.org.au. They have a manual for men called ‘It is not your fault’. It can be downloaded free from: http://respondsa.org.au/resources/booklet.aspx

Can I trust my memory coverJoan Spear has written a booklet called ‘Can I trust my memory: a handbook for survivors with partial or no memories of childhood sexual abuse’. It is useful to read when you suspect you may have been sexually abused but you are not sure. It can be downloaded free from: http://ascasupport.org/_downloadsResources/canItrustMyMemory.pdf

Later stages of the healing journey

It has been my experience, and that of those I have interacted with, that as you continue to heal you no longer have these ‘heavy’ emotions. You release them from your body and find a place of great freedom and inner peace. You may even reach a stage where you see what you experienced as a gift – as a great teacher – that was part of your evolutionary journey. I am not aware of any free manuals that focus on this larger consciousness focus. However, it is these later stages that I will be sharing most about in this blog.

The Healing Journey Demystified: Achieving Sustainability One Heart at a Time.You can also read about my experience in my book called ‘The healing journey demystified: achieving sustainability one heart at a time’. It is not available for free though. Sorry!! It is available cheaply as a PDF or e-book. The printed book costs a bit more. You can view and purchase it from: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jodi-anne-m-smith/the-healing-journey-demystified-achieving-sustainability-one-heart-at-a-time/paperback/product-14703855.html

What is conscious evolution?

by Dr. Jodi-Anne M Smith, posted in Conscious Evolution
Be the love you want to see in the world.
Be the love you want to see in the world.

Many of us are familiar with the concept of evolution at a species level. We are taught biology in school – we see the fossil record and know animals and plants have evolved over time. We see the previous species of human from caveman to now. Many of us don’t realise that evolutionary process continues. We are here on Earth for one reason – to evolve into God-self human beings – beings of love and light, living peacefully and harmoniously with each other and the planet. Using our intuition to guide us and a range of other telepathic and extrasensory abilities that we gain access to as we raise our vibration and our energetic sensibility. We are evolving just as our ancestors did. Just as the Earth does.

Our Universe is also in a state of constant change and evolution. It is growing, expanding, collapsing, growing, contracting – it is just like ocean waves rolling in and out of a shore. We too expand and contract. We have times of great love, openness, bliss and connection. Times when life is a joy, where we see the beauty all around us, have tears of gratitude and thank God for being alive. It matters not what you call God – the Universe, the Creator, All That IS. It matters not whether you believe in him/her, your higher self or not. You are part of the whole and it works whether you believe or not. It just is.

In this section of the website/blog we share stories of how the Universe works, of the evolutionary journey, of our peak experiences – our times of great light and expansion. These times are wonderful, they nurture our soul and feed us deeply. They unfortunately don’t last, just as night follows day, there will be times of darkness, times of feeling disconnected and lost, times of questioning yourself, God and the purpose of life – times of the dark night of the soul. These are the periods of deepest pain and growth in our life. These times of challenge force us to look within. They force us to slow down and pay attention. They narrow our focus to what is truly important.

We curse them, feeling it is unfair or simply unwanted. We didn’t want the illness, the accident, the loss of a loved one or a job, partner, home. We were quite happy going along in life till disaster struck. But these periods of change, sudden change, are actually an evolutionary gift, a stage of growth as you are now ready to move to the next level of love and light. Out of the dark cave we climb to find a magnificent view at the top of the cliff. Many leaps of faith are needed during these times and that too is their purpose – to help us loosen the stronghold of our minds and surrender to God / a higher power to help us, we enter our hearts and learn how to live from that space. As we emerge our heart and mind work together, no longer fighting each other. Our actions and emotions work in harmony and we live life in alignment with all of who we are.

The Earth also undergoes the evolutionary, alchemical process. She processes the stuck energy, the pollution and other detriments that result from us. Natural disasters are Mother Earth’s way of releasing this energy. They are her emotional release mechanism. Just as a toddler may throw a tantrum or cry torrents of tears, Mother Earth will have tornadoes, floods and volcanic eruptions. These balance the energy back up. After such releases there is more calm and peace within our beings. It is the same for the planet which mirrors us. As we heal our self, we shift the collective consciousness and we shift the energetic vibration of the planet.  We are truly interconnected and supported as we go through this evolutionary journey together.

Channeled by Jodi-Anne (25 May 2013).
See more answers to pertinent life questions on the Life Insights page of this website.

Art Therapy – art as a tool for healing.

by Dr. Jodi-Anne M Smith, posted in Healing from child abuse, Self help techniques

Art is a very powerful healer. It helps us to express buried emotions that we may not even be conscious of. It can help release stress and tension as the energy moves from within us out onto the paper. It is therapeutic with its colours, textures and processes. In this booklet I will share some of my drawings from throughout my healing journey. The medium will mostly be coloured oil crayon drawings and some painted ones. I have also had experience with the use of clay, pastel crayons and other art forms as my mentor/counsellor was an Art Therapist. I loved experiencing and learning about the role of art in healing. I am very grateful to my Counsellor for all she has shown me and how she has helped me and others to heal.

One does not need to have any artistic skill to use art as a healing tool. Indeed I did not think of myself as artistic at all. When I started focussing on my healing journey I was a very head-strong, analytical, rational minded person. When Lynn asked me to draw for the first time I thought she was mad. I almost walked out the door thinking how ridiculous, as if drawing could help! It wasn’t long before the floodgates of my subconscious mind opened and drawings were pouring out of me. That is literally how it felt. I wouldn’t consciously think about what to draw or how to draw it. I’d just feel drawn to pick up a crayon and next thing there was a drawing on the paper. It just flowed out.

I was fascinated how at times of strong emotion I would draw and cry or yell at the same time. In these situations the most powerful drawings emerged clearly showing the power of the situations on which I was releasing emotion. I didn’t know how to draw what I drew. If I consciously tried to do it again later I wouldn’t know how. My mind would get in the way. I love how the colours often represent the chakras and the emotions being felt, the profound symbolism that comes through depicting the experiences. Here I have chosen some of my pictures that show the healing of my childhood issues, my relationship with myself and with my parents. I encourage you to embrace art as a tool to assist you in your healing journey.

(Extract from: Smith J, 2011, The healing journey demystified achieving sustainability one heart at a time, Lulu.com)