Two life changing things happened to Elle Halliwell the year she turned 30. She was diagnosed with leukaemia and, two days later, discovered she was pregnant.

She faced an impossible choice: save her own life or risk it to give birth to her son.

Spoiler alert: she chose both. She also chose a new path.

When confronted with her mortality a decade ago now, the well known journalist, author and entrepreneur returned to her spiritual practices and her connection to something greater than herself.

She did it by putting one foot in front of the other. Quite literally.

Elle credits her long solo walks with healing her emotionally, a ritual that has sustained her ever since.

In this episode of My Spiritual Side, Elle shares how hearing an audio cassette of Wayne Dyer at 14 set her on a spiritual path, the toll of ‘career misalignment’, learning to like herself again - and how she’s navigating the end of her 20 year marriage with compassion and love.

In this episode, Elle shares:

•  The healing power of walking as a spiritual practice - the ultimate mind-body connection

•  How hearing an audio cassette of Wayne Dyer at 14 set her on a spiritual path

•  The toll of ‘career misalignment’ - taking a job for validation but feeling out of alignment

•  The wake-up call of her cancer diagnosis, two days before discovering she was pregnant

•  Her technique for practising mindfulness

•  Her life-changing 500-kilometre trek along the Italian Camino to mark her 40th birthday and was it taught her about herself

•  How she learned to like herself again

•  Finding beauty and growth in discomfort

•  The power of the mind to heal the body

•  Living with cancer as a daily practice of gratitude

•  Navigating divorce with compassion, love and kindness

Key Quotes

On walking as spiritual practice:

“It’s a meditative practice… just the act of putting one foot in front of the other. This rhythmic motion made me feel connected to the world as a whole. I was alone with my thoughts, listening to my feet crunch against the gravel, sitting present with the sounds around me, feeling the sun on my skin. Being exposed to nature brought me this profound peace that I really I don’t think I’ve been able to achieve any other place or time”.

“I can’t tell you the profound of things, like life changing benefits, that just putting one step in front of the other has done to my life”.

Key Mantra:

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.”

Books / resources:

A Mother’s Choice by Elle Halliwell

Wishes Fulfilled by Dr. Wayne Dyer

Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Dying to be Me by Anita Moorjani

The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday

A Monk's Guide to Happiness by Gelong Thubten 

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