Blossom Into You

ABOUT

Blossom into you is a guided exploration process focused on expanding your self awareness in order to consciously create the life you are dreaming of. The process is creative and versatile and can be applied to any aspect of our lives, from personal growth and health, relationships with partners, children and colleagues, to careers and living a prosperous life filled with passion and purpose.

Blossom into you

I chose the name blossom into you because I believe, like a perfectly formed blossom, we are made complete. There is nothing to change, we don’t have to become more and we don’t have to chop off the parts of ourselves that we don’t like. We already have everything we need to become who we are. Just as a blossom is already whole and has everything it needs to grow and bloom, we too can blossom into who we are.
Sometimes all we need is a little nourishment, support and encouragement to fully own all our gifts, talents and skills. Just as blossoms give way to become fruit, our blossoms will bear fruit and enrich both our lives and those of the people around us. And just as seasons come and go, we too have our seasons of blossoming, bearing fruit and resting before the next cycle.

My name is Tania Steyn and I am a holistic life counsellor.

I am consumed by a passion to understand people, to find out what makes them ‘tick’, what motivates them to do the things they do, why don’t they do the things they know they should do, and if things don’t work out the way they planned, what do they need to help them through life’s challenges. I am also fascinated by the wealth of information that we can access by studying concepts such as the conscious and subconscious mind, the collective unconscious, instincts and archetypes, and how they play out in people’s personalities, relationships and development of the self. I believe that each of us are born with a passion or motivation to do specific things in life. Following our passion leads us to our purpose and if we can succeed in living our purpose, we reach a place of personal power. It is at this level that we reach our full potential and make a significant contribution to both our own lives and to those around us.

My passion for the past fifteen years has been to study topics such as

• personality typing,


• the enneagram,


• archetypes,


• symbols,


• metaphors,


• mythology,


• the hero’s journey,


• metaphysics,


• astrology,


• numerology etc.

To use a metaphor, I see us living in a cosmic toy store where we have free will to choose the toys we want to play with. By using each of these toys with the intent to explore our truth and beauty, we can learn so much about ourselves, expand our self-awareness and open up a treasure chest filled with promise and possibilities. These toys then act as lenses through which we take a curious, playful look at ourselves and discover our talents, skills, personality traits, values, passions, unexplained urges, drives and ambitions. These explorations will also help us identify our obstacles, self-limiting beliefs and hidden fears. Some of these findings will be familiar to us while others might surprise us. We may also find our untapped potential, the talents or skills we never developed because they were frowned upon or discouraged by our parents, culture, religion, society, race or gender expectations. Slightly more confronting would be to take a look at our shadow side, the parts of ourselves that we deliberately buried because we were afraid or ashamed of them. By working consciously with our shadow parts, we can transform and integrate them into our whole self, someone who fully owns all their parts and can live lightly and freely as there is nothing to hide.

Self Awareness

Blossom into you is a counselling process focused on expanding your self awareness in order to consciously create the life you are dreaming of. The process is creative and versatile and can be applied to any aspect of our lives, from personal growth and health, relationships with partners, children and colleagues, to careers and living a life filled with passion and purpose.

The aim of my counselling process is to provide a safe space where you can freely explore your gifts, talents and skills, as well as the limiting beliefs and fears that keep you from reaching your goals. Together we will look at where you are now, where would you like to be and how are you going to get there. We will craft an action plan to help you work step by step to build the life you really want, a life filled with passion, purpose, power and peace.

My process include creative activities that engage the right side of the brain to help you access your creativity, imagination, intuition and new ideas. It is important to bypass the logical, thinking left side of the brain because it tends to keep us stuck in limiting beliefs. Using different lenses enable us to take a step back into the position of the observer from where we can look at ourselves objectively, curiously and playfully. Different lenses help us look at ourselves from different angles and each time discover ever more about ourselves as we are all very interesting, complex, multi-faceted human beings!

Taking a good look at ourselves from the observer position has two important benefits:

Enhancing our self awareness.

Becoming aware of all the aspects of our personality and how they play out inside our minds and in our relationships with the people around us, help us to identify the aspects that are helping us grow and evolve and which ones are keeping us back. This awareness gives you the ability to take control over all these aspects and direct them to work for you in order to help you grow and reach the goals you set for yourself. Not learning to take control may keep us stuck in unconscious, compulsive behaviour patterns and wondering why nothing seem to work for us. Self-awareness gives you the power to consciously choose how you will respond in each moment and thus enable you to create the life you are dreaming of.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor E. Frankl

Finding our passion and life purpose.

By working through a process to helps us define our talents, skills, personality traits, values, passions, interests, abilities, hopes, dreams, unexplained urges, drives and ambitions, we become more aware of what makes us truly unique. (Tip: These are usually the things that make us loose track of time and space and that we will do for free!) The next step is to identify what we want to do with these gifts, how to combine that which we love, that which we are good at, with what the world needs and that which we can be paid for.

“In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.” CG Jung.

Trying to become more self-aware can be like trying to find the pieces of a puzzle, the puzzle being the picture we are building with our lives. We don’t know what the final picture is going to look like (and it is ever evolving!) and we don’t always know which pieces we have to work with. Looking at ourselves through different lenses help us discover more and more pieces of ourselves. The more pieces you have to work with, the easier the puzzle becomes. Some of the pieces may be colourful and easy to work with while others may be dark and challenging. It is important to remember that it takes both colourful and dark pieces to build a picture with depth and meaning.

The lenses I like to use in my counselling includes, but are not limited to: personality typing, the enneagram, archetypes, symbols, myths, metaphors, dreams, the hero’s journey, astrology, numerology, books and movies.

“We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring,
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Eliot (Quartets)

Body, mind and spirit:

• Stress, anxiety, depression


• Body image and weight management


• Relationship and parenting challenges


• Feeling stuck, out of control and unable to change


• Loss of meaning and interest in life


• Loss of connection with self and others


• Feeling there must be more to life


• Curious about finding your passion and purpose

Career:

• Job hunting, resumes, interviews


• Midlife and career transitions


• Going back to work after a long absence


• Looking for a new job more in alignment with your passion, purpose and values

Immigration:

• Finding your feet in a new country


• Building a new life for you and your family

Sessions are 60-90 minutes and cost $120.

Questionnaires/homework may be emailed to you to complete before a session in order to make the best use of our time together.

Payment by cash, EFT or PayPal is preferred.

For all enquiries contact us today!