Garden of Grace with Colette
Filmmaker, Love, & Keeper of Healing Play
“You are deeply supported and protected and held and cared for.”
I can honor myself first…being able to live a life that's actually truly devoted to God and to my Creator.
[Our sacred sessions] held up a mirror to my Truth and I have no doubt they will do the same for thousands of others. Thank you, Diamond, for sharing your gift.
I'm just in a place of deep peace these days, which has been really beautiful. I'm feeling much more balanced. I feel very grateful. I love to love and be Love.
We started in the midst of all of it.
I can easily say that I started because I was so inspired by Diamond’s own journey, and that watching her go fully into her authentic being and really diving into her own Soul purpose, it was really something so beautiful to watch and witness that transformation. And so when she began the sessions, I knew that there was the option of me going to therapy or the option of me working with Diamond. I felt like while therapy has been so helpful being able to talk through problems, the spiritual component was completely missing.
By working with Diamond, I would be able to actually tap into the spiritual aspects of this healing process and go into deeper realms within myself, because she has gone into those deeper realms within herself. And so that was the most important piece in my own journey that felt like it would be good to be with Diamond on that journey.
I started it when I was in the deepest grief, and that it became truly like my anchor. I felt like I really needed that to be able to have some sort of anchor through a time of literally the deepest, unknown abyss that I had ever been in my life.
When I started working with Diamond, I didn't know what path we'd be following and was nervous. From the second session of bringing up my hesitation, I was able to slowly let go of control to allow Soul to lead…to stay in the Infinite versus the rational mind. The sessions were transformational. Thank you, Diamond, for being that space. What a gift.
[Our sessions] held up a mirror to my Truth, and I have no doubt they will do the same for thousands of others. Thank you, Diamond, for sharing your gift.
It's been going through the depths of my Soul and back again through the depths of my Soul, opening portals and vortexes within me and realizing and awakening to the magic and miracles in my life, in life in general.
It has opened up a way of Being and experiencing the world. Truly allowing myself to suspend disbelief and actually live in the world of the infinite, and actually see the signs and synchronicities and the magic of living in the world of the infinite. Before, I was so much in my logic mind and this helped me drop into the heart truths of why we're here and why I'm here.
It allowed me to learn how to slow down and be able to live a slow life. To have an example of what living slow in abundance could be like as well, and that coming back home to myself through a softening and tapping into my own feminine when I've been in my masculine for so long, that this was like the first step to that slowing down.
I have experienced a slowing down in profound ways, and that has allowed me to show up as my full self more and more.
A big moment for me was when I was at a conference last year at a film festival in Canada and I had to pitch the next day, and talking with Diamond gave me permission to miss the “important” networking events and to just sit and cry at a level of mercy and grace for myself and compassion that she reflected back to me. That really shifted something in me, that was like, Oh, actually, I can honor myself first, versus feeling like I have to fit into these boxes and keep doing things that don't feel aligned or aren't serving my highest good. That was a big, big shift, personally in my life. The big shift was moving to San Francisco also.
This has been the place of my rebirth 1000 percent.
A place where people are just fully, weirdly, authentically themselves and in nature. It's been truly the start of my own rebirth, too, being here.
The other thing is that I loved journeying through the Qabalah and the Tree of Life together and applying the lessons to my daily life. It was something that was really powerful for me, to have a practice to go back to and reflect on where I was at in my journey. That was such a great framework that really helped me. Having my mind challenged to tap into Soul again and again, Diamond holding sacred space for release and ease to wash over again and again. It helped me also with suspending disbelief. At the beginning I was like, I don't know what this is when I was reading and Diamond asked “Colette, can we let go and see what comes through?” I let go and it worked. And I was like, What if I could just take this…what if everything is true? Are you gonna put a cap on God, you know? That really helped. And it's helping me now with bhakti, too, because there are things that I'm like, Oh yeah, why not? Why can't there be a blue version incarnate of God, you know? So there's a lot that helped with doing that work together in the beginning, too.
Also the [keepsakes]—I have the “today, I choose courage.” And that piece of paper was what allowed me to have the conversation with my mom about the divorce and about everything. It was a Soul message that I really needed to get through that chapter. I still have it. I will always keep it, until maybe it's ready to go to someone else. We'll see if it's meant to be passed on. But yeah, thank you, Diamond, for that level of generosity, too.
Now I am who I’ve always been but wasn’t able to be.
I'm literally looking at a butterfly right now. That gentle floating ease of being a butterfly is who I was as a child, and I forgot…through the years of conditioning and all whatever knots piled on. This was the untangling of that to remember who I am as ease and a flowing river.
What's opening up for me is being able to live a life that's actually truly devoted to God and to my Creator, and that because of that level of devotion and service, that everything else comes with ease and bliss. It's not anything of me trying to find fulfillment from this outside world. It's actually a transcendental joy from within and contentment that allows me to fly. And so my heart is opening up. Colette a year ago, I would tell her that…
You’re not alone.
You are deeply supported and protected and held and cared for. These seasons will not end; there will always be seasons of storms and sunshine, and yet now you actually will have an anchor to go through all of it, versus being thrown into the different phases. And how much I love you.
You are so bold and fun and alive and vibrant and I love every part of you. The Bossy part, the loud part, the every part…is perfect as you are. [Future Colette’s message] is to…
Slow down.
Trust, surrender, and just love God and what's flowing through you now. It is possible in this lifetime to live a life of devotional bliss. That it is a practice, and I'm learning the tools to be able to practice it and Source Creator is seeing that I'm doing this. It's coming back to me and I'm already feeling it from now. So that it could multiply in that way, is just so powerful, too. So much mercy. It's literally like the infinite sky. Just, wow, space.
I don't have words to be able to describe how grateful I am for Diamond.
Just thank you so much. Thank you so so so much, really, one of the most important people in my life.
It just feels like I’ve had to keep a mask on for so long and it's really something to be fully seen and to be accepted, just as I am. I don't have to try to be something I'm not. It’s really a gift.
— Colette Ghunim, Filmmaker, Love & Keeper of Healing Play (California & Illinois)
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