Mentoring Via Kindness, Creativity & Spirit
Welcome! I am so pleased you are here.
Are you attracted to people with a strong energetic life-force? Who have a twinkle in their eyes? This vibration is called Shen in Chinese Medicine. It is when your heart and mind are aligned and you are on your life’s path. So our work together is to enhance your Shen, your Spirit. How? By empowering you through a greater knowledge and appreciation of the magic that you are and teaching you energetic techniques that have worked for me.
Who are you?
Who are you beneath all the external pressures of life, family and work… or the dis-ease and/or difficulties of life’s adventures?
Why not be happier, healthier…able to touch hope, freedom and joy (again). To close down the fear that (somedays) echoes every step. To experience a richer calmer life. Age well. With grace.
My mentoring is drawn from my passion for both energy and the beauty of the human spirit: its strengths, its vulnerabilities, its power. And the body’s deep desire not only to heal itself, but to be at peace.
As an energy channel practitioner our work together is deeply personal, often touching the sacred.
Balanced energy, it becomes the fuel that moves us towards our Destiny. Unbalanced, we get stuck or off track.
So this is all about raising your energetic vibration, of rekindling the twinkle in your eyes, of helping you to follow your heart, of you moving towards your Destiny…via creativity and nourishment of self.
I see this as work of the spirit. Let me define what I mean…
‘Spirit’ doesn’t have a religious connotation. For me, it means a State of Peace…So when a client comes to see me what I try to do is give them guidance so that they can maintain a State of Peace. Some call me a spiritual director. I call myself privileged.
Meet Helene Anne
Helene Anne is healer/artist who got very ill. Through the skilled hands of her energy mentors she reversed a chronic disease via Classical Chinese Medicine.
Initially as an Eden Energy Medicine practitioner, and today as an energy channel practitioner in Mentorship with Ann Cecil-Sterman’s Classical Chinese Medicine training, Helene Anne teaches what she has learned to her clients focussing on three lenses of energy: creativity, nourishment and emotions. She then watches them transform. She works via distance (zoom) and in person from her Wakefield Quebec (Canada) Studio. Email: info@portraitsofyourlife.com – 819.459.2161
“All illnesses and chronic diseases, over time, are caused by an unsettled Spirit.”
Master Jeffrey Yuen/Ann Cecil-Sterman
Helene Anne’s Energy Story
It all started one evening about two decades ago in the lower level of Ottawa’s old Talisman Hotel… I paid $10 at the door to listen to Dr. Effie Chow, a Qigong Master, talk about “energy.” That evening I was riveted as I watched Master Chow move a hulk of a man unwillingly 30 feet backwards against a wall just using her intent and energy… Realize Dr. Chow was barely 5 feet high, weighing in at 100 pounds, wearing a red suit and high heels…more
“This spirit work seeks to realign my clients with their deeper beautiful energy that is their true nature, their exquisite vibration.”
Helene Anne Fortin
Testimonials
I have been