601 thoughts on “Before & After Universal Medicine: From Living a Lie to Living Who I Truly Am”

1. In our heads, we can create any story we like and pretend to be whoever is needed, for us not to get hurt more or again. Yet once we start unravelling the lies we’ve lived we realise by not being our true selves we’ve put ourselves more than anyone else could. I find lies I’m living to this day, mostly in carrying out beliefs and ideals of what I thought was me and living that. It is very empowering to step back and let them go one by one.

2. To state the truth is much more than not to lie. It is not a coincidence the expression ‘the’ truth. There is only one truth.

3. What an amazing journey this has been for you Leonne – this is so powerful and reflects how we can get caught going down a road of ‘a better life’ just on the outside – without truly appreciating that it is possible to be free of this. Universal Medicine has brought this to my life too – from the galmorous celebrity soaked party life to what it is now – super simple, solid and with great love and purpose.

4. I too remember being told that lies were the worst things to tell and would be punished. When I told the truth my parents didn’t believe me and as you say, they told lies and were not punished. This is very confusing as a child. My pet peeve is when people lie and they try and sweep it under the carpet as though the lies don’t exist. Lies always get found out. To me in the end everything will be exposed and only the truth will be left. Then we will really get to see the levels of lies and corruption we have been accepting and living with.

5. What struck me while reading this transformational story of Leonne’s is just how much she (and all of us) know we are living a lie when we are not being true to ourselves, are living in a way that is in disregard to our body, and trying to be accepted and liked for what we do, instead of just being ourselves in every moment. The depression and misery that comes from that way of life is actually a gift from our bodies to bring us back to living as the Sons of God that we truly are. Looking at the ‘after’ photos of Leonne, it is obvious that she is ‘back’ and radiantly so at that.

6. The pictures speak volumes.. the joy you live now Leonne just jumps off the page. Super inspiring to read of you returning to live what is true for you.

7. We always know when we’re being true to ourselves and when we’re not, and how awkward and exhausting it is to be living and perpetuating a lie. Some of the biggest lies we tell ourselves are wrapped up in images about what we think will make us feel good, and what we think we need to do to be accepted. Thankfully the body doesn’t buy into those pictures- it just reflects very simply and honestly which of our choices are true and which aren’t.

8. I can so relate to world that equate a lie with “not telling the truth about what I had done wrong and hiding bad behaviour”. But a deeper lie is when we pretend all is well when we know deep down it is not, when we hold our love back and when we live and express only a fraction of the glory that we are.

9. What a gorgeous blog. The joy that you live now just sings off the page. Very inspiring, thank you Leonne.

10. Lying is so much more than words. We can present a lie or move in Truth at any time and we are always reflecting one or the other, there’s no in between.

11. I loved what you shared about you in this blog, living the lies and the real you emerging. The photos speak a thousand words, the eyes says it all for me.

    Isn’t it interesting that we are asked to be and do things to please other people but all we are doing is masking their issues too by conforming, hard when we rely on adults to guide us when we know deep down inside that it doesn’t ring true for us.

12. Life as we are told to know it, is a lie. It makes sense that most of us end up living this lie too. The irony is, we all know the truth and hence we have a world in which almost everyone is exhausted and/or unwell in some way.

13. This silent communication that takes place is very poisonous because we give ourselves away in order to ‘do the right thing’ and therefore be accepted. It’s so insidious because it’s happening at such a high level, it’s almost as though we are not aware it’s happening.

14. You have just exposed Leonne so easily how there is a silent communication going on between us all. At such a young age you knew people around you were lying and when it is our own family that is quite hard to bear as we see our parents almost as ‘Gods’. It is very confusing and it erodes our trust of other because if you cannot believe your parents who can you believe?

15. “The more I return to who I truly am, the more I am able to appreciate others for who they truly are.” A beautiful realisation inspired by the teachings and presentations of Serge Benhayon and The Way of The Livingness.

16. You’ve got me thinking how we consider lies as just words that come out our mouths, but we can actually LIVE a lie by not being true to who we are.

17. This is such a brilliant read, you capture a snapshot of not just yourself but of how life is for many people. It can be confusing because what we are told works doesn’t, what is modelled to us as success or a normal way of life doesn’t deliver either, it’s the return to who we truly are in essence and living from the love of our soul that truly restores us. Once that’s in place life feels amazing.

18. We can learn so much from listening to our whole body – it is a true marker for us and one well worth paying attention to.

19. “My refusal to put the basket down showed that I had already learned to act the way I believed others needed me to in order to be accepted and ‘do the right thing’.” How quickly we learn to behave in a way that does not support us, we would rather endure pain than admit that what we are doing is not loving or caring towards ourselves. It is amazing how early on in life we learn to conform to what we think will be seen as being accepted as the right thing to do.

    1. And in many cases, years later realising, that no one actually asked us to do what we thought they wanted us to do. We feel everything as children, and if we were supported to read it more and observe without taking it on, then we would see that all we need to do is stay true to ourselves which supports everyone else around us.

20. A beautiful blog, and one that invites to look again at ourselves in the here and now with more honesty.

21. As children we are often not supported to build a loving relationship with ourselves and our bodies, everything centres on how we are with other people. Patterns designed to please others at the expense of ourselves are cultivated early. Choosing to live responsibly and honestly supports us to live again fully appreciating who we are and what we bring to the world.

22. Leonne, you expose the biggest lie, the belief that lying is something done to others. Whereas you show powerfully that what causes most harm is lying to ourselves.

23. ‘I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.’ So true Leonne, exposing any lies we live in life can feel very empowering and allows us to uncover more false ways we are living that are not serving us or anyone else. To bring this level of responsibility and truth to our lives allows us to build a more solid foundation of love that allows us to blossom and evolve.

24. Lying is an interesting one. It is not necessarily something we do to others although this is a possibility. It is not necessarily about something we did wrong and want to hide. It could also be about something good that happened to us. It could also be something that never happened that we wish it had happened. None of these scenarios is better than another one. Lies never can provide a foundation to really move forward in life.

25. ‘Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.’ This is what is so lovely about living a life of love, truth and responsibility – life constantly expands and evolves when our choices truly support us.

26. I think we all know that feeling when we are not being true to ourselves, whether we change ourselves completely or measure ourselves just a bit to fit in. You hit the nail on the head with responsibility, do we take responsibility for putting out to the world who we truly are and making choices that constantly confirm and build that – or do we put out a version of us that’s not true and advocate that it’s ok to live this a measured life and make choices harm us and others.

27. I would have never equated ignoring my body’s message as ‘living a lie’, but it so is. Lying is fiddly. It breeds incongruence and needs constant patchwork. It so makes sense how exhausting that is.

28. Overriding or dismissing what we feel or intuitively know is like lying to ourself but if we don’t necessarily see it that way because we’re so used to doing it and have normalised and justified living like that. But we can start to develop more honesty with ourself – being open to truly listening to what our whole body is saying and starting to put that into action instead of the thoughts that go against it.

29. Understanding how complicated a lie is, that a lie can be presenting a false way to live, for me is very well explained by you in this blog. Its beautiful to hear you discover the woman that was waiting patiently to bloom, it makes me understand my kids more that go between two homes.

    1. That is really great to know Sarah. When children live between two homes they have an opportunity to be true to themselves or align to their parents. As a child I was manipulating my parents in a big way and also getting away with whatever I felt I could get away with. Children are experts at reading energy and they know what is love and what is not. Now I am the same wherever I go because I am living in a way that is true to me.

       1. Beautiful addition to your blog, thank you.

30. It is great to expose what lies are, sometimes the lies that hurt us the most are the ones where we don’t live what we know to be our truth- where we change ourselves for others or to fit in. It is harder to clock these types of lies but they are often the ones where we contort ourselves the most to become something we are not.

31. Having a deep and genuine honesty with ourself is a foundation for true change – from the honesty we have a clearer choice as to how we will make our next movements in life, rather than just overriding what we’re feeling or sensing from inside.

32. Great to read how your life has been Leonne, your pictures are truly pictures of how life for you was living a lie except from the pictures after you came across Universal Medicine, there is an ease and a glow in your face and lovely to see the joy of being yourself naturally. What an amazing change!

33. Having anyone set the bar and tell you not to do one thing but then you observe them doing that very same thing themselves leaves you feeling not only confused but completely disillusioned.

34. ‘Living a lie’, pretending to be something that you are not, is so exhausting, but so many of us do that it has come to be accepted as normal. One way of living at home, one at work, one with our friends, a very confusing life indeed, whereas being our amazing selves in every moment no matter what we are doing is so liberating and definitely not confusing or exhausting; how can it be when we are simply being who we naturally are.

35. Your photographs say everything that is necessary here Leonne – what a transformation. I read a lot of self-help books and went on many workshops and courses too and most felt like they had some benefits. But like you, it was when I came to Universal Medicine that my search ended and I felt complete for the first time in my life. It is clear to me that the only way to feel this sense of fullness is through the reconnection to the love we innately are and not through any external force or remedy – the latter is a futile exercise that promises much but does not truly deliver.

36. Yes I have a truly amazing life now. The comments on my blog confirm this, as does the smile on my face, the amazing changes in my relationships, wellbeing, health, finances… I could go on and on. The thing that means the most to me is the fact that I finally understand my purpose in life and see my responsibilities as a joy rather than a burden. I love reading my own blog and these last few days I’ve been reading it and truly appreciating the power of my own expression for the first time.

37. Love it Leonne. Great sharing. Really appreciate reading this. Shows that true love only ever has one life. Everything else is a lie. Without love there is no willingness to be truly open transparent and true with how we are living.

38. Gorgeous to see the transformation of you back to your true self, gosh it is crazy that we currently seem to live our life moving further and further away from ourselves. In truth Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been the ONLY thing that have supported and helped me walk back to my truth slowly unpicking and unravelling all that has not been true or love and coming back to me and the love I am. Your article made me appreciate just how much I have changed and how much I used to live a lie. I reflected on a time years ago I went out with my best friend at the time and work colleagues. The night was exhausting because it highlighted to me instead of just being me I was different depending on who I was with!

39. Gosh I needed to read this today Leonne, thank you for sharing this with us all. A pertinent reminder that we all know the truth deep inside of us, and of how to live our lives. Otherwise, if we did not, we would not feel the tension of the way we are living now. You write of this tension, of knowing that the way you were living was not true for you (as your body was sharing) and it was through Universal Medicine’s presentations that you re-connected to a way of living that felt true to you. And then it was absolutely your choice to do so. And look at the results – you are truly blossoming.

40. Leonnie, this is stunning – to see the difference in your smile, in your face and in your eyes from the pictures before and after is proof in itself of the loving changes you have made! In the Facebook photos, you are young and smiling, however there is not the real joy and openness in the cheeks and face and eyes that is palpable in the more recent photos. I can appreciate how the changes you made might seem so simple (such as quitting alcohol and dietary changes, and the increase in responsibility) but in fact are HUGE steps. Thank you for sharing this inspiring change, and how you have left behind the lies and embraced the truth in a life truly lived now.

41. Simply scrolling through your photographs is evidence of a miracle that has unfolded. Thank you, Leonne.

42. Your before and after photos say it all Leonne. We have one life equally so and can’t compartmentalise bits of it – despite thinking we can. “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself..” So true – ignoring our body’s messages can be so damaging in the long run.

43. “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself”. Your photos, Leonne, powerfully tell the tale of how true this is and how life enhancing it is to live truthfully and honestly.

44. Thank you for your honest sharing Leonne. We can all learn much from your experiences that you share so beautifully. There is no doubt that you have made great changes and they show in your beautiful after connecting with Universal Medicine Photos!

45. It’s truly beautiful to read your story Leonne, I particularly related to your experiences of feeling like you were living a double life, and how it comes back to making choices that are truly loving and supportive for ourselves. It’s quite obvious to see the new joy and vitality in your ‘after Universal Medicine’ photos – you are shining! I appreciated this line about living honouring your body and making loving choices everyday “Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.” How true! I didn’t realise but that is exactly what it’s like for me now also.

46. ‘In the end I understood exactly what I was doing but at the core of it nothing changed’, this explains many modalities down to a tea. They can offer understanding and perhaps relief but not true change.

47. Lovely blog Leonne beautifully honest and I loved how you realised that through your dishonesty you were making choices that were not supportive of how you really are. It is so easy to fall into the trap of being what everyone else wants you to be.

    1. Spot on Sally – we can so live our life as an expectation of what others want rather than living who we truly are. Hence the regrets so many of us have can have when we realise this – yet there are no regrets if we but stop to realise what we have done and use it as an opportunity to learn and never do that again, and instead, as Leonnie has shared here, embrace a true way of living.

48. I love what you have shared here Leonne ‘The truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God. This truth applies to us all. The more I allow myself to accept this truth, the more amazing life gets. Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.’ It is The Way of The Livingness that has inspired me to live this truth everyday and feel the immense joy that this brings to our lives.

49. “I knew I was living a lie but I could feel that everyone else was living one too.” I can relate to feeling this very same thing and getting a sense that there had to be another way but what, where and how?
    It was not until I came across the teachings of Serge Benhayon that I was shown that it was in The Way of our Livingness.

50. “I began to listen to my own body and honour what it needed. Over time I stopped drinking coffee, eating gluten, dairy and sugar and drinking alcohol. I had more energy and felt more balanced.” It is amazing that making such simple changes affects us deeply – yet so many people I speak with resist this (I notice this when they spot my dietary choices) and I often see they choose to continue with deteriorating ill health, which I feel eliminating gluten and or dairy from their diet for even a month may support them to feel the difference it might make to their health. All about choices…..

51. Lies come with such a hooking energy – you start with one and before you know it you lose count of just how many lies you tell yourself and others each and every day. Love that you did not give up and kept seeking the way back to truth. And the before and after photos speak loud and clear.

52. Thank you for sharing your journey to Truth Leonne and I love the more recent photos of you because your joy just zings off the page and the reflection that you are offering the world is as huge as your lovely beaming smile.

53. ‘I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.’ This is so true Leonne and I have spent years putting on a front that everything was fine whilst frequently feeling desperate inside and being constantly exhausted because of how draining this was. I have had a physically tiring weekend and sitting here typing can feel how tired my body is and this is a great reminder to take tender care of it as I embark on another busy working week rather than pushing through and lying to myself that I can get away with it. It is this level of responsibility that underpins the joy that I now feel on a regular basis and I don’t ever want to re-visit my former life where I could feel the incongruity but felt powerless to change it.

54. Gorgeous to read Leonne from a beautiful lady, it is interesting that for many of us most of the way we live our lives is a lie, living who we are not, until we learn the truth of who we are and start to live life from the love that we are as you are now showing in your life.

55. “The truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God. This truth applies to us all. The more I allow myself to accept this truth, the more amazing life gets. Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.” Beautiful Leonne, I can feel the healing in your words. We each have a responsibility to appreciate and live all that we are.

56. I love that as we begin to make loving choices and are willing to be honest about those that are not, we develop an awareness of self and an understanding of who we are. From this, the self-judgement dissipates and is replaced with self-appreciation and from there, what we offer ourselves we can then offer another. Your final photo is living proof of all your choices…. Stunning.

57. There is such a power in someone living truly connected with themselves as it shows others that it really is possible to actually live with that connection in life.

58. Wow – you are a true testimony to great choices! The changes you have made are truly inspiring.

59. Great blog Leonne and the photos certainly back up the story you have shared! Lying to ourselves is a common trap but most are unaware that it is even happening for them. I must admit that I have had a few light bulb moments as I was reading where I can see that the reality is that certain behaviours actually have a foundation based on a lie. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

60. Oh wow Leonne what a beautiful before and after! Its true that when we are young we learn to lie to ourselves and carry on, and this is as simple as ignoring the messages our body is telling us! I found it fascinating how you shared that you lived a ‘double life when your parents were seperate; The good girl with Dad and explosive with Mum, it really highlights the pressure that people grow up in and that we feel we need to act a certain way and avoid telling the truth, it might get us into trouble.. or is that lying?

61. ‘ The more I return to who I truly am, the more I am able to appreciate others for who they truly are.’ – I love this line Leonne a beautiful reminder for me today.

62. “I had learned to ignore how my body felt.” – And this is something that is even championed as in ‘mind over matter’! But I too have found how lost we can be when we disconnect from our body and what it is communicating with us. And that when we choose to reconnect there is a wealth of wisdom there that supports us in our daily lives.

63. ‘I knew I was living a lie but I could feel that everyone else was living one too.’ It’s a grim, ubiquitous, world-dominating formula – safety in numbers. It keeps us all perpetuating the lived lie for fear of being rejected, becoming Norma(n) No-Mates, isolated and alone. It’s our bodies that suffer the damage and no amount of therapy, healing or anything else will bring meaningful resolution until we make the choice to choose differently, to choose self-lovingly – in everything.

64. I love looking at your recent pictures Leonne, they just jump off the page with joy!

65. Gosh you are looking and feeling yummy now, Leonne. I am sure that you appreciate every day that you are gorgeous woman and what you have shared is inspirational for us all.

66. I love the way you have encapsulated everything shared here in a nutshell Joseph. We innately know truth so every lie requires us to shut down and deny the wisest part of ourselves.

67. Leonie those pictures speak volumes, especially the passport photo where your eyes look lifeless – what a difference compared to the recent ones, which have such an openness and joy shining from your face.

    1. Thank you Julie – I have just revisited this blog and I am still stunned by how lost I look in that passport photo. I remember feeling very lost and given up at that time. It is wonderful to be able to look back knowing that the truth was just around the corner.

68. Wow Leonie, these photos are amazing your face has totally changed, you look truly joyful now where as before you can see the hardness and strain on your face. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us and these beautiful stunning after photos.

69. Wow Leonie, what a great blog.
    Your transformation is stunning; your level of honesty and understanding is inspirational.
    The wisdom you have shared, for me, is summed up in the following quote;
    “I have so much more understanding for myself and in turn I have become less judgmental about the choices others make or have made. The more I return to who I truly am, the more I am able to appreciate others for who they truly are”.

70. Leonne, I love the honesty of what you share here in your story, it is quite brilliant the turnaround that you made happen. What you describe in your previous lifestyle is something that is familiar to many of us who have, or still do, make choices that just don’t support us to be well. Yet often the connection is not ever made between our health and how we live. This seems a bit crazy and I can’t help but feel that this is something that our society through schools and our medical system could help the general public to be much clearer on. Our health is our own responsibility, no-one else’s and poor health choices always catch up with us, if we get illness or disease, or as in your case a problem with your complexion, we should never just write it off as bad luck or genes, there is always a deeper reason and it is worth us considering this fully.

71. I love coming back to your blog Leonne there is so much in it, I enjoy taking a sentence and relating it to how my life has been, I didn’t party like you did and kept myself well hidden from the lime light yet I can still very much relate to this line “I didn’t want to admit the truth so I presented a picture I thought others would admire.” Working in sales for about 20 years, it was about image and status and having the things that gave me comfort. I wasn’t honest enough to say that I wanted to be admired or that my life was a lie but I could feel there was something missing in my life, I had got what I wanted but I never felt fulfilled.

