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Hi!

I’m Helena and I’m so happy you’re here! 

I'm a coach, writer, speaker and HR consultant on a mission to help you find your Pure Personal Power. I believe in your potential and I know that you can tap your inner strength when you take full responsibility for your life. Let me show you how!

 

my story

A few years ago I was getting sick and tired of being sick and tired. I didn’t have much hope for my future. To me, it felt like I had two choices; either I give up all together or I find my own way, an alternative way, to my pure personal power. 

I’m so happy that I made the choice to find my own way. Not only did I get a healthy and vital body back, but, I healed on a much deeper level as well. The life I live today, the power I have access to, and the faith and love around me, all of this is well beyond what I could ever have imagined before. 

I received first diagnosis when I was 12. From then until the age of 30 I had been labelled with 5 more. Doctors started to call me "autoimmune" instead of using the different diagnosis of; ulcerous colitis, celiac disease, autoimmune hepatitis, pyoderma gangrenosum, thrombocytopenia and vasculitis.   

In the spring of 2012 I was starting to get desperate. As I phased out the cortisone from my last disease flare I started getting a lot of diffuse symptoms and was feeling really crappy. There wasn’t one day without a doctor’s appointment, call, test or medical examination.

I learned that there might be a link between my different diagnosis and I started to ask the question Why? Why was I getting worse and worse? Why were the disease flares coming closer and closer apart? Why did I get more and more diagnosis of the autoimmune type? Why did it get worse under stress? Why didn’t I heal from infections? No one could give me any answers.

But there was a voice inside, urging me to keep looking, encouraging me with hope, with clues, with inspiration.

 
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Come here! look a little closer. I’m here for you. This is not it. This is just the beginning. We’ll get through this, together. I promise you there is another way.

A much deeper and more rewarding path that you can take from here. It will all be worth it. But it is up to you now. You decide. Is it worth it? Are you worth it?

I know you are. You don’t have to buy the whole package, just trust me and take the first step. Come on, I know you can do it!

 

the turning point

The prognosis that my doctors talked about did not ring true to me. Somewhere deep inside I knew there was another way. Maybe it was pure desperation that lead me to this notion, maybe it was divine guidance. But without seeing the path or having any real answers, I decided to follow this intuition I was given and just go for an alternative way, no matter the skepticism from the people around me, including my doctors.  

I decided to take responsibility for my own healing and hired the team that I needed to help me on the path; a functional medicine practitioner, a therapist, a yoga teacher, a coach, a personal trainer, a chef and the best support squad in the world.

Eventually, my body started healing, I could feel it, on a cellular level. But there were other, deeper things, to heal as well. It was like peeling off the layers of an onion. The root causes to my dis ease were more than one layer and much greater than just the physical one. Worthiness, stress management, deep emotional wounds and debilitating thoughts came up along this journey. What started out as a process of physical healing turned into something so much bigger.

Five years later I celebrate that I haven’t had any relapses or symptoms to any of my so called chronic diseases. I haven’t had to take any cortisone or any other invasive medicine. My digestive system works so much better, I don’t have IBS anymore, my acne disappeared and I don’t get reoccurring headaches, stomach aches or even the winter flu that I used to. I sleep better, my energy levels are much higher and I feel so much more vibrant. But above all, the biggest gain for me has been the healing journey of my soul, the relationship I have with myself today and with other people. The general climate in my mind, the gratitude, my resilience in adversity.

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I started blogging about my journey in the spring of 2012 and since then Pure Personal Power has grown to include coaching, teaching, writing and speaking on the topics of personal development and holistic health. I'm on a mission to help others find their path. Because, healed people, heal people. 

If you want to hear my full story listen to this great episode of Soulfeed with Shannon Algeo, released May 28th 2018. 

 
Not all days are easy. Not all days are cheerful. Not all days are in flow. Some days are filled with pain. Some days are really fearful. Some days are more difficult than others. But what if it’s not all that? What if there is both and more? A beautiful song in the middle of pain. A warm hug that lessens fears grip. Something flowing really smoothly while other things just don’t work. There is no either or. Both and more.
My book is sure having a revival in my life and it will here too. Translation to Swedish is almost finished - read more about it in my latest blog post at www.bestofyou.se. I’ve decided to not change anything to the original text because it actually holds. I’ve developed and learned a lot in the past year but the lessons and tools of the book really feels everlasting. I’m so excited to share more about it! (The English version is of course still available at www.helenaonneby.com)
Whatever path you’re on, meditation can be your companion. Someone asked me the other day; what’s your most important tool for healing? Meditation was my answer. It’s not about what happens as I sit, it’s what spills out into the rest of my life. 🌿 Meditation helps me remember to not believe in all my thoughts 🌿 Meditation increases the space between what happens to me and how I CHOOSE to react 🌿 Daily meditation activates the parasympathetic nervous system and the body’s self-healing abilities 🌿 Meditation increases my gratitude muscle 🌿 Meditation makes me connect to my inner guidance system 🌿 Meditation takes me back to now, where I have all the power, and much, much more... Do you meditate on the regular? Do you want me to talk more about it here?
One of the best tricks in the book is a rampage of appreciation, it always fills my heart with so much warmth and joy. Take out a piece of paper or notes on your phone and get to it. Minimum one page, preferably three. All the things. Check out my current story for some examples of all the things I appreciate right now. If it’s tricky at first, I promise you, it’ll soon get easier. What you focus on grows. You can train your mind. What do you appreciate right now?