ABOUT ME

Hi! I’m Hannah. I was born in Ireland and have lived all over the world since a young age. I had a spiritual awakening over 5 years ago when I was back home in Ireland during the time I was reading the The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and since that day I haven’t looked at life the same. The awakening process is without a doubt painful at times but it’s also the most rewarding and exhilarating journey you or I will ever take. Once you awaken, you can’t go back. The only thing that matters to me now is to live a life of peace and JOY and to help others to do so also. My mission is to help people to wake up and realize that happiness and joy is not only possible, but it is our natural state and every single person on this earth deserves it. If you are ready to wake up I would love to support you on your journey through a combination of what I have learned from great spiritual teachers and my own journey of awakening. I am truly passionate about empowering people to be their best selves and to live a life of freedom- whatever that means to them.

My Background:

To tell you a little about my background, I grew up between Canada and Ireland. I was one of five girls, money was very tight back then and my family relocated many times during my childhood and teen life so I was always the new kid in school and had to learn how to adjust quickly to new environments. I was also labelled the “black sheep’ of the family as I struggled with anger issues, had conflict with my Dad, difficulty controlling my temper and was always in trouble in both school and family life- spent a night in jail to prove it lol- yada yada yada. I am sure people have had far more traumatic childhoods but it definitely wasn’t the most settling and I did grow up (deep down) holding on to an identity of being a “bad child” that had to prove her worth through her accomplishments. Despite my behavioral problems, I always had top grades in school and ended up going to college for Business and French. I was never conventional and I started go-go dancing and modeling while still in college and then moved to Los Angeles as soon as I graduated because I couldn’t wait to get out of Dublin and be in the creative and entertainment capital of the world. I spent ten years working as a model in LA, Miami and one year in China/Asia and in order to afford living the expensive life of Los Angeles and Miami I also worked in the nightlife industry as a “bottle service girl” where we made “easy money” basically getting paid to party. Later on I had also started my own business called Pretty Instinct, a female driven creative industry where my mission was to unite models within the industry and provide a more innovative solution than the typical modeling agency. I also picked up photography and started a separate photography company Flattery Photo and was working on creating another startup in tech. I would often work back to back, night and day, and barely had time to stop and think about it all. Even though it was exhilarating and I definitely had many fun times, I also felt like I was on a constant hamster wheel. I had already began to see through the facade of the glamorous Hollywood/LA life and working in the nightclub was eroding my soul.

Waking up:

I started to prefer to spend my down time reading books and consuming content from spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Michael Singer among many others and working on my own self development. While I was waking up, it was not easy, I experienced the death of my ego again and again and again and at times I felt like nothing in life made sense anymore and I knew that I didn’t fit into society as it was. I experienced bouts of depression and anxiety, but it was never “severe” - meaning it was never severe enough for it to be recognized as a real “problem”, it was more like periods of emptiness or an unsettledness or a feeling of nothing ever being enough. And this is what I think makes up a large part of the problem with society. We are conditioned to think that that is normal. That this uneasiness and discontentment is a normal part of life, but now I know it’s not. The materialistic world I was living in left me feeling like my soul was crying out for more and I knew deep down that there was MORE. Not more in the sense of more money, more status, more success, more stuff...but more in the sense of more fulfillment, more happiness, more adventure, more peace, more presence, more joy.

I would meditate and try to focus on being present, and I would experience new levels of joy move through me. However, due to my new found level of presence I would also spend days crying out old trauma’s from the past that I had previously not allowed myself to feel. It was a confusing time, and sometimes I felt like there was something wrong with me, but looking back, it all made sense. There was a healing property to it. It was heart wrenching, but at the same time it felt good and necessary and healing to cry it all out. I was unlearning and grieving everything that I had attached my sense of identity to.

nomadic life:

When covid hit it was like the permission I had been waiting for to take a break from the LA life and I moved to Europe and then Mexico and Costa Rica. I had started an E-commerce brand with a new friend who became a very close friend so we were working a lot of the time but on our own terms. The business didn’t work out in the end due to various reasons. But what I did gain was all the experiences from traveling and living abroad for the year and I realized that it was actually a lot more enjoyable to live as a nomad and not just that, but a lot cheaper. I also felt more present. Like I wasn’t constantly building towards this illusory future life. I loved the energy of living amongst ex-pat communities and the simplicity of developing countries. People seemed more open minded when they were traveling. It did come with its own challenges, but I would take any of those challenges any day- as opposed to partaking in the rat race. What I also realized from traveling and living all over is that no matter where you are in the world, you take the same soul with you, so while it can be very useful to shift your external environment, in the end it all comes back down to INNER PEACE.

Spiritual Teachings:

I continued to turn to spiritual teachings, books, meditation, movement, fitness, dance as well as connecting to nature in order to help guide me and I just kept applying the principals I learned through them to my life and to my relationships. Relationships in fact ended up being some of my greatest teachers. It has not been an easy ride and the journey is never ending, there will never be a time when I will say “ I have arrived”. But my own inner journey of awakening and healing has without a doubt been the most rewarding journey I will ever take and I would never go back. I feel a sense of liberation in that I know that there is no situation that I cannot handle. I know on a deep level that everything is transitory and everything that is brought into my experience is given to me because it was chosen for me for my higher awakening and evolution. I know that I can always come back to the present moment and access that space of peace within me. I know that from this space I can always call joy back in again, even in times of perceived hardship. Life doesn’t have to be heavy, life doesn’t have to be a struggle. Sure, there will be challenging times but I believe that we can even find peace in those times.

I want nothing more than for others to feel the same sense of freedom. Both inwardly and outwardly. I don’t believe in the way society is “set up.” I wish we could change it all with a magic wand. But what I do know is that no matter what is going on in the world, your capacity to experience happiness and joy will always be dependent on your inner world. Only then can you make true changes that manifest in the outer world. It is my mission to help people to find this peace and joy in whatever way I can. To RISE-UP and to BREAK-FREE of whatever boundaries they have imposed on themselves. I truly feel that we are all one and I feel a sense of joy every time I help someone else feel joy or relief, in whatever way that may be, that is what I am here to discover. I hope that humanity can make the awakening journey together.

One of my favorite quotes:

“We rise by lifting others”