72. I feel we have all lived the lie in one way or another. We feel it in our bodies that awkward feeling when we are not being ourselves around others. Doing things to please others or be seen in a certain way. It is great when you can be free of this and feel that you are enough as you are.

73. It is true Leonne, I also am more and more aware how many lies I still am living and they are so subtle that they easily sneak in. Like such it is so important to be more and more aware about them in order to expose them.

74. Gorgeous Leonne thank you for sharing so openly your story, it is one of true inspiration. I could relate so much to how the lies begin when young to mould us into the people we become. To feel the strength in your search to return to the place you always knew to be true in you, and to choose to live from there, is stunning.

75. You are a beautiful woman Leonne, and why on earth would you hide? There is so much of you to share and so much the world needs of you to share. A wise woman once said to me, If we hold back what is naturally there for us to express, then none of us get to heal – just reading your blog is a healing for me and for many others I am sure, thank-you Leonne.

76. It is very easy for our natural beauty to become buried from very early on in life. Your remarkable turnaround Leonne is inspiring to read, which stems from a choice to feed yourself back the love you are, no magic pill diet or drink, just self-care and self-love.

77. As little children we just accept what we are told by our parents and other adults. We can however feel the truth of the matter and it becomes very confusing when we are feeling one thing and then told another, these too as you have pointed out Leonne are lies. No wonder we get confused. A great story and sharing Leonne and gorgeous that you are no longer living a double life and shine now as you.

    1. Yes Donna, reading this I started to remember the enormous confusion and bewilderment throughout much of childhood because of the discrepancy between the world as I was feeling it and what was being acted out and pushed by the adults. The dissonance had been blocked out for so long, but it had its effect, as I lost trust in the world and people at a fundamental level, and in that giving up, brought in dishonesty in order to not have to feel the tension of the untruths, thereby perpetrating the same cycle. We can think we try to live without harming, but it is every bit as harming if our living is not coming from truth.

78. I just can’t believe the difference in the photo’s before and after, incredible that the light you naturally are could be squashed down to the extent that you look liked you were being photographed for a police line up! It never ceases to amaze me how much people change for the better when they start to live self love and care, taking responsibility for themselves and serving a greater purpose in life than what we can see.

79. “I had learned to ignore how my body felt.” So true for so many of us – and how joyful that we can re-learn how to connect and feel the body’s messages again, and honour them, regardless of our ages, thanks to the presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine practitioners.

80. The picture of you in the field of flowers is utterly gorgeous.

81. You are so beautiful Leonne and inspirational.

82. “When I was little my mum often said that we would be punished if we were naughty but we would be punished double if we were naughty and lied about it. I remember taking this very seriously and feeling that lying was the worst crime of all.” – I can remember realising at around the age of 6 that if I did something wrong, it was always best to admit to what i’d done, if I lied it would escalate and play on my mind and worry me and then i’d get in more trouble for lying.

83. Wow. Your photos say it all – a seismic shift – but the thing that really stays with me is the truth behind it – that each day you live your truth is a new before and after. You’re living proof.

84. Without a clear and honest reflection of who we truly are it is hard for most people to be able to come to a point of true change. When we take away everything, everything that we used to keep us busy, distracted, not to feel the pain, both physical and emotional, what is really left?
    This is what Universal Medicine presents to us, consistently with great love.

85. I love the story of you holding the basket of flowers as a 6 year old Leonne. How easily we do things because we have been told and don’t want to let someone down, but all the time we are letting ourselves down by not listening to what is true for us. I could really feel how I have done similar things to this as a 6 year old (and still do now!), and how trying to please someone never works.

    1. Absolutely alisonmoir – your comment inspired me to feel more deeply where I still do this and I can feel the pattern is still there. I appreciate being able to feel this as it allows me to continue to let go of the lies that are not me.

86. Leonne Sharkey this is such a beautiful story! And I love the simple message at the end “listen to my own body and honour what it needed”. It is awesome that when you did this you could feel that you were enough just as you are. What I then felt from reading this is that not only are we enough – we are more than enough: we are everything.

87. I find re-reading your article very inspirational. “I told myself it didn’t matter how much it hurt, it was my job to keep smiling and do as I was told.” It is quite horrendous how children are imposed upon from the best of intentions and how we take on self-harming beliefs at such an early age, It is now so glorious to witness the children whose parents are practicing Way of the Livingness being offered a different way. Your final photographs beautifully demonstrate that it is possible to re-connect to our truth and beauty before we take on these beliefs.

88. ‘I was constantly afraid that people from different areas of my life would meet and realise I was a fraud. Underneath it all was a deep sense of not being good enough and not knowing who I was.’ I can relate to this one Leonne. One day they will discover that I am not worthy enough to have contact with, even in close relationships I had this underlying fear. Now I know it was all about living a lie towards myself and it was the choice I made to not be true to myself. What a devastating game we play in life and how wonderful life can be when we choose to be honest, the joy in your last pictures says it all.

89. A truly inspirational blog Leonne, gorgeous to meet the TRUE flower girl. The joy you radiate in the after photos is infectious.

90. Couldn’t help but smile, it is a contagious smile

91. Leonne as I grow up being a chameleon, I had many many different lives – different faces and none of them were really who I am – in fact they were all a lie. Yet that’s what I accepted as life, as the game I had to play to survive to not be hurt. What Universal Medicine have supported is to build a trust and confidence in coming back to and living from who I truly am and to bit by bit stop playing the game. Your blog confirms everything I have felt and provides a great and very visible testimony to what truly living from you looks like.

92. I can see it in the words and in the picture “The truth I have come back to is – I am love.” you sure have, this article is evidence that is pure fact and the truth. You can feel it when you read it.

93. There is such a joyful radiance in your photos at 33 Leonne compared with the sadness I can see in your eyes in your 20’s. It is amazing how much we can lie to our selves that we are doing fine when all the time our body is telling us something different.

    1. Thank you Alisonmoir. It was quite confronting to see where I have come from. I still feel sad from time to time but the sadness I felt in my 20s was crushing and I went to great lengths to hide it. I am so grateful I no longer feel that way.

    2. Alison it’s interesting how our eyes share so much. They really do reflect what the body is feeling.

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95. Any lie leads to complication and inevitable hurt. Great that you expose here how we can put ourselves under so much stress to conform to outside pressures rather than claiming what is true for us and living from the love that we feel inside.

    1. Great point elainearthey – In fact I have noticed a lot of complication in my life lately which has been alerting me to the fact that there are more lies to uncover and discard. I am getting better at embracing the opportunity to allow the truth to reach every last dark corner.

96. I too saw counsellors and a psychologist to try and deal with my issues and like you I understood exactly what I was doing but at the core of it nothing changed. That is until I saw Serge Benhayon and since then my life has transformed from the miserable, given up state I was in to the joy filled, loving life, divine woman I am today.

    1. That’s very interesting Mary-Louise, that you understood what you were doing but because you disconnected from a joy-filled life, love and your own divinity you had no reason to change.

    2. This is huge marylouisemyers. When I sought counselling I was seeking relief from my circumstances and I was not willing to take full responsibility for the part I played in my own life. Practitioners that represent Universal Medicine walk their talk and this made the steps necessary to take responsibility so much easier.

    3. Brilliant, marylouisemyers. Understanding something in our heads is a first baby step – are we then prepared to practise and develop that understanding into a lived embodiment?

    4. Mary Louise, you are a living testament of living your truth and being connected to inner heart. I love the joy filled, divine woman that you are.

    5. And what a transformation that has been to the amazing woman you are today.
       I can relate to having seen counsellors, but like you, nothing changed till starting work with Universal Medicine.

    6. I has been privilege to have known you Mary-Louise for the last 11yrs and It has been extraordinary watching you evolve into this absolute beautiful Woman you are today. You have been an amazing inspiration in my life and to have been where you were to where you are today is an absolute testament to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

97. Leonne, what a joy to read your blog and see your before and after photos – absolutely gorgeous! There is so much to appreciate with your story, of you returning to living a true and loving life. I’ve also uncovered many lies I was living and convinced many including myself that they were completely true. Such as being the ‘perfect’ mother, wife, daughter… the list goes on but secretly living with anxiety and nervousness, anger and frustration. Reading your story, has also helped me to stop and take a moment to appreciate how much more honestly I am living now, thanks to Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon consistently reflecting love, truth and honesty.

98. It’s very confusing for children with the dual standards that we have as adults: don’t lie, but white lies are ok, smile and look happy even when you don’t feel it, swearing is bad, don’t do it, but we do, I’m smiling but wait till I get you home, and you’ll get what for. Everything is so much simpler to let go of the lies and be consistently honest and true.

    1. That is so true Gill what you have shared and for me it is also not so confusing. I was confused most of the times as a child because of all the double massages or lies and they made me feel unsure of what I was really feeling. Lies are complication and I have to admit that I do not like complication – they make life not an easy flow.

99. Yes, I have lied to myself for years about how I needed to be in order to ‘fit in’ and not make people uncomfortable with who I am. I am slowly unravelling these lies, sometimes one by one, sometimes more than one at a time. But each and every lie that I unveil seems to be more ridiculous than the last. As you have shared, when we were kids we knew that we were not the only ones lying, everyone around us were as well, and yet we continued down the path of lying and living those lies. It is refreshing to be in the company of Serge Benhayon and others like him who live truthfully. I have learnt a lot about living truthfully and am allowing myself to live more truth with each day that arrives. Thanks Leonne for your insights about living the lies we made up so long ago.

100. Leonne your last three photos ooze love, playfulness and joy. They made me giggle with joy to see the beautiful radiant woman you have become. Thank you for choosing to be you.

     1. Well said Lindell, and I feel the same is possible for all of us too; thank you Leonne for clearly showing us that this is quite easy, and for being so inspiring.

101. It’s inspiring Leonne to see how far you’ve come to be the beautiful, joyful woman you are today.

102. Leonne, I love re-reading this blog and seeing your beautiful, open face smiling out from your last photograph. Pure joy!
     This one sentence expresses everything – “the truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am”.
     How joy-full humanity would be if this is what we all brought with us from early childhood.

     1. Well said Stephanie, the world we be a different place indeed if this playful, joyful and loving way of a natural being was nurtured from young. No time like the present to nurture ourselves in this way and inspire the young and before to long this natural, divine way of living will be felt by all.

103. I just had to pop back and check out those photos again. The beauty radiating like an unstoppable tidal wave of joy from within in that last photo is super super gorgeous, heart warming and totally inspirational.

     1. Thank you Kate. You remind me to appreciate myself more deeply.

104. I just love looking at the before and after photos of you Leonne, because they say it all. The tension and sadness is so evident in your before photos, clearly depicting the internal struggle you were going through. The last one is so uplifting, no pretence, nothing to hide, just pure joy. What an incredible transformation and one that is real and lasting. What a gift to meet Universal Medicine and re-discover who you truly are, a beautiful radiant woman with so much love to give.

     1. Yes, rowenakstewart, I agree. Leonne’s before and after photos say so much, and “the last one is so uplifting, no pretence, nothing to hide, just pure joy” for all to see.

105. Leonne these pictures tell the story all on their own, as you can see the misery of life in your face – such a huge contrast to the end photos which are stunning and joyful.

     1. I totally agree Julie, the Joy is undeniable and the misery what was is so yesterday – well in your case Leonne so decade or two ago. Love it.

     2. I agree what a vast change, which shows on your face. Beauty and joy radiating through the end photos.

106. By sharing your story of yourself as the young ‘flower girl’ you clearly show the insidious way we learn to lie but do not realise that we are doing so. As you go on to relate your life you demonstrate the so common consequences that result. However, it is glorious to see you in your true beauty once you renounced that way of life and embraced truth.

107. We are brought up in a world full of oxymorons. Yes, growing up and being told lying was bad but white lies were all right, when told by adults was very confusing. Killing anyone is bad, unless it’s the government and at war, then it’s ok. Smoking and drinking are bad, but it helps adults relax. One could say, how have we survived growing up with out being messed up in the head? As you have said Leonne ‘Living the way I truly wanted to seemed impossible’. Universal Medicine has shown all that are willing to look at themselves, that there is another way to end this double life we have all been living by truly taking responsibility for our choices and doing what is right for us.

     1. Brilliant point sjmatsonuk… There are always ‘exceptions’ to the rule, and as kids it really does mess us around. The ‘rebel’ period for teenagers is based of this; ‘if they can do it then so can I’.

     2. So well said sjmatsonuk. We are faced with hypocrisy when growing up as everyone is saying one thing and doing the opposite. Very confusing! Yes it is so important that we pay close attention to what we say.

     3. Absolutely sjmatsonuk – your comment highlights how harmful it is to accept the many things in this world that are absolutely not acceptable.

     4. Yes sjmatsonuk, your reference to the double standards we were raised by speak of our deeply ingrained irresponsibility that Leonne has honestly exposed. Inspiring to be supported to explore this more fully. I love that these blogs offer us this very opportunity.

     5. So true sjmatsonuk, you’ve just reminded me of when I was young looking at adults talking on the phone, saying they were doing one thing but actually doing something completely the opposite… it was very bamboozling! I can see now, that moments like those, and there were many many other lies that just did’t make sense as well, contributed to me being very sceptical, wary and not trusting anyone. I would always be looking for the lie… until I also joined in with the lying. Agreed sjmatsonuk, Universal Medicine does show another way to living life truthfully.

     6. Your comment has prompted me to consider some of the other lies, air brushed photos; products with no added sugar…but artificial sweeteners; misrepresentation of statistics.

        This one may be a bit off the wall, but flowers which are dyed to be another colour, when they have a natural beauty just the way they are….as do all of us, we do not need to change to blend in with our surroundings, us being us can only add to the quality of all around us.

        1. Some pertinent comments Kathiefreedom. The big whopper for me was the lie over Father Christmas. When I found out that he wasn’t real, the real hurt wasn’t that he didn’t exist but that my parents had lied to me and had got enjoyment out of my gullibility. At the time I was more hurt than I could express and simply didn’t understand why the whole world was complicit in the lie or how I could have been so fooled. Lying as you suggest is simply everywhere – we are so used to it that we tend not think twice a) about lying or b) being lied to – simply overriding it “as life”.

     7. Love your comment sjmatsonuk – it is very sobering.

     8. Well said sjmatsonuk, Universal Medicine has shown all that are willing to look at themselves that there is a way to end this double life we have all been living by truly taking responsibility for our choices and doing what is right for us.

     9. So true sjmatsonuk. When I grew up people showed me such wayward behaviours preaching the good and when needed living the bad because they needed a relief from life. Up to a certain point in life it has felt not true for me but finally I have accepted it as normal and confirmed to this same way of living because there was no other reflection in my life that confirmed of what I felt deep inside. Until I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and found that what I originally felt within when I grew up, was more connected to the truth of who I originally am then the life I had confirmed myself to up to that moment in time. What a relief this was for me, I was allowed to stop living the lies as this is not normal and in truth harming my body and to live life as I felt impulsed from inside me.

     10. You raise some great points sjmatsonuk. Often these will be laughed off when children question these because they have exposed a comfortable lie that we are all happy to live with yet there is a lot of wisdom in the simple question.

108. Leonne, it is so cool to read and see how your life has unfolded. What amazing choices you have made with the support of Universal Medicine to change a way of living that clearly wasn’t working for you at all. Well Done you, and it is you that reaps the rewards and all of us.

     1. Thank you Natalie. Your comment encourages me to appreciate what I have shared with the understanding that I did so to support others. Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have supported me to truly live rather than survive and exist and this gift has been given to all.

109. Leonne, you raise a great topic concerning lying and how you detected how adults are lying consistently. The sad part of it is that most of the adults are not aware of this, and are not aware of how they play a role and not live their true joy.

     1. What you have shared, kerstinsaltzer15, presents such an opportunity for me to review where I am still complicit in this habit of lying. With curiosity, not criticism, I am now prepared to observe carefully what I say, particularly when it comes to talking to children. Am I just regurgitating what was said to me or what I see everyone else saying. Examples might be:

        ‘Life is not fair’ – that is a scorcher I hear often, embedding us in a mind set that says life is out of our control and just happening to us.

        ‘Boys don’t cry’ – a disaster as we shut down all the tenderness and expression of feeling in our men.

        Leonne, your story is an inspiration: from the pained flower girl ignoring her body to please others to the vibrant, playful, tender, sexy, cute, divine woman you are now – thank you.

        1. This is great what you two are talking about. The lies are omni-prescent. Most of them so embedded that we don’t even notice them. Most of them so ‘normalised’ by the way we, and those around us, have been living. I am just beginning to lift the lid on this. Never has the analogy of a ‘can of worms’ been more true!! I wrote previously about how, up until recently, the whole of humanity accepted that the world was flat. Thus it is literally any and everything that I now see that I have to look at. How many ‘flat world’ lies do I still swear by as being the truth??

        2. So true, the lies are insidiously embedded into our psyche and most don’t even realise what they are buying into…me included! Like you Matilda I am very curious about what lies still lie in my body and am inspired to bring another level of awareness to what I say, especially around children. Because like Leonne and like all of us, they feel it all.

        3. I can so relate to what is being shared. As a child I felt so hurt by adults saying one thing but feeling the hypocrisy as their bodies did not emanate the truth as I felt it. I was left feeling very confused. In knowing how much this harmed, a great reflection here as you point out Matilda, to be aware of “where I am still complicit in the habit of lying”!

        4. Not only do I hear that ‘life is not fair’ but that it is hard too. Now I can appreciate how important it is not to let these comments slip by apparently unnoticed.

        5. Lies are indeed omnipresent, but as Leonne notes in her blog, the worse ones are the ones we tell ourselves and they are many. So now I feel to look again at those lies I may still tell myself, with an openness to seeing truth and to letting go another lie in my life. Bit by bit that way we build our way as truth.

        6. What we say to children, and how we say it. is so important matildaclark. I find myself wondering, when I used to read to my own children, grandchildren and the little ones in the local school, if the intonation and emphasis I used to make the stories more interesting actually changed the children’s perception of the story. Should I be given the opportunity to read to children again, I shall certainly be more careful.

        7. matildaclark it is very true – most of us are living lies, it is the ‘norm’ of society. To wake up to the reality is both shocking and painful – nevertheless it is possible to turn this pattern around, if like you say, we are willing to be honest and acknowledge what is going on, and knowing that we can choose different.

     2. Lying has become a way of life something that we just do without even thinking, something I see starting with children of a young age, call it a game that is played or attention that is required, or even a way of fitting into a situation either way this is by far a huge subject and something that we are only just touching the surface on.

        1. The dedication that we see in children to ‘the game’ you have described aminatumi is so present. I often feel this in me too and know that I am slowly turning this dedication from living a lie, to living truth instead.

110. On re-reading this blog the following sentence jumped out at me “the truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am”. This is a huge realization because most people live with a feeling that they are not enough and therefore have to prove themselves over and over again. Knowing who you are stops that from happening and brings great freedom.

