When I look at past me, I gaze at her with compassionate and loving eyes. She was lost, unwell, tired, anxious. She had become quiet. Desperate to fit into some sort of box. That is what she thought she was meant to do to make those around her proud and accept her.

In trying to tick all of the boxes, she forgot about herself and what her heart yearned to do. Year after year that voice inside got quieter and quieter. She became numb in the environment she had created. She also became unwell.

One year after the photograph (above on the right) was taken, I found out I had a 98% overgrowth of Strep in my gut. It should’ve been around 5%. It caused severe anxiety, chronic fatigue, depression and chronic fluid retention. I was put on a rigorous treatment plan & within a month I started to look and feel like a different person. By the end of 2015, I felt phenomenally better but it still had not completely cleared.

In 2016, I was connected with energetic healers. I started to go within. I realised I had walked a great distance away from myself through choices I had made. In doing so I’d become ill. My diet had been impeccable, but I was constantly unwell. My emotional and spiritual wellbeing was directly linked to my body being out of balance.

If we keep ignoring the whispers of our soul and live a life not true to ourselves, dis-ease can occur. I speak about going within & shifting through the layers. I’ve done it and experienced the life changing results. It has not been easy. Living the next 50 years hiding, being untrue to me, that would’ve been phenomenally harder.

I am here to lead you on a journey. I am here to walk beside you and guide you toward the treasures you have sitting within you beneath the layers. I am here to help you realise and know that life can be joyful, grounded, playful, exciting and expansive even if there are hard times along the way. I want to see you committed to yourself and compassionately connected to your heart and all that surrounds you. I want you to fall deeply in love with who you are, all that you are, all that you have been and all that you are becoming.

Catherine x

Catherine Saliba is a certified:

Life Coach - The Life Coaching College

Naturopath (BHSc) - Australian College of Natural Medicine

Reiki Master - taught by Jeremy O’Carroll

Sound Practitioner (BMus(Hons) - University of Melbourne (VCA)

Flying Star Feng Shui Consultant - taught by Master Salwa Abboud

Meditation Teacher - Melbourne Meditation Centre

Yin Yoga Instructor - taught by Jennifer Crescenzo

Whole Body Massage Therapist - Discover Massage Australia

Hot & Cold Crystal Stone Facial Therapist - taught by Sandra Jones-Rider at Stone Eagle Massage