Transformational Journey;returning to where my heritage began…

The inspiration to return to Italy was going to become a reality…the Universe was working to make things happen for me!

Once I had made up my mind that I was going to combine doing the Grief Recovery Certification in London and also visit Italy, the birth country of my parents and the country of my heritage; I contacted my beautiful cousin Daniela (who lives just outside of Florence) to see if there was the possibility of her being on holidays or else for her to be able to take holidays whilst I was visiting.

Once again as if the script had been prewritten, Daniela had already arranged holidays for exactly the same dates that I was going to be in Italy, and had planned to go down near to my parents village that same weekend that I arrived, the reason being was for another cousin's sons First Holy Communion…how perfect could this visit to my Italian family be! So Daniela and I decided that we would keep my arrival as a secret.

The reason that I wanted to undertake the Grief Recovery Certification was primarily to let go of my attachment to my Mum's passing which happened 29 years ago; this trip to Italy and her home village was the perfect prelude of letting her go, and to give myself the freedom to do, be and have whatever it was that I wanted in my life, without the mourning of not having my special mother around me to witness my achievements.

I left Australia, feeling relaxed, organized and very excited about the two weeks that I had ahead of me. The flight was comfortable and metorphorically speaking, the start of my transformational journey…There was a movie that I watched called "The Bucket List" featuring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, very powerful and gave me a lot to think about.

During the movie there was a part that mentioned that we need to ask of ourselves a couple of questions before we pass away, they are firstly "have we lived a life of joy?" and secondly "have we given joy to others?" These questions really made me think, I knew whilst contemplating the answers that I was doing the right thing and that I was going to have a major shift in the following couple of weeks.

When we landed in Rome, I felt like I was was coming home, hearing Italian being spoken, seeing the hand gestures, (smiling at the exagerated hand movements), and really feeling the essence of Italy…my journey of self discovery had really commenced