111. We put such pressure on ourselves to achieve in life, but why? What drives us to make sense of our life by counting our accomplishments? It is in truth a very exhausting way to live, always living up to the expectations of others and society. I often find it playful to ponder on what my last hour will be like in this life, and what I would reflect on looking back. And every time I realise that I would not be thinking of what I did. I would want to be appreciating the beauty of a rose for the last time, or holding the hand of my partner. This may seem morbid, but death need not be considered this way. It is an inevitable part of life. I recently read a survey about the things people most thought about looking back on their life just before they died, and without fail most people did not tend to reflect on what they had done, but rather said that they had wished they had more love in their life. That says mountains about what is truly important.

112. Hmm, this feels a real ouch moment: “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” I have been able to deceive myself and others pretty easily in the past, which now feels horrid, but to feel into deceiving myself is a real trick which truly damages me, makes me feel to be very careful about being more honest with myself in the future.

113. “the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself” I can feel the truth in what you share here Leonne, I have often tried to convince myself that I am a certain type of person when in actual fact I am not. It is much easier to let people into our lives when we don’t put up a false picture and express ourselves as we really are.

114. Thank you Leonne for sharing your story; wow this is so revealing and inspirational, to live at the expense of ourself is to live a lie, to say no to the lie is to be aware of self and truth..

115. The difference between your passport photo and the most recent ones is huge – not only does there feel to be a sadness in your eyes, but it also feels like there is a certain vacancy, as though nobody was home.

116. I love that you expose the everyday ‘normal life’ as the lie that you were living. We can often get caught up in the concept of things being so extreme in order to represent a lie. Referring to the flowers your were holding as a girl at the wedding was the perfect example of how the smallest things can represent the beginning of the end. Talking about those ‘happy’ Facebook photos was a classic, I know that I have totally done that with social media, sold an idea of what I wanted my life to be rather than the reality of what it is. Thank you for sharing this slice of your life, your writing is pure and true.

117. I like the quote, “I have so much more understanding for myself and in turn I have become less judgmental about the choices others make or have made”. When we truly connect to the love that we are within, judgement and arrogance simply falls away. It’s like these unloving ways of being with ourselves and others no longer have a place to be in our bodies, nothing to ‘stick to’ so to speak, as we make love our living way.

118. The difference in your before and afters is extraordinary. Whatever you are doing, keep doing it!

119. It’s incredible that I would have accepted the before pictures as normal and taken them at face value before coming to Universal Medicine and seeing a different vitality in living. The before pictures compared to the after pictures show such a big contrast to what living a true life actually looks like. It’s also not just about a smile but it’s about how the photos actually glow. There are many photos in magazines that look great to the eye but lack the living sparkle. A great inspiration for the community.

120. I am able to see more clearly now those choices I have made before which did not come from a place within me that is wise and loving, but rather from a need or from protection of a hurt. And being able to look at those choices without judgement feels great, and like genuine freedom.

121. “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” This is so totally true. At least when we lie to another, there is a chance that they will pull us up, or that they won’t believe it, or that they won’t even listen. But when we lie to ourselves we hear it, we believe it and it can then take a lot for us to see that the lie was actually a lie. Serge Benhayon has shown me many of the lies that I have been living, and he has done this by inspiring me to see the actual truth that is already inside me. We are all the sons of God. The biggest lie that we tell ourselves is that we are not.

     1. Absolutely Ottobathurst – I spent my whole life feeling like I was never going to be enough. Serge Benhayon presented the possibility that I am more amazing than I could ever imagine. I was quite surprised to find that I knew this was true. I eventually realised that I was aware of the fact I was lying to myself all along – a big ouch that was worth feeling in order to be free of it.

        1. True. We can not imagine how amazing we are – we have to connect to, to live and experience it. And then we – and all – will see (like in your pictures Leonne).

        2. Yes!! I saw those pictures as well! Amazing to see the beauty, vitality and joy of a body that isn’t being lied to anymore. Unquestionable proof that we all have it already inside of us. And when we live it and let it out and in, then you get photos like that!

122. This is another wonderful story of how Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine has radically changed another persons life dramatically for the better. Feeling the true way to be is so empowering and welcomes joy into all areas of life.

123. Congratulations Leonne in truly finding yourself, it is a truth I have struggled with my whole life, through the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon we all have been shown the way to reclaim and bring forth the joy in living a truly love filled life.
     Thank you also for sharing your story and leading the way for us all to follow in your foot steps.😍

124. A beautiful woman with nothing to hide … That you most definitely are Leonne!

125. I can relate to how lost, confused and lonely you felt, Leonne, because I can recall similar feelings as a child. I remember thinking that little white lies were fine because everyone told them, it was only like a little exaggeration really. So I shut down on what I truly felt, and it became a habit to manage my life like that. The way back to living true to myself in every way is a life long discovery of finding me again which I am thoroughly enjoying.

126. That’s the interesting thing about living a lie, everyone is living it too, around you (for the most part sadly). I can remember clearly that “I had learned to ignore how my body felt” early on in life too. I was applauded and congratulated for pushing my mind, my body and having a strong ego – whether academia, sport, acting. I was very aware, like in this blog, that I was doing it; but the payoff was recognition which was close enough to love – so I thought. Eventually I didn’t even know I was ignoring my body at all.

     So looking ahead, as I’m now relearning to listen intently to my body and live from my heart – one can look to the children who come into the world and within my environment. I wish to share and let them understand that to be all of them, delicate and sensitive – is supported and encouraged, not to mention, that they are loved for just being here, not for any behaviour. Could you imagine how different life would be experienced?

127. ‘I had learned to ignore how my body felt’. I can so relate to that one. When I was younger I was told by teachers that I wasn’t feeling what I was in fact feeling, which at that time was desperately sad and upset. How confusing is that for a 10 year old?! I’m now learning to really listen to my body and its messages after many years of ignoring its signals. What a great tool that would be for all of us if this message was imparted by parents and schools….however it seems at the moment not many people actually do listen to their body’s messages, or we wouldn’t have a worldwide obesity epidemic or smoking and alcohol related illnesses etc.

     1. Hi sueq2012, yes so confusing for a child to be told they are not feeling what they actually are. From early on we are then questioning ourselves and give ourselves over to the outside to tell us how to be. So beautiful to re-claim the knowing of our own body and express the truth from here.

128. This is such a beautiful testament to your self and the love you are, so joyful, simple and real and something so relateable to. Thank you Leone for sharing this, your story is a real inspiration and something everyone can relate to. The amazingness of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and all the truths presented really allows us to be who we truly are for ourselves, by our own choice with the absolute truth and knowing offered.

129. Leonne this is an incredible blog and your photo’s tell the story so clearly as well. I love your last paragraph, with this there is no room for a double life – ‘The truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God. This truth applies to us all. The more I allow myself to accept this truth, the more amazing life gets. Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.’

130. Leonne, your photos alone reveal the incredible transformation that has occurred for you with the support of Universal Medicine. You are living proof that living true to yourself pays off.

     1. I agree Elizabeth, such a simple concept, yet so hard to sustain for some reason, but as you say ” living true to yourself pays off.”

131. What a beautiful transformation – from the inside out. Love and truth reveal the true beauty, as your article and photos are evidence for. I love the summary you write at the end: “Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.”

     1. ..great to ask at the end of a day: did I discover more truth today and what does it look like? Am I shining more of my light? What miracle did I get this day? …lovely summary and also our next starting point.

        1. Thank you for these questions Sandra, great to go to bed with.

132. It is gorgeous that you now have nothing to hide Leonne. This is obvious from your current photos, and the joy just spills out of you.

133. In your before photos, your smiles just don’t look real. In your after photos, you just shine. I love how you shared your delicateness so fully and openly!

134. We always seem to search for “truth” outside of ourselves without realising that we are the truth and this is what our bodies are telling us all day, every day. Universal Medicine shows us the path back to our own truth. Leonne, your story is a beautiful illustration of this. Thank you.

135. I am more aware of the lies that people are expressing and not reacting nor taking them personal as I did when I was young. I am also more aware of my own lies and this is very exposing and healing. This is an ongoing process.

136. A beautiful sharing Leonne, I feel your love so clearly in your words.
     When we end the hiding and lying to be someone we are not and accept we are fine just as we are, this is the best gift we can ever give ourselves.

137. Wow, Leonne, these pictures certainly tell a story – it’s amazing how we lie to ourselves about what is truly going on and pretend all is well when it clearly isn’t. Universal Medicine has shown us a great way to be our true selves and be more joyful in life.

     1. Thank you Carmel. You are right, I am constantly awed by how easily I can fool myself and equally how easily I can choose to feel the truth. This shows that any of us can live true if we choose it.

138. Hi Leonne, your blog is deeply inspiring. I also know the part in life where I looked for solutions in order to have a better life. The real change in my life was when I became honest and started to reveal the lies. This is an ongoing process and with every lie exposed it is like a celebration of the real me.

139. The difference in your before and after photos are just gorgeous. You can see the true smile, full of confidence and beauty. That is not something you can put on, it definitely comes from within,

     1. Yes, the joy and delicateness is beautiful to feel in Leonne’s after photos.

140. Thanks Leonne, living a lie and living with truth. The transition can be tough when we have been sold a pup. I was sucked in for over 40 years. Still working through the walls, masks and issues that all our hurts hold us from being the true sons of god we are, with love in our hearts. Great blog and love the timeline with photos. Facebook can be our friend to have such reflections and insights!

141. Hmm – your blog did inspire me to ponder. To adjust to what is or maybe is wanted from us needs a lot of sensitivity. We all have this sensitivity and use it – more or less – to adjust, to fit in. I am wondering why we do so – do I really get something out of it that is worth not expressing how and who I truly am? I do not think so – but it looks like everyone is acting like that, so how can I change?… Your blog is inspiring Leonne and your pictures speak words – Glad to have people like you and an organisation like Universal Medicine who are presenting AND living that we can use our sensitivity for expressing our truth and that this truth is not only worth sharing , it is serving all as well.

142. Accepting the truth of our reality and allowing the magic of life to flow…. yeah yeah! Thanks Leonne.

143. Wow Leonne. Thank you for sharing your story of living a lie to living love. An inspiring and beautiful read.

     1. Just gorgeous.

144. It rings so true to me that I lived a double life similarly to you for many years. i remember knowing that it was false but I thought I was so clever, juggling all the balls in the air, but I knew the only person I was fooling was myself. Letting go of that behaviour was a great release.

     1. Gillrandall it seems like a lot of us lived this double life, juggling balls in the air, knowing that it did not feel right. I know I did, I too have learnt to let it go.

        1. I also had the same experience Amita and gillrandall, “juggling balls in the air, knowing that it not feel right”. I thought, arrogantly so, that ignorance is bliss, that people who do not question why they are doing things or the way things are get to essentially live in a state of bliss. No matter how hard I tried to suppress what I was feeling about there having to be another way, it would always surface and ‘disrupt’ what I was doing bringing me back to a choice to look deeply at what is going on or return back to how I had been living. Sometimes I would go a little deeper but would always end up back in the game of keeping up appearances and fitting in. That was until I met Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, sure I do still slip back into the old mode but now have a much stronger foundation of truth and love to come back to. I would not change it or have it any other way. Whilst bliss may keep you numb to what is going on, it still creates a tension, one that can only be alleviated by living truth and not trying, however hard, to ignore it!

145. ​​”I am proud of each and every loving choice I make and if I make choices that are not loving I am willing to be honest about this and find out why.”….what an awesome formula for life. Amazingly said and done – the photos say it all!

146. It is interesting how we accept growing into behaviours that help us cope with life and never really question this and think it is normal. Even though I never felt comfortable in my own skin playing all these different roles in life I thought that was the way to be until I came to Universal Medicine. Here I was reminded that all that I am was already there at my birth and that all the trying to fit in and pleasing everyone had only brought me miles away from how I naturally am. So step by step I have been letting go of all the false layers, discovering more of me with every step. There is no greater joy to express more and more of me with every step I take and how everything naturally falls into places.

     1. Yes absolutely Esther – we grow behaviours to cope with life (some can be quite abusive) but no-one ever questions them, because of how ‘normal’ they’ve become in society. There are others that have been questioned, such as cigarette smoking and alcohol, but even though we know the HUGE health risks billions of people still use them as vices to cope with life.

     2. So true Esther, owning and feeling comfortable in our own skin is crucial for our wellbeing and health. It is very subtle how we learn as children to gradually disown ourselves, to please, to fit in, to be seen and recognised, moving further away from our precious essence. What a gift to be recognising all these little moves so that we can move in a different direction, back to our real essence and claim ourselves amidst all these beliefs we have taken on about the world. There certainly is no greater joy than walking back to who we truly are.

147. Leonne, the pictures speak for themselves. What a turn around and what a gorgeous and absolutely joyful woman you are. I love the picture of you with all the flowers.

148. Leonne the comment you make about living a double life is interesting, it made me reflect back on how much I used to change to fit into my circumstances to please people and to be accepted. I now realise that I don’t do that any more, I very rarely even think about or worry about it. I have the opportunity to change or develop or evolve all the time, but the motivation isn’t about pleasing anyone at the expense of myself, it is about love, truth and consistency.

     1. That is the difference, when we change the driving force away from changing to fit in or be accepted, and towards a platform from which truth and love first and foremost are lived.

149. This blogs highlights how the more appreciation we have for ourselves and the choices that we have made the easier it is to accept the grandness within ourselves and others.

     1. Absolutely Franciscoclara8, self appreciation is key to us shining the truth of who we are in full.

        1. Yes Lorraine, it always amazes me the power when I bring more self -appreciation for the choices that I continue to make in my life on a daily basis, the more I do it the more momentum it gains and creates a loving flow in life.

150. Thanks Leonne for sharing your journey, I can appreciate the point you have made about living a lie as I have also done the same, up untill the point of coming into contact with Universal Medicine. Judging by the photos you have done a great job of returning back to your true essence.

151. To know that we are God’s son, that we are more than what we do, and what we wear and how we act…what a mighty step that is. It cannot be intellectualised nor can it be proven in a formula, nor measured by fancy medical equipment.
     It can be taught by one who lives it everyday. Serge Benhayon is the greatest teacher I know, and the greatest inspiration because there is not a word he says that he does not live – God’s son on earth, reminding us we are all the same.

     1. So beautifully said Rachel

        1. further – while the fact that we all God’s son may not be intellectualised or a formula followed to prove it – it can certainly be seen with the naked eye, when you know how to look.

     2. Awesome Rachel. Yes, the greatest teacher is the one who lives what he or she teaches – and Serge Benhayon is that all day long every day.

152. ‘I had learned to ignore how my body felt.’ This seems an almost universal trait nowadays. Thank heaven – literally – for showing through Universal Medicine that there is another way to live.

     1. Great comment sueq2012. Yes, thank heaven for Universal Medicine to show that there is another way, and one that we absolutely know to be true when we are reminded.

153. “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” Our whole lives can be a lie or a game, until we stop avoiding what our body is telling us is actually going on for us. And once we start to listen, a whole new world opens up and the truth is naturally lived.

     1. I agree janetwilliams06; listening to my body and trusting what I feel has brought great change, and as you say the whole world opens up and the truth naturally lived.

     2. It’s beautiful how Leonne has claimed her true self back..to share with all of us.

154. Eternally grateful is right, Leonie – finding that all I was seeking in life (and lying about to myself and others), was a misplaced attempt to find myself. Serge Benhayon’s presentations via Universal Medicine have simply pointed out that all that lying and all the seeking in life, has not damaged the essence we are seeking within and that through uncovering the disregard and hurts, life can turn around enormously, at any age. It has taken me sometime to accept that this as not too good to be true and let go of many hurts that have kept the lies coming. It makes sense that lying in protection of feeling those hurts, has kept at bay that simple re-assessment of life. No longer!

     1. It is indeed a great gift to have the lies that trap us pointed out, while shining great light on the gorgeous essence that is hidden underneath all along.

        1. That is so simple and so true Simon and Golnaz. The non-judgemental way in which Serge Benhayon is able to expose the lies we survive on and reflect to us a true and pure essence that sits underneath all our desperate searching is life changing. The biggest challenge is to feel the pain of having separated from our exquisite sweetness in the first place and selling ourselves short of the beautiful beings we are. My middle names used to be Lonely and Sad, but these days I can truly claim that these emotions have melted away to be replaced with Joyful and Loving, feelings that I thought I had lost a long time ago but with huge thanks to Universal Medicine are now a continual expression of daily life.

155. This is a great transformation Leonne, from being so hard on yourself to having more understanding for yourself. It’s true that the more we appreciate and be ourselves, the more we are able to appreciate others for who they truly are.

     1. I agree Sandra, the less hard we are on ourselves, the less hard we are on others.

156. This blog radiates with self appreciation, which is needed by the bucket loads to truly let ourselves shine and not hold back.

     1. I agree Danielle, for it is only ever ourselves, and our perception of ourselves, that holds back our shine.

        1. Totally, and I feel there’s not enough education or fostering as a child on how important it is to truly appreciate who we are, well beyond what we do. I’m so glad Universal Medicine have inspired us to feel how needed this is, for a truly joyful and full life!

        2. Danielle and Michelle this is so true! Whenever I’m off it’s always because I’m not appreciating myself. How simple to come back.

        3. What you sat Danielle is correct, when we connect more deeply with children, we tend to support them to know that they are more than their behaviours. This is so important in terms of fostering true confidence, self esteem and self love.

     2. I agree Danielle. Self appreciation is key to us shining the truth of who we are for all to see and feel, and not hold back in any way.

        1. Totally Beverley, I’m learning to show it off to the world for all to enjoy and be inspired by, and not to be shy or apologetic.

     3. Absolutely!

     4. And when we ‘radiate with self-appreciation’ we open the doors for everyone we meet to do the same. Working with children I see the light up moments in their eyes when they realise ‘I can love me’ – it is huge. Thank you, Leonne, for your exquisite article and everyone else for your inspiring and developing comments.

        1. That’s beautiful Matildaclark to see this in children and how fortunate for them to be learning this now. I’ve recently seen that we as adults are still as delicate, sensitive and open to learning new things as children, when we are met with the absolute love and appreciation from another who has discovered this for themselves first. This is how the power of this wisdom has been shared with so many thousands of people, first just from one man.

157. This is shared with such beauty and love….there is no self criticism of how you were before the true healing but love and understanding you hold for you, because that is how you are living now. Very inspiring, and so joyful to have you come to your true self…you are absolutely gorgeous, a treasure of jewels and it would be a crime for us not to have all of you in our lives, whether we are friends, work with you, or simply meet you on this blog. This is for all of us….living from our treasure within is life changing and it starts with the body

     1. Yes indeed! After having met you this way on the blog I feel enriched and joyful Leonne – sharing yourself in this way has been an utter delight for me as I have got to feel and see the heavenly light loveliness that you exude. Thank you!

