Gave up life at 33, left spouse and career, relocated to Ibiza.

Belinda Clarke, 54, had been living a seemingly perfect life. She had a successful career in criminal justice and was managing a team of 30. She had two teenage daughters, Kacy, 17, and Jem, 13, and was married to Steve, whom she had met at university. But despite having everything she wanted, she was miserable on the inside and was feeling completely out of balance.

Belinda had adopted a male persona in her twenties to help her climb the career ladder. She was determined to provide a good life for her children and opted for a pinstripe trouser suit, flat shoes, short dark hair, glasses, and an aggressive, unemotional demeanor. But this wasn’t something she could sustain in her job or her marriage.

One day, Belinda told her assistant she was going home as she wasn’t feeling very well. She never went back and, within the same week, she left her job and her husband. She then took a six month sabbatical from her career, reflecting on what she wanted from life and what would make her happy.

Belinda decided to learn how to windsurf and change her career to become a life coach and reiki therapist, which taught her to open her heart and embrace her emotions. During this time, she also met Toby, the love of her life, and they married in 2004.

Toby and Belinda moved to Staffordshire, but they weren’t content. They decided to go travelling for two years with just a tiny backpack each, and during a year of backpacking in South America, they travelled to Peru and a shaman told them to move to Ibiza.

The pair followed their intuition and, within a month, Belinda and Toby had started a healing festival, reconnecting with Ibiza’s sacred qualities. They then started Toby’s guided walking company in 2010 and now live a very simple life with their dog Cosmo on the island.

Belinda is now a completely different person to the unhappy, burnt out woman she was at 33. She encourages people to be open to their intuition, make time for creativity in their lives, and to reflect and journal on their feelings and hunches. She also believes in asking yourself a question and checking with your gut feeling to see if the answer feels right in your body.

Belinda is a testament to the power of following your intuition and embracing your emotions, as it can truly unlock your inner power and lead to a happier life.

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