Fiona Jacob
Master Certified Transformative Coach
Fiona Jacob
A world class transformative coach and thinking partner, Fiona is known as the ‘De-light-ful, Globetrotting, Coaching Priestess’. Fiona transforms her client’s lives by reconnecting them with the deepest part of themselves; their inner wisdom, wellbeing, creativity and joy. You could say Fiona is in the wonderful life business!
Born in the beautiful Isle of Ireland, Fiona works with people all over the world on their journey of personal and spiritual awakening, supporting them to create their happy success. She assists her clients live from their inner ‘sparkle’, experience real clarity and a renewed excitement for life that enables them to create and live their joy-filled, purposeful, abundant lives.
Fiona’s own life has not been an easy one and here she shares an excerpt of her inspiring story about how she realized she was living an ‘unlived’ life, and how she moved from believing her old ‘victim’ stories to a place where she now feels wholly alive and on purpose.
Fiona shares her story…
‘YES, I am alive and more importantly I FEEL alive… I am following my joy, passion and life’s purpose for the first time in my life. Instead of ‘being Victim taker’ I am the ‘Choice Maker’ in my life.
My Spiritual and personal awakening began when I was held hostage for 5 months in Baghdad in the lead up to the first gulf war.
Horribly shaken by this experience, I returned to my old life not recognizing the gift of life I had been given. In 2003, while working as a Director of Nursing in a major Riyadh hospital, Al Qaeda detonated 3 bombs targeting westerners, designed to create maximum devastation and loss of life. 35 colleagues died at the scene. During a 60-hour marathon, I led our hospital ER and OR teams to save the lives of the 145 wounded brought to our emergency room. Once again, the universe waved a red flag signaling ‘Attention Fiona’. I ignored this invitation to cross the bridge of my own spiritual awakening, evolution and transformation.
Guy Fawkes Night November 2005, I witnessed the stabbing of my best friend.
I intervened between her and her attacker, wrestling the knife off him enabling her to escape. She was stabbed 31 times. She survived. Although my actions that night probably saved her life, 8 weeks later I had my 5th miscarriage in 2 years and my partner walked out of our life for good.
I guess you could say this was the straw that broke the camel’s back! My life fell apart. Days and nights were filled with unremitting pain, anger, rejection, abandonment, betrayal and sadness. I felt empty and alone. Slowly over time I began to confront my own woundedness and I recognised that my true self is not a victim, I am not broken. I do not need to be fixed. And the quieter and more still I became, the more I realized that my mental and emotional health, my wisdom and wellbeing were untouched by my life circumstances and personal history, and all I experienced in my life was in service of my awakening, learning and growth.
Suddenly the world became an arena of possibility, potential and purpose.
As I woke up to the dream of my habitual negative thinking, suddenly the world became an arena of possibility, potential and purpose. What I began to notice is that whatever problems life threw at me, I was able to embrace and solve with a semblance of grace, dignity, a sense of fun and a quiet inner knowing that all is OK.
Now I find that I am living and working from my best self the majority of the time, I am in touch with my inner wisdom and compassion, I experience unconditional loving kindness, hope, light, peace, joy and happiness. You could say I am living from my inner Sparkle!
What have I learned from my journey that might be of use to you? Well… I have learned 3 little (but huge) things about life. One, is the absolute miracle of our existence; two, is that our emotional and mental health, our wisdom and wellbeing, our essence, our ‘sparkle’ is innate and is always within us, it is just sometimes we get disconnected from it; three, when you understand how your mind works and the nature of thought and thinking, you live in a different world. Nothing changes, but everything is different. Life stops being so scary and the world stops seeming like a problem to be solved. Instead you live from a place of quiet peace and joyful wellbeing, creative passion, creating and living your most wonderful life.
The other stuff!
Fiona is a Registered Nurse, Director and Mediator. She has spent 15 years in senior management and Executive board positions in healthcare in UK, Ireland and the Middle East, directing up to 1,000 professional Nursing and Medical staff. She holds a MBA from Henley Business School, Henley on Thames, UK.
Fiona is a Certified Master Transformative Coach, her own life having been been transformed in Michael Neill’s Supercoach Academy programmes in 2010 and 2011. In June 2011, Michael Neill asked Fiona to be a faculty member of the 2012 Star Studded Supercoach Academy faculty in Los Angeles, based on his assessment of how Fiona works with her Clients to awaken their divine spark, reconnect them to their innate health and well-being, their inner wisdom and creativity so they can live their most wonderful lives! See SupercoachAcademy.com.
Fiona is also a convener of Bill Cumming’s ‘What One Person Can Do’ inquiry as well as his Inspired Leadership programme. She is certified in Dr Robert Holden’s Coaching Happiness work, she is also a certified Cross-Cultural Coach and Mediator.
Fiona, as a life long learner has chosen to deepen her understanding of living from the ‘inside out’ and currently is an intern for Pransky & Associates. She is also pursuing a MSc in Executive Coaching and Behaviour Change from Henley Business School.
She is an avid world traveller (with lots and lots of air miles), she adores dogs and long walks on Venice beach, she loves chilling out in New York with special friends and creates heart stopping chocolate souffle desserts for her family and friends!
Fiona continues to be an intrepid life explorer, a soul awakener and spiritual healer. And yes, she is living her magnificent life magnificently.
Fiona’s website: www.fionajacob.com
Email contact: fionaelias@yahoo.co.uk
Skype ID : Aishalight