     2. This is so true Karoline, ‘you are absolutely gorgeous, a treasure of jewels and it would be a crime for us not to have all of you in our lives, whether we are friends, work with you, or simply meet you on this blog’. I can feel from what you have written how all of us not living our gorgeous selves is a crime; what a huge shame that we all miss out on meeting each other in our full gloriousness.

        1. What a celebration life is when we appreciate ourselves and others in this way.

     3. Yes absolutely Karoline. Leonne has shared this without any lace of self-judgement and criticism. Thus we can appreciate in FULL how gorgeous she is, and the incredible choices she’s made to get her where she is today.

     4. I agree Karoline, all of these blogs are so powerful in that they highlight that there are many people who have the same issues, same fears, same lives. These blogs show us that we are all connected, wherever we are in the world, and they bring us that little bit closer.

158. Once we have taken the responsibility for our life and our choices it becomes so obvious how far we have strayed away from who we truly are and to what extent we are suffering from that.
     Starting to feel the love, connection, gentleness and stillness that we truly are gives a totally different direction to life: it is not about planning for eventualities in the future, but living the moment with full presence and all the love and responsibility that we can bring to it – anything else will unveil itself from there.

     1. Hear hear Michael, and what unveils is limitless.

     2. What you have written Michael is very beautiful. I am realising the lie I have been living and am feeling there is so much for me to express and shine. Rather than being freaked out by how forever unfolding life is and I can be, I feel how truly loving and divine this is. How could divinity have it any other way?

     3. I completely agree, although I am still working on trusting that the future will work out for itself by virtue of the way I live my present.

        1. How many of us fall into this trap Rebecca, being anxious about our future without fully understanding or appreciating that it all rests on how we are living each moment of the day. We have so much power to allow our future to be all it needs to be, by ensuring that we lovingly focus all of our molecules on each moment, keeping body and mind in harmony with the task in hand. Simple, but not always easy, as a wise friend said recently.

        2. I agree, very simple, and sometimes that simplicity is hard to accept – to just allow my life to be all that it could be.

        3. I can appreciate that sometimes I feel letting go of my protective controlling ways feels like a leap of faith because I’ve not for a long long time lived from a loving place. But, when I am completely honest, I see that all my controlling ways only lead to feeling empty or sick. And when I am vulnerable I am supported in ways my limited mind could never have imagined!

        4. I agree Karin, sometimes it feels far to daunting to let go and allow life to takes it course, but I found recently that trying to control my future only made me more anxious and overwhelmed – not helpful !

     4. What a truly wondrous and magical world we live in when we begin to connect to that love and innate wisdom inside of us. Letting go of planning and worrying about the future is a weight off my shoulders, as living in conscious presence with love, in the present, is what determines how much or how little my life will expand, and in fact I limit myself when I start to ‘plan’ or self doubt gets in the way. For me, it is about letting go and trusting the process.

        1. I agree sandrahenden planning tells me I’m no longer trusting, I’ve already left myself and gone into my head.

        2. True wisdom Sandra, thank you.

        3. This is true sandrahendren. I find if I start planning things it doesn’t leave any room for things to develop naturally and come to me, to open up on their own, it limits what’s coming. As I trust more and more I can really see and feel how this plays out.

     5. Absolutely Michael. The truth is an absolute gift from heaven and makes everything so simple yet wonderful beyond my wildest dreams, just as you describe.

     6. I agree michaelkremmer2212, keeping things that simple is a great support each and everyday. And the more honest we are the more that does unravel. We really have so much to enjoy with ourselves once we discard honestly what is not us.

        1. yes Aminatumi, it goes on and on and on.. from layer to layer there is always more to discover and joyfully explore…

159. Thank you for your words Leonie – ‘the truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God.’ This is a powerful reminder for us all that living the truth and love we innately are, is the key to an amazing life and as you say, that each day we ‘live this truth is a new before and after’. Thank you for an inspiring blog.

160. You have gone from playing a superhero to being yourself… which is more powerful. The last photo of you is amazing and shows what has always been inside of you and waiting to come out and play.

161. Leonne your photos alone are a testament to the truth you are now living. Thank you for your inspiring expression of love.

162. Gorgeous Leonne, I loved reading about your journey. We spend so much time looking right, and learning to say the right things, just to find that we then have to learn to manage the empty feeling that comes with never really being who we truly are.
     What a blessing to have found Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon. It is awesome to hear the hard truth we need to hear supported by healing modalities that so support the body to make our resolve so much easier than it is when we try to do the right things for our bodies on our own. It’s awesome too that we allow the body to tell us what is right for us rather than using another imposed knowledge, or being guided by ideals and beliefs.
     Thanks for the blog, I was with you in all of it….including the lollies.

163. Stupendous blog and the photos say it all, what a beautiful transformation! It’s so great when we find that there is no longer any reason to live a lie.

164. ” I am love. Each day I live this truth is a new before and after. ” I love this.

165. Wow – Leonne – your photos simply say it all, forget about the writing! It is so clear how sad and lost you felt in the earlier photos and how the last ones radiate joy, beauty and vitality. Absolutely gorgeous. I can so relate to what you have written though because when I was younger I too felt completely lost and sad but pretended to myself that I wasn’t. It can’t be hidden no matter how much we we think it is possible to do so. What especially resonates is that the worst lie is the one we tell ourselves.

     1. I agree, Michelle819 and when we get to the point where we can admit that we have been living a lie, to ourselves and everyone else, it feels like a new beginning is possible.

166. A beautiful picture Leonne with the hat and flowers behind. It reflects just the fullness of yourself and captures all the process you have made.

167. I wonder how many people actually recognize they are: “… living a lie but… could feel that everyone else was living one too.”? Hardly anyone ever talks about this, but I’ll bet a lot feel it and wonder why! Or could it be the fear of having to admit those damaging lies that we tell ourselves? Leonne, you are a beautiful living example of the love and truth that can bloom when there is a willingness to ask that question and answer with honesty. Good on you!

168. Leonne I found your blog so inspiring. I appreciated the honesty of your expression sharing your experiences of before and after Universal Medicine and the presentations of Serge Benhayon. It is amazing to me how we all as students of the livingness have stories to tell, experiences to share etc.,of our hurts, ideals and beliefs of a time before we were graced with meeting Serge Benhayon and attending the presentations of Universal Medicine. What is awesome, is the fact that no matter the colour, texture, flavour of our past illusionary ways, hurts and stories the energy is the same, that is basically ‘that which is not love’. How revealing it is following our re-discovery that there is another way and to knowingly have the choice to re-connect to our inner being, the inner-heart – to Love again. Your final photograph is so very beauty-full – shining light.

169. We are so young when we start to change and be what we think the world wants us to be. Seeing these photos of you now is such a joy…having come back to the essence and innocence of the little girl who is now a radiating woman. So gorgeous Leonne and a remarkable inspiration!

170. Leonne, thank you for your incredibly honest account of your life, before and after Universal Medicine; a story that I know is sure to inspire many others living that double life, and hiding from the beautiful being that they naturally are. The joy that bursts out of the last few photos is so infectious and the perfect testimonial as to how far you have come.

171. I too know how damaging it is to ignore what our body is communicating and override it with the mind! And how truly freeing and healing it is to reconnect with my body and feelings and make choices that support me to really be well on every level.

     1. I love that Fiona55, “be well on every level” – this wider understanding of what it means to be well is missing in life generally, we’ve been taught to focus on only a narrow view so it’s no surprise that we can think we are making good healthy choices, but actually do not feel vital or totally well from them.

172. Great blog Leonne,love it.
     I sat with your article for a while taking time to consider all the ways I have lived a lie, and in some circumstances still feel like I am living a lie even if it’s as simple as being more ‘ measured’ around certain people.
     One of the things I enjoy most about the presentations at Universal Medicine is the degree of honesty and truth they are delivered in. When Serge Benhayon is really candid about some of his short falls, it’s almost a relief that it’s okay to not be perfect. We all make mistakes and we have fallen for the crazy ideals that exist on this planet that have ultimately made many of us live in a way that is not even close to true .

173. And what a woman you are Leonne Sharkey. I like that, nothing to hide… I have learned this through Universal Medicine too. I actually do have nothing to hide and I really am everything just as I am. This is huge and I can now put so much focus on what is right about me rather than what I thought wasn’t, this is a huge shift in the way I see myself, I am building a real relationship with myself.

     1. Beautiful, Kate. I too can feel that the more I claim myself and accept that I already have everything that I need to be, me, the more expansive I am feeling and as I share with those around me there is a knowingness that I am now sharing my truth …. not making platitudes or saying things that others want to hear. Feels great!

174. When I read of the money you spent on counsellors and therapy it really made me stop and question why I would spend money on such things as I did without first addressing the other potential causes of my troubles, namely the food and drink I consumed and the lifestyle I chose to lead. Looking back it seems a much cheaper, simpler and less fraught way to attain a wellbeing by removing choices that aren’t supportive and not bowing to the unhealthy behaviours that are passed off as normal.

     1. So true Stephen. The thing is, I knew that my poor lifestyle choices were the end result of patterns and hurts I had not healed, it wasn’t until I tried all the self help and therapy I could afford that I realised that these things were not the answer. The proof is in the pudding (or lack of it?) because Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon presented truth that allowed me to make the changes in my life I had always want to make.

     2. Quite so Stephen, and many of us have been there. But it wasn’t until I found Universal Medicine that I started to understand from the presentations of the Ageless Wisdom, that there was an option other than the ‘healthy’ choices I thought I was already making for myself. Even bucking the trend back then of what was normal (unhealthy) behaviours, I still wondered why I was not feeling that great! Leonne, your story is a fine example of what changes we can make to feel fully ourselves.

     3. It’s true, that we look to all the things outside of ourselves and give power to that rather than face the fact that we maybe have been lying to ourselves – At one level I knew perfectly well that many of my patterns and diet were destroying my body, and bringing down my life, but had paid not the slightest heed, nor to why I would ever choose to not want to know. Thanks to Universal Medicine, it has been fun to unravel the whole story, and reap the benefits of a truly vital and alive body, not to mention living an awesome life to boot.

175. There is such openess and joy in the last photos, I could feel that the hardness has dropped away. Living proof of what can occur when you begin to live your truth and express it.

176. ‘I ticked the boxes with clear skin, a slim figure, lovely clothes and a big smile, but on the inside I was a mess.’ This just goes to show, we can ‘tick’ all those superficial boxes but what in truth are we really living. If I am really honest, Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine have been very sobering for me to actually stop, feel and be honest in my life about what is really going on so I can start to address and change it, truly.

     1. Absolutely Vicky – we can certainly ‘tick’ all those ‘superficial boxes’ and still feel like there’s something missing… Leonne’s blog totally blows out the water the ideals we have about ‘having it all’, and what that truly entails.

177. It is the building of the love for ourselves and living more of our essence every day by making every little choice we make important and a reflection of who we truly are, that is the way forth for all.

178. Thank you Leonne for sharing your story and beautiful and inspiring you are! Being honest to ourselves about the choices we make and developing self love, great lessons but with such simplicity taught by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.

179. This is a great point Kristy, we can make things so complicated we can see the simplicity in love.

180. Leone, the joy I feel from your last photo took away all the sadness I felt in the first part of your blog. You feel absolutely amazing and the contrast from the your early prison you were held in is immense. I could totally relate to your life experience and how horrible and sad it felt. Thank goodness for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I would never of felt your glory which has brightened my day.

181. Wow Leonne, what glorious colour and sunshine is reflected in your photo, the joyful arrival of truth. We are taught not to lie, but never taught not to lie to ourselves. What a great message here. It’s such an amazing journey unravelling the layers of lies we’ve been living and learning to be more honest with ourselves and how we live.

182. When I was young I too could feel that most of the adults around me were lying and I was very confused as to why they were doing this. When I challenged any one of them they would tell me I was being stupid,making a fuss about nothing and I was to feel that I did not know what I was talking about. As a consequence I became a rather obnoxious child and would kick people after they had lied. No wonder I grew up not trusting what I was feeling. I now still see and hear that most adults are lying including myself at times but have learnt to trust what I feel and understand that a lot of the time we are not even aware of how much we are actually lying.

     1. Yes, marylouisemyers, to grow up not trusting what you are feeling because the world does not make sense, is hard for any child. Universal Medicine has helped me trust again that I do know the truth inside out, because it lives inside me.

183. Yes Kristy – I can relate to this. In my experience I felt better when I started looking for the fix, but in truth it just gave me hope rather than hopelessness. Nothing really changed until I embraced the responsibility of being more self-loving.

     1. Indeed Kristy, Susie and Richard rather than fixating on making things better, to focus on connecting to the absolute beauty and love inside us makes a lot more sense, so we can move forward in life reclaiming our fullness.

184. Well claimed Leonne. There is no substitute for being the glorious amazing you!

185. You in a field of flowers is the perfect start of your new life with the beautiful person you thought was lost.

186. Leonne there is such a cheeky delight in your face in the last photo, I love it. Your comment ‘I didn’t want to admit the truth so I presented a picture I thought others would admire’ seems so crazy when I look at what you were hiding, but realise we all do our own version of that.. presenting what we think the world wants to see instead of the absolute beauty of what is inside us, busting to get out (as it turns out!).

187. Yes, hearing the truth you’ve always known is so enriching and it is exactly what Serge Benhayon delivers so consistently. I am also a very big fan, as I lost my way when the picture I had equated with love was anything but…..joyfully, I now celebrate the return to a true sense of self-worth having made a big commitment to change in response to the truth my body presents to me in every way, everyday.

     1. I agree Peta, I too had got lost in my own interpretation of love and I was a bit of a mess as a consequence. Meeting Serge Benhayon certainly set my picture straight! It is no lie to say that I have resurrected love within me once again, as have you and thousands more and the journey is on-going, as I discover more everyday just how precious and sensitive we all are. What a joy to value and cherish ourselves and all we know, we are all worth it.

188. Great point Kristy – not only do we seek out and find things to better our lives, but we IDENTIFY with them too. A great example of this is the different friend groups there are in schools, and how they are identified as the ‘nerds’, ‘populars’, ’emos’, ‘sluts’ etc. etc… all of these behaviours are ways of fitting in and not standing out in the crowd by being themselves.

189. What a transformation, Leonnie – from what felt like a frightened little girl into a woman whose life is full and blooming. It is deeply alarming to feel how quickly we learn to contrive a way of being in the world that is so far from who we truly are and begin to live a life that conforms to the way we feel those around us want us to be. Your pictures show how quickly we contract our body to hide our light and to protect ourselves. I love the picture of you in the meadow with the flowers – you shine forth without dimming the beauty of the flowers – it feels like it honours you and the flowers equally. You are blooming and gorgeous.

190. This is a great blog Leonne. I am sure we can all relate to this on some level. Today I could feel that there was still a shadow of wanting to do the right thing- to do what is expected of me that clouds my judgement, that allows me to accept less and have me live less. This shadow is of my own making. It is so true that by choosing love for myself, acceptance and appreciation of myself this shadow diminishes and disappears.

191. Looking at the pictures of you today Leonne the Joy just oozes out of you! It is hard to believe you are the same person as the pictures above. What a stark difference and what an inspiring story.

192. Leonne your story about being a flower girl and how this was a lie puts a whole new perspective on what lying actually is. For most of my life I considered a lie to be something I said that I knew was not true because I didn’t want to face the consequences such as lying not to get in trouble. However that is just scratching the surface on the many lies I lived of not being or listening to what was true for me. It’s great that you’ve also bought in that doing something can also be a lie as it again asks us to look at what have we done in our lives or still do that is going against our truth. I can see that even not expressing how we feel is therefore a lie. We can be silent and still be lying.

     1. Well said David – I absolutely agree. When I wrote this blog I could feel how movements and actions were lies as much as words were. The best way for me to tell when something I am doing or saying is a lie is to ask “am I expressing love in this moment” if not then the expression is not true. It puts a whole new perspective on lying.

193. ‘The more I return to who I truly am, the more I am able to appreciate others for who they truly are.’ ….. and what a huge gift this is. Let’s not underestimate what we are offering to everyone we meet just by being ourselves and living from inside out. In turn, we get to feel and appreciate the joy and beauty of our gorgeous selves.

194. Well done Leonie for staring your journey and living your life the way you should.Yes and I love the photo with the flowers in the back ground. Joyous and natural.

195. Just love your last paragraph “The truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God. This truth applies to us all. The more I allow myself to accept this truth, the more amazing life gets. Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.” and your vibrant and joyful photo. Very inspiring article Leonne.

196. Such an awesome blog, thank you Leonne, it is deeply inspiring to read how you transformed yourself from living a lie to being the true you!

     1. Absolutely Anna, ‘it is deeply inspiring to read how you transformed yourself from living a lie to being the true you!’ This is a wonderful article for everyone to read and see, the changes in you are huge and offer a powerful reflection if what is possible for us all.

197. Wow what a gorgeous transformation the pictures say it all. “I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God”.

198. I love looking at that last photo of you, Leonne. It feels really joyful and magical, but I know it is because that’s what is shining out from within you – the complete freedom to be just yourself.

199. Beautiful Leonne, your pictures and your story are beautiful. Your pictures are really a before and after. Nobody can deny what you have presented here. How joyful, playful and full of love can we be when we choose to be honest, thank you for sharing your life with us!

200. Who can deny the truth of you living all of who you are in true confidence when we see your photo in the field of flowers – the real you radiates out and is truly inspiring. To look honestly at how so many in the world live a lie, not living who they truly are is at the heart of so much tension and anxiety. I too am eternally appreciative to have sought the support from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine to discover and accept the real me and in that the deep knowing I am of love and from a love which is so grand; to feel my connection to God and the universe has brought me back to a place which feels like home.

     1. So very true Gina. My appreciation for myself deepens each time I revisit this blog. I hadn’t fully comprehended just how remarkable the changes in my life are until I wrote it all down and took stock. The biggest difference for me is between the party photos before Universal Medicine and the photos after Universal Medicine. The truth of what I have been choosing each step of the way is so easy to feel in each photo.

201. Leonne, you have been able to put in to words so very well so many of the things that I have felt and experienced. It is really great to read that this kind of path is walked by more than just me, that I am not the only one to have made such choices before finding my way back to a more genuine way of living that is true to who I actually am.

     1. Thank you Shami – it is the same for me reading comments like yours. I have such appreciation for the way so many have turned their lives around. It is such a blessing to be able tell the truth about what I have experienced.

        1. Yes, this needs to be shared, it is a blessing because what is being shared here is the greatest joy on earth, us coming back to who we really are not pretending so that we can be loved. Being who we are is deeply supported by our own love and it’s impossible not to share it as you have so richly done, Leonne.

202. “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself”. Goodness this is so true. The change in you through your pictures dramatically shows the truth of this.

203. I agree Ariana. This is the kind of story we should be seeing in our media – true, glorious, achievable transformation with no ‘rah-rah-ing’ of any person or product.

204. You in the field of flowers Leonne – a perfect reflection of the true joy you bring and feel. Thank you for sharing the story of your return to you.

