MY STORY

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Spending time in nature, or bringing the power of nature indoors, has proved to be the key to my wellbeing, but I also had to radically change my thinking to improve my mental and emotional health. Here's my story...

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After a very academic schooling with summer holidays in Ibiza, I studied Media & Communications at uni, worked as a commercial model in London, Birmingham and Barcelona, got into events and also wrote for Ibiza's Pacha magazine from 2001-2006 as the self dubbed raving reporter/assistant editor. By the time I took over Unique Models in 2008 in the UK, despite its success, I was so tense I woke up daily with my jaw clamped shut, suffered from terrible headaches and near constant overwhelm, and was so anxious I could barely even pack an overnight bag. ​I spent the weekends partying, the week recovering, and had lost sight of the old me.

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I was drawn to study Tarot, and the re-occurring Tower card & 8 of Swords kept reflecting what I was ignoring; that my limiting beliefs and the way I was perceiving things was keeping me stuck, and my life required total demolition. Eventually I liquidated the agency, the universe liquidated the rest and I crept back to my parents to slowly rebuild myself, practising yoga, journaling, and receiving counselling & Reiki. It was a slow but steady recovery that eventually took me back to Ibiza in 2013 to work as a writer once again, only for a second demolition crew to arrive in 2016.

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After completing my Reiki I training, so called repetitive strain injury killed my rekindled writing career - in the end I was in so much pain I couldn't type, couldn't write in my journal and couldn't even drive. I was desperate to stop using technology but had become totally addicted. I gladly checked out of society to travel through South East Asia, doing energy healing and readings on the beaches and by waterfalls. Back in Ibiza I chose to live an albeit slightly mad dream of living in the woods to continue disconnecting from technology as much as possible.​

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My time living outdoors, in the caves of the Canaries & the woods of Ibiza, where I was invited to set up a healing garden in Port de San Miguel, were some of the most liberating and empowering times of my life, returning to my true nature, through Nature, discovering my inner camping Queen (I had only camped once before at a festival) and peace of mind I had barely ever experienced.  

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There was no actual injury, just years of stress & emotions to release from my neck and shoulders as I realigned my neglected body. My sensitivity to energies & the ability to channel them only grew, I did Reiki II in 2018 & my Reiki Masters in 2020, continually being presented with opportunities to understand how energies work, for myself and my clients, and how the mind, if left to run amock, can ruin mental & emotional health.

 

Eventually I started to write again & learned to re-integrate technology in a balanced way, and after working as a temp front of house, I have now repackaged my wellbeing services for the corporate world, where mental health and wellbeing are now top priority.

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I am currently living in Warwickshire & regularly travel to Ibiza & the Canaries, working face to face & online. I've also followed my heart to the sustainable fashion industry, selling and styling fun 80s fashion to express your unique self, & doing events to make sustainable fashion more accessible. Follow @malbibusvintagesuitcase on insta if the 80s float your boat, and @itsallgoodinthewood_ for my nature healing & readings.