Sanctuary of Angels
Laura Brennand
Welcome to my webpage, and thank you for being interested in finding out more about my journey. My journey started a very long time ago, in fact many lifetimes ago, and in this life time I have finally been truly awakened, at last!
I had always been interested in all things beauty and holistic from a very young age as all girls do I borrowed my mums lippy and was forever putting on this cream or that lotion, and of course my mum being a hairdresser, well every young girls dream to be seeing to clients and playing hair salons for real. So at the tender age of 16 I started my journey at a local college into Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy, I gave up hairdressing as soon as I started it and moved on to concentrate on beauty and holistic therapy. Within a month I had my first job working for my tutor in her salon, and within three years I had completed all my courses and went into managing a salon and teaching. I lost track of how many teachers said to me, were not teaching you anything it is like you already know it and we are just waking it up again. I heard it time and time again, and I felt this in myself, this is what I am here to do. So happily along my path I went, and I learnt everything there was to know about my industry, and became very well known for being an excellent therapist in the area where I lived, and then at the still tender age of 24 my life changed.
I met a man, the man as far as I was concerned and I gave up everything to be with him, we married just three months after we met and I gave up my very successful salon, sold my home, my car, rehomed my dog, everything changed and I moved to live with him in Scotland. I found a job quickly when I arrived in Edinburgh and settled into married life, but something was missing, and soon I began to feel very lonely, my husband quickly turned into someone I didn’t know, and our marriage turned into a very turbulent affair. After 13 months I finally woke up and realised I had to leave, I had to try to find myself again, and so in the deep snow of February 2001 I went home. I got myself together and as my divorce finalised in May 2001 I jetted off to a new life working in a Spa in Saudi Arabia. Suddenly I landed in a world so alien to the one I had left, here I was a nobody and in fact worse I was a single, white, blonde female, something which does not go down well in a Muslim country, so I thought frying pan into the fire, but no, here I was to meet people who awoke another part of me. Here I met the lady who was to teach me about crystals, and to become my Reiki master. So during this time I grew, I awakened, I felt alive, and then my world rocked again as did everyone’s when the tragedy of 9/11 happened. Saudi Arabia was clearly not a place to be anymore and I made my way to Bahrain, on that small island in this big world I partied my life away for 6 months, before, allowing myself to be convinced that my marriage was worth another shot, so back I came, and of course, the lesson had to be learnt the hard way as I clearly didn’t get it the first time round, but after 6 months, I realised it truly was time to move on. During this time I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and spent most of time either in extreme pain or asleep. I came though that only with my experience of getting my head round the Dis-Ease that my body was clearly telling me I had in my system, so I took time out and re-evaluated my life and integrated all that had happened to me over the past few years.
I relocated to another Island this time on the West coast of Scotland, where I opened and managed a lovely spa as part of a hotel, I had the best time, as I finally truly had time for me, time to integrate all that I had learnt and all that was now important to me in my life. In 2004 I met the man who turned out to truly be the one, and within 6 months I moved from the Island to relocate back South to Wiltshire, where I opened Inspiration Beauty & Holistic Centre, how I got there is another long story, but lets just say I had realised my journey was being led and all I had to do was follow my nose. The last 5 years saw the business grow, and once again I was somebody, as I became a part of the local community and was the organiser of many events that brought the community together. In 2005 I had my beautiful son and married Andrew and life felt complete.
And then you guessed it life changed again, Andrew had a major accident which resulted in a spinal operation when our son was just 6 weeks old. So here I was nursing Andrew, looking after Thomas, running a business, hosting a major event, could I take anymore. I didn’t think so, but I did, I always knew that the energy I was given to work with would see me through. Still not really concentrating on Angels at that point, but I had done an Angel Experience Day the year before with Michelle Roberton-Jones, and since then I recognised that the energy I was using in my treatments was very different, I started to hear voices, and get messages for the people I was treating, and I have to admit that it took me a long time to realise I wasn’t going completely mad, and that truly was my awakening in this life time to be who I truly am.
Over the next 5 years I grew so much, the experience of having my son, and being a Mum was the most spiritually advancing experience I have had so far, and then eventually (Michelle would say!) I finally found the chance to do my 6 day Angel Healers Course, and boy did that change my life.
Fast forwarding onto now, I am constantly learning, constantly evaluating, constantly believing and creating my own reality, as I have just sold Inspiration, and now live in an exquisite village just outside of Bath, where I am building a retreat centre with my Husband and this is now our home. We live in a magical barn conversion on a 4 acre plot, with our family and menagerie of animals, and I absolutely love life. I am so grateful for all the experiences I have had over the past few years, they have brought me to the point I am at now, and those experiences allow me to support others on their journey. I don’t regret anything I have been through in my life as I recognise them as part of the bumpy path of life I have had to go on, and now the destination is finally arriving and I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I am loving being able to share all my experiences with others. I love being a part of the Sanctuary of Angels team, and now that life has slowed down somewhat I can really begin to work more for the benefit of all.
I am passionate about allowing people to be there true self, and helping them to find there true path and to speak there truth, no matter what. Opening there hearts and mind to the potential of their role on this Earth plane and all that is has chosen for them.
I continue to see clients here at Inspiration Retreat for all aspects of Beauty and Holistic Therapy, alongside facilitating group work, meditation, angelic sound therapy, angel healing and readings, making the Angels Love… skincare range , teaching a variety of workshops including Angel Experience Days, Create Your Reality, 6 Day Healers Course, Angel Card Reading, and much more.
Thank you for reading all the way to the end, I hope my story inspires you in some way, to always look at the good in your life, however difficult times might get, and to recognise they are all part of the journey. If you would like to know more please take a look at our website www.inspirationonline.org.uk you can find us on facebook if you look for Inspiration Retreat, where I do a daily Angel Message, and I can be contacted through inspirationretreat@yahoo.co.uk or 07872 958803.
The Angels and I look forward to being a part of your journey.
Brightest Blessings
Laura X