Rise Above Barriers Alchemy

10/07/2025

Feeling stuck and overwhelmed?

Or feeling like you are in a dark cave and want to come out but can't, possibly stuck in the dark night of the soul?

For me using the process of visualising myself turn the light on in areas of my mind where it feels stuck or dark makes all of the difference to help me move forward into calmer waters one step at a time.

Bringing awareness to the colours and tones of the different parts within my body and mind when working through symptoms helps bring expression to help move through subconscious blocks within. Helping this armour to be seen, heard and honoured. Remembering, when our armour is seen, heard and honoured it softens and shifts when it's ready.

Sometimes when I bring awareness to these colours some colours are not as vibrant as others. Infact some colours are dark, dull and murky.

These are the places that need the most love and support. These are the places that may also be completely opposite to darkness but may have been pushed down for so long and trapped that the light within these areas is not flowing or glowing as bright.

Just like we can have trapped emotions of frustration, anger, fear worry. We also can have trapped emotions of love, joy, harmony and peace.

When I notice these darker colours or darkness, I turn the light on to what I have 💯 capacity and balanced safety to.

Once the light is turned on, I notice things more clearer and realise what was behind darkness had so much beauty, vibrant colours with so much love and feelings of peace. Parts that I had pushed down from adulting that eventually became encapsulated- my inner child's love.

Bringing light to these areas helps bring the flow of our inner child's glow to help comfort the areas within the mind that are keeping us stuck in a spiral of anxiety. Helping us move towards calmer waters.

Turning the light on sometimes may not always be as easy when we are so stuck in overwhelm and feelings of darkness. That is when I ask God to help shine his light to help me find my way. Bringing hope, faith and a sense of safety which for me, creates beautiful shifts and helps me take that next step forward.

You've got this 🕯️🔦💡⚓🌱🎇🔥✝️💯🌈💎

05/07/2025

Through working with the children that are part of the Rise Above Barriers - Growing Minds program. We have focussed on kindness. How it is important to be kind to ourselves and others. Through this exploration we also investigated more about bees -In how bees are an essential part of our existence, especially in helping our gardens grow.

Just like it is important to help the garden in our mind grow. To nourish the soil (release trapped emotions to bring more flow), to plant the seeds of kindness (re-write old belief systems), so the mind can flourish just as the plants bloom. So the bees can spread the nectar (kindness and love) and help others plants (others) grow.

Followed from yesterday's post about how shock unconsciously created armour, is an expression of how one layer of my teenage armour was formed. The armour did serve a purpose at the time (to help protect me from hurt) which is why I honour it, however due to me not being able to speak up or process it, the armour became stuck. Creating spiral of overwhelm, insecurities and grief from a comment which had hurt me immensely. However, as I allow this shield and armour be seen, heard and honoured through healthy expression the more things shift in the most gentle enlightening ways 🙏🏼

~Be Kind~

. By Chantelle Sultana

Through the stillness of this subtle breeze.

A fulfilling feeling moves through the mind with great ease.

To help me breathe with a gentle tone.

To help my body rest and relax the rigidness in each bone.

It comes from times I was subconsciously stuck in a freeze.

When my senses felt overloaded from the shock from one simple tease.

It came from a high school friend that said I had a smudged nose.

I looked fine on the outside but by inside I shriveled from head to toe.

It came from two people I knew from kindi all of the way to when this happened in year eight.

I felt heartbroken as one of them was one of my best friend and her mate.

I felt abandoned, rejected and filled with grief.

The way they said it with giggles created a block on the bones in my feet.

I found in the recent years this one simple moment created a spiral of waves of health issues for me.

The biggest part was how it subconsciously blocked my ability to fully grieve.

It not only impacted my decisions, concentration and memory field.
It created the biggest block equivalent to a titanium shield.

It not only made me feel so insecure it impacted my ability to breathe through my nose most of the time.

From their thoughtless tease created an energetic disconnection from my nose to my lungs to breathe and feel fine.

This impacted imbalances within the different systems within my body.
They carried on with their day, and didn't even say sorry.

The reason I am writing in this way.
As through this expression it is helping a stuck cycle tell me what it wants to say.

To keep on going and not let them say what they please.
Their own insecurities should not be my disease.

I also wanted to express the importance of being careful with your words in every way.

As this ripples out and can create a snowstorm and impact someones life and not just their day.

I saw this with my own past thoughtless words of expression.

I have learned how one simple statement can crush someone and this is my confession.

So if there was anytime I was not wise with my words or mannerisms.

I am sorry, please forgive me for any of my thoughtless past criticisms.

🙏 ❤️

04/07/2025

Over the years I realised how grief took over my life without me even realising it. How consumed I was in it, without being fully aware of the spiral it kept me in.

This stuckness came from some events in my life that created extremely strong emotional shock throughout my entire being.

