Reiki Healer UK

20/07/2024

*Request for help for a friend who has some health challenges*

A friend of mine has had a very challenging health diagnosis, and some treatment that has not worked, gone wrong and or been incorrect.

She's just messaged me, in a very distressed state, and so we had a good chat.

Left with very limited options on the NHS side, she has been recommended to get some treatment in Southampton for a week, with a well renowned alternative therapist, by someone who achieved excellent results.

The challenge:

She needs help to travel from St Helens (near Liverpool, North West UK) to Southampton for treatment, and to travel back after approximately one week.

Due to her medical condition, she needs ideally accompanying, or at least GUARANTEED help lifting cases and medical items on and off trains at St Helens (or probably Wigan), at the Birmingham change, and at Southampton, plus assistance to get them to her hotel, then the same on the way back, approximately a week later.

An alternative might be for someone to be able to drive her from St Helens to Southampton and back , although that might mean having to stay in Southampton for the week, or travel back and return a week later, or maybe two (or more) different people.

She's not asking for financial help for her travel, treatment and accommodation, although obviously this will take up someone's time and potentially THEIR travel or fuel costs which would have to be covered somehow.

So I'm putting this out there to see if anyone can either

Coordinate to help her load at St Helens , unload transfer and reload potentially at Birmingham , then unload at Southampton, then repeat a week later,

Or

Offer transport (car etc) from St Helens to Southampton, and then return trip a week later.

She's going to be pretty dependant during the travel, with lifting cases on and off, so she needs a guaranteed offer / solution.

No dates arranged yet, as dependant on ensuring travel can be arranged.

Anyone got any ideas of who could help (individuals or charities or other)?

16/07/2024

Leadership...

"My definition of leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. ". Stephen Covey.

I was once again recently publicly described, very kindly, as an "inspirational leader".

I have led teams and groups in the IT world, but also large groups of coaches, and therapists ... and dare I say it - 'healers' too. Worldwide, mostly virtual via zoom, sometimes face to face too.

I tend to see things a little differently that some people, due to my own adverse childhood EXPERIENCES (ACE) , and the development of both an empathetic AND survival-istic perspective.

ACEs shape all of us to some degree or other. In fact all childhood experiences, especially between birth (well 2, depending on your viewpoint) and seven, shape our beliefs about ourselves and the world around us.

They impact our friendships, romantic relationships, work relationships, parenting style and career.

I found a nice article from Stephen Covey about leadership the other day, and thought I'd share an extract and link to the full article, for anyone who might be interested ...

"Q: What makes a great leader?

A: My definition of leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Q: You often say that leadership is a choice not a position. Can you elaborate on this?

A: Because of the definition I use for leadership, the ability to become such a leader is a choice that any person can make; any parent or grandparent, any teacher, any coach, any co-worker, and friend. When I speak throughout the world, I often ask audiences,

“How many of you had someone in your life that communicated your worth and potential so clearly that it profoundly influenced your life?”

Inevitably over half the people raise their hands. I walk around the room and ask them to share their experience with how it happened, who did it, the impact that it had upon them, and if they, too, are making the choice to do the same with other people. People often become very emotional when they talk about the parent, the coach, the teacher, the formal leader, the friend, the neighbor, or the relative who really became very close to them and communicated to them their worth and potential. This is always an inspiring experience."

https://web.archive.org/web/20110723000458/http://www.stephencovey.com/blog/?p=6

I guess MY question is :

Are WE inspired, AND perhaps more importantly so, INSPIRING, leaders?

A: My definition of leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.