Almost 15 years ago, on a cold winter's night, I was sitting around a campfire surrounded by 60 other individuals, each sharing a key defining moment of their lives. Each story tugged deeply at my heart, but the last two stories shared, of both individuals being orphaned at a very young age, overwhelmed me. A floodgate of uncontrollable tears and pain escaped from within my choked-up throat. I had parents. I wasn't orphaned. Yet, I deeply resonated with their story and pain. At age 5, my family immigrated to South Africa for a better life. Alone and away from family and support, my parents, and especially my mother, were caught up in anxiety, stress and struggle, and it didn't help that they held on to unresolved inter-generational relational trauma, limiting their parental abilities. Attending elementary school was very challenging, as a few key teachers were consistently abusive, adversely impacting many students in their path. I felt very alone, having to navigate difficult experiences in my childhood with a long list of limiting beliefs wiring my brain circuits. It was a suffocating list of limitations, keeping me in a bare-bone version of myself and forming a limited and fearful construct of how life should work. My early experiences shaped beliefs that made me make poor life choices, particularly in relationships, resulting in heartache and many challenging situations. Today, armed with powerful Vedic Self-knowledge, I have a completely different and beautiful understanding of life. All my experiences had a purpose, which were, in fact, gifts, shaping my original medicine. My journey was very much karmically aligned, as it is my dharma to compassionately guide women on their path to wholeness, creating a new generation of empowered women.