Self Reflections

Self Reflections Self Reflections is the home of energy enhancing wellness. https://selfreflectionshea.wixsite.com/selfreflections I am an Energy Enhancing Facilitator.

I started my healing journey in 2000 when faced with a severe health issue which manifested a period of 7 weeks of silence & stillness for me. During this challenging period of my life I lost the gift of speech, something which revealed itself to me as an aspect so often take for granted by many!!! Unable to communicate with the outer world left me only one other choice - turning to the mystery of

my inner world. Connecting with my higher-self, the wonderful aspect of me I had really never gotten to know before. During this period I learnt to listen to the wisdom which had laid un-noticed within, I learnt to listen to the profound silence which had all the answers I had ever seeked, I leant to trust and follow the guiding voice of my inner self. I connected with the ultimate voice of my mind my heart, my soul. I connected to the messages that had laid dormant within, the light of my multi-dimensional being - all being the first step of my spiritual journey, the step that led me to where I am today. Nothing happens in life without reason and even though we don’t always understand why things do happen, contained within every struggle, every challenge is a lesson. Is every step a soul evolution. My lesson I came to learn, was that I became aware that we are so much bigger and more powerful than our physical existence. I came to understand that we are 99.999 % energy beings, so much more than our perception of being mostly physical form. I learnt that going inward is the only way of finding true purpose and authenticity for anyone. I learnt that to be able to live a true aligned life we need to dive into the feared abyss of our so called “shadow” self. Something I also learnt is so very valuable!

… and so it was that I followed my internal guidance and landed up journeying through almost three years of intense inner work …

I faced my hidden self and admittedly it was was no walk in the park for the more I worked on self the more stuff seemed to surface. Like an onion I peeled off layer upon layer. Shedding, shifting and diving deeper I found myself on a road I had never envisioned travelling on ! During these three years I met many great teachers. Each one taught me something different, each one gifted me a new tool. Each played a very important and meaningful role in where I am today. My spiritual teachers, energy healing facilitators, mentors, Masters, loved ones & friends were the golden keys which helped me unlock the doors I encountered along my journey - they helped me unlock ‘me’ on a very deep level. They were my healing and I am eternally grateful to each and everyone one of them. Most still active in my life today others remembered always. It was not an easy road to travel but the end result has been phenomenal not only to me but to everyone I in turn work with today. This challenging time in my life was needed to help me open to my GIFTS I did not then realize I had,
(Although honestly speaking in hind sight I should have known, for my gift has been passed down through many generations, lifetimes and incarnations)

I was taught through the challenging & often difficult inner work that I was a human with an actual PURPOSE. I learnt that WE all have more reason & purpose to be than simply living a mundane life of no value. My PURPOSE in this incarnation is to heal the planet and it’s human and animal co-inhibitors. My purpose is to share my gift with many, to change polarities, to restore harmony, to shift energy, to balance & align, to teach and serve humanity & the PLANET with honor and respect and pride. My purpose I learnt is to live a life filled with integrity, authenticity and play my role in changing the world into a better place for all. And so it was that I started to put myself out there to serve as an energy healing facilitator. I started doing what I love and what universe had intended for me to do. I founded Self Reflections in 2003. I have not ever looked back, I have never stopped serving, I have never stopped growing - I
can never stop, this is my PURPOSE. Of course I have taken a few breaks here and there but my PURPOSE is to serve, and serve I have done, and serve I shall continue do. I have been truly blessed to learn in order to teach and today I find it is my turn to rejoice through the gratification of the work that I do. It is my turn to help others who search for their own authenticity and purpose. I rejoice in gratitude when I see the fruits of my work unravel gifts for a hundred others. Through my own challenge I found my PURPOSE and through the ability of helping others I have given birth to Self Reflections. In the comfort of my beautiful space I offer numerous ENERGY HEALING MODALITIES all of which will help enrich the lives of all who commit to finding PURPOSE and PEACE. Do it, it’s worth it! Love, Light & Blessings
Namaste
Paula Perdigao-Rehder

June is a threshold month.Five of the outer architectural planets are either changing signs, preparing to change signs, ...
12/06/2026

June is a threshold month.

Five of the outer architectural planets are either changing signs, preparing to change signs, or standing at significant turning points after cycles spanning 7, 14, and even 20 years. This makes June a powerful energetic gateway, amplified by several other important cosmic influences.

Whether you believe in astrology or not, June is a month many are likely to feel.

