You own a supercar

We have everything figured out… almost. We got educated, exercised, ate well, set goals, drank moderately, took vacations, invested our money wisely, had medical aid and got gap cover for when life hits us up with a curveball. We are sorted! Then how come we are often left exhausted and Meh with no visible source, illnesses pop up out the blue in our late 30’s, 40’s and 50’s and our drive can hit the skids. We find we need that glass of whisky/wine to just keep walking. We take more vitamins, pump weights, cut the fats/carbs/calories and read/insta in the wee hours of the morning as we lie awake solving the world’s problems.

We are an intelligent, brilliant system, or rather systems. However, in light of this, our human bodies remain somewhat of a mystery. Over and above the calories in, calories out, sweat it out in the saddle, on the road or in the gym. We have been given just enough information through schooling, upbringing and media to drive our human bodies relatively well, all things considered. But for the most part we leave how our body works up to the doctors, therapists, dieticians, gym instructors and yogis. We listen to them as they do their best to decode, through tests and trials and educated deduction, what is up with our bodies when they ‘don’t behave’. 

Now imagine you own a Ferrari, or a jet or something fast, flashy and fabulous… You need a couple of things to operate it. Not just the obvious safety, but also to get the best performance out of it for the longest period of time. 

There is one catch… this is your ONLY vehicle; forever. 

No trade-ups or trade-ins allowed. 

So you need …

To put fuel in. The right fuel.

To service all its parts.

To know how to drive it.

A driver’s licence.

To keep it clean, and…

You hold your life in your hands, literally.

You affect everyone around you with your driving habits – responsible or dangerous…

You have to keep your eyes open and on the road (seems rather obvious).

You need to have somewhere to drive to (even the shops count as a destination).

You need insurance or some form of protection.

You need lights and indicators to communicate your movements to others sharing the road.

You need internal climate control.

Okay, so you get the point. 

There is actually quite a lot of stuff that goes with owning a car …regardless of how fast and fabulous it is ‘fresh out the box’. 

Your body is your flashy Ferrari. 

But we don’t need a licence to drive it… we don’t have to ‘earn’ it or pass a test to take it out in public. 

We are simply born into it and grow up within it. 

We make our way through life with a couple of dings and a flat here and there. Except if we are sticking to our analogy, we are driving our flipping awesome flashy Ferrari at 60 Km/hr. And often in the wrong lane, into oncoming traffic, and we can be surrounded by wild, dangerous drivers or we are those wild, dangerous drivers. 

Basically, here are some things I have learned along my healing journey.

I had NO clue what my organs did. Spleen scheen. Liver, gallbladder. heart … pump?… nope, yes and no. And as for my glands and brain/s. Total ignorance… bliss. Not! 

I found out the hard way – repeatedly, it seems I am the repetition learner, that I was constantly running my flashy Ferrari into the ground. When I almost ‘totalled’ her with an ectopic rupture, finding myself in emergency lifesaving surgery, I realised in recovery that I had best learn how to look after my vehicle better. 

I want to be around till 2074 at least, so I needed to read the user manual!

I began the very steep learning curve with my first mind-body ‘coach’ and holistic TCM healer, Catherine Morris (Knight). She helped me understand that everything we think literally affects our physiology and also our lives and future. She helped me calm my insatiable OC and manage my stress through awareness and information which she shared in our sessions. I asked a million questions, hungry for everything my fancy shmancy private school matric Biology had not been able to enlighten me with. I had also learned very little in my first year of Psych at UCT and so after 10 months of working with Catherine on my self, my ‘vehicle’ was able to naturally create and sustain a pregnancy and that was my AHA moment. When the fruits of your actions are realised and you know that you really do get a new body. And that you have the power to affect it and get the most from it.

I learned from lots of different sources, not wanting to limit my knowledge of my Ferrari, my body. I have read some seriously ‘far out’ books and lots of chemistry and sciency books, which had me having to read a bunch of other books and sitting with a dictionary to understand concepts and theories and facts that our modern schooling system had not been able to give me. 

In a nutshell. 

I learned HOW MY BODY worked on a level that started to afford me a much higher ability to keep it in ‘great condition’. I always keep Catherine’s words in mind when I am challenged by anything…. ‘You get a whole new body every year… Why are you holding on to this one? Let your scars go, thank them for keeping you ‘together’ and then let them go.’

If there is one thing that inspires me when my passion for coaching and teaching and healing feels difficult or I feel like my client and I are speaking different languages, it is this: YOU GET A NEW BODY, a new life, a new future… every second that you think differently than you have always thought. IT IS POSSIBLE – I am living proof. 

I created a baby out of a womb which was ‘wrecked’ by Asherman’s, with a clotting blood disorder and only one tube and shrivelled (apparently old) ovaries.

I created a second child with a Spanky new womb… which I helped heal with my thoughts, emotions and actions.

I am hardly OC except for balanced typography and poor AI photo edits.

I feel so relaxed sometimes that I have to remind myself when I meditate that breathing is an automatic process.

I ‘feel’ things, I allow all the feelings, messy ones too… I just don’t pitch a tent and camp there for 10 years.

I use all feelings of resistance as ‘life’s love gifts’ (as Marie Sheldon calls them) to point me to the areas I need to work in still.

I know what my spleen/liver/gallbladder/heart/skin does enough to value them.

I know that they’re all energetically or metaphysically linked to my overall health.

I opened my learning to encompass horses and hounds when I helped clear a stable and ‘heard’ the horse’s thoughts and emotions. I didn’t dismiss it as imagination, and I decided to allow my own experience to tell me the truth of it.


I wondered. I got curious.

Remember you own an incredible ‘vehicle’ and it is ALL YOURS. Take care of it like your life and love and happiness depends on it. Cause it does. Breathe… Start up that beauty!