Why Freedom to Be
For us freedom 2 B poses a question to you rather than a concept that we can explain. It is a verb, a call to action, it requires a response.
What does freedom mean to you?
What would being yourself without fear or compromise look and feel like for you?
Valerie is from Edinburgh in Scotland, after meeting Dean trekking in Thailand 15 years ago they spent the first 12 years of marriage in the UK, before moving to Australia in June 2007. Packing up a life, 3 children, 3 animals a business and leaving friends and family behind she learnt a lot about change and who you have to become as a person to cope when all around you is unfamiliar and different.
A theology university graduate, Valerie focussed her attention on raising the children and volunteering in their local community and school through art classes, class room assistant, PTA committee and the Guide Association leadership. Valerie was very involved in the running of Dean's chiropractic clinic and understands the pressures and pleasures of managing a very busy business, dealing with patients, advertising and image, while maintaining an open loving home for friends, children and family.
Since moving to the Sunshine Coast she has settled her family, started and run a very busy playgroup, become heavily into personal growth, and has spent over two years of intense and often emotional study to become a Life Coach. Uniting this with her personal research into sacred sexuality, Spirituality and her wide life experience, she has now launched Freedom2B Life Coaching, specialising in a very dynamic, experiential form of coaching and workshop style.
Balance is very important in her life and Valerie has maintained this through art, cooking, yoga and walking her 3 dogs through the forest.
What am I going to do with my life?
Dean is from Melbourne. In his early teens when considering the question "what am I going to do with my life?" his family started to experience chiropractic care. Positive results and amazement at natural healing inspired a career in this 'bone cracking business'. He graduated from chiropractic in 1991 and has been successfully enjoying practice since then. Being a chiropractor takes you on a wonderful journey looking at the concepts of health and disease, the inborn intelligence of the body to heal itself, the mind-body connection, personal responsibility, beliefs and choices, the role of exercise & nutrition and the effect of stress and the happiness factor upon our wellbeing. Being successful as a chiropractor is all about being successful as a person and Dean has been involved with personal growth for nearly 20 years.
A chance trip to Thailand in 1994 resulted in him meeting Valerie. Married in 1995, they settled down in Edinburgh, started a chiropractic business together and had Tabitha in 96, Tristan in 97 and Gabrielle in 99. Within the space of a few years personal growth left the seminar room and became very real. With life going well Dean and Valerie heard the call to come and live in Australia and in 2007 they settled on the Sunshine Coast.
Dean now runs Bribie Island Chiropractic. He lives his ideal life working as a chiropractor and also as a life coach, spending quality time with Valerie and the children and enjoying life on the Sunshine Coast. His special interests are swimming in the sea, walking their 3 dogs in the forest, meditating, running and African drumming.
Dean
"Freedom 2 b is the freedom for me to express my true nature.
Who am I when I peel back my layers of conditioning given to me by parents, teachers, friends, TV, my culture, my world. Who am I when I see how past wounds and experiences control my present situation? It is to look deeply at my thoughts and emotions, and to see what is under them. To gain freedom takes courage to look at what you don't want to see and gaining freedom comes with the responsibility to live a new way. It is a search for the truth of who and what I am. Ultimately freedom is the natural state of our true nature. We can do nothing to earn freedom by external achievements and success. Freedom is internal; it's a choice we can all make. Freedom means that we accept and forgive both ourselves and others. It is a letting go of our egoic needs and desires. It comes when we become still, delve deep inside, and surrender into the innate freedom that is life."Dean Sluce
Valerie
"For me freedom 2 b me is the greatest freedom of all.
No one can give it to you or take it away once you have it. With the media and our fast paced lives it's real easy to try and be someone else, someplace else and disown everything great about YOU, now. How many people actually, stop and ask, 'who am I really?' What do I want out of life? How many times have you heard a person say 'I'll go back to uni', 'take the kids on holiday', 'stop smoking' but without any conviction that even they believe it will ever happen, or they set conditions like 'when I get a better job', 'have more money', 'lose some weight'. Three years will pass and nothing will have changed, except their self worth will have gone lower and their freedom curtailed. Think of the difference having and implementing the tools to make your dreams manifest would have on your self-perception and relationships and ultimately your freedom 2B..."
Valerie Sluce