With this shock came some strong armour that I unconsciously built around my heart, mind, body and unfortunately soul. This was my way that I knew at the time how to cope with this- to push the pain and grief from these life experiences down and armour up. However, this armour kept me in spirals and loop cycles that kept me stuck and not able to move forward. Which impacted my body and my mind in a big way. Keeping me stuck in grief and unknowingly - depression.

Depression comes from the term compression. So pushing down emotions. From this, I had unconsciously pushed down emotions of joy, peace and excitement.

Through this work that I do, I aim to allow expression to each layer of armour be seen, felt and honoured. However, when you allow this to happen you also notice that within what caused this armour in the first place also holds our inner child's glow of peace, harmony and joy. The more we give this armour expression the more we are able to set this glow free. To help hold the parts within that feel vulnerable and to strengthen these parts with balanced safety and resilience. So what needs to be felt can be felt and processed with more ease and not being stuck in that spiral.

We are all reflections of eachother and when I work with clients I walk with them side by side, working as a team to help them feel they don't have to do this alone. From this, I also go on this journey with them.

This is a poem I wrote with what came through today's expression of sounds, movement and play.

Through the peace that flows through.
Comes a new found light that grew.

It comes from my inner child at age nine.
Of the joy that was pushed down and became benign.

It moved through the cracks of my body armour and shields.
That held strong that came from adulting struggles and yields.

However, today it rose again once more.
Radiating through my being, ready to soar!

❤️ Chantelle

26/06/2025

My story begins. Through the depths of my heart and soul as I allow my true expression of my grief be heard, seen and honoured as I celebrate this next stage of my existence.

The next stage of my rising. The celebration of my recovery journey and expression of how my stuck grief found and meets grace. To begin I allow my expression of grief to grace be heard and seen. 🙏🏼❤️🌈🗝️⚓✝️🌹🔥🌟🌟🌟🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🎉⚡⚡⚡🥳🥳🎁🎁

Dear grief,

You have shown me a way I would have never found if you didn't show up in me.

You came through the whispers in the tree and the heartache in the air.

You poured through my eyes while at the same time held your disguise from others.

You looked out of the window to the raindrops dropping to the ground.

You were on a search for freedom when I didn't even know this truth can be found.

You expressed through the hurt of the past pain.

Until I allowed you to feel noticed.

Until I allowed you to be seen so you didn't have to leach out of me anymore.

You showed me the beauty of your heart and soul.

You allowed my inner whisper of my soul bloom and glow.

You harnessed a sense of steadiness within me as I allowed God's grace fill the cracks of my broken heart with your glow.

The grace that formed me and that showed me a way to freedom.

The grace that allowed me to sustain my energy and cultivate a new form of expression.

An expression of the beauty of words, movement, sound and art.

An expression of peace and unconditional love.

An expression that brings me hope and lights up my heart.

Hello grief, how I welcome your inner expression after decades of pushing you away.

How I now honour your ancient wisdom of the peace, strength and courage you bring me. Hello grief, how powerful you are yet how vulnerable you can be at the same time.

You allowed me to pave the way to my hidden truth that lies within me.

The truth that I ran away from for a long time.

The truth that I had locked away.

It is the truth that I am enough. I am worthy and I am a child of God. I am worthy to be an image of love as the love from this grief I held in glows so strongly. This glow came from me meeting my darkness and allowing each part to feel honoured, forgiven, compassion, nurture and loved.

To enable the soul break through the resistance of my precious mind. To help me see who I am.

I am worthy and one of a kind. I am compassionate and caring. I have a loving heart that expands over the oceans and mountains, I am enough. I am me.

Thank you God for allowing me to be filled with your grace and love.

Amen.

15/06/2025

Some beautiful words from a beautiful and trusting soul whose words are music to my ears. I wanted to share her wisdom to all 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

What if every teacher, every master, every person was someone who we’ve once known.

What if the material, conversations and experiences were all there to expand our consciousness of knowing and loving thyself all over again.

Each experience is sharing with you something about yourself. When we are open to living our lives through this lens, it shifts our perspective of who we are to them or who they are to us; to what they reflect in us, for us, with us as one.

Healing lives here.

In Love, Melissa Wickert

13/05/2025

There is always goodness in every struggle and situation. My greatest struggles have become my greatest blessings, as it helped me connect with my true essence of being me to help me sparkle and shine. 💎💎💎

❤️

02/05/2025

Witnessed this gorgeous double rainbow today. Rainbows always fill my heart with joy and gives me a sense of hope and gratitude.

Hope that beams the colours of the rainbow through my heart, mind, body and soul. We have so much to be grateful for, especially this beautiful land each and every one of us live on.

🌈The pallet of nature, that brings colours and tones to nourish us.
🌈The symphony of the world that creates sounds that brings harmony to our ears
🌈 The hope that lights us up with unconditional love and faith that heals.

From my heart to yours I am sharing this rainbow of hope with you and if you know someone who needs it today feel free to share.

So much love and blessings

01/05/2025