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What is Sekhem Healing and how does it accelerate our Evolution in Consciousness?
Sekhem is considered to be the forerunner of all hands-on spiritual healing systems and operates from a totally different concept and...

Jessica Lockwood
Dec 14, 20172 min read


The Existential Crisis: Learning to Live Without Having All the Answers
Why our struggle with existence may be less about finding the answers and more about learning how to live with the questions. There is something profoundly human about wanting to understand why we are here. We want to know who we are, what our lives mean, whether our experiences have a greater purpose, and how we are supposed to navigate a world that offers us no absolute guarantees. We seek certainty in our relationships, security in our beliefs, purpose in our ambitions and

Jessica Lockwood
2 days ago17 min read


The Pedestal, the Projection, and the Person: When the Future Distorts Our Perception
On romantic idealisation, the guilt of not wanting what looks right, and the courage to let people be human. There is something rather curious about the way we meet one another. We can encounter a person whose intelligence intrigues us, whose humour delights us, whose kindness appeals to us, or whose apparent emotional maturity seems to align beautifully with everything we have been hoping to find. We may experience an immediate sense of familiarity, a spark of recognition, o

Jessica Lockwood
6 days ago17 min read


The Many Selves We Must Become: Transcendence, the Body, and the Art of Integrating Change
There are moments in life when something within us changes so profoundly that the person we understood ourselves to be no longer quite fits. Sometimes the change arrives through heartbreak. Sometimes through loss, awakening, disappointment, discovery or the quiet accumulation of experiences that gradually alter the way we see ourselves and the world. We may find ourselves looking back at an earlier version of our lives and wondering how we ever inhabited it so comfortably. Th

Jessica Lockwood
Oct 1713 min read
The Luxury of Putting Down the Armour
On autonomy, intimacy, and the rare experience of being met where we are There is a particular kind of loneliness that can exist in the lives of highly capable people. It is not necessarily the loneliness of having nobody around. Nor is it always the loneliness of being misunderstood, although that can certainly be part of it. Sometimes, it is the loneliness of being able to manage almost everything yourself. You can think independently, make decisions, navigate complexity, a

Jessica Lockwood
Oct 177 min read


The Radar Beneath the Tenderness
On heightened sensitivity, hypervigilance, and the invisible work of noticing everything There are people who enter a room and experience the room. And there are people who enter a room and, almost simultaneously, begin registering it. The atmosphere. The conversations. The subtle changes in someone's expression. The slight alteration in the warmth of a voice. The person who has become quieter than they were a moment ago. The tension that seems to have appeared between two

Jessica Lockwood
Oct 168 min read


The Grievances of Being Fiercely Autonomous
On the freedom to belong to yourself, and the loneliness that sometimes comes with it. There is a particular kind of freedom that comes with belonging to yourself. It is the freedom to question what you have been taught, to reconsider what you once believed, to change your mind when new information arrives, and to walk away from anything that requires you to abandon your own discernment in exchange for acceptance. It is the freedom to live without needing every decision to be

Jessica Lockwood
Oct 128 min read


The Loneliness of Being Difficult to Categorize
On complexity, contradiction, and the quiet longing to be understood. There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes not from being alone, but from feeling that the people around you cannot quite see you. You may have friends, family, colleagues, and people who genuinely care about you. You may participate in conversations, laugh freely, and move through the world appearing perfectly comfortable in your own skin. And yet, somewhere beneath the surface, there may be a per

Jessica Lockwood
Oct 129 min read


The Discomfort of Being Misunderstood
On perception, projection, and the quiet freedom of knowing who you are. There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes from being misunderstood. It is the frustration of knowing what you meant, what you intended, and what you f elt, only to discover that someone else has arrived at an entirely different conclusion about who you are. Perhaps your quietness was interpreted as indifference. Your honesty as cruelty. Your boundaries as rejection. Your independence as a lack

