What My Elbow, the Ceiling, and a 2-Star Review Taught Me Last Week …

Have you ever had the feeling that something is about to give?

The universe gives you plenty of warnings, but you happily ignore them.

A few weeks ago, just before the opening of the Purple House Kitchen, my kitchen ceiling began to collapse in one corner.

(To read the full story click here)

Every day, it sank a bit lower.

Thankfully Caleb had just returned from Canada and he fixed it for us.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the end of the story!

Last week, I asked Pete to give me a healing session.

With the stress of kids coming and going (I hate saying goodbyes), and the excitement of opening the café, I was starting to feel a bit frayed around the edges.

Pete was glad to oblige, so a few minute later I am lying on my treatment table in happy anticipation of feeling much better soon.

However, a few minutes in, the phone starts ringing off the hook.

Pete answers a few calls and starts again, when suddenly there is a knock on the door.

It was Ben, telling us that a waterpipe had burst and water was gushing down the track.

Pete had to leave me half cooked, to inspect the damage outside.

While resting in my room, trying to see the funny side of life, I suddenly remembered how a big water pipe had burst just outside my bedroom window, while I was doing a 4 day silent retreat in 2023.

That time, it took noisy digging machines, and two chatty men to fix it.

I had to pack up my cushions and candle and create a sanctuary in a different part of the house.

Lying there on my massage table, waiting for Pete, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was creating all these ‘distractions’ myself. (short answer: YES)

When Pete came back, he reassured me that our maintenance guy had everything under control, it just needed a new elbow pipe.

Pete resumed the healing session and skillfully removed all my stresses.

By the time he finished, my headache was gone, I felt clear and light, ready to face another week.

Little did I know that the Universe held more in store for me.

We had an extremely busy Wednesday and Thursday, but Friday we saw record numbers.

All hands were on deck, but even with 5 of us on the floor trying to hold it all together, one person fell between the cracks, went home and gave us a 2 star review on Google.

I told myself I was fine.

I tried to stay grounded and grateful.

I reminded myself, “This is a happy problem to have!”

And all week, clients and customers had given us glowing feedback about the space and the food.

But I kept thinking about that one lady who had left a stinging review.

I decided to take myself away from it all for a bit and go for a walk in the garden.

Before I knew it, I trip over my own feet and hit the ground.

Thankfully it was the lawn, but I fell awkwardly.

After a few seconds of lying on my back, looking at the blue sky, pretending nothing had happened, I get up and walk to my bathroom to inspect the damage.

My right arm aches a bit and I notice that I can’t bend or stretch it all the way.

Much later that evening at the E.D in Burnie, I am told that I have a fracture in my elbow, and to carry my arm in a collar and cuff.

Something had been waiting to give obviously, and while I hadn’t been listening, my body had stepped in a released the pressure for me, by giving me a bone fracture!

The Bigger Message for All of Us

Many of us—especially carers and healers—feel like we must keep it all together.

• We carry the emotional loads of those around us.
• We work hard to avoid letting anyone down.
• We stretch ourselves until we can’t stretch anymore.

🧡 If You’re Feeling the Pressure Too…

If your “ceiling” feels tight… if your “elbow” joint is aching from the effort of pushing through, if your emotional pipes feel like they’re about to burst…

This is the time to have a SACRED PAUSE and listen to what your subconscious mind is whispering.

Perhaps your Inner Guru, your Intuition is saying something like this:

• “Are you afraid of how big this can really get?”
• “Are you feeling safe expanding into this next level?”
• “Are you unconsciously calling in collapse to avoid success you don’t fully trust yet?”

I figured out that I am clearly asked to release my old blueprint of ‘crash before rise.’

I already did that once, back in 2006 when I got hit by a truck at a time that our business was expanding rapidly.

My message to you today is:

You don’t need the ceiling to fall, your bones to break, or the pipes to leak to get your next up-level.

Perhaps you also have deeply buried programs running in the background

e.g:

• “I’m not allowed to rest.”
• “I don’t deserve uninterrupted attention.”
• “There’s always a catch when things are going well.”
• “Healing/success/wealth must come through struggle.”

These limiting beliefs formed early in your life when care or love was conditional or unpredictable.

We all have elbow strain from living in two worlds: the inner and outer world.

You’re being called to repair the joints between your inner and outer worlds, your masculine and feminine, your giving and receiving, your resting and being productive.

Most of us struggle to receive blessings, gifts and good things in life.

We are more equipped to take hardship in our stride.

We can never give ourselves permission to ‘rest deeply’.

These karmic loops or old programs resurface time and again because they need to be resolved and YOU CAN RESOLVE THEM, so I suggest you start today.

If you are struggling with recurring negative patterns, book in for a healing session with Pete or me to gain clarity, inspiration, healing and to open the floodgates of abundance.

I can’t wait to see you.

Call us on 03 64283007 or book online.

(PS: It’s 48 hours since I broke my elbow, and I can now stretch it, bend it, and almost have full range of movement.)

Once the body understands that you have retrieved all the ‘lessons’ from a situation, it can heal in top speed with very little pain.

Do you want to experience superfast healing?

Book in for a diagnostic session with me, and your mirror neurons will copy all wisdom from my cells to yours.

This is how Natural Healing works at its best!

With Love