THE FOUNDER - Phoebe Gilmour
I am an attorney, Spiritual Director and Life Coach in training who focuses on working with clients to help them find their Spirituality and how that can be a constant, comforting presence in their life.
I grew up in Australia and always loved the ocean. After completing commerce and law degrees, I went on to practice law. To the outside world, everything looked perfect. I had an amazing family and wonderful friends, was bright, popular and fun. I had everything going for me but I had struggled with an eating disorder since I was 16. Unsure of what I was looking for but knowing I wasn't able to access it where I was, I moved to Los Angeles for treatment for my Eating Disorder. Having been trying to recover for 13 years, it was here that I finally found my way through. Through working with a treatment team and then meeting a Spiritual Director, I realized that my path to recovery was truly about finding my God and in turn a relationship based on love, never being alone and self acceptance. The path to this began when I told my truths, consistently and without judgment. Intimacy with others which allowed me delve deeper into a relationship with my God followed. Almost simultaneously, when I took myself out on the water the true transformation took place. An avid paddle-boarder, swimmer, and lover of surfing, the ocean provided the platform for me to express my fears and desires. I began to see myself in the light I had as a child; with love and value.
As I surrendered and connected to something bigger than me, I became more connected with the people I already loved and I attracted more of the people I wanted in my life. I was present. I also learned to detach with love from those I didn't need in my life, no matter how difficult that was. I was able to do that because I developed and nurtured my primary relationship; the one with my God which surpassed everything else. I began to ask for the things I wanted and in turn, I got the things I asked for. I found the inner peace I craved. I was free to live the life I wanted.
Soulswells began when I and those close to me saw my dramatic physically, emotional and mental transformation. I felt free in my body and free in my mind. I began taking friends out on my paddle-board treks and through movement and connection, I saw similar changes in them. It was at this point, I knew that my love of my faith, of the water, of human connection, of human touch, of exercise and health, and my ability to talk to and listen to others about their spirituality, was something I needed to turn from my passion to her vocation.
After working as an attorney for almost a decade, the last few years as an advocate for clients denied residential treatment for eating disorders, I slowly began Soulswells. I studied to become a Spiritual Director and Executive Coach. I am now truly living the life I was destined to, free of my eating disorder. My mission is to help others with their own recovery.
I live in Los Angeles by the ocean, with my husband and 3 young children.