Hi I’m known as Mimi Love and my origin story begins with my name as it is my branding name and then became first finding my business name. Love is because I express love with everything with love, to all there is, and, I do it, with passion and it’s the most powerful energy, which obliterates everything else. Funnily enough my great-grandmother was an Agapidakis and Agapi means love.
I’ve been called Mimi all my life and my big sister named me when she watched Mickey Mouse on television that was sold to householders in 1957 the year I was born. Mickey Mouse was being thrown up on the trampoline and they were saying yeah Mickey and my sister turned around and pointed to me and said “yeah Mimi” “yeah Mimi” “yeah Mimi”.
In 2000 after my divorce, I was free to be who I wanted to be and to live my life to help me with, my holistic health, so that I could help others. I needed to acquire knowledge for my health as I was allergic, a hypersensitive to the modern world is was I was told in 1997 and to go into a clean room (bubble) due to to olfactory (smell), dermal (skin) and ingestion of chemical and food sensitivities. I refused plasma treatment and the bubble and decided I would find my own way out. Energetically and spiritually, I see it as a gift, a blessing and embrace it to use wisely and be kind to myself and love myself. My body is attacking itself on an autoimmune level.
I resonate with the name Mimi not Michelle and started my business for holistic health with Reiki as my qualification in 2002 and added Love into my business name as it is the most powerful energy of all. Love makes you feel joy and bliss, but can also cause heartache and pain when things change. Love is what feeds our soul and spikes our serotonin levels, and gives us our feel-good mood.
I never allowed myself to become a victim, or place a label for disability onto myself, I wanted to achieve and live the life I was born to live. I always wanted to become a mature aged student as a doctor or scientist, but never being able to take pharmaceutical drugs, due to my hypersensitivity to chemicals, in the end a new age doctor of sorts in holistic medicine is what I achieved.
I was looking for the right fit in the holistic health model that I could relate to, and use. I had avoided all the big commercial Mind, Body, Spirit Festivals at Darling Harbour, but heavily felt in 2004, that I should go. I was pulled into this knowing there was something I needed to connect to. I had been researching Kinesiology and Aromatherapy training providers. I loved essential oils, but that qualification came after.
At the festival, I connected to everything I needed to know about my destiny for holistic health. I came across some amazing people, whom I admired for their courage, working in this health and well-being industry. The one connection I really needed was there, I signed up and went along to a free Kinesiology day at a college. All my spidery senses were switched on, my psychic ability was channelling information and I was verbally spewing it out and conversing with the trainer in class, and my channelling continued for the next two years, during classes. I had read articles on Chinese elements, but it never made any sense, but in that instance, I understood and was firm in my belief.
I knew that it was the right place for me to be and study, no matter what. I did all my due diligence, checked and verified certifications, associations and standards required to work in the industry, and went ahead and acquired my Diploma in Holistic Kinesiology.
Kinesiology is an amazing tool box, with my kinaesthetic healing touch and empathic skills, works so well together. The whole two years I channelled information and created ideas, that I still work with today. My journey through college seemed like I had the odds stacked against me, migraines and vomiting nearly every day I had class, but I steam roller through it and never gave up. I even worked out how to get qualified and a year later in 2006, I was a registered Kinesiologist, even though it was a two-year Diploma course.
In December 2005 I acquired a 23-piece tuning fork set and how the vibration of the forks allowed me to understand music as an instrument of healing and incorporate that into my toolbox. In 2007 added Aromatherapy into my regime. I spent 2005-2008 writing about many different modalities and still have to publish.
To honour my connection, I went back with a stand at MBS in November 2006 with my two healing decks of cards and tuning forks.
2008-2010 I was a trainer and assessor teaching some courses aligned with Kinesiology, TCM Philosophy, Naturopathic Philosophy, Flower Essences and Energetic Sciences.
In 2008 one of my close friends who had sessions with me, nicknamed me ‘Witchdoctor’. My first impression was I don’t want to be known as a witch or anything on the dark side. As I sat with it and we spoke and laughed from his view point, it seemed kind of right to call me that. Witch doctor is a term of endearment and a loving nickname now that my family and friends say now when they feel like they need hope to overturn an acute condition that has popped up. When I get a call, I know they need a quick fix when they say “Hey I need the witchdoctor’s help?”
I can honestly say Kinesiology is my passion and has changed my life, without it I would still be struggling to find my health and wellness. TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine Philosophy is the part that resonates for me, the kinaesthetic ability to feel and understand the patterns, to help others whom have lost hope. I needed to learn Kinesiology so I could understand Anatomy & Physiology, Nutrition, Homeopathy, Herbs, Flower essences, colour, crystal and sound therapy.
I’m so grateful I had the wisdom to follow my passion and to keep acquiring knowledge to learn. I keep learning, and love who I am and what I have become. When you study, it can, give you an insight into your desires and what you need to do for yourself. The journey is to understand you, and pushes you along to the right path, to learn and acquire the knowledge you need.
When I moved to my property ‘Blue Earth’ I couldn’t even sleep on a regular mattress, due to every part of my body being in constant pain while I lay down to rest or sleep. I ended up for the first 3-4 years sleeping on an air mattress as I could regulate the air pressure to alleviate the pain. I ended up then buying the least allergic type of bedding for me, and placing it on slats, with a majority of no pain most of the time. Thinking back, my achievement into managing my health has been miraculous to makes me feel like a superwoman. Never did I ever think I would be able to manage my acreage, and keep up with the physical labour of grass cutting with a push mower, even though I’m allergic to grass.
Since Kinesiology I have followed my intuition and found, that living in my clean air acreage allows me to create, all the time. I love creating and l have been able to make tea tonics and tinctures that have made all the difference to my health and lifestyle. Every step I take allows me to create and develop what I need and to help me understand how to help others more. I started out more esoteric and heavily help others with suggestions of how to turn around their blood results, by adapting their nutrition and intake to re-balance the inconsistencies of their internal system, as they don’t wish to take drugs and treat the cause, rather than mask the affect. Anything is possible, if you open your mind to it.
I don’t give up due to my arrow of determination in numerology, that some would call stubbornness. I follow my instincts to follow my path on this ever-evolving journey of my life, expanding and moving forward towards health and well-being for myself and others. TCM is my jam, and ties it all together, i.e., Aromatherapy, TCM Remedial Massage and my Tea Sommelier quals, etc.
TCM maybe more difficult for others, but using Kinesiology is woven from ancient knowledge used over the centuries for addressing health and well-being of the mind, body and soul. I inspire others on their life journey to health and happiness. I love who I am and love researching and creating, and, I love what I do, and will continue to do so, and have no plans for retiring ever. Love is the Key.