Jessica Lockwood
Oct 129 min read
When Sound Becomes an Experience: The Beauty of Immersing Yourself in a Sound Healing
There is a difference between hearing sound and allowing yourself to be immersed in it. We hear sounds all day long. Conversations, traffic, music, notifications, appliances, birds, footsteps — an almost constant stream of sensory information moving through our lives. But in a sound healing, something different happens. For a little while, there is nowhere you need to be and nothing you need to accomplish. You simply lie back, close your eyes and allow the sound to surround y

Jessica Lockwood
Oct 34 min read


When Patience Feels Like Torture: Making Space for the Lessons Life Is Trying to Teach Us
We are often told to be patient. Give it time. Trust the process. Everything happens when it is meant to. Beautiful words. And sometimes, absolutely maddening ones. Because patience can sound very different when we are peacefully waiting for something we want, compared with when we are desperately wanting something to change. There is a particular kind of patience that doesn't feel peaceful at all. It feels like torture. It can feel like standing at a closed door with your ha

Jessica Lockwood
Sep 224 min read


When Depth Is Misread: The Existentially Sublime and the Need to Feel Seen
There are some people who seem to experience life from a slightly different altitude. They contemplate existence. They notice the spaces between words. They can sit quietly with uncertainty, grief, change, paradox and the great unanswered questions of being human without immediately needing everything to be explained, fixed or reassured. They may be deeply emotional people—but their relationship with emotion can look very different from someone who needs emotional validation

Jessica Lockwood
Sep 195 min read


Nothing Is Ever Truly Lost: The Eternal Energy of Dolly Parton
There are some people who seem to carry a particular kind of light. They arrive in the world with something difficult to define — a warmth, a frequency, a spark — and somehow, throughout their lives, they give that light away without ever becoming diminished by it. Dolly Parton has always felt like one of those people. Her life offers us a beautiful way to contemplate something deeply spiritual: energy is never truly lost. It changes form. It moves. It transmutes. In science,

Jessica Lockwood
Aug 264 min read


Your Birth Chart: A Cosmic Blueprint of the Many Parts of You.
Have you ever wondered why you can be deeply emotional in one area of life, fiercely independent in another, and endlessly curious in yet another? Astrology suggests that this isn't contradictory at all—it's simply because your personality is made up of many interconnected parts. Your birth chart is often described as a map of the sky at the exact moment you were born. Rather than reducing you to a single zodiac sign, it illustrates a complex landscape of energies that can he

Jessica Lockwood
Aug 103 min read


A Heart Centred Feminine Mission of Global Awakening - to bring us a Higher Love.
“Think about it, there must be higher love. Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above. Without it, life is wasted time. Look inside...

Jessica Lockwood
Sep 16, 201913 min read


How a New Astrological Shift enhances the collective's ability to truly heal our pain Deep Down.
On February 18, 2019 Chiron moves into the sign of Aries, creating a shift of epic proportions in the way we look at healing our pain as...

Jessica Lockwood
Feb 18, 20193 min read


The Quantum Mechanics behind Blocked Chakras, Energy Cords and Attachments.
When living in the Western world, it's easy to think - "Blocked Chakras, Energy Cords & Attachments? Wow, now that's some next level...

Jessica Lockwood
Feb 28, 20184 min read


Have I finally lost my marbles, or is it a Dark Night of the Soul?
In the times in which we currently live, the truth about many of our world's situations, which have long since been hidden, are now...

Jessica Lockwood
Feb 14, 20184 min read


Am I an Empath, or just Highly Sensitive?
As most of us are only just beginning to understand what is means to be an Empath, it is common place for some Highly Sensitive People to...

Jessica Lockwood
Feb 1, 20183 min read


Where do Empaths & HSPs acquire support when regular methods of Personal Development miss the mark?
When we choose to brave the challenges of inner growth (while navigating the pressures of this fast--paced modern world), it calls for...

Jessica Lockwood
Jan 30, 20184 min read
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