The Journey Practitioners
Jan Ricketts
Practitioner Details
I have always been passionate about inspiring people to search for greater happiness through self-discovery. I'd always known somehow that we each hold the key to our own happiness deep within. My own thirst for knowledge drew me into a wonderful career in nursing and an ever-deepening knowledge and understanding of the holistic nature of mind, body and spirit.
I had suffered from depression for as long as I could remember. I'd always felt on the outside looking in, as though I didn't belong somehow. I'd always been a 'coper' (as is so often the way!) Then a very dear friend gave me the Journey book and I haven't looked back since. This was the opening I needed giving me the courage to finally address all my difficulties and emotional blocks and leave the past behind and I am now happier and healthier at all levels of my being than I ever dreamt possible.
one of the extraordinary aspects of the Journey is that it seems to address all our issues, both known and unknown, enabling us to heal at the deepest level.
Our body is truly our only means of letting us know that something is going on emotionally and many people never find the opportunity to ‘listen’. There is a saying that 'feelings buried alive never die - they just fester and keep trying to get our attention usually in the most uncomfortable manner. And it is true what Brandon says in her introduction, "that no matter how deep the trouble is, no matter how much you have struggled with it, the possibility exists for you to become absolutely free, whole and healed." I like the truth of that and also the knowledge I have now after working with the Journey for so long, that I can completely trust the process because each person gets to work with exactly the right thing to help them move forward.
The process is quite magical in that you can rely completely and totally on your own inner wisdom, you can relax knowing you will get to work with just the right thing and most importantly, that nothing comes up that you are not ready to deal with. Often people come thinking they are going to be dealing with a particular aspect, and find it is something completely different, but that whatever it was has had a profound effect throughout their life; and with this new understanding are able to make sense of so many other aspects of their life and relationships.
Over the last seven years I have seen such transformations take place with so many people as they gradually peel back the layers of all that they are not and shed years of emotional baggage. I am still awed by the simplicity of the process and by the profound healing that occurs. It is a wonderful therapy because it is nothing that I as the therapist do, it is your process, I am merely a facilitator enabling you to find your own truth, your own path to healing.