     1. It is a particularly gorgeous photo Leonne, shining star!

        1. She certainly is, I really love the last photo as well it is just gorgeous.

205. I love your honesty and how you are expressing all you knew and felt, but did not honour. I feel many of us do this when we are younger. It shouldn’t be this way though we should be able to honour ourselves, our bodies and what we feel from day one. Your photos tell the story and I love the photos of you now, such a difference, you feel gorgeous and are shining. Also this is so true… ‘I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.’ How we can constantly lie to ourselves throughout life but completely override the fact that we do this. You show here that complete honesty with ourselves is very healing.

     1. That is so true Vicky, we lie to ourselves constantly in order to override what we really feel inside. What a disservice we do ourselves. How beautiful to see Leonne returning to claim the beautiful woman she so obviously is having made the decision to stop lying to herself and begin to take responsibility for herself. Leonne is such a superb example of true healing, the joy she is feeling is very palpable and very contagious!

        1. We accept our own lies and we buy into the lies that are being fed to us. Awareness is the key here. Realising that we have allowed our lives to be controlled by these lies can be devastating. All my life I have not been the true me, so hurrah for awareness, as now I can make changes to bring myself back and not listen to the lies anymore. Leonne has made this choice and how beautiful and awesome is she!

        2. I’m so inspired to look at areas I still lie to myself and make the choice to be aware.

     2. You have hit on something so very important, Vicky. Honesty about where we are, truly are, is really the only way to begin to heal. We all have little, and sometimes big, lies that we tell ourselves. Sometimes with the thought that we are not hurting anyone else through these untruths, sometimes without a thought about anything or anyone at all. But our bodies will always feedback to us the truth of where we are at.

     3. Yes vickylcooke, when we are not living who we are, being ourselves, we are living a lie, because we design a character and this is superficial. Yet we can forget that we are even lying to ourselves….But when we become honest and listen to our bodies these lies start to be shown and it becomes an opportunity for healing to happen…coming home to ourselves, i know in my experience, is the GREATEST JOY ON EARTH!

206. I just love the very last photo of you with all the glorious colours behind you, so very fitting for the glorious playfull, joyfull woman you are Leonne.

     1. Me too that photo of you radiating your glory amongst the flowers is beautiful.

207. It is awesome to see the true Leonne in the latest pictures. Your story says it all..Thank you for your honest sharing!

208. Leonne, this is an amazing confirmation of truth that you share. We are all equal sons of God and we come from Love. It is beautiful to see your unfoldment in photos. Your openness and joy in the latter photos is unmistakable.

209. The pictures say it all, it is unmistakable and undeniable. Big transformation into more of the true you!

     1. I AGREE Simone, the pictures really do express everything, what a transformation indeed.

210. “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” This is a very powerful reminder of the importance of being true to ourselves.

211. Hi Leonne – even just looking a your photos says so much! You can see the redness and tiredness in your face even starting from when you were a flower girl – whilst now there is a clarity in your eyes and your skin, and a smile that is so genuine. How amazing is it to see there images side by side and the huge difference in you. Beautiful

212. Thank you Leonne. Your article very revealing how early on we start to mould ourselves to what we feel is expected of us and how this can then impact the rest of our lives. How inspiring is your journey in turning this round and returning to being the real you. Your photos say it all.

213. “The most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” This is profound Leonne. Thankyou for sharing your transformation.

214. Yes we can’t deny the fact that ‘we are love’… we can only lie to ourselves and the world about this fact when we choose to not just ‘be’ who we truly are. We can choose to live in the misery of a lie or live in the glory of the love and light of our soul. Thank you for sharing Leonne.

215. ‘I was constantly afraid that people from different areas of my life would meet and realise I was a fraud.’
     This is something I remember well throughout my years of partying and living a lie but have not been aware of. I never wanted to celebrate a birthday with friends as all my different connections would come together.. and talk… and find out I was a liar..
     Feels amazing to let go of ‘fitting in’ and ‘being what others need’ to just being me in all situations and relationships. Here here Leonie and thank you to Universal Medicine and the Light that is Serge Benhayon.

     1. Well said Rachael – in the past birthday parties would always make me nervous as I behaved differently in all of my relationships. I always had to choose who to invite so carefully. In recent years I have had birthday celebrations where I have invited people from all aspects of my life, from work, family members, old friends and new friends. It is a most wonderful and freeing experience to spend time in the company of people that know you and consistently just be yourself.

216. very inspiring story Leonne thanks for sharing it.

217. As Leonne’s mum I have to say that I have never been prouder of you Leonne as I do now reading your blog. I always knew you struggled in life but never to what extent. My eyes and heart were blindsided by my own multi mixed up lies of the person I was trying to be for others, then trying to find myself. Through what you have learnt and shared over the years I have grown a little more to love who I am and not depend on approval of others, I have to be true to myself first.
     I look at the young woman you are today and my heart radiates such love and pride for all you have come through, your strength, honesty, love, forgiveness, nurturing, joyfulness, generosity and insights to others needs. You love who you have become through hard work and many tears, I realize it hasn’t been an easy road to travel, keep on walking my sweet daughter, you are so beautiful in so many ways. I love you dearly. Mum.

     1. Mum your words and the sweetness of what you have expressed are an absolute gift and brought tears to my eyes. When you recognise and confirm my beauty, love and strength I know you have an opportunity to feel these same amazing qualities in yourself. Nothing could bring me more joy.

        Generation after generation is born into this world to live a lie. I feel I chose you to be my Mum for so many reasons, one of these being your ability to feel the truth a mile away. The fact that you can feel the absolute truth in this blog through your connection to me is truly wonderful and confirms I made the perfect choice.

        I deeply appreciate your openess and the way you have supported me every step of the way. This is incredible considering that I know you have not been shown much support in this way yourself. I love connecting to you and feeling what a beautiful and loving woman and mother you are. I am so proud of you and look forward to deepening our relationship and evolving alongside you.

218. WOwooo! Your photos are amazing. ‘A beautiful woman with nothing to hide’ Thank you for sharing your amazing and inspiring journey Leonne.

219. How awesome Leonne. It’s amazing to read and see you before because all I’ve known is the amazing woman you are, it’s crazy and I’ve so lived this way thinking I have to put myself into what I think everyone needs to see. It’s pretty hard not to when we are born into a world where everyone’s living a lie. Thank god for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for not falling for the lies anymore and knowing and bringing that we are all so much more than this.

220. Thank you, Leonne. Accepting that we are enough just as we are is indeed a real turning point, because we no longer strive to be something we are not and so the games can end once and for all.

     1. Well said Janet.

221. Your photos tell the story, Leonne, and it is wonderful to see the joy and beauty and playfulness in the last one.

222. I have to say, I never considered not living who you truly are, to be a lie – but I realised lying isn’t just a verbal thing, it can be a way of living.

223. Thank you for your story which so beautifully shows how so early in life we learn to start to give up on ourself to fit in with what we think the external world expects of us. And the meandering road and the ups and downs as we continue this in life. It is a joy and inspiration to read how you started to to listen to your own body and honour what it needed and turned your whole life round. ” I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God.” This, and your final photos say it all.

224. That phrase – to make something of myself – is huge. We hear it all the time. It’s tied in with ambition to be successful, pulling all nighters and meeting stressful deadlines. It is thought to be an admirable quality, but what does it say? To me it says – I want to be something because I don’t feel like I’m anything. I feel this is the case with so many people growing up, myself included, who knew there was something amazing they could bring to the world, but didn’t know what that was and therefore went out looking for a thing to be. What I have learnt from Universal Medicine is that yes there is a fountain of amazingness within that we lose touch with at a young age. There is a way to rekindle that quality and feel that you are everything, simply for being you. It’s called the Way of the Livingness.

225. I can feel the absolute Joy you have in your life through your last photo, it is a great advertisement for what truth and honesty can allow in our lives, beauty-full.

226. You write: “I knew I was living a lie but I could feel that everyone else was living one too”. I had a very similar experience before meeting Serge Benhayon. I knew something was very wrong and I didn’t “know” the truth or the way, but I felt everyone else knew even less than me, in that they were not even aware of what they didn’t know. Once I met Serge, I for the first time met someone who knew the true way and was living it. It was such a huge feeling of coming home and reuniting with what I had always known and sensed inside, but lost touch with. Now eleven years later that has grown and grown, my life has transformed and I feel truly blessed.

     1. Thank you Nicola. I too felt this and was constantly confused by the contradictions, arrogance and ignorance that seemed the ‘normal’ way to live life.
        Like you said, they (myself included) were ‘not even aware of what they didn’t know.’
        I love that I am on a path to say yes to knowing what I now and already did know!

227. So true Leonne, we are living a lie until we start to realise there is so much more to us, and to life, than we had ever imagined and start to explore what we knew deep down, must be there. Love seeing your progression (photos) through revealing your truth.

228. Thank you Leonne for your honest blog! I can so relate to this game of playing chameleon, being one person with this group of people and another somewhere else. I also learned to adjust my style, behaviors and looks to fit in with the group I was hanging out with at the time and completely lost contact to who I truly am by doing so. I am reclaiming myself and feel very inspired by your story and the gorgeous pictures!

229. Wow such a wonderful sharing Leonne. Your story is testament to how life can be truly transformed when we take responsibility for our lives. When we choose to not take responsibility, lying is the most convenient prop that we can use. I know at times that I certainly felt I was living a double, or triple, life desperately trying to fit and mould myself into life instead of bringing me to life. I absolutely love your last sentence; ‘ The truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God. This truth applies to us all. The more I allow myself to accept this truth, the more amazing life gets. Each day I live this truth is a new before and after’ -this fills me with joy that the more we live this truth the more we see and experience, and this learning is never ending – each day can be a new before and after. How amazing is this.

230. This is gold ‘The more I return to who I truly am the more I am able to appreciate others for who they truly are.’ This is key for me to do away with any judgement I have for others to be in a certain way.

231. Leonne I can hardly recognise you in the passport photo. Your transformation is nothing less than incredible. Thank you for sharing you in a very personal and heartfelt way. Your story and you are super inspiring.

     1. Yes, I agree Jennifer, I don’t know Leonne but recognise her from her profile shot and I can hardly make the link between the recent photographs and the passport photograph. The radiance of the latter photos speaks volumes.

232. “I had already learned to act the way I believed others needed me to in order to be accepted and ‘do the right thing’”

     It occurs to me that as a society we applaud those who have learnt to fit in and so miss out on all the richness that we offer when we are our true selves

     1. How awful that is – that as a society we teach ‘fitting in’ rather than being ourselves. It’s like the death of our true self just so we can create an image that at looks ok on the outside. So much misery on the inside but hey, we look ok on the outside! Thank God for Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine who are slowly but surely turning the tide on this consciousness.

233. It’s a long long way back you have come when I compare your earlier photos and description of yourself to where you have come to today. I know that Universal Medicine has been a big part of the turn around in your life and how much you have changed speaks volumes, both about the integrity of that organisation, and your own deep commitment to be yourself (in a world that makes it very hard to be that).

     1. I agree Dean, an amazing confirmation of Leonne’s dedication and commitment to herself.

        1. Yes Leonie is proof that it can be done, even though the world sometimes gives us empty promises, she has found something true within and it shows.

234. This is an amazing expression of honesty – something that it has, like you, Leonne, taken me a long time to completely embrace. It is so easy to judge what others have in their shopping baskets when what we have in our own shopping baskets is not true. It is the energy and, what we do behind closed doors, affects everyone even if they cannot see what we’re up to.

     1. Yes Michael, this behind the closed doors thing is a big one to look at! What do we do when we are not ‘seen’ by the outside? Are we nice out there and as soon as we close our doors, we put our frustration on our loved ones and family? I know I sure did, because the force I had to use to act nice and on top of the world, made me exhausted and frustrated and I let that out on the ones closest to me. Any lie takes it toll.

     2. I couldn’t agree more Michael. We only think we can hide things behind closed doors, as in the end the way we are living is actually written all over our faces (as my photos show), and is felt by everyone anyway.

        1. Absolutely Leonne. It never ceases to amaze me how so many people live completely different existences when they think that they can’t be seen, just as delorme2013d says. We once bought a property off a primary school headmistress and inside we were faced by fleas and dog faeces, with the staircase adorned with knives and swords. It took a week to clear before it was safe from a health perspective to go in without some form of protection. And yet now I recall we only had to look in her face and it was clear that she was living a lie. Just think what the children had to face each day at school !

        2. Oh my goodness Michael that is quite a story… but very much a reflection of what we all do when we think we can get away with it.

235. It’s amazing how when we listen to our body and get really honest about what it is telling us, the cracks in our life appear and the lies have nowhere to go so can no longer support us. Your pictures say it all Leonne. Your recent ones emanate your natural joy, wonder and sparkle that is confirmed to me in every cell of my body as me too. Wow that’s real magic, thank you.

236. Leonne a gorgeous an inspiring story – the vibrance, vitality, playfullness and joy shine through. The before and after photos are nearly unrecognisable and a complete change. Thank you as it shows the incredible difference of “living who I truly am”.

     1. Hear hear David. If anyone needed proof that the work Universal Medicine presents is beneficial to overall wellbeing, it is in the shining eyes and true smile of Leonie Sharkey’s gorgeous photos. Love the transformation, so super inspiring!

237. “I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God” – This is the key really, if I can accept this, then there are a whole range of behaviours I don’t need.

238. You look, feel and are so gorgeous in the photos, ‘after Universal Medicine’, what an absolutely joy-full, radiant woman you are. You look so confident and content in and with your self Leonne.

239. I agree Doug, it is about making loving choices and listening to our body that bring us back to who we are. No matter how far we lose ourselves in the illusion of goals and superficial success, once we make the choice to live love, it can transform everything.

240. Leonne, the picture of you with a fringe and the cutest smile says it all for me. You can see the joy and vitality that is missing from the earlier pictures – even the ones where you are smiling. What an incredible journey.

241. Wow Leonne, beautiful, honest and inspiring blog. What you have shared is amazing, I can relate to it very well. I was smiling when I was looking at your beautiful ‘after’ photos. The shine in your eyes and your whole face was radiating. I was able to feel the tender, delicate and precious woman you are from your expression, very, very beautiful.

242. I was living a lie and can feel that everyone else is too…… we can all feel this and somehow it makes it OK for us to do the same. To look honestly at how we are living isn’t for everyone, you have shared clearly your transformation Leone and the results are obvious, thanks

243. Love the after photos Leonne, Thank you for sharing your story – you are indeed Love!

244. ‘I have become less judgemental about the choices others make or have made.’ Such a beauty~filled gift that Universal Medicine has given us should we choose to accept it.

     1. Totally – being judgement free is such a freedom for both us and everyone else we know. It’s a pretty new concept to me but I look forward to deepening it for the rest of my life!

245. Very beautiful Blog Leonne. The worst way to lie is to lie to ourselves, this creates a distance from who we truly are and makes things go ‘ok’ but not great, because we know that that is what we are, and don’t want to acknowledge that we are hurt, and give it the possibility to heal.

     1. ‘The worst way to lie is to lie to ourselves’ – I agree Benkt; lying to ourselves can be very destructive as it prevents us from acknowledging hurts, thus capping the possibility to heal them.

246. A beautiful sharing Leonne, the truth is in the pictures. I found it powerful the message that you shared about holding the flowers as a little girl at the wedding. How early on it is that we bend and shape ourselves to fit what others need or desire when this is a lie and not what is best for ourselves. This example is so telling in that someone so young can do something so far removed from loving and caring for oneself. Lovely to read of your unfolding to the point you have now reached.

     1. I agree Stephen and it was the little flower girl photo that was a big wow! for me. At that tender age, doing what others ask you to do despite it not feeling good for the body and then carrying on that pretence through life rather than listening to ourselves is typical behaviour for so many of us. An inspiring blog Leonne showing that we can change our lives around with love for ourselves. You shine through your photos now!

     2. So true Stephen. I was so intent on doing the right thing holding that basket. The funny thing is that many wedding guests attempted to get my attention to tell me to put the basket down throughout the wedding ceremony. Unfortunately I thought they were waving and so I waved back. It makes me wonder how many things I have tortured myself with in order to ‘be good’, or ‘do as I was told’, that were not really needed at all.

247. I just smile along with you in your after photos Leonne…you look so joyful and playful. You are a living testimony to how it is possible to turn our lives around from misery to joy by making some simple changes to how we live day to day. Super inspiring.

     1. I absolutely agree Sandra. Leonne is showing us the way and the photos say it all! The after photos radiate so much joy and love. An awesome story and as Sandra says ‘Super Inspiring’.

248. Leonne reading your beautifully honest blog just proves how amazingly inspirational you are for choosing love and listening to the signs your body was telling you, to make solid changes in your life. You are a shining light of love, joy and radiance. Thank you.

249. Thank you Leonne, your honesty and openness in this sharing is just beautiful! Lies are but a protection from the love you/we are being ignored, denied or dismissed. Realising that ‘everyone does it’ (lies), is a sad reflection of humanity and your sharing is one contradiction.

250. Thank you for sharing your journey Leonne with us all. It sounds like it was pretty tough for you in your childhood with the responsibility to be something different with each parent and true to the real person you are. Congratulations on managing to find Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine on your search to becoming your true self. An inspiring blog showing the truly lovely person inside and out that you are!

251. Wow Leonne Sharkey. “Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.” To come to this – the true ‘you’ – is an absolute commendation of the work of Universal Medicine and your knowing all along that ‘you’ were there, just waiting to live life (truly) in full. For the angst of the many earlier years just wouldn’t have been felt, had you accepted ‘the lie’ in full as being ‘how it is’.
     Undoubtedly most all of us have such a tale to share – of being lost, clambering for a solution, an answer, a ‘way’, feeling depressed, stagnant, that we weren’t truly living… It’s so powerful to feel here, what truly made the difference for you – in your relationship with you, and thus with all of your life. Universal Medicine has changed the way I see and live my life enormously also, as it has for so very many others, by reflecting that the true love we are has always been here within. To this and all of those who choose to once again connect with this love, I take my hat off. And to feel your Joy Leonne – wow…

     1. I also love this wisdom that each day is a new before and after, it is testament to how much we can grow from day to day when we let go of the false expectations of who we are supposed to be and allow the ageless wisdom we all hold to be our way. Your pictures Leonne are a clear expression of this and how accessible it is for anyone who chooses.

        1. It IS such deep wisdom, isn’t it Stephen… And something that can also be very exposing (if we are willing to see…), most especially if we meet a new day feeling that we are carrying the dross and burdens of the old, perhaps even of many a year… on our shoulders and/or over our heart.
           It does take a dedicated way of living to truly meet each day afresh – without perfection – and yet with a willingness to let go what no longer serves us, and to celebrate and affirm all that we know to be truly who we are. This really brings home to me, the fact that in living such a way – the Way of the Livingness – we are ‘ever-students’ – there is no end point, no stagnation, and no limit to love. What a joy it is to live in the knowing of this, and allow the deepening that each and every day offers.

