Thanks for stopping by to get to know more about me.
It’s likely you are here because you are looking to make a change in your life and start living your dream life.
I would love nothing more to help you on this journey.
Me before now
As a young person I had a dream, to become an illustrator. I just wanted to draw and create amazing images. I could see my future, and it was going to take me around the world to work and play.
As I became an adult I received my first reality check, not once but twice I was knocked back for ALL of the courses I applied for in 1993 and 1994. I had repeated my final year of school in 1994, attended art night school and changed from a public to a private school hoping it would ensure my spot in at least ‘one’ of the courses the second time around. I felt totally rejected and found myself devastated and completely lost.
My second one was not being able to live at home. Like most teenagers I fought with my parents for about two years, and in the end felt I had no choice but to move out at the age of 18. I found myself living with my 17 years old boy friend, who would later become my husband and the father to my two children.
My third was a double whammy at 19 and the biggest. My mum’s best friend died of breast cancer and my dad had a major stroke. Boy did I grow up really quick!
My life quickly became about looking after everyone else and as a result sacrificing my dreams.
I got married, had two children and 10 years into our relationship we divorced. I had my two children 18 months and 4 years old and felt for the first time in my life empowered and gaining some control.
Single motherhood
I have been a single mum for the past 16 years, surviving in a society that was not designed for me (or for anyone really). Following systems and conforming is something I knew from an early age was not going to serve me, even before I became a single mother.
I was never one to follow the crowd and still now feel disappointed that I was forced to because it was the only way a single woman with children could survive where I lived in 2003. Back then it was the only survival plan I had the means to action.
I began my career at the age of 29 after my divorce and started following my heart as best as I could. I was forced to conform, but at least I was doing something I loved. I became a Youth Worker in a government job and created the stability I needed for the kids and me.
It was a difficult time, and many influences and powers external to me made life even harder, financially, emotionally and physically, and I lived in a puddle of stress the majority of the time.
I constantly reassessed life to find a way to make it work, and I am so glad I did. By 2008 I began embracing every personal growth opportunity and learnt to listen to my intuition and how to connect within. I knew everything I was looking for was within me and in my power to change, I just needed the missing pieces, opportunity, support and money.
It took me to hit rock bottom to smash the reset button, I lost my home and my kids moved in with their dad full time, but I trusted the process of being redirected in the darkness, listened to my intuition and it led me right here and now. With the opportunity, support and the money I always needed.
It was the biggest sacrifice I had ever made, but it was worth it 100%!
This is all just a little bit of my life. There is so much I will continue to share in the hope that it helps you or someone else in whatever way possible.
Thanks for being here ~ Melanie 🙂
