My Personal Story

I took on the name Ember at the age of about 27 to help me overcome a long-winded battle with disordered eating patterns and various mental issues manifesting as anxiety, severe depression and suicidality.

I was born with the name Emily, given to me by my parents and I grew up in the bushland of rural, tropical far north Queensland (Australia).

My own experiences as a young adolescent and teenager, and social pressure influenced the way my mind 'shaped' and therefore my body...

I was deeply unhappy and never visioned life 'after 30' as I genuinely did not want to live past this age - for this just meant too many painful minutes, days and years on the Earth.

I believed as a woman that my value was based on what I looked like and had no understanding of the greater power of the heart, womb and body when connected with the Earth.

Fast forward, connecting to sacred experiences, through intentional psychedelic use around the same time I changed my name to Ember... I begun a journey into my inner-realm and the depth of healing I had the courage to face: my pain, within. This often manfested, prior to this as a reflection and projection of 'pain' I saw in the world. It took me some years to figure out that the outside world, for me, was just a reflection of the inner. I took it upon myself to transform my body-mind, and through various psycho-somatic arts, ceremony work and much more - my initiation into the shamanic kingdom began and so was the journey from dark to Light.

I overcome ancestral, social, psycho-spiritual manifestations of illness in my body-mind and was able to experience the life in a new way that I had never imaged. Passing over the threshold of 30, I was still suffering disordered eating patterns, when it was by the time of my mid-30s that I accustom myself to being free of the internal struggles, pain and suffering of my body (and perhaps also the stories of 'others') in myself. My community, life and body-mind transformed. Radiant illumination guided my path to a healthier, happier way of being.

Today I am free.

And I returned to the first name I was born with, merging dark and light.

Here in the center, of Love.