59 min
Healing: A return to wholeness with Donna Lancaster, Co-Founder and Facilitator at The Bridge Retreat. Illuminated with Ellie Loves
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- Self-Improvement
Donna Lancaster is a coach and therapist with over 25 years of experience working individuals, couples and groups and she's co founder and a facilitator of The Bridge Retreat - a six day personal development experience offering life transformation through deep healing.
She’s passionate about the subject of grief and the grieving process which she believes offers the missing link for many, in our search for wholeness. This interest stemmed from her own personal experience of ‘depression’ which she suffered from for many years and later recognised as unprocessed grief.
She talks about going through life - like so many of us -as a ‘warrior woman’ with a focus on strength, tenacity, and being ‘indestructible’! And how her body literally shutdown, forcing her to re-evaluate life and explore new ways of being.
Donna suports people ‘to return to the truth of who they are’.
“Through allowing and supporting the natural order of the grieving process to flow, people find themselves remembering who they really are and living from this true place. When there is ‘unfinished business’ in our lives, it is very hard to move on and engage with life fully. Grieving allows us to cross the bridge from past hurts and sorrow into a place of lightness and joy.”
We talk about:
How healing is a return to wholeness
How she worked as a child protection social worker for many years
How carrying on warrior style may keep you feeling safe in the short term, but it's not sustainable
The physical manifestations of mental pain can be ME, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia..
The deeper you go in healing, the more joy you can access
That mental health is still shrouded in shame, but it's changing and we can all be a part of the change
That to move forward - we have to deal with the painful parts of our past
How important space is to do the grief/ soul/inner work.
Her upcoming first book The Bridge, a practical, supportive, seven-step programme empowering you with the tools needed to gain clarity and learn how to release the pain, fear and anger keeping you trapped and move towards whole-hearted living.
The Bridge retreat - thebridgeretreat.com
The Love(d) documentary - https://www.loveddocumentary.com
Find Donna on instagram @donnalancs
Donna Lancaster is a coach and therapist with over 25 years of experience working individuals, couples and groups and she's co founder and a facilitator of The Bridge Retreat - a six day personal development experience offering life transformation through deep healing.
She’s passionate about the subject of grief and the grieving process which she believes offers the missing link for many, in our search for wholeness. This interest stemmed from her own personal experience of ‘depression’ which she suffered from for many years and later recognised as unprocessed grief.
She talks about going through life - like so many of us -as a ‘warrior woman’ with a focus on strength, tenacity, and being ‘indestructible’! And how her body literally shutdown, forcing her to re-evaluate life and explore new ways of being.
Donna suports people ‘to return to the truth of who they are’.
“Through allowing and supporting the natural order of the grieving process to flow, people find themselves remembering who they really are and living from this true place. When there is ‘unfinished business’ in our lives, it is very hard to move on and engage with life fully. Grieving allows us to cross the bridge from past hurts and sorrow into a place of lightness and joy.”
We talk about:
How healing is a return to wholeness
How she worked as a child protection social worker for many years
How carrying on warrior style may keep you feeling safe in the short term, but it's not sustainable
The physical manifestations of mental pain can be ME, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia..
The deeper you go in healing, the more joy you can access
That mental health is still shrouded in shame, but it's changing and we can all be a part of the change
That to move forward - we have to deal with the painful parts of our past
How important space is to do the grief/ soul/inner work.
Her upcoming first book The Bridge, a practical, supportive, seven-step programme empowering you with the tools needed to gain clarity and learn how to release the pain, fear and anger keeping you trapped and move towards whole-hearted living.
The Bridge retreat - thebridgeretreat.com
The Love(d) documentary - https://www.loveddocumentary.com
Find Donna on instagram @donnalancs
59 min