On this edition of Newsgram, we’re diving into a powerful question: What happens when life pushes you to let go of who you were and step into the person you’re truly meant to be? Can you rewrite your own story and transform past struggles into real strength? Jocelyn Merula explores these ideas in her new book, Enlightenment in Rhyme where she shares her insight and some practical tools for navigating transformation. If you are attracting the wrong kind of energy then you’ll love her fresh perspective on taking responsibility for your own universe and reshaping it. Get ready for some life-changing wisdom—delivered with humor to make it easier tackle the heavy stuff. Tune in!

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You know, some stories take shape over time, unfolding bit by bit. Others? They hit like a thunderclap, forcing you to change everything in an instant. The pandemic lockdown gave rise to a lot of those stories—people reevaluating their lives, making big moves, and in some cases, quite literally running for their survival. 

Jocelyn – Really, I’d managed to escape a very dangerous narcissist on the first day of lockdown.

That is Jocelyn Merula and as you see she has one of those stories.

Jocelyn – Yes. Yes. It was awful. 

On the very first day of lockdown, she escaped from what she calls a dangerous narcissist with seven horses, three dogs, and a cat.

Jocelyn – I had to leave other horses. I had to leave other animals. I had to leave two other dogs, which tore me to shreds. It was awful, but I had to get out. It was, yeah, it was serious. I mean, he did end up in prison. It was serious.

A tough decision to make and not an easy getaway. Here’s what happened when she thought she was in the clear.

Jocelyn – I was driving along, as I say, it was the first day of lockdown. I was on the motorway. I was about, oh, 40 minutes, 45 minutes from the house. And the only other car on the motorway, the guy was tooting, gesticulating, pointing. And I thought, oh, I better pull over because I’m the only other vehicle on the motorway. So it must be me. And luckily, I pulled over, turned off the ignition and he’d seen flames. The fuel pipe had been partially cut over the battery. Wow. And the whole lot of us could have gone up in flames, but we didn’t. We’re here and lived to tell the tale.

That could have been the end of her story. Instead, it was the start of something new. Out of all of this, Jocelyn found her voice. She took her experiences, her work with animals and people — which we will delve into deeper in a minute — and she turned them into the book—Enlightenment in Rhyme: Essential Tools for Navigating Life’s Challenges. 

(30 Days) I’ve been trying to write for 30 years and this eventually materialized in 30 days. It just took over me completely. 

Her biggest challenge became her biggest joy. For years, she wanted to write, but something always got in the way. All she had to do was clear her mind, make a conscious decision to thrive and start moving forward with her life and the words just spilled out of her head and onto the page. 

Jocelyn – It was a pure catharsis. It was just emptying what had been me, ready to be able to fill up what is going to be me. And it just was an unbelievable thing to do and just get out. And yeah, that was just such an amazing feeling to get that done. I moved three times in 2020 and broke my leg. It was becoming farcical, it was becoming a Monty Python sketch. It was just, yeah, becoming ridiculous.

Sometimes life is so crazy that you just have to laugh at its ridiculousness and she says you have to find the humor. You can’t bury your head in the sand and give up, no matter how much you may want to. Life goes on so embrace the tragedy, find the humor and work on changing what you can. 

Jocelyn – Whatever happens to you is and can be positive. You can choose to be the victim, but where does that get you really? Where does that get you? So it’s knowing that whatever happens to your universe works for you because it’s your universe. It’s just a reflection of what’s happening inside your head. So your universe will work for you as long as you choose to see things as a gift and something to learn from.

Choose to see life as the gift that it is. What a great quote. I should point out that Jocelyn Merula is a pen name. Her real name is Dr. Belinda Murphy and when she’s not writing she works with horses. 

Jocelyn – So what my job has been and is now is to improve their immune system through the many healing modalities I use, such as cranial osteopathy, intentional homeopathy, light body integration, you name it. I’ve researched everything for the last 30 years and continue to do so. And I add all that together with my scientific knowledge from my biochemistry, toxicology degree. So everything comes from every angle and I do whatever it takes to improve the immune system.  So I also use my horses. I’ve got five, well, four and a half, four horses and an 11.2 pony. That’s very naughty. And I use them to work with people, basically removing their emotional baggage and helping them to see a way through their troubles and anxiety and challenges that they’re facing. And the horses just cut through all the BS, belief systems that is…

Exactly. Horses have a way of cutting through the mental clutter in ways that we humans can’t. They respond to energy, not words, which makes them powerful partners in emotional healing. Jocelyn has spent years blending science with holistic healing and she’s discovered that some of the best breakthroughs happen when people stop thinking and start feeling. That’s where the horses come in—helping people drop their defenses, face their emotions, and move through challenges in a way that feels natural, even inevitable.

Jocelyn – So you put someone on a horse, they’re immediately out of their comfort zone. So they can’t block what I can then do as I walk around with them on the horse. Because from the 80s, when I first started off doing reflexology, people have become so much more sophisticated. I mean, people thought I was completely mad in the early 80s when I was doing reflexology. But now, you know, everybody knows about that and everybody knows about osteopathy and whatever. So people have become a lot more sophisticated in being able to block the therapist because a lot of people have a vested interest in remaining ill. And that’s why I always had to work with the animals as well, because animals always want to be in complete health.

Another great quote. Some people have a vested interest in remaining ill. Sometimes we hold onto illness because, in some way, it serves us and this goes back to her story about the narcissist. She was reminded that her life needed to be different. So she changed it. It wasn’t easy…you heard her talk about living in a Monty Python sketch but  she made it through and created a resource for others. Enlightenment in Rhyme — an anthology of poems highlighting the events in her life that shaped her personality. A roadmap if you will, laced with humor and designed to pave the successful navigation of trauma. It may be just what the doctor ordered. 

A bit of wisdom, humor, and some hard-earned lessons about transformation and breaking free from the things that hold us back and since I brought up the doctor, another key takeaway here is this; our health is our greatest asset. Nothing manifests physically unless you repress those difficult to handle emotions.

Jocelyn – And there are many, many books in my head. And as everybody kept saying, you’ve got to get the first one out the pipe and the rest will follow. 

Now that you mention it, that leads me to her second book, Successfully Managing The Hypersensitive Horse. You’ll find links to both books in the description. Enlightenment in Rhyme offers insights on breaking free from limiting beliefs. 

Jocelyn – It’s a compilation of things that have happened to me, how I’ve dealt with it, and as you can imagine, all a bit tongue in cheek.

While Successfully Managing The Hypersensitive Horse helps equestrians do the same for their four-legged partners. 

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