Sometimes the choices we make seem heart wrenching despite the many years and best efforts to avoid the inevitable. Perhaps both exciting and sorrowful, transformation always brings endings while holding the potential for new beginnings yet to come. For the record, this is definitely one of those times of bittersweet sorrows.

As of December 17^th, I signed an official offer to amend my original lease. By January 25^th those same documents were finalized while providing the freedom I needed to move forward. Just a few days later my SOULworks Sacred Healing Centre was officially dismantled and permanently closed.

Please know, despite the circumstances that brought me to this very moment in time, I am forever grateful for the past 12 years spent within those sacred walls and will always value having invested in both my personal and our collective healing journey. I am also eternally grateful to have mustered the courage and foresight to document my homecoming journey along the way. Upon further reflection of my biblical entanglement, I have the utmost respect for myself and my SOULworks (past and present timelines accounted for). I further respect and cherish all those who have ever crossed my path along the way. And most importantly I fully love and cherish my own well-being enough to officially close the door and walk away.

I offer you the same closure while extending my heartfelt blessings,

And so, it is. And so, it will always be.

Lauren Heistad