Noreen’s magical journey to freedom

A Co Mayo therapist brings her healing techniques to Ulster

JUST on the cusp of her 50th birthday, Co Mayo woman Noreen Clarke had reached rock bottom in her life.
Feeling unwell both physically and emotionally, she was suffering chronic back pain, found a lump on her breast and was told she needed a hysterectomy.

The last of her three children had just left home and after a failed marriage, she was feeling very lost and alone.
Working as a nanny and cleaner to make ends meet, she knew there must be more to life. And she was right, for noreen was about to embark on a long and fulfilling journey which would bring profound changes and inject meaning into her existence – which ultimately set her on the road to helping others.
Now, five years later, she is bringing her healing skills to the people of Ulster.
Outlining the first steps of what she calls her ‘journey to freedom’, it is hard to imagine she was once a heavy drinker and smoker – for Noreen radiates good health from the inside out and really practices what she preaches.
Things started to turn around for her, she explained, when a friend paid for her to take part in a self-help weekend run by American self-healer Brandon Bays, author of the best-selling book The Journey.
Brandon was herself diagnosed with a tumour the size of a basketball in her stomach and she was able to heal herself within a six-month period.
The experience prompted her to write her book and devise a method that would enable others to heal themselves on all levels.
She travelled around the world doing just that, running workshops on alternative healing like the one Noreen attended.
“I had never been to a workshop before and was very suspicious. The mere suggestion that a weekend workshop could change my life had me wondering if these people had been doing some serious drinking.”
However, the opposite proved to be true, for the weekend event, much to Noreen’s surprise, had a remarkably positive effect on her.
“I was diagnosed with needing a hysterectomy, but within a week and a half of attending the workshop the problem was gone, never to return.”
A similar thing happened with her breast lump which had completely disappeared within within three months while her persistent back pain had also gone.
Noreen was so awestruck by the positive effects of The Journey work that she upped sticks and flew to America to work with Brandon as a personal assistant.
She is now a credited Journey therapist.
The work, she explained, works on all levels.
“After doing the Journey work I began to notice what made me tick, how i lived and looked at life, how i handled problems and how I approached people. I had a real interest in life again. I began using my new skills on anyone who would allow me – with instant success.”
Noreen claims that in a one-to-three-hour session she can clear the deep underlying issues which hold people back, freeing them of their emotional, mental and physical shackles using the Journey process.
“I have a very direct and solution-focused approach which truly empowers you to finally be completely free and finished with your issue – allowing you to wake up with a freshness, a newness and a sense of joyous spontaneity each day.”
At her workshops people are taught how to confront their inner conflicts with a view to resolving them.
The belief that trauma and repressed emotions are stored as ‘phantom memories’ in body cells and manifest as physical disease and illness many years later is shared by health gurus the world over. It is also widely recognised within conventional western medicine that long-term stress is linked to physical and emotional illness.
As Noreen points out, her Journey workshops teach people how to access specific cell memories and actively resolve and let them go.
In this respect, the workshops are designed to enable participants to access their own healing powers. According to Noreen, clients have cured themselves of all sorts of physical and emotional problems.
Exuding an enthusiasm for life, the Ballina woman’s sense of purpose and is very inspiring.
Quite simply, Noreen is keen to spread the news that people can change their lives for the better. She is holding a workshop in Ulster at the end of this month.