From Wound To Wisdom—Why I’m Expanding My Soul Work

This is the story of my own spirituality and knowing. This is the story of why I have decided to open the doors to what it took for me to pause, to heal and to create a safe space for me to evolve into who I came here to be.

As a little girl I remember always wanting to have peace in my world and in my family. I always questioned why I was so different with my heart and especially with my emotions. I fought for the underdog and I protected those who often didn’t deserve my protection (in the critical mind) but not in mine.

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When I Started To Understand My Heart

As a young teenager I lost my father and this would change my life beyond logic as he was not always seen as a good man. My father was a complicated man, but to me, his complexity didn’t cancel out his humanity. He had his own battles. And even in death, I found myself fiercely defending the love I held for him. It made no sense to anyone else, but it made perfect sense to my soul. That love was sacred. It was unconditional. And it became the soil where my spiritual path would eventually take root.

I lived my life like this—heart wide open, soul always searching.

Even in marriage, I brought this same devotion with me— protecting, nurturing, absorbing. In my mind I was protecting the family I was inviting into my life, into my heart and into my soul. I had this heart that wanted to love and keep peace in every way possible.

This was how I lived my entire life. 

When I was in my mid 20s I made a statement to the Universe saying I was going to create a place known as ‘Families in Transition’.

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And So My Spiritual Journey Officially Began.

In my mid 30’s that same family I fought so hard to protect slowly began to fray. My cup was empty and my soul was in pain. The very family I had given everything to protect, was closing a chapter. 

I knew I had to make a choice. A choice I wish my own mother had been able to make. I chose to save myself, from what was not safe. I chose to hurt some very loved parts of me while also trying to save what I could with the other parts. I walked away and in doing so, I chose me.

Within 9 years I was going back to school for my Spiritual Psychotherapy and I remembered my ‘Families in Transition’. For 3 years I studied, I did over 200 hours of therapy for my schooling, my practicum and then the big picture became clear. I was not only there healing my ancestry, my lifetime, but I was healing my Mother Wound and so much more. 

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There’s something tender I’ve never quite known how to put into words.

Sometimes, the person who caused the deepest pain in the family is also the one I feel called to see with the widest eyes. To witness not just what they did, but who they were beneath the story.

It’s not about excusing the harm. It’s about the part of me that has always been wired to look at people through both their shadow and their soul. I don’t always know why I see things the way I do—but I do. I came in different. I feel the pain, and I also feel the blueprint underneath it.

Some people can’t or won’t look back. For them, survival meant separation, distance, or silence. And I honour that. Every soul comes here to heal in its own way, in its own time.

But for me, I keep showing up in that space in between. The space that holds grief and grace at once. The space where I can feel the ache of what never was and still sense the sacred thread that weaves it all together.

Not because I bypass pain. Not because I think forgiveness is always the answer. But because I believe healing is complex, layered, and often not linear.

And I believe we don’t have to choose sides inside ourselves.

The light always has to share space with the dark.

This version leaves room for both sides—it doesn’t excuse harm, and it doesn’t preach forgiveness. It simply tells your truth as someone who is wired to see both the wound and the soul.

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The next layer

I lost my Mom at the end of my schooling and a new layer of my spiritual growth started to take form. I had a lot of work to do and a lot of layers still left to be revealed, to heal. Spirit was showing me what soils needed to be overturned, to be excavated, inside my heart, and for my soul. My healing started with my father and was coming to a head with my mother 33 years later.

All I know is my spiritual body was needing to heal and I wanted to go all in. I became tired of having to explain my journey but I did anyway. Being asked time over time why I was always doing the deep shadow work became tiresome. I got to the point if you don’t want to be a part of my human experience then you don’t need to be a part of my journey. 

The container that held all of my life including family and friends began to shrink exponentially. I focused on the only thing that mattered—healing what needed to be healed so it didn’t become my children’s cross to bear. This is the ancestral trauma and it has to start with one, the one willing to do the work. I knew that if I didn’t do the work then they would have to. I recognize in my children I didn’t get here in time but I am doing what I can to show where the healing is happening.