I am sharing this energy update because, in my line of work, I pay close attention to how these collective energies play out in people’s lives. Perhaps understanding some of these influences may bring a little more calm, trust, and surrender to your own journey.

Let’s begin by boldly stating that it’s been an intense ride!

The Wild Fire Horse is galloping at full speed.

There is so much unfolding right now, and it seems to be affecting our beautiful Mother Earth, many of her earth children, and perhaps dimensions of existence that we neither fully understand nor can clearly see. Yet most are certainly feeling something.

Personally, I have witnessed many people being tested this week alone.

It has not been an easy energy to navigate, and I extend my prayers to all of you moving through challenges you never speak of, or circumstances you simply do not yet understand.

Uranus now stands at the doorway of Gemini, activating the axis of the Virgo South Node and Pisces North Node. This creates a powerful crossroads between the old world and the new — a meeting point between what has been and what is trying to emerge.

Patterns around fear, self-worth, sacrifice, over-control, and attachment to old identities are being challenged.

We are being invited to become conscious co-creators of our future through acceptance of the present moment and surrender to what is.

The Sun is illuminating aspects of our shadow self and inviting us to transform vanity, pride, and separation into purity of heart. It calls us to become instruments of truth, honesty, beauty, and discernment.

Venus, the planet of love and beauty, moves into Leo, awakening the courageous and radiant heart.

This energy encourages us to shine more brightly, love more boldly, and step into greater confidence and authenticity.

At the same time, deeper feminine healing currents continue to unfold beneath the surface. Much unconscious healing has already taken place, and many are beginning to find their footing within a new chapter of becoming.

With the New Moon in Gemini approaching, fresh seeds of possibility are ready to be planted. Nurture them with patience, trust, and loving intention.

Meanwhile, Chiron, the Wounded Healer, continues to reveal where healing is required around identity, self-worth, security, belonging, and what we truly value. The lessons emerging now have the potential to reshape our relationship with ourselves and with the world around us.

The Creator is illuminating our light bodies and calling us to become conscious co-creators of a new Earth rooted in truth, compassion, and wise action.

The old no longer fits.

We are being guided toward a new dream — one built upon harmony, courage, sacred remembrance, trust, surrender, grace, and unity.

Trust the miracle that YOU are, dear friend.

May your strength overflow with joy.
May your heart overflow with peace.
May your soul overflow with love.
And may we all remember the unity that connects us.

Infinite love always
Paula 🤍

You were never meant to be anything other than your authentic self.You were never meant to morph yourself into someone w...
01/06/2026

You were never meant to be anything other than your authentic self.

You were never meant to morph yourself into someone who feels safe for others, yet foreign to your own soul. That is illusion.

Your truth may challenge people.
Your growth may outgrow them.
Your energy may shift beyond their understanding.

And that’s okay. Let it.

Because every time you honour your path without fear, shame, or guilt, you reclaim a piece of your power. You say yes to your inner light.

And that power is not aligned with the ego; it is aligned with the wholeness of who you truly are.

That inner light becomes the catalyst for your peace, even when the world around you feels misaligned or questions your journey.

Stay rooted.
Stay true.
Stay you.

Surrender to that which you cannot change, and remember that you always have power over yourself, your choices, your responses, and all that you say and do.

Find humor in the absurdities of life , that is where true freedom begins.

🌕✨ HAPPY BLUE MOON • 31 MAY ✨🌕The drums are sounding across the Earth.As this Blue Moon lands, many sensitive souls may ...
31/05/2026

🌕✨ HAPPY BLUE MOON • 31 MAY ✨🌕

The drums are sounding across the Earth.

As this Blue Moon lands, many sensitive souls may be feeling a powerful inner shift. Following recent waves of heightened energetic activity, emotions, intuition, dreams, memories, and inner realizations may feel stronger than usual. The physical body may also be reflecting the shift through alignment, discomforts, unusual occurrences.

Something is stirring beneath the surface, you know it with your whole being.

Hidden truths may be rising into awareness so deeper healing, clarity, and alignment can begin unfolding. Many may find themselves recognizing what no longer nourishes the soul and what truly matters moving forward. The lenses are being changed.

This energy may feel emotional, intense, expansive, and deeply transformative all at once. A jourvey which travels through bliss and pain all at the same time.

The future may be whispering through dreams, synchronicities, sudden knowing, and quiet revelations. Yet Creator asks us to keep our feet firmly upon the Earth. To stay grounded …. To take it step by step.

Not every vision is meant to be chased.
Some are meant to be nurtured like a sacred seed. The bloom unfolds in divine time.

