If you looked this up you would have gotten a statement from Washington State University saying that many people think “Sojourn” means journey. Sojourn is a temporary place in one’s journey. Sojourn and journey happen to fit so well together, in my eyes. Think of the word “Journey”. When we are on a journey we are usually searching for something, finding new meaning to something or perhaps a journey of finding oneself. Bingo! A journey to finding oneself. I feel as if I have been on this journey for a lifetime. And, guess what? I have been. My journey is fierce, filled with enlightenment and I have never stayed in one place for too long. I am speaking from the heart here. I thought there was something wrong with me! I have changed more titles in the last 10 years than most people do in a lifetime. I realized not long ago that it was because I was on a true search, a search for fulfillment.

My journey started way back in August of 1979. I remember so well being a child in a place where I didn’t belong. I don’t mean that to be cruel with any intention at all. I love my family and I love the family I was raised in. When I say I always felt as if I didn’t belong I mean that for myself. I always felt like I needed more. I had a lot to figure out and I was always very curious. I was always asking questions and speaking out, even when it was disapproved by others around me. I was quickly given a nickname, “mouth”. Thinking back, the reasoning for that nickname was simply because I was not being heard. I was not being heard in a way that I wanted to be. I was not believed and quickly I turned my gifts away being born into a society where we were taught and told we had to do things a certain way. That feeling of displacement is a feeling I never want my children to feel. Being born into this society was something I chose. It was a path I had to take to learn and experience what I needed to do in order to speak my truth. A truth that is mine and no one else’s. When I talk about speaking my truth I do not in any way mean that in a loud or obnoxious way. I simply mean. “my truth”. Who am I? How do I turn away this constant feeling of displacement? How do I express who I truly am and let go of being who I want people to think I am? And, not who I think others want me to be.

I am going to take you on a journey of self-worth, self-love and self-acceptance. That is where my journey truly began. Cancer showed up for me to teach me a different way. The cancer was in my throat, my thyroid gland. It showed up where my throat chakra is held. That is where our truth is. Our throat chakra is responsible for communication, self-expression and our ability to speak our personal truth. When I realized that my journey needed to begin with me and the willingness to accept everything I am within my sovereign self. It took me years and an amazing mentor to help me get to the “letting go” part. Letting go is so hard. It is so much harder than many people think. Many times we think we have let something go, in turn all we did was bury it somewhere deeper. And, I must tell you first and foremost that the emotional attachment never truly goes away. Our universe will always throw us curve balls and lessons to learn in order to help us grow. Growing comes from a deep place within. Harvested emotional attachments turn to disease. (DIS-EASE). Look at those words closely as I separated them. When you are not at ease, you are in a place of the difficulty and stress. Our bodies do not like to be stressed, we crave balance. When our bodies are constantly fighting for balance it puts us in a place of fear.

During my years of clearing cancer it had come back a second time around shortly after the first. It was a journey of many ups and downs. Anxiety, stress, fear and anger. I decided to treat myself from the inside out. Self-discovery, self-love and all and everything doing with myself became the most important part of my journey. I decided it was time to truly uncover my gifts and really become who I am. Along the way I realized I had the ability to be a conduit of healing myself and others through Reiki. I received my Reiki Master level certification and that is where I realized who I am. Hearing, seeing, feeling and acknowledging all forms of energy around me became very present. These are all the gifts I have mentioned above that I know I held at a very young age and quickly passed them by as I was born into a chosen lifetime of finding myself.

Love and Light, Always.

Diana.