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Our Soul’s Journey—Our Hero’s Journey

You see this is how our soul evolves. We don’t come into this life just to live it up and start over again. The soul comes in to evolve and to heal those unhealed parts, the version waiting to become whole again. 

From the breath, and from the stories we carry that were never truly ours.

Some of the healing is from past lives, some from ancestral lines and some from our present life—those maybe being the hardest parts.

These are the memories we often cannot run from, nor do we want to—at least in my view and in my life.

This is why our limiting beliefs are needing to be healed. Some of our beliefs came in with us to heal and those people in our movies— our family, friends or even strangers came in to help with this healing. On top of those limiting beliefs we are conditioned and so the cycle continues, until we recognize the offerings to heal and the deconditioning to be done.

Our parents came into this world with us, because they were the parents needed to help us to heal those lost fragments of our soul. The cast of characters in your life you are unsure of, are here so you can try to heal what is unhealed within you . They are the souls that came in with you and the souls that will be able to help you heal. Without those characters how else would you feel that pain they are offering you? Without those characters you wouldn’t understand the pieces of your soul that is wanting to heal or become whole again. 

I know, this is a lot.

What else I know, is this is the work that helped me to do a lot of my healing. It is in this work, I have discovered my true purpose in life. It is in this work I discovered the light within. 

As Rumi said,  “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

I have spent my entire life doing this work, studying modality after modality. Collecting the tools that would one day be ready to be shared with the collective. This vast toolbox I have created was meant for this container. A place where one finds themselves on the journey—whether you are beginning, still uncertain, or just a little curious, these are the tools you will have access to. 

In conversation with a friend the other day, I heard it again. Over the last couple of months Spirit has been whispering to me. The whispers started low and then slowly became louder. 

Whispering, “It may not be how you are picturing it.” 

Every sign was saying it’s not necessarily what you are thinking, it may be something else. I needed to surrender and give up control. 

That was a difficult piece to understand as I have spent my entire life knowing this work was meant for me the minute I came into this world. You know how we are asked what did you want to be when you were a little girl or boy? Well all I can remember is that I wanted to heal the world’s heart. This was me from day one. 

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I Would One Day Come To Understand, It Starts With Healing My Own Heart.

I’m no longer trying to fit into anyone’s mold. I am letting go of my old self. I am not just the daughter, the sister, the mother, the realtor, the crystal shoppe owner.

I’m not here to be who others want me to be. I am here to become the woman I was born to be. 

It is time to be here for me, my greatest cheerleader, my best friend, my own Sacred Mother. 

No more dimming my light or putting myself in a box to fit into a story that no longer is mine. 

The healed version of me that has evolved, is the one I am truly grateful for. I am grateful for everyone who showed up in my stories. I am grateful for the one’s that caused me discomfort, the ones who held me and the ones who waited to see where I would land. 

Most of all I am grateful for the light that I have received. Thank you Spirit for holding the light for me, even when I wasn’t ready. I know there is still a lot of work along my way and I ask for you to be gentle at the times I am not strong. Those unhealed parts of me I promise to do my best to transform, and to always be certain there is great reason. I will always choose the light even when I am drowning in the dark.

I’ve moved to the Island and I’m creating a new space—not just for myself, but for those who feel the call to come home to their own self.

I’m here when you are ready to rediscover your voice.

To walk through your own unveiling.

To reconnect with Spirit in a way that feels authentic and alive.

I want to not only guide you through your stories but to also show you all of the modalities that got me to who I am today.

I wish to share all of my woooo with you. I would love to share all of the tools in my craft box whether it is oracles, human design, astrology or the kabbablistic teachings that I so love in my life. These are just some of the tools you can bring into your daily lives and practices. This is the way to discovering you, this is only the beginning. In doing this work you will learn the true way to manifesting.

This is where I guide you to manifest an abundant life, and to connect with Spirit within your own definition of what spirituality means to you. 

Whether you are new to your spiritual practices or not — I am here to walk with you. Spirituality is not a religion — it is your connection to your true self. Religion is an organized community, a system. Spirituality is an individual quest for meaning and purpose, an inner journey where your soul is waiting to be remembered.

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Spirituality Is Not Taught—It Is Felt

Being Spiritual or wanting to learn spirituality is not something one can teach. It is something we become and I would love to share ways to guide you to find your own conduit to your heart’s truth, and your personal connection to your own belief systems. 

I don’t want to just teach you, or give you something to follow. I want to share my unique craft box and show you how to walk into your own becoming. I would love to guide you to find your own connection to what lights you up. I want to guide you to tap into your own goodness and fall in love with who you came here to be. 

I would love to be invited in, to be your guide in helping you to discover your true self. I can only guide you as you get to choose your own path, your own work and how you will become the best version of yourself.

This next chapter is not about coaching from a pedestal, it’s about guiding from the heart. 

It’s about weaving together everything I’ve gathered—Ancestral Healing, Soul Retrieval, Past Lives, Akashic Records, The Inner Child, Kabbalah, Your Souls work through Human Design, Astrology, Oracle Connection, Story Telling, Soul Truth, 9D Breathwork and so much more. I am here to show you how to become your own guide, your beacon of light from within.

I don’t want to teach you how to “do spirituality.”

I want to help you become your own definition of sacred.

To find your own channel.

To find what lights you up.

I am not here to give you answers.

I am here to help you remember your own.

This is the new arm of my work.

A sacred mentorship rooted in spiritual excavation, remembrance, and reclamation.

It’s not just about healing.

It’s about becoming.

And whether you’re just beginning or already deep in the spiral, I’m here to walk beside you—just as I’ve walked through it myself.

I trust I am a beacon of light and hope for others as I have experienced more than I believed possible in order for me to step into my own becoming. My journey has been big and I have loved every step of the way. Sometimes that love is recognized in hindsight but I have become better in my foresight. My move to the Island has given me even more.

I am amazed, all I have is gratitude and love, for the lessons and the experiences. 

We don’t just get one spiritual smackdown and come out the other side fully healed. These initiations—because that’s what they truly are—come more than once, often when we least expect them. Even after all the work we’ve done, all the healing we thought was complete, the next layer reveals itself.

Our 40s, 50s, and yes into 60 we have no choice but to walk through the valley of spiritual awakenings, spiritual smackdowns and one you may not have been introduced to ‘your ego death.’

If this is you please know the light is there and my invitation to you is to trust your light is just beginning to burn.

The truth is, the work never really ends. And even if you’re just beginning your journey—or you think you’ve already done it all—there is always more. More to soften into. More to remember. More to reclaim. And the beautiful part? It only gets sweeter. With every return inward, you meet more of your wholeness. And that is where your true sovereignty lies. This is when you are moving to a higher version of your true self—it’s called levelling up, it’s called purpose.

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Final Thoughts

If you’re ready to explore your own rising, your own becoming, I invite you to join me in this next chapter. Whether through 1:1 mentorship, spiritual breathwork, or sacred space on this Island, there’s a seat at the table for you. 

We came here to evolve—let’s remember together.

Please note— I am also opening up the offerings virtually if the ‘in person’ option is not felt with ease.

If these words have stirred something in you, I have a special offering with another beautiful light, “The Sacred Unveiling retreat is calling—a 4 day, 3 night soul sanctuary by the sea on Prince Edward Island, September 25th to the 28th, 2025. A space to soften, remember, and rise into the next chapter of your becoming. This is where your voice and your empowerment returns home.

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This space is for you…..

If you are navigating a big transition or feel like parts of yourself is falling apart.

You’re tired of shape-shifting and want to remember who you are underneath.

You are holding onto parts of your past that you have not been able to break free from.

You’ve always been the caretaker, the healer, the one others depend on — and you’re ready to finally choose you.

You want to deepen your spiritual practice in a way that is yours, not someone else’s.

You sense that you’re meant for more — but don’t want to bypass your pain to get there. It’s in the bypass the pain persists.

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With Love and Grace

Patrice aka Lu

oX

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Founder of Odyssey Lighthouse