How I Started My Journey? Part 1

Richard's Healing Holistics
Nov 25, 2025
5 min read

How I discovered my journey? Part one.

For this blog I thought to write more about how my spiritual journey started and becoming more in tune within myself. This blog has some similarities to my introduction blog, but this is more about how I started instead of giving a brief blog about my journey in general. Before going forward with this blog let me ask you, what started your journey and please write your comment in the comments section below?

My journey started with a few different situations in which I call a rollercoaster ride and happened not in the simplest of ways but that brings yourself and no one has a better journey than other, all of our journey’s are just as unique as each other with many challenges but with a lot of abundance. It was early 2021 that I started becoming more conscious and knowing with what I was doing of my spiritual side, in which I started doing shadow work. For the first part of this blog, I’ll write more about what happened between 2016 to 2021 that was the prequel to restarting my journey again.

Actually, I’ve always been spiritually since birth in which one night when I was 3 or 4 years old I was surrounded by different spirits as my bedroom was open with the stars twinkling and when I was young, I was interested in rocks, crystals, science, history, witchcraft, life after death, paranormal etc. I had leukaemia when I was 4 in which apparently, I would speak to spirits. Also being interested in stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, Doctor Who and Star Wars gave an imagination that somewhat felt true with some of the spiritual content gave an open mind. When starting an apprenticeship late 2010 I had 10 years working in a toxic narcissistic working environment in which I suffered abuse and those 10 years was soul destroying and lost touch with my spiritual side and became more of the physical side in which I lost myself throughout those years although 2016 was a major trigger to kick start my journey again.

Before going to what happened in 2021 which I mention in part 2, I want to mention about what happened in 2016. One evening September 2016 I was invited to playing a gig in London with our band as a mate invited us and actually we were a last-minute call up. Soon as I walked into the venue, I was drawn to someone sitting by the bar and the energy felt very off and the energy in the venue was very dark, but it was from this person sitting by the bar. As time goes by we were the first band to play and I was still drawn to this person and first few songs, my bass guitar wasn’t sounding right, and I did vocals for the first few songs, and something didn’t sound right but then sorted the sound out and the gig turned out good.

After we played our mate in which they become our drummer later on, introduced us to the person I was drawn to by the bar and within 5 seconds, I felt something very off and something very dark about this person and from there things began to change and the time I knew this person, things were going very wrong and was getting weird synchronicities that over the years was making sense on why? After falling out with our drummer and this person, I was getting strange dreams of this person that felt past life and then another mate told me about Empaths in which I was after hearing the term. Years after this situation which inflicted a lot of traumas that took a long time to heal. During this time knowing this person and the toxic situation at work, I was falling apart and was in a very dark place. After this situation I discovered someone on Facebook from America as I was searching for advice about being an Empath and this lady started giving great advice on how to shield myself from energy vampires, also started learning to meditate, journal and being more open.

Between 2018-2020 I was starting to figure more about myself, being more connected with many synchronicities, dreams, déjà vu but the biggest problem was that I was still at my former work place, be treated awfully and still having to mask my true self only until Covid come in that despite the troubles we had, Covid was a blessing in disguise for myself as I was made redundant and soon as I left the building after nearly 10 years, I felt so much release and freedom that I becoming more of myself from there to present moment. Although the redundancy payout was great, the term “money doesn’t always bring happiness” is a very true saying as the healing from the trauma is far greater than money and to this day, still healing from the abuse that I suffered, let alone school and the previous situation when playing in bands. After being made redundant, I had a chance of few months of no work to bring myself back together mentally.

As time goes by, working for different agencies part time I found myself working for Royal Mail, late 2020 into 2021 before finding a new permanent job. I met a girl at Royal Mail who said she’s an Empath and for few months we connected in which I discovered the term “twin flame” and knowing this person, I started being more connected with myself and the universe but it turned out she wasn’t a twin flame and when we stopped talking, I started moving forward with the healing and brushed away the twin flame theory only until few years later on this journey. But working at Royal Mail, triggered a major awakening what was starting to become clearer of things on this journey.

That’s part one of this blog of how I discovered my journey, in the next part, I’ll mention more about what happened early 2021 when I was in a forest following with the twin flame journey and meeting my unrelated donor.

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Richard Mabe at Richard’s Healing Holistics.

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