252. This is beautiful Leone – to see you shining so brightly is an absolute joy! It’s glorious to see the difference that Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine AND YOU have made in your life.

253. Beautiful blog, Leonne! After reading what you wrote: ‘I was constantly afraid that people from different areas of my life would meet and realise I was a fraud. Underneath it all was a deep sense of not being good enough and not knowing who I was.’
     I realized my feeling of always being afraid that people would find out I was a fraud. That they saw through my hard working and living up to ideals and beliefs. And I was living a lie, not being who I am at all.

     1. Same for me Monika and Leonne. I was always in fear about people will find out that I am a fraud. But thats how it goes when we are defrauding and lying to others as to ourselves – we are living in fear and doubt. For me I found: the safety what this adapted life seems to bring (what is a lie as well) – It is not worth it! To hide the true, amazing, sweet, shining, powerful me because others may not like it, may be jealous or whatever is -at the end- hurting us all. And I can see that in the pictures you shared with us Leonne – the little “brave” girl what has to hide her light to hold a flower basked so to fulfil an ideal of the perfect wedding, where the …. does this coming from?. Compared to you at 33/34 shining as you are – no need for any flowers when this girls/this women shines as she is. Your eyes, your presence, your sweetness is reflecting so much more then any picture/idea we can have how something and someone could or should be. Thank you!

254. Your abundance, profound beauty and inner wisdom is so apparent when I have spent the time to speak to you Leonne. What a blessing you bring to our community with a rich depth of joy and playfulness.

255. Thank you Leonne for your open and really honest account of your life thus far. Living in the world of today it’s not always easy making self loving choices but you have and it really shows, you are gorgeous, graceful and divine. Thank you for sharing the real YOU with all of us.

256. A very gorgeous story on the benefits of making the effort to change your life from ‘blah’ to feeling amazing (: Thankyou dearly, Leonne.

257. Wow. This blog stopped me in my tracks. ‘A beautiful woman with nothing to hide’
     You absolutely glow from the inside out with an honesty that is so powerful.
     When you shared here Leonne how from a young age you knew the lie you were welcoming into your life, it really did make me realise how so many of us play this role. Go along with things that are not true because ‘thats how it is’
     I can relate so much with showing the world a fake front – travelling, social, happy, whilst on the inside I knew to my core that it was all a lie to make me look better than I felt – which was so empty.
     I know I am working on the honesty thing still – living truth in absolutely every area of my life and not just some – and this has been so inspiring for me to read today. It really does show me the possibility of living our full selves in the world and how healing that is for others.

     1. Yes, I loved the example from her life about being a flower girl and how she held the basket out to look the part even though it hurt her body enormously. I can relate to doing similar in life to look the part, I did ballet for years and when we learned pointe work it was never ok to say this really hurts, we had to just look like it was painless to keep an illusion of grace and beauty going.

        1. Ballet has always fascinated me – women holding a very graceful exterior, yet suffering quietly – I suppose it was the same when women were made to wear corsets and feel so uncomfortable to give a certain look. Now we don’t harm ourselves in that way, but we still choose to wear heals that are too high or clothes that aren’t warm enough to draw attention – to me it is the same thing – we’re still filling a role based on the needs of others. An interesting thing to really be aware of.

     2. It’s so true. Your honesty and boldness Leonne is really inspiring. Glowing from inside out and nothing to hide.

258. Amazing to see and feel the transformation in you Leonne. I was struck by how you could always feel that those around you were lying but that the biggest impact was from the lies you told yourself. I can relate to that and how damaging they are but am inspired by your choice to take responsibility for making loving choices and be honest when something is not loving and look at why. Thank you for sharing Leonne your story has touched me deeply.

259. This is beautiful Leonne. The change in you is a true sharing of how changing our way of life and the effect this has on our body and all areas of our daily living supports us and our well-being on all levels. I relate well to what you share here. Thank you for your honesty.

260. I really enjoyed reading this. It was honest and clear. I could feel the excitement about coming back to yourself. Beautiful.

261. Wow, amazing to see the transformation!

262. I felt a very cold shiver inside of me and a huge sadness looking at the 26 yr old you, you are looking out with such a resigned loss from inside you, like that it’s never going to get better so I’ve left me. The last picture shows you have found you again, and it’s gorgeous.

263. Beautiful Leonne, how amazing to see the transformation in your smile and in your eyes, from being that little flower girl forcing yourself to perform a role to the beautiful woman you are today, so full of joy and vitality. What is so incredible is that you are not the only one to benefit from your engagement with Universal Medicine, we all are, as the real you has come to life and blesses us all with your grace and joy. This is where the teachings of Universal Medicine support all of humanity just as much as they support the individual. I have no doubt that you light up everyone’s day with all that joy that naturally flows from within you, and is supported constantly by your commitment to feel, honour and cherish yourself in all you do. You are a living inspiration and thank you for sharing your journey so honestly.

264. Very touching to read, Leonne, and see the photographic proof beyond words. The last photo of you amongst the flowers is so beautiful, as the sunny, playful innocence that was there all along is truly shining out. Thank you for sharing this with us.

265. A truly inspiring story Leonne and one that I can relate to on many levels, especially the part about being different with different people. Living life like that is so exhausting. Being more accepting and loving toward myself has been key to just allowing myself to be me, in any situation.

266. Lying is an amazing thing – we can get so good at doing it we hardly know we are. What you have described is probably true for many people, and yet they don’t see it as lying, but a part of life to fit in, to the point they are no longer themselves. It’s a sad, but what your story offers is a reflection that there is another way, thank you.

267. Thank you Leonne, I love reading your blog, you are such an inspiration! I too felt the sadness as a child, trying to fit in with the roles that were expected of me and calibrating myself to be loved and accepted, always left with a feeling of emptiness knowing there must be more. My heart warmed when I came to the “after” photos, you are absolutely radiant, and are a wonderful testament to the love you have for yourself. This is truly a gorgeous “after” but it is certainly not “the end”, just another awesome beginning on a never ending amazing journey to an even MORE truly beauty-full you 🙂
     Our potential to realise our own beauty is endless, and you have reflected back to us that by making truly loving choices for ourselves can make a difference, a real true, and lasting difference.

268. It is beyond belief how far we make our lives about what we are not, and to what lengths we are willing to go just to avoid the responsibility we have.

     1. This is so true michaelkremer2212, we can spend lifetimes forming ourselves into something that we are not, just to not feel our hurts, and quell our yearning to be loved and accepted. It just doesn’t make sense, but we appear to be living in world where almost everyone is not being true to themselves. Think about it, seven billion people walking around holding onto ideals and beliefs and hurts and playing roles that aren’t them, no wonder the world is in a mess. What snapped me out of the illusion was discovering the truth in Universal Medicine. The world doesn’t have to be this way and Serge Benhayon presents a way that is true for all, a way to pull ourselves out of the illusion of what and who we ‘think’ we are.

269. Your story Leonne is one of great joy, and your before and after pictures surely do paint a thousand words.

270. No matter how much support you receive it’s important to listen to what your body is telling you. Very inspiring and you can see how much happier she is now compared to before.

271. Hmmm the double life, its like separating yourself into different compartments. Although may seem effective at first however you will never experience the ‘whole’ which is ourselves. Great sharing Leonne.

272. Wow, where is the love button!? Like just doesn’t go close. I was struck by the difference in the feel of the smiles before Universal Medecine and after. The before’s are so surface, so pleasing (and so uncomfortably familiar from my life too!). They feel quite shallow and one dimensional. Then Kapow, — the after smiles are like resonant full body expression, in stereo and beyond – they seem to well up from within and naturally bubble up to fill the surface with a joy that is so tangible it is a pure delight to behold. Wow… those before’s are astonishing, ​as ​you are​​ such an unrestrained sunbeam, but you’re not there in those before pics…no Leonne sparkle. Oh thank God for Universal Medicine for returning the sparkey back to sweet miss Sharkey!!

273. Ahh Leonne. I recognise the moment you mentioned “I could tell that the adults around me, my parents included, lied all the time.” I recall the devastation when I realised that absolutely everyone was lying in one form or another. And your passport photo at the age of 20 looks so familiar too – the given up and hardness in the face – that look is an epidemic. Also the photos you posted about looking like you are living a full life when you felt sad and empty inside, ​we ​see similar ​pictures ​everywhere – picture​s that ​ looks good but there is nothing behind the eyes in ​the ​ photos​. Your blog is great in showing that there can be a joyful and loving “After” to the above way of living – and that you no longer feel you have to hide who you are and pretend to be this and that for others, and you now deeply appreciate yourself and others for who they truly are.

274. I love this quote “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself”. This is so true Leonne. There is nothing more painful than living a lie by not living who we truly are. Isn’t the truth (the real you) absolutely beautiful!

275. ‘The truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God.’ The love and joy radiating from you in the photo of you surrounded by flowers is breathtaking. Thank you Leonne for sharing your beautiful self and your amazing journey back to gorgeous you, and reminding me that I am enough.

276. What a beautiful sharing. What amazing changes you have made. Wowza – look at you shine now.

277. We can see very clearly from these photos and your story Leonne how life can be a drain when we rely on the outside telling us how to behave and to be, to living life just being you your natural self. Thank you for showing us your real self one of beauty, joy, playfulness and love which is an amazing reflection of what is in all of us.

278. A beautiful and honest account of the wisdom, strength and courage needed to expose the ‘Liar that lies within us all’. These photos and your story Leonne, prove that this imposter has nothing on the ‘Angel that sings within us all’. A very wise choice.

279. I can remember being told as a child that if you lie a black spot would appear on your tongue, I was terrified of this. But I called out this person lying and was told that there are two different types of lies, a black lie which was no good, and then there was a white lie, a fib that did no harm and put no spots on your tongue.I lied lots as child to get me out of anything and I didn’t get any spots on my tongue. This is a great article as it shows that how lying, hiding truth has been a part of my life for a long time.

280. Your blog is very revealing Leonne. Your life previously sounds like one that would have ticked many boxes. So often the focus is on the job, the house, the travel, the partner….but unless who we are and not what we are is considered all these things mean very little.

281. Wow Leonne, I don’t know if we could have called you alive before but we most definitely can now, gorgeous photos and flowers are so you.

282. Awesome Leonne, you got me glued to the blog from start to finish. You feel like an amazing woman with lots of playful energies.

283. Wow Leonne you certainly are love, and more than enough! What a great before and after, I especially loved your last sentence, that every day is a before and after as we live the truth and love!

284. Thank you for sharing your beautiful and inspiring story Leonne. It is truly amazing to see your transformation and how healthy you now look and feel. The power of taking responsibility and listening to your body is as amazing as it is simple.

285. Thank you for sharing your story Leonne. I love the beautiful photo of you in the field of flowers, so joyful. What a transformation from before. Your blog shows how possible it is for anyone to do the same with a few simple lifestyle changes. What’s more, I loved the line “the more I return to who I truly am, the more I am able to appreciate others for who they truly are”. Very inspiring.

286. Leonne it’s so gorgeous to see your photos. The same I have found with me as well – the more I understand myself the less judgement and more understanding I have for others as well… Goes to show that we are all connected and the same. Loved reading your story.

287. What an amazing transformation. I didn’t know you before Universal Medicine, but having known you now, I can hardly recognise you in the ‘before’ photos. What I see now, and what the ‘after’ photos show, is the gorgeous and tender woman you are, and how your smile can light up a room.

288. Love this blog Leonne, thank you for sharing your experience. Your before and after photos say it all! I agree, you are an beautiful woman and it is lovely to feel your lightness and inner sparkle.

289. Thank you for the honesty and sharing how with self-loving choices we can truly blossom into the person you were born to be.

290. Thank you so much for sharing your transformation Leonne. It feels like you have come full circle and are now being that gorgeous little girl/young woman who can do what is needed but in a way that honours herself and thus brings true joy to others. A great pointer too on looking at ways that we can still be lying to ourselves and a reminder to get in there and dig those roots of deception right out. Universal Medicine provides great opportunities for just that.

291. Wow, Leonne the photos alone tell a story without the need for words. There is such a huge contrast to how you looked before Universal Medicine and how you look and feel today – so much more open.
     I know this is just one of the hundreds of stories that can be told regarding the student body of Universal Medicine and is a true testimony to your choices.

     1. Yes Julie the photo of Leonne ‘now’ says a thousand words and more. This picture story alone could connect and truly inspire with thousands of others for it is so real and powerful on many many levels. Thank you Leonne for bringing your loveliness to us All.

     2. That’s just what I was thinking – how amazing the changes the in the photos are! And that many others have made amazing changes in their lives too with the support of Universal Medicine.

        1. With the last photos I just want to laugh with Leonne the playfulness is genuinely pouring out of her, that is totally absent from the previous photos, even at 6 and stiff holding the flowers! Amazing before and after!

     3. Absolutely Julie – Leonne has changed her life, and she is one of many people that have completely transformed through the work of Universal Medicine.

292. Leonne where you have come to is amazing… a true testimony to the work offered through Universal Medicine and a true testimony to YOU. I love the photo’s and particularly love your comment “Each day I live this truth is a new before and after” showing there was no goal you’ve reached, but just a forever unfolding of more and more of you. Beautiful thank you!

293. Thanks for sharing your wonderful story Leonne.It’s inspiring to read about the changes you experienced once you began taking responsibility for your choices and living in a way that was truly honouring and nurturing of you. ” The truth I have come back to is – I am Love.” A beautiful truth to come back to.

294. Yes, I agree with you Leonne, belonging to the Universal Medicine Student Body is a game changer, no; in fact it is a life changer! The living presentations by Serge Benhayon show us that inside our physical bodies is a beautiful, loving and precious soul waiting to be acknowledged and appreciated. Your journey to ‘release’ your soul so that it shines in its most powerful light was very inspiring to read and appreciate.

295. Thanks for sharing Leonne, truly inspirational. I can relate with, ‘I knew I was living a lie but I could feel that everyone else was living one too’. Like you I am choosing to be all of who I truly am.

296. There’s so much inspiration in this account of your life so far, Leonne. So many join in with the regular partying and then, despite feeling so awful the next day, go back and keep repeating it all over again and again. It’s wonderful to read how you, with the support of Universal Medicine and its practitioners, have turned your life around. The REAL YOU shines out so brightly in these last photos.

297. Thank you Leonne for sharing your journey with us all – It is also with attending presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that I came to a place of stillness within to realise that I was existing (not living at all) in a way that felt so disjointed and so desperately unhappy. I was offered something that allowed me to make gentle changes every day and break down those old patterns of behaviour – in a very self loving way – and continuing to do so.

298. The precarious roller coaster of living a life governed by external ‘rules’ and expectations – trying to get a sense of ourselves from responses from the outside world and as you say, Leonne, ending up with a whole range of scripts for different situations -none of which come from a place of understanding or caring for ourselves. I have to admit I felt exhausted reading the first part of your article, knowing only too well the madness of living like this. It is super inspiring to read about your choices and the remarkable changes you have brought to your life. Thank you.

299. I think it’s awesome how you discovered that lying isn’t just not owning up to a mistake or bad behaviour, it is when ever we change ourselves to fit a situation, whether it’s the way we act or our opinions, and it is when we ignore and override the way we feel because of X, Y and Z.

300. Thank you Leonne Sharkey for sharing your story and the beautiful photos on this blog and thank you for finding Universal Medicine to be your way of living. You are now so much more beautiful and full of yourself as the pictures so clearly show. It is a blessing to see the true joy and beauty you radiate from these pictures compared to the conforming girl, and later woman, you showed to be on the pictures before you found Universal Medicine.

     1. Yes, it is a very clear example of what everyone receives when someone brings their full self and beauty to the world. Thank goodness Leonne made these choices other wise we would have all missed out. Even though there was “nothing wrong with you” prior, the world was not graced with all your beauty until you made the choices to let it shine and beam.

301. Thank you Leonne. A sentence I particular note is “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” I have often attempted to lie to myself but it doesn’t work as I can feel that it is a lie and it hangs very heavily in my body until I admit to myself that it is a lie and start to be honest with myself. Universal Medicine has supported me in becoming aware of a way of living and making loving choices that feel true in my body.

302. Thanks for sharing Leonne, I related to so much of your story. Your eyes are the give away in the photos. You are absolutely beaming today.

     1. I agree Rebecca and I love the playfulness in the last photo.

303. Wow, and I bet this is but a glimpse of the whole story Leonne! It would be an inspiring autobiography to read.. I simply love the photo of you in the hat at the end; you look like a sunrising, there is so much light oozing from you 🙂 Thank you for letting others hear about your experiences.

304. Thanks Leonne ,what a great inspirational story about coming back to the real you.
     With out having to be anything but just that -you 🙂

305. Absolutely gorgeous photos of you Leonne post Universal Medicine introduction, and what struck me was how you realised this reality: “I knew I was living a lie but I could feel that everyone else was living one too”, that then sparked forth the change towards the beauty we see today in these photos in relation to the former ones. Wow, no contest, you certainly show a living example of a life lived now with love and care. Awesome.

     1. Well said, Zofia, like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, Leonne’s photos show us the magic of the beauty within being brought out and shared with all.

        1. The more we connect ‘the magic of the beauty within’, Matilda, the less the lies and coverups are necessary to protect ourselves. Like the butterfly we will emerge in our full glory and be appreciated for being natural selves!

        2. I still resist this absolute letting go, in full appreciation of myself as one equal part of the big picture. The full glory of our natural selves – well said, bernadetteglass.

     2. I agree Zofia, Leonne’s before and after shots really show the world how simple our choices need to be to come back to the joyful loving human being we are, and that self harming trait will never bring us any true healing.

306. Beautiful Leonne, When I look at your recent pictures and look into your eyes, it is like the love and joy of the real you has never left you, but it was waiting for you to return back to who you are. This shows that everything that we look for is already there within us.

307. Thank you Leonne for sharing your story of becoming the true you. We all learn from a young age to put on mask after mask just to fit in and not feel the devastation of comparison. Comparison is horrible for everybody and everybody suffers it, but then we apply it to everybody as well and repeat the vicious cycle. So beautiful to read how we can expose the double lives and become truly ourselves.

308. Wow Leonne this is such a powerful blog and transformation you have made. I could relate so much, as you shared what so many of us have felt about being a fraud and living a double life. I could really feel how important having self-honesty and responsibility is, as we can often tell ourselves and believe the biggest lies about who we are and how we are living. It is as if we spend much of our lives playing multiple roles in a play, putting on masks to assume a new identity, no wonder we feel exhausted, depressed and overwhelmed. It feels the moment we really get honest and begin to explore the fact that underneath it all we are a beautiful and amazing person just as we are then these facades begin to fall away. Thankyou for sharing so openly the truth of you, it is simply divine.

309. It’s amazing what extent we go to looking to be accepted and loved when the people around us are unable to accept us for who we truly are. I spent a lifetime of exhaustion on this and now by living the teachings presented by Serge Benhayon I am able to feel that love for myself and have no need to keep living the lie. Work in progress of course but I am able to feel more of me each day. Thank you for sharing your amazing story Leonne that so many of us can relate to.

310. Yes I find it also very confusing that a lot of adults and parents can tell children not to lie, however they are not making the true example themselves. This I feel can be in regards to a lot of things. If we are to say something, it should be from a lived experience. Yes, but it is all a choice so “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” Is very true, as it is the relationship and connection with ourselves that we crave.

311. This is gorgeous Leonne. I wonder how many other people are out there, knowing that they are living a lie but seeing everyone else living the lie too – not knowing what to do about it. Your pictures and story tell it all, that when we come back to living in a loving and responsible way, we no longer need all the fillers (parties, holidays, coffee etc) to make life bearable. Life is about Love and we are Love.

312. Consider this…If we as individuals all choose to return to who we truly are and live from this quality everyday….we would emanate so much joy and love out to everyone we meet….which could change so many lives. People can feel it, but if we stay living in our misery, and pain self loathing etc …what energy emanates out to all those we meet? It is so powerful to understand this….we all have a choice.

313. What a beautiful transformation Leonne- you look and are so radiant, vibrant and full of love! Your story is an inspiration to others.

314. Absolutely love this, Leonne! You are a radiant and inspiring ray of love.

315. Leonne. Looking at you pictures from age six to now, you are a miracle personified.
     From that hard look and anguish to that beautiful smiling face we see now.
     You now radiate so much warmth and love, and it truly shows.

316. This is a truly inspiring sharing. Thank you, Leonne. The truth you have come back to – “I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God” – is what I also sought to connect back to, and probably many others as well, if not all, and we spend life times swerving around it, taking detours by lying, hiding. Funny creatures, aren’t we?

317. A truly glorious transformation Leonne. The joy and love you now embrace as your essence leap off the page, both in your words and the photos of you.

318. The pictures speak a thousand more words Leonne! What a contrast, for me it is especially seen in the light in your eyes in your ‘after’ shots. Thank you for sharing your story and your photos – amazing!

319. Wow look at you now, such joy. I am sure many of us can relate to your honest blog Leonne. Life can often ‘look’ so rosy from the outside but without the love for ourselves as a foundation it can feel very empty. It is inspiring to feel how you have made an ongoing commitment to yourself to honestly look at what wasn’t working and to appreciate and honour the truth of who you are. Your photos are evidence of the love and joy you shine.

     1. So true Victoria, no matter what we have achieved in life, and how perfect the picture we have created appears to others from the outside, if we do not have that foundation of love, of knowing that we are enough as we are, we cannot truly enjoy all we have as there is a fear of that hollowness inside being exposed.

        1. Thank you for a stunning blog Leonne, I am so inspired by your honesty and openness and can relate to so much you have shared!

320. Leone it seems looking at your earlier photos that ‘you’ simply are not there. Yet in the recent ones ‘you’ are overflowing, literally. I also noticed the reaction in my body as I looked at the different photos, in the early ones I felt my body close and I felt a certain mistrust, whereas in the recent ones I felt myself open and almost move towards you. So very gorgeous to see and feel.

321. Absolutely beautiful Leonne; you are an inspiration. The point you really hit home in your blog is the importance of self-relationship, self-love and self-APPRECIATION. When we implement these things into our lives, it can completely change everything – as evidenced by you and your sharing. Gorgeous.

322. Leonne, you are the most gorgeous ray of sunshine and what you have expressed here is a story many hundreds or thousands (dare I say millions…!) of people currently living could relate to in the way that they feel about life. You are a true testament to living responsibly, honestly and with one of the biggest hearts of love I know. Thank you for all you have shared here – truly groundbreaking.

323. Such a gorgeous sharing Leonne and I totally understand the ‘double life’ syndrome. I remember behaving one way at church, another way at school and another way at home. I became very good at learning how to be in certain situations – I was quite the chameleon! Connecting to myself and choosing to honour that has meant that I now take me into whatever environment or situation I go into. These days I rarely behave a certain way because I am expected to – but if I do, I am aware of it and give myself the space to feel into why I have chosen to be that way. Every day living the love that we are is as you say – a new before and after!

     1. So spot on Brooke – I still see pockets of my life that are a lie.. Road rage moments when I am alone in the car… eating food that doesn’t support my body in secret…. making a mess when nobody is around to see it. I can feel that my choice to publish this blog supports me to continue to drop the lies and simply be me and I know I am going to knock my own socks off.

324. Love your sharing Leonne and the transformations that have taken place. A living miracle and testament to living life responsibly and loving yourself. Natural medicine at it’s finest!

325. “Each day I live this truth is a new before and after.” Thank you for sharing your before and after so far Leonne! Stunning!

326. Awesome Leonne, your absolute gorgeousness shines through so beautifully. It must feel absolutely amazing to come back to yourself in this way.

327. I love these recent pictures of you Leonne, you truly shine with so much beauty (inner and outer). What big changes you have made in your life and these pictures tell it all. Loving choices rock and you are a living testimony of this.

328. I enjoyed reading your blog Leonne, including the photos really brought home to me the effect the lifestyle choices you were at the time, was having on your body.

329. Thanks Leonne. When we choose to live a life true to ourselves, where our body is loved and we love ourselves, that is just amazing. The joy you live now is testimony to your willingness to accept nothing but the absolute truth. We are indeed the Sons of God

330. Leonne I relate to the “double life” you describe, the life on the inside, feeling fragile and sad, and the life on the outside looking successful. Healing and learning with Universal Medicine has meant the inside and the outside are harmonious and true.
     Your photos say it all, and you are shining and gorgeous as a result of making loving choices that have felt right for you. No more trying to be something we are not – really feels amazing! Thank you.

331. You are absolutely gorgeous….Look how far you have come Leonne. The photos definitely say it all. In the before photos you can see the sadness in your eyes and the after photos all I can see in your eyes is so much joy love and life. Thank you for sharing your story.

332. Leonne, this is such an honest blog , Thank you for being such inspiration and for showing the world there is another way of living where we don’t have to pretend to be someone in order to feel we belong. I love your commitment to true healing and your willingness to live the love that you are.

333. This is glorious Leonie. There is such a marked difference in your before and after photos. You look like a completely different person. If I hadn’t already discovered Universal Medicine I would be on my way to my first workshop! You are an amazing living testimonial of all that Universal Medicine represents.

334. What an amazing journey Leonne, from your double life that neither one was real. Yours words are powerful but your photos are priceless in the change from who you weren’t, to who you truly and always been.

335. Leonne great sharing of your journey. Your journey is something I can relate to, living a double life, living a lie. The sadness and hurts we hold onto is so reflected in our bodies. Only when we are able to recognise this we look lighter in our body. Thanks to Serge Benyahon and Universal Medicine for showing us the way.

336. Leonne, it is such a gift for us all to be able to see your transformation in these wonderful pictures. You deserve nothing less than the absolute joy that you show in the picture at the end. Thank you for letting it out for us all to see and be inspired by.

337. Leonne, and now you are giving us that same reflection, that you received from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Being the true version of yourself is something very practical and doable. Very inspiring.

338. Thankyou Leonne for a beautiful sharing. I too learned to live a double life – behaving differently with my mum and dad who lived separately. I learned to be a chameleon- living a lie, adapting to what I thought was required at the time – with different people. Coming home to my true self has been amazing. Your photos say it all.

     1. Thank you Sue. I know that many people with divorced parents will relate to this. I know that I myself found it extremely difficult. The stark differences in my behaviour showed just how willing I was to change myself to suit different circumstances.

339. Leonne Sharkey, there is a gorgeousness to your eyes that just jumps off the page of these pictures and is more colourful and full of brightness than those amazingly delicate flowers that you are photographed with. I am in such awe and appreciation of your transformation and your acceptance of yourself as ‘love’ and as a ‘son of God’. What I have learnt myself is that we only let go of what we are not by embracing and knowing who we are .. and with love as your foundational way Leonne, you are absolutely correct that each day, and each and every moment is a before and after – enjoy yourself in every moment of it because you are absolutely divine. Thank you, Thank you.

340. Thank you for sharing your story Leonne. There would be innumerable amounts of people out there living as you were and I include myself here! I was lying to myself when I lived a party lifestyle, and although I never suffered the exhaustion during those years, it certainly hit me when I stopped and took stock of my life. I live by the principles shared through Universal Medicine and one of the true joys is always knowing what is happening with my body and choosing not to override anything that comes up. And the joy in your ‘now’ photo’s is palpable!

     1. So True Joanne, this is exactly why I wrote this blog.

341. Wow look at you Leonne, what a stunning, beautiful and gorgeous woman you are. Thank you for sharing your story, it is deeply inspiring.

342. Leonne…such a transformation. It is such a delight to be witness to your flowering in the last year. And as you say, each day an opportunity to live more love. I am so glad that you are realising more and more each day the beautiful, playful & graceful woman that you are, and sharing this with the world.

343. Hi Leonne, Great before and after story, many can relate to the living the ‘lie’ but few have the courage to own it as you have. Well done your story is an inspiration to all. It has brought to my attention where I am still lying to myself. I agree with you the worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

     1. Thank you kathleenbaldwin – this blog brings my attention to the lies I still try and get away with too. It is a constant evolution. I know that in truth we cannot really hide anything as everyone feels the truth whether they allow themselves to know it, or not. There is nowhere to hide and no way that I can shield others from the effects of the choices I make. All the more reason to make sure my choices really are true to me.

        1. True Leonne there is no where to hide and more than often everyone knows when we are lying to ourselves. But when we do make those choices that are not true and do not serve anyone, it is great to have the courage to clock it and change our energy rather than the constant apologizing that I have found myself and many do out of habit, that does not change anything. I have come to the understanding that the apology and the ill choice are one and the same both looking for something; some form of confirmation outside of myself. Just need to build on the appreciation of myself on a daily basis so I no longer need that kind of ‘fix’.

     2. Brilliant, kathleenbaldwin, the first step is to accept the lies we live and then ‘all’ we have to do is take responsibility for them! I appreciate it more and more when I spot a lie I am living knowing that it is then that I have the choice to turn things around. Thank you.

344. Thank you Leonne for sharing your reflections on your life before and after Universal Medicine. What touched me is how much awareness we actually all live with all of the time, even when obliterating ourselves with drugs and stimulants and a life of distraction there is a part of us that knows the lie being lived. We know something is not right about how we are living so we look for solutions and consequently could live out the rest of our lives in the various distractions that solutions have to offer us. So Universal Medicine has come along and warned of the dangers of settling for solutions and has offered answers. If it were not for Universal Medicine I would today still be living like Leonne was – always looking for solutions not the energetic understanding and responsibility that comes with answers

345. A beautiful and honest account of your before and after Leonne. Very powerful words: ‘I knew I was living a lie but I could feel that everyone else was living one too.’
     I too once felt that way. Now thanks also to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine I know that living the truth of who I am is the only way and that it is equally so for everyone.

346. Leonne you are so beautiful, and living proof that the best beauty treatment ever is to simply be yourself, no pretence, no lies, no confirming to an externally concocted image of what you should look like or how you should behave. Truly inspirational and a big thank you for sharing yourself so honestly.

347. Leonne your story is a blessing to all who read it. There is such pressure on people to present a happy, shiny image about their life, and not speak the honest truth about how life truly feels for them. No wonder we get ourselves in knots with self destructive choices, we’ve all been sold a lie, as life the way it is (the “norm”) does not work. Your blog supported me to unearth my own tendency to still hide my past, feeling I can’t be honest about it or accept myself as it was a mess, and the judgement I fear from presenting a less than successful history. There is such a drive in society to show everyone you’re happy, doing well, healthy and coping, yet few of us are beneath our shiny surface. We are just not having honest conversations. Reading your blog was a very healing experience, you really do sparkle with life now. I found it painful to read your past as I’m fortunate enough to know and adore you, and feel how precious you are, so I found it hard knowing you went though so much. Scratch the surface though and most of us had similar suffering, just different details. Your final photos are an awesome testament to your power and your choices. Thanks for the opportunity to truly heal alongside you.

348. Leonne, thank you for sharing your story and photos to reveal the true you. I can relate to your words: “The fact is my ‘double life’ was just the end result of the fact that I was not willing to truly take responsibility for my choices and do what was right for me.” What a revelation for us all – taking responsibility for our choices – that is very empowering.

349. Such a beautiful sharing, Leonne. You can see and feel the sadness in your ‘before’ photos, as you can the joy and celebration of life, in your ‘after’ photos – they really confirm the choices and changes you have made. Thank you for exposing the ‘double lives’ we create through not being true to ourselves in every situation.

350. I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.
     I totally agree Leonne!
     And I can so relate to the double life, I used to live on a boat and be a “yachty” or I would change and go out into the horse world and play a completely different role. What is super funny now on writing this is that I am none of those!

351. Leonne, you story speaks volumes in terms of revealing the sad reality of I would say, the vast majority of people whether they are aware of it or not. The fact is we all have lived, or are still living a lie and will continue to do so until we eventually choose to hear and then adhere to the truth our body is forever communicating to us. Thank you for sharing your beautiful before and after unfoldment.

352. Then and now – WOW, what a transformation Leonne.

     By sharing the truth about your life you have shown us that it is possible to turn our lives around by discarding the lies about who we are or the image we want to present to others.

     Your story demonstrates the futility of pretense and how damaging it is for our bodies, yet by stripping away what was not truly you, you have provided us with a wonderful gift of love.

     And thanks for sharing your photo sequences – what a brilliant confirmation.

     1. Seconded rodharvey – and just look at those photos; absolutely GORGEOUS. Leonne is certainly shining!

353. This is a great portrayal of the double life, we all know so well. It brings clarity and truth to how lies entrench us in self doubt, incapacity to change, beliefs that we are in control and disturbing behaviours that keep us harming ourselves and limiting what we can offer others. As the story unfolded, it was clear that true change can only occur when we stop lying to ourselves and face our own hurts, which brings us back to who we truly are – and the inner voice which has been telling us all along that we are living a lie.

354. Leonne thank you so much for letting us into your life. I love the photo of you as a flower girl looking absolutely adorable even though your burden was torturing your posture. Similar themes carried though your life. But what a good news story you turned out to be! Your story was full of revelations, the ones dearest to me were:
     “I knew I was living a lie but I could feel that everyone else was living one too.”
     “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.”
     “I am eternally grateful to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for presenting and confirming the truth I have always known.”
     On behalf of the world I thank you for showing us how lovely and natural a woman can be.

     1. Such a beautiful comment Bernard – I loved reading this. Thank you.

355. Dear Leonne, To live with that feeling of being a fraud and underneath it all was a deep sense of not being good enough and not knowing who I was. How many of us have lived and felt this way and yet you have chosen to turn your life around. How amazing it is to feel more understanding with yourself and in turn become less judgmental about the choices others have made and the more you return to who you truly are, the more you are able to appreciate others for who they truly are. This is heaven on earth. What an inspiration you bring to us all.

356. Leonne, your pictures speak for themselves. So much joy and gorgeousness, the real you is shining now, whereas before you can see the deep sadness that was there with you in the knowing that you were living just what you describe, a life that was not the real you. Your story is testament to how simply we can turn our lives around, and bring an abundance of true joy back into our lives, just like when we were little and would see the world through a child’s eyes.

     1. I agree Katerina, Leonne’s story shows how easy it is to turn our lives around and “bring an abundance of true joy back into our lives”.

     2. A picture truly does say an 1000 words and your transformation (back to you) is an inspiration.

        1. I agree Joel. These pictures also speak 2 words very clearly: ‘Welcome Home’.

357. Leonne, what a journey your life has been. Thank you so much for sharing it. It is amazing the lies that so many of us have been living for most of our lives. But we knew no better at the time, just knew that we were hurting so much and did not know why. So we hid from ourselves and others, and played the roles that we played for so long.

     I love your comment “I no longer feel like I have something to hide. I am proud of each and every loving choice I make and if I make choices that are not loving I am willing to be honest about this and find out why.” Your before and after photographs show the story of your journey, makes it so much more alive for us all to see. Thank you for your great courage and love. A truly beautiful woman, now living her truth.

358. Wow Leone what a difference in your photos, it is amazing to see how much you have changed since finding Universal Medicine. Your face is completely transformed from someone that did not look like they were enjoying life to someone who is shining and loving every minute of life. I love this line Leone, this is what I have found too.”The truth I have come back to is – I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God. “

359. Thank you very much Leonne. What you share and present here is simply stunning. From being a very sad person who didn´t really know who she was to re-discovering the beautiful woman you are today is quite a journey. How often do we play roles ‘to fit in’ – being a daughter, mother, wife, sister, friend, colleague etc. (for men accordingly) – thereby completely loosing ourselves, only trying to please other’s needs. It´s great to return to the knowing of who we truly are. Thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal MedicineI have been offered this opportunity, too and I have to say that it´s the most astonishing journey I ever commenced in my life, and I know that there is so much more to unfold.

360. Great story and turnaround Leonne Sharkey. What I really got when I read your blog was how we not only live a double life with others on social media and in all our relationships, but that we actually leading a double life with ourselves as well. On one hand we have this illusion in our minds that everything is fine and dandy and we have it sorted, but occurring simultaneously to this is another story being told by our bodies which is much more truthful. An incredible duality and great big fat lies that we are telling ourselves that needs to be explored and discussed more I reckon.

     1. So spot on Andrew – I loved reading this comment. I really was leading a double life with myself and it made it very hard to connect to the truth. It was only through the reflection of people who were living true to themselves (initially a practitioner at the Universal Medicine Clinic in Brisbane) that I was able to come out of this fog. I shared my story for this exact reason.

     2. Love it Andrew…the forever contradiction of the mind versus the body. And yep the body is much more honest…I have come to understand and honour that the BODY IS THE BOSS!

361. What a lovely story, and the real Leonne is absolutely stunning, I’m so glad we all get this now, instead of the fake Leonne’s. I particularly love this part “The more I return to who I truly am, the more I am able to appreciate others for who they truly are” it’s proof that all of the hard work Leonne has done to truly be herself is for benefit of all, for me that is a marker of true evolution.

362. Leonne – wow – your face looks completely different. It’s wonderful to see the joy and naturalness in your recent photos, thank you so much for sharing.

     1. I agree Meg, Leonne’s face looks completely different. It is wonderful to see someone returning to their true beauty.

363. Leonie your blog is stunning and your transformation is profound. There are so many people living the lifestyle you described in your early days who are miserable and unfulfilled. You are living testimony that through embracing the teachings of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine that real person inside can come out again and have a truly glorious life… just look at the joy in your final pictures, so beautiful…

364. Leonne,
     A picture tells a thousand words. What you write is so supported by the pictures in your article. You today are a shinning example of a true woman, out in the world to be seen and if another chooses, to see you as an example of how to live a life of truth.

     1. Well said leighstrack, Leonne is “a shinning example” of how someone can quite literally turn their life around effectively from being cold, dead and cut off from the world, to be full of live, committed and sharing their love with others; inspiring to read to see the dramatic differences in the pictures.

365. A Picture truly is worth a thousand words. Your comment on being confused at the age of 6 about not telling lies and observing adults around you living lies is very powerful. As an adult I still see that happening everyday around me and can feel how people hold on to living this lie because they are still hoping that it will bring what they are seeking. Truth-full and inspiring, thanks Leonne

366. Thank you Leonne. This was a deeply honest blog, and I got so much out of it. There is so much pressure in the world to be something that we are not, to be seen to be successful. Facebook is full of holiday snaps and great times, yet I cannot help but feel it could do with a touch less glamour and dose of more reality. Comparison runs deep within society, and we like to always present our Sunday best. But we are so afraid to be naked of fear what others may think. It is so refreshing when someone shares the truth of what runs beneath the surface for most of us at some point in our life. Thank you.

     1. I agree Adam, I find honesty very refreshing which Leonne has expressed here in spades. I have always appreciated it when people ‘say it as it is’ and in truth everyone has a story to tell of life’s challenges. I recently had a session that was focused on my expression and what I had come to realise was that by using the word ‘naked’ to describe what it felt like to be open & innocent in my body, was in fact holding me back from choosing to stay open and in my innocence with people and the world. The thought of being naked was not attractive…but being open and innocent, now that was something I was willing to explore. I feel that Leonne has has expressed here with such openness & the sweet innocence in that 6 year old is just gorgeous.

367. I really enjoyed your blog Leonne. Many I’m sure can relate to your process of Mum and Dad splitting and the different roles we play, the seeking of fun and stimulation in travel and partying, then the slow release or partial honesty that is sometimes afforded through western psychotherapy or through various modalities. If only so many more, who on their own journey of endeavouring to figure themselves out could actually arrive to where you are now, there would be much healing in the world (and a lot less time garden paths walked)! Great blog.

368. I love your blog Leonne. What caught my attention first was in the first paragraph. “When I was little my mum often said that we would be punished if we were naughty but we would be punished double if we were naughty and lied about it”.
     What my Dad told me as a young boy is that ‘I would never get into trouble for telling the truth’.

369. Thank you for the honest account of your double life – my experience also is that when we are looking to create an identity to present to the world, it can only lead to exhaustion, ill health and some very strange and harmful choices.

     1. And a deep sadness too Gabriele. Looking into people’s eyes, as in leone’s pictures of herself before she changed her life, you can see how much people have given up on living a life of truth and love. Something I can see when I look back at where I was some years back — looking for a love I missed so much everywhere but not within me where it was all along.

        1. So true Katerina one can see that “looking for a love missed” in many people’s eyes in loads of photos. It is a most familiar look.

        2. Yes so much can be seen when we look into a persons eyes which is why pictures say so much. And so true Gabriele, creating a false identity never has a happy ending or an enjoyable journey.

        3. Leone’s passport photo aws so sad and loveless, her latest ones so full of love and joy. The change is clear for all to see.

        4. Yes, I too see that sadness in the eyes arises from looking outwardly, the wrong way. Our eyes shine only when we are connected with ourselves WITHIN. Then our eyes shine with our inner light.

     2. I have also felt this model of a ‘double life’ playing out, like there is a way to be that is just not allowed or accepted by others.. and that I wouldn’t fit in. As I have come to accept that in actual fact I don’t want to fit in, not if it means not being myself but even more than that as I come to accept and claim who I truly am ~ absolutely gorgeously, tenderly, amazingly.. beautiful, glorious, delicate, wise and truly strong the acceptance brings everything I could over need to hold and live this as One true way of living without any lying and without having to hide a thing.

370. What a beautiful account of your life so far Leonne – it takes a true reflection or hearing the truth to resonate in us to instigate honest change. We are so supported by Universal Medicine to live the way we know deep down is what brings true happiness. I can relate to the double life existence – but now see clearly what needs to be done to eliminate this from my life for good. Well done Leonne your glowing face shows you are not living the lie any more.

371. Awesome story Leonne! I love that you knew what was going on when you were little. That it wasn’t just you living a lie, everyone around you was playing the same game, which most likely has a part to play in why it takes us so long to find ourselves again, because we get caught up in this web of untruths coming at us from every angle laced with temptations of ways we can choose to keep us seperate from ourselves and others.
     Your love of you and life is inspiring!

372. Thank you Leonie for exposing that we often do live a double life. For a very long time I too knew I was living a lie. I conformed to what I thought was expected of me, to be dependable, reasonable, undemanding…. Life was rarely fun for me. I’m learning to let go of these expectations and to smile to life. It does not have to be difficult. If my life is turning around it is all thanks to Universal Medicine.

373. Hello Leonne and a great story. I can relate to the “double life” feeling and how it times I had a conflicting point of view running in my head constantly. When I first came across Universal Medicine it was like the same thing was running, a conflict in my head, some made sense and other parts didn’t. But it all felt different, it was like I was supported and held at the same time and it was like even though there was a ‘conflict’ everything was going to be ok. I hadn’t felt this before and so in time I let go of the conflict and opened up to the possibilities that I was feeling. Then it all made sense, Universal Medicine presented the fact of who we actually are and the ‘lies’ or ‘conflicts’ we live with. It made sense to my childhood and life and all the things I had seen. Universal Medicine changed my life as I can see how it’s changed yours. Thanks Leonne.

374. Wow what a gorgeous woman you are Leonne Sharkey and I am grateful that you have stopped living the lie and shine as brightly as you do now. Thank you for exposing some of the different lies that start from such a young age. Your blog exposes that a lie is not just ‘not telling the truth’, it is much more than that. It is the subtle – and not so subtle – ways that we bend ourselves to not be who we truly are. You are a living miracle.

375. Thank you Leonne for sharing a very important subject. Your before and after photos cannot lie. They are real and confirm that there is another way to live as presented by Universal Medicine – the first organisation I have ever come across that puts people before profits and here to show me what it means to be truly responsible. I am no longer leading a double life.

376. Leonne this is a powerful sharing – the fact as a sexier old you had already mastered the lying to the world by how you chose to be says so much. We are living in a world that repeatedly and constantly asks us to lie – about who we are, how we are, what we feel like doing, or eating or drinking – the list is endless. No one before I met Serge Benhayon asked me to be me just because that’s all I needed to be. The weight that we carry around trying to fit in is enormous – this story will allow many to let go of that weight and stop living a double life.

377. Just check out the transformation in the photos thats amazing… Maybe a return visit to the doc with a presented steady diet of truth instead of engine oil !!

378. Leonne, the pictures of you before and after speak for themselves – your eyes say it all as does your smile – even at age 6 you can see your smile isn’t really you. Now you shine so brightly, you light up a room with your light and playful way – you are so gorgeous. Keep shining.

379. Thank you Leonne it is lovely to see you blossom as the Son of God You Are. It’s funny how we know to act – either respond or react and how often I choose to react and be less. I feel it coming and make that choice! Why?

     It hurts me the fact that everyone else is living a lie. I react to this cause I know it’s not the Truth and do not commit where I need to cause I feel others are not – it’s the ultimate game. I do not want to be responsible cause no one else is – too much work while others cruise.
     But I have realised this is my responsibility to not hold back Truth and to live and call out what is not true, and express how much love I feel and know I am. My life is now filling up with more Love the more I express it. When I do this others feel this and it reminds them they can to.
     Awesome blog to remind us it is important to live what you feel.

380. “I remember (…) feeling that lying was the worst crime of all.”, yet the adults around you lied all the time.

     Both are true. Lying is at the root and yet we lie all the time. To our own detriment.

381. Hi Leonne, the pictures speak for themselves you have blossomed and the lies we tell ourselves are simply designed to prevent ourselves from changing. You have clearly made a transformation with the support and wisdom from Universal Medicine and its practitioners.

382. A great blog Leonne, I loved how you exposed just how much we can all lie about ourselves and our lives, you are certainly not alone here. I also love how the photos clearly show the transformation you have made by being honest about how your body feels and beginning to honour it. The key for me in your article was that you actually knew this before Universal Medicine but unable to change and then with the support of esoteric practitioners and Universal Medicine you were actually able to make lasting changes. Significant lasting changes and you are now reaping the rewards of these.

383. So very beautiful you are Leonne from living your truth from the inside out. What you share about living a lie is possibly a very familiar place many find themselves. I know I could be reading my own choices of living the “double life”.
     As you very truthfully state there are other choices to be made that support us to live our own truth, breath our own breath and live all of who we divinely are.
     Thank you, this has been the most divinely sent letter from God.

384. Leonne what an incredible turn around you have made in making the choice to be honest with yourself.
     A picture speaks a thousand words and your after pictures are of a woman who is sharing the true loveliness your always were but simply forgot along the way.!

385. What I noticed Leonne is how tired you look as a flower girl, and as a 15 year old. How do we manage to ignore that at the time? Parents, if they see it, do not acknowledge it. I see this in children everyday at my work. Many of them are already drained by ages 6 and 7. Could it be the exhaustion of the lying they are learning to do to fit in and be good?

     1. Yes Rachel – Many people used to comment on the dark circles under my eyes when I was a child. I didn’t sleep well due to nightmares, I had constant and severe stomach cramps and undiagnosed allergies. My parents took me to the doctor and I had doctors at the local hospital study me and my symptoms as part of a research project in the hope of finding a solution to my symptoms, but none of the suggestions helped.

        I began making my own coffees around age 8. I was so tiny I remember having to use a kitchen chair to reach up and boil the kettle. I used caffeine and lots of sugar to survive and get though the day and put on a happy face. I quickly learned that most people were horrified by my early coffee addiction so I learned to hide it…. I was an expert at pleasing others such a young age.

        1. Wow Leonne…coffee at age 8!!!
           That makes your turnaround even more inspiring…there must be a blog in that alone.

        2. Yes Marika I would say there is. My addiction to coffee was very strong and the withdrawals I had when I stopped drinking it were awful. I am so grateful coffee is no longer a part of my life.

386. You whole face and body is smiling in those after shots Leonne. The way you have exposed the lie of our lives is fascinating. We think a lie is just what we say with our mouths to cover up something we have done. How many people equate being “good” with a lie? But when pretend all the time to tick the boxes we are lying all the time. Then all hell breaks loose, as the expression goes. I recall running a “good/bad” ledger in my mind – I had been so good for so long that I thought that entitled me to act like a lunatic in what I saw as my own time. But the whole lot was a lie, and I was exhausted by trying to run two disparate personalities.
     Now I am me. Just me. Not only is it enough, it is beautiful.

387. It is so cool to see how much you have transformed! Beautiful!

388. Awesome Leonne, your blog is so relatable and honest. You shine the light on what many people feel and you bring such truth. This may then bring a spark within people to start to honour their bodies & to love who they are. Your photos say so much, thank you of sharing

389. Leonie, I enjoyed reading your blog and looking at your increasingly light and joyful photos which say it all really and are a testimony to you and your commitment to yourself and living truly. You say that before you came to Universal Medicine ‘living the way I truly wanted to seemed impossible’ and I agree whole heartedly. Before Universal Medicine I too struggled with aspects of my life, which I knew to be untrue but could not manage to change them and I’ve found that by applying the principles presented, I have managed to make changes and live in a way I would never have thought possible.

390. This is a beautiful and honest testimony lived Leonne. It is very inspiring to see your transformation through your life and the pictures really tell a thousand words. What you have experienced can show so many others that there is a way out in life. That we are truly precious and with different choices and the support from Universal Medicine, we can just be our true selves and it is already enough.

391. This is a gorgeous blog Leonne – you can see the transformation in your pictures. In the earlier pictures, it looks almost like you are faking the smile. In the later pictures though, when I look at them I see someone who is genuine, comfortable in their own skin and full of joy. A picture is worth a thousand words, but the words you have added to these pictures are priceless in how you changed your life around. I can totally relate to feeling like a fraud in my own life, thank you for sharing

392. Leonne Sharkey thank you for such an inspiring and beautiful blog. Your photo at the end says it all – So very very beautiful 🙂
     Thank you for this little piece of gold – “The fact is my ‘double life’ was just the end result of the fact that I was not willing to truly take responsibility for my choices and do what was right for me.” I find myself still feeling that I am leading a double life at times and now your have given me the answer to why I feel like this. I know that taking responsibility is the next step and some thing that I still avoid – but this is the answer to all of my issues.

     1. Simone I still catch myself feeling this way too, I am finding there are always new layers of lies and responsibility to uncover. It is very revealing when I realise there are still subtle changes in my behaviour when I am with different people. Serge Benhayon has shown me what consistency and living the truth looks like and it is amazing to know this is possible. We can be true to ourselves (and in turn others) in all aspects of life. In fact I can feel this is our natural way.

393. What a divinely gorgeous woman you are Leonne Sharkey. Thank you for sharing your life. Feeling the joy emanating from your recent photos is infectious.
     I agree, the most damaging lies are ones we tell ourselves.
     I have come to understand that we are always being offered the opportunity to examine what we believe (deconstruct our lies), make different choices, take responsibility for ourselves and live true.
     The support available to you when you made that choice was, and continues to be, enormous.

394. Leonne, you are so stunning -the changes that have occurred as the result of connecting to you are amazing. It continually blows me away to realise how many impositions are placed on us as children and the messages we carry from then on for so many years and sometimes lifetimes. Great sharing.

395. A true miracle Leonne! To see the joy return to your smile and the warmth, care and tenderness radiate once again is a clear marker of truly changing your life for the better. A testament to the benefit of being truth-full with ourselves.

396. Thank you Leonne for sharing your before and after. What I find so beautiful is to read about how your life was before Universal Medicine and how it was after. The difference is very palpable and it is a joy to feel you are living as the true you now. There is no greater joy than feeling this.

397. Leonne – simply awesome! And for me you really spotted the most important part of responsibility: “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself.” I know how it feels like doing things – guessing I can get away with the
     at – I can handle things – the negative results after making unloving choices will appear soon anyway… But honest – none of that is true. I just had a certain food that I was absolutely craving for – knowing it would be heavy in my body. But I had it anyway. And in the ned my body felt empty, I had a hard time doing my work and it only slowly get’s back to love. Even no one saw me – it was the worst I could have done.

     1. Absolutely awesome sharing christinahecke, and something I relate to completely. We really cannot hide the dishonest ways we live – even if no one sees or we don’t tell a soul (or tell everyone in our blog comment). Our bodies are always affected by our choices and in turn this affects others.

        1. This is truly huge to digest. Truly feeling into it reveals the massive responsibility we have. And that can be scaring sometimes.

398. Thank you for being so open Leonne, and showing so clearly how life is affected by the seemingly small lies we tell to ourselves. Your story confirms to me, how we all have a deep knowing of the truth that the underlies everything else. Truthfulness definitely agrees with you – the pictures are amazing. How playful and joyful you feel today.

     1. Yes Joseph – when we look back we often say hindsight is 20/20 but we do actually know all along. The truth is always there, always felt by everyone. We use so many substances and distractions to avoid it which is crazy considering that truth and love are inseparable.

399. Wow Leonne, what you have written and what can be seen in the photos is strong and very tangible. I too have been inspired to experiment with the fact that my body tells me truth and it is the lies I tell myself that are the cause of every problem I can ever think of or have experienced in my life. What I am finding is that by taking notice of my movements, my thoughts, how I speak – anything that comes from the body, these are great markers of either I am lying or telling the truth. And I have only learnt this difference and these markers by attending and practicing what is presented by Universal Medicine who provide the space for everyone to feel what the truth in the body feels like without being covered up by the lies.

400. Thank you Leonne Sharkey for sharing your Truth. It is absolutely beautiful to see your transformation and the fact that you have changed things from living such a miserable life to one lived with joy. To read how one person has changed their life can be so life changing and transformational for any one of us wondering how we can make this change.

401. “I now know that the most damaging lies are the ones I tell myself” this is a deeply profound and ‘stop’ line. It’s easy to look outside our self, but the truth is the moment we stop and address the lies we have been telling ourselves, this is the moment that we can get real and see the mess we are in, and from there truly choose to heal.

     1. Yes I agree Gylrae, this line stops you in your tracks as there is so much truth in it for us all. The beliefs we take on from others, and anything we say yes to that is less than the amazingness that we are is a lie. Just addressing the lies that we tell ourself is HUGE.

402. Dear Leonne, this is an amazing blog, and thank you for being so willing to share and express the truth. To open up yourself to the fact of love is inside us all, and the deepest and truest form of healing all our woes, comes from every single loving choice we make. You are without all doubt walking, living proof of this, personified. It is clear to see the lightness, joy and love that emanates from you. This is an incredible testament and confirmation to the work and presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, that share there is a truly joyful, loving and vital way we all can live, all by the choices we make.

403. There is so much in the story that you have shared that I relate to – my first “oh yes” moment is when you share “I learned to act the way I believed others needed me to in order to be accepted and ‘do the right thing’.” I was observing some young children yesterday and saw how strongly they were watching for cues of approval around them and competing for attention. I still catch myself going into the anxiety of needing approval and recognition or questioning myself with “I hope I haven’t upset anyone?” More and more I am realising it isn’t about me being comfortable or making people feel good or nice, as really there is so much more than good and nice, as you have shared.

404. Leonne this is a beautiful, heartfelt and truly inspiring blog to read – your before and after photos leave do doubt as to the huge changes you have made in your life since first attending the Universal Medicine Clinic in Brisbane, Australia and presentations with Serge Benhayon.
     You look and feel so gorgeous in you recent photos.

405. Absolutely gorgeous to see your journey Leonne. I’m sure there are many who can relate to your struggles and be inspired by your changes. Your pictures tell a thousand words, there is so much life bursting out of you in the post Universal Medicine ones.

     1. Absolutely Laura – I can relate to Leonne’s story a lot and I’m sure many others will. Great blog, and great comment 🙂

406. Wow! Leonne, you blew me away with your sharing..your pictures speak so loud of the story you’ve so honestly shared. I just love your claiming back of your life and you ❤ I can see the joy in your eyes and smile on your face which is just so infectious 🙂
     The statement below says it all on your acceptance of you and not being hard on yourself. That's a big reminder for me.
     "I am proud of each and every loving choice I make and if I make choices that are not loving I am willing to be honest about this and find out why."
     Yes this also brings understanding and acceptance towards others.
     "I am love. I am enough just as I am and I am a son of God." These are words of gold. Yes we are all sons of God and are all the same and are Love, you me and everyone ❤
     Thanks you for such a inspirational and transformational sharing showing that it's a choice to make your life about love and commit to you. It is possible and you've done it!

407. Leonne, what a gorgeous celebration of the woman you are today and the amazing inspiration you offer to others in the choices you have made to come to being the ‘real’ you!

408. Yet another life story that shows that there is another way to live than what we are used to living and think to be normal. A life of true vitality and joy. Thank you Leonne.

409. I love what you write Leonie – confirming and confirmed. And the joyousness under that hat….

     1. Joy is my middle name after all…

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