“Traveling – it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller.”
Ibn Battuta
Hi and welcome! To save any confusion, for those of you who have come to my site via my YouTube channel, Chasing the Moon RV, you are in the right place. You may know me as Zia, a family nickname I have had for over thirty years. I felt Zia suited my new nomadic lifestyle better than my given name, which I used when I selected my domain for this site… but I respond to either!
I an a full time nomad, living & travelling in my converted shuttle bus, since 2022. My personal journey of searching and discovering, which I’m sharing below, has led to the authentic life I live today…
I had been searching my whole life for something that made me feel passionate and on purpose. And many times I thought I had found ‘it’, only to find after a period of time I hadn’t. Consequently, I have worn many different business and hobby hats over the years, and although I was very good at many of those jobs and hobbies, they didn’t sustain my interest, because they weren’t making me feel ‘on purpose’.
In 2001, I went back to school and graduated from Kwantlen University College, with Distinction Honours in Counselling. With the support and encouragement of my professor and a psychotherapist friend/mentor, I developed a course I called ‘Living A Balanced Life’ and began working as a course facilitator and personal coach. I was good at it, but it was one of those things I ended up putting aside, because I didn’t yet have the ‘Feel On Purpose Formula’ and didn’t yet know what my Sacred Gifts were.
Eventually, I got tired of trying to find ‘it’ and nearly gave up, until a series of serendipitous events lead me to a two day workshop, Discover Your Sacred Gifts. At the end of the weekend the facilitator said, “If any of you have one or more of the following gifts (more on these later) you may want to consider becoming a Certified Sacred Gifts Guide.” I had three of the four and new I had finally found ‘it’!
Knowing my own Sacred Gifts has allowed me to meld my two certifications, my varied background experience and my passion for helping others. Recently I decided to rework my original workshop, which now focuses on the requirements of mature women.
Guiding women through the Time To Thrive workshop, or Sacred Gifts programme, has me feeling on purpose and passionate…I want that for you too!
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