First comes the knowing.
Then comes the trust and SURRENDER.
Then the path reveals itself frame by frame.

As you continue moving through a season of profound change, many may feel both the movement of the eagle guiding the way and the stillness of the buffalo as he stops to graze unperplexed.
The calls you toward what is possible. The other teaches you to stand strong in faith while the unseen takes shape. To stand in complete SURRENDER to what is to become.

The Blue Moon may now be helping many release old fears, identities, limitations, and cycles that have completed their purpose.
It may be helping you open up to new pathways and allowing what was blocked or not aligned to fall away - creating space for something more authentic to emerge.

Release the stories that tell you your dreams are too big, under the illumination of a Sagittarius Blue Moon there is no limitation or restriction.

Protect your vision.
Tend your inner fire.
Walk gently with the Earth.

Listen closely to the wisdom carried by the wind, the waters, and your own heart.

Trust what your soul is showing you.

Something beautiful may already be unfolding beneath the surface. What is meant for you will not bypass you.

The Great Mystery is opening pathways that the mind cannot yet fully see & understand. The journey is wild, don’t try to intellectualize it.

Trust the dance, go with the steps as they unfold. SURRENDER to the unknown, it’s not the season to choreograph.

May you receive the miracles.

You’re not here by accident, and you’re not behind.You are here by design and you are exactly where you are meant to be....
26/05/2026

You’re not here by accident, and you’re not behind.
You are here by design and you are exactly where you are meant to be.

For many one of the most disorienting parts of awakening is realizing that growth doesn’t move in a straight line. That a spiritual awakening is not all roses, unicorns and fluffy clouds.

There are moments of clarity, followed by pauses… periods of expansion, followed by recalibration.
There are moments of dark nights and there are days you want to give up - the challenges feel never ending.

None of it a problem, none of it is misalignment - all of it is part of how integration works.
All of it has purpose, all of it is part of how you get to the other side of becoming.

The entire jourvey matters.

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung once suggested that the greatest escape is not running away from the wo...
24/05/2026

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung once suggested that the greatest escape is not running away from the world, but running away from yourself.

And maybe that’s why so many people stay busy, not because they love the noise. But because silence asks questions they are not ready to answer.

Some bury themselves in achievement.
Some lose themselves inside relationships.
Some become the “strong one” for everyone else while quietly breaking in places nobody can see.

But eventually something strange happens, you reach a point where the old version of you stops working.

You can no longer force excitement, you can no longer pretend connection, you can no longer keep abandoning yourself just to remain acceptable.

At first it feels like emptiness, but maybe it isn’t emptiness at all.

Maybe it’s the soul refusing to survive on performance anymore. This is where many sensitive people begin changing.

They become quieter, more selective,
Harder to manipulate, less interested in explaining themselves.

Not because they became cold, but because they finally understood that being endlessly available is not the same thing as being loving.

Jung believed what we ignore inside ourselves does not disappear.

It waits, the abandoned emotions, the hidden anger, the fear of rejection, the desperate need to be chosen.

Until one day the inner conflict becomes impossible to ignore, and that moment changes everything.

You stop asking: “Why doesn’t everyone understand me?” and start asking: “Why am I abandoning myself to be understood?”

That shift is painful, because awakening does not feel like becoming someone new, it feels like losing everyone you thought you had to be.

Your old identity begins collapsing, old desires stop fitting, old relationships start feeling unfamiliar.

And for a while, you stand between two versions of yourself, too aware to go back.
Too unfinished to move forward.

Jung called this individuation, not becoming perfect, becoming real.

And maybe true peace begins the moment you stop performing and start returning to yourself.

What if, just what if …. the person you’ve been searching for, was the version of you hiding underneath survival all along?

Take a moment to think about that possibility !

What if the reason you still feel stuck has nothing to do with willpower?After two decades of helping people change thei...
20/05/2026

What if the reason you still feel stuck has nothing to do with willpower?

After two decades of helping people change their lives, I finally understood why so many people still feel stuck — even when they are doing “all the work.”

Therapy.
Meditation.
Courses.
Hundreds of books, podcasts, practices, breakthroughs…

And still, somehow, the deep shifts don’t always last.

People gain insight.
They feel inspired.
Motivated for weeks.
Certain this time will be different.

Yet slowly, almost quietly, they slide back into the:

Same patterns.
Same anxiety.
Same limitations.

It wasn’t until I truly understood the nervous system that everything began to change for me.

The conscious mind can learn almost anything.
But if the nervous system is still running old survival codes, the subconscious will quietly pull a person back toward what feels familiar — even when that familiar no longer serves them.

This is why breakthroughs can fade.
Why old patterns return.
Why people often know exactly what to do, yet struggle to consistently live it.

The missing piece is rarely more information.

It is regulation — at the level where the pattern actually lives.
In the body.
In the nervous system.
At the root.

In my practice, I begin every session by identifying the underlying root cause standing in the way of a client’s intention.

When the nervous system feels safe enough to release what it has been holding onto, lasting change becomes possible.

The outcomes have been deeply transformative in my practice.

The body remembers what the mind tries to forget.
This is why true healing must include the nervous system.

12/05/2026

How to sacrifice the ego?

It is impossible. The ego cannot be sacrificed because the ego exists not. The ego is just all idea: it has no substance in it. It is not something – it is just pure nothing. You give it reality by believing in it. You can withdraw belief and the reality disappears, evaporates.

The ego is a kind of absence. Because you don’t know yourself, hence the ego. The moment you know yourself, no ego is found. The ego is like darkness; darkness has no positive existence of its own; it is simply the absence of light. You cannot fight with darkness, or can you? You cannot throw darkness out of the room; you cannot take it out, you cannot take it in. You cannot do anything with darkness directly. If you want to do anything with darkness, you will have to do something with light. If you put the light on, there is no darkness; if you put the light off, there is darkness.

Darkness is only the absence of light, so is ego: absence of self-knowledge. You cannot sacrifice it.
It has been told to you again and again: “Sacrifice your ego” – and the statement is patently absurd, because something that does not exist cannot be sacrificed. And if you try to sacrifice it, something which is not there in the first place at all, you will be creating a new ego – the ego of the humble, the ego of the egoless, the ego of the person who thinks he has sacrificed his ego. It will be a new kind of darkness again.

No, I don’t say to you sacrifice the ego. On the contrary, I say try to see where the ego is. Look deep into it; try to locate it, where it exists, whether it exists at all or not. Before one can sacrifice anything one must be certain about its existence.

But don’t be against it from the very beginning. If you are against it, you cannot look deep into it. There is no need to be against anything. The ego is your experience – maybe it is just apparent, but it is still your experience. Your whole life moves around the phenomenon of the ego. It may be a dream, but to you it is so true.

There is no need to be against it. Dive deep into it, go into it. Going into it means bringing awareness into your house, bringing light into darkness. Be alert, watchful. Watch the ways of the ego, how it functions, how it manages at all. And you will be surprised: the deeper you go into it, the less it is found. And when you have penetrated to the very core of your being, you will find something totally different which is not ego, which is egolessness. It is self, supreme self – it is godliness. You have disappeared as a separate entity; you are no more an island. Now you are part of the whole.✨

~ Osho, The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty

The intensity of the last few days has been noticeable to many people across the globe With the Scorpio Full Moon on Fri...
03/05/2026

The intensity of the last few days has been noticeable to many people across the globe
With the Scorpio Full Moon on Friday so much of what’s lingered in the shadows is being revealed.

Emotions are rocketing. Things are breaking down. Old ways are being exposed for transformation as Pluto holds steady the intention clearing what isn’t serving anylonger.

So, if this applies to you - what you felt over the last few days is still there. It may already feel quieter as your nervous system begins to regulate. Or your choice to not pay attention to it heightens, but the truth is it hasn’t gone anywhere.

The important thing at this stage of your journey is whether you continue with the dissolving, the walking through the shadow, the transformation of it, or come back to it later after it’s faded into the background completely.

Many choose the second option for numerous reasons:
life is busy, the shadow side is scary, it’s the unknown, the uncomfortable so you leave it untouched instead.

Many people also wait. They convince themselves they’ll return to the topic when they have more time, more space, or when it feels in right alignment again.

But the truth is leaving it for then, is when things bubble up and start over again.

If you are one of the people facing something right now you don’t need to start over. You’re already in it, walk through it now.

If you’re wanting to continue to invite in the shift for you, this is the time to do it - do it now while it’s still active in your reality, whilst it’s accessible under the supporting cosmic influences.

If you want to change what is influencing you and your jourvey right now don’t stop midway. Don’t become avoidant!

Sending everyone that is struggling right now strength to endure the next step.
Do so one breath at a time. You got this !

It’s not about being perfect with everything — it’s about being consistent with the right things.That’s what creates the...
02/05/2026

It’s not about being perfect with everything — it’s about being consistent with the right things.

That’s what creates the difference !

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