The Journey Home

Posted December 21, 2010 | by irene | in Pilgrim Diary | no responses

When I returned from Spain in December 2001, I came back to my life in the city of Toronto. I found integrating the lessons of the Camino very difficult in this environment because of all the distractions and focus on material things. 6 months later, 2 of my daughters had moved in with their dad and my oldest daughter was at University in London, so I decided to move to my cottage in Floral Park on Lake Couchiching. I spent most of the winter alone writing workshops, poetry, fairy tales and stories about my life experiences. Up until this point in my life, I have never been a writer but I took a Creative Writing workshop at Ryerson, Learned the basics and developed a style from there. I tried to write a book from my diary of the Camino, but couldn’t get the story down the way I wanted it.

Recognizing my medium is my voice, I found a recording studio at Spadina and Queen and a professional who would work with me, since I had never even been In a studio or recorded before. After some struggles disconnecting the behaviour of reacting to the feedback I normally received from an audience and finally surrendered to myself, to my purpose of inspiring people. By removing all judgment, dropping all expectations for the outcome, I just started telling my stories from my soul to another’s soul, communicating from the heart above the heart. The outcome is a moving storytelling CD with inspirational anecdotes about the people and experiences I encountered on my journey called Stone by Stone… inspirational stories about a woman’s journey to self love. Gray Diggins, a Toronto musician has provided the music for the CD which is a healing energy music, a perfect combination to my stories of inspiration. Proceeds from the sale of each CD will go back to contribute to the maintenance of the hostels that house the pilgrims on the Camino.

My purpose in life is to inspire people in some way so they can experience more love in every aspect. Every day I inspire people in some fashion, through the constant discipline of surrendering to universal love, to being love, giving love and receiving love. My life has changed considerably, as I live my purpose in everything that I do.

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