Goodbye From Kristy & Hello From Janet!

It is with great joy and pride that I hand the reins of Serendipity Crystals over to the wonderful Janet Thornton. I’ve known Janet for a long time now and she has been instrumental in supporting me with releasing generational, ancestral and limiting belief patterns over the past 18 months. I knew I didn’t want to sell out to China (they’ve been offering many small businesses over the odds, then taking that business, dismantling it and selling off the stock via Tik Tok in order to control as much of the crystal market as they can). That didn’t sit right with me! So I patiently waited for the right person to appear who could benefit from the amazing gemstone platform that Serendipity Crystals has become.

As always, with divine timing, Janet and I had developed both a close professional and personal bond and she was therefore a natural choice to take over Serendipity and carry it forward into it’s next evolution. So, I am delighted to share her story below and hope you will support Janet as much as you’ve supported me over the past 21 years of running this incredible, small business.

I’ll be working closely with Janet throughout August & September and hope you’ll continue to connect with me in my private Facebook Group called The Clarity Queen as I step into the next chapter of my story. Click Here to join. Alternatively, you can always reach out to me at: clarityqueen@kristyhodges.com

With SO MUCH LOVE and GRATITUDE

Kristy xxx

JANET’S STORY

I was born in 1967 and brought up in Surrey, UK with my parents and younger brother until my early 20s.

I’ve always felt a bit different. Like I was dropped off one day and have been trying to find my way for a good chunk of life and could never really figure out why. Life has been a journey with some incredible adventures along the way, most of which I’ve been truly grateful for and I have always felt divinely guided.

Being highly sensitive from birth, home and school life felt awkward and quite lonely, as I didn’t feel like I fitted in anywhere. My parents didn’t get on. Although there was no violence, the words and energy could often be cut with a knife. I couldn’t put my finger on it at the time, but knew things weren’t right. They did their best with what they had, there were good times too and I have always had immense gratitude for them, including having a lot of freedom in my teens. Due to being so sensitive and shy, I was bullied at school in my younger years. By age 11, I decided that I was not prepared to accept that any longer and they left me alone, so I started to make some friends.

I have always felt unseen energy. When quite young, I remember saying ‘I always wanted a big brother but didn’t get one’. My mother, noticing the disappointment, consoled me with ‘Well, darling, you would have had a big brother, but he didn’t make it. We did try.’ Sadly, that elder brother was stillborn. However, I then became aware of a presence in Spirit and began communicating with it. This instantly brought a feeling of safety and being guided and held in an invisible, yet very real way. I didn’t understand that it was him until much later (early 30’s) when having a family Constellation Session and realised the significance of having an elder sibling that has passed on. In time, he guided me to a job in nature that I really loved, and I very consciously felt his presence.

Music was my world as a child and a teenager. I started going to concerts age 14 and age 16 started attending motorbike rallies and camping trips with friends. At 18 I bought my beloved Suzuki GT250 X7 motorcycle, a bike that took me on lots of adventures around the UK and Europe. Many miles were covered and there were even a few rebuilds (undertaken by me).

I solo backpacked for a year to discover parts of myself I hadn’t met yet, lived and worked in Amsterdam, studied Motorcycle Mechanics in Nottingham (just for fun), lived in Sweden whilst working for a charity and had tons of adventures. There must by gypsy in my blood somewhere as travelling is a huge passion!

However, in 1995, disaster struck! It started with a common cold; that turned into flu, then bronchitis and then when I still didn’t listen to the signs, it went to my head, literally, and became Encephalitis, an illness that causes inflammation of the brain. I was unable to walk, do things for myself or talk coherently for quite some time. A month was spent in hospital undergoing tests, intense physio and speech therapy to help recovery and I was then discharged and left to deal with the issues that remained. I was lucky, it can be life-threatening and not everyone who contracts it survives. It was a viral infection that can only be treated energetically, with time, rest, and healing. Drugs weren’t an option. I had to do the work myself and was lucky enough to have the support of an amazing network of friends. I really had an angel (or maybe several!) who had my back.

I was incredibly blessed to make an almost full recovery, and the experience really woke me up. Though it did so gradually, in baby steps, because there was a lot of fear. Worries of it coming back and possibly becoming worse; maybe ending up permanently disabled and more. You name it; all those silent beliefs tapping away at my unconscious without an escape route at the time. I wasn’t given information or much support from the medical industry, because 30 years ago, nobody knew.

In the late 90’s, I started learning Meditation, Self-Development, Crystals and Reiki. These helped to heal me so beautifully, I went on to qualify as an Aromatherapist in 2007 and set up my own healing practice.  Aromatherapy remained my main work for many years whilst I continued to study and embody some of the most profound healing modalities currently in existence such as The Emotion Code, The Body Code and The Belief Code.

With the exception of genetics, broken bones, serious undiagnosed illnesses and certain other medical issues that you would normally visit your doctor for, it is my belief that most things can be healed. I still have a slight speech impediment from the illness. Many think I have an interesting foreign accent, which is fine! So, for the record, am not drunk when holding a session and, in fact, rarely drink at all! I’m also neuro-diverse; but have never let these things get me down. Life’s challenges and how we deal with them make us who we are, all unique and special in our own way. With 18 years of experience as a holistic therapist; it’s apparent that many illnesses or causes of disease are not even ours! Many have been passed through the generations, some going back 100’s of years, absorbed energetically or even brought with us from past lives if you believe in those. Not forgetting the environment that we grew up in, our early childhood experiences and our conditioning. These all have an enormous effect on the way we live our lives as adults.

When it comes to crystals, I received my first crystal when I was about 17 years old. A Tigers Eye pendant as a birthday gift from a dear friend. I loved it and wore it daily, it helped give me confidence, which is one of the properties of Tigers Eye.

After the illness, I attended LOTS of self-development classes and began to feel a HUGE affinity with crystals. The collection grew in earnest after that. I remember being drawn to a Blue Goldstone and, after buying one and several others at a fair, popped it under my pillow at night and had THE MOST AMAZING dream that I’ve ever had! I dreamt that I travelled back through past lifetimes and saw scenes from 5 different lifetimes over the past 1000 years. The first 4 were just snippets, but the 5th was vivid, showing a scene of something relevant that I needed to know at that time. It felt so real; and the bizarre thing was, the seller of the crystal said ‘Oh, this is a man-made stone, it doesn’t do anything, don’t expect much.’ Well, I was living proof that just a mere crystal and a meagre man-made one at that, woke up a part of my soul enough to bring through the exact information needed at the time. What a powerful reminder that we should always trust our own intuition and not just follow other people’s narratives!

The crystal collection kept growing rapidly over the years with many magical experiences along the way. I first met Kristy at a small fair in Norfolk around 2010. The array of sparklies on her stand was so impressive, it blew me away! After that I was even more hooked and have always loved Krissy’s penchant for the slightly bizarre and more uncommon crystals. Let’s face it, the more common ones can be found on practically every street corner!

I’ve had my own, small scale crystal business for a while, which has been geared towards Mind, Body, Spirit and craft events. Stepping over to Serendipity feels like a natural progression. It is an absolute joy to follow up Kristy’s legacy with Serendipity Crystals and I will do my very best to do it justice. If there is anything crystal-related I can help you with, please don’t hesitate to shout. Once I’ve got to grips with it all, I’ll also be opening up my diary for client sessions again, so if you’ve ever wanted to chat about the Emotion, Body or Belief Codes or to shift ancestral patterns or generational trauma, please do reach out. I’d be delighted to help.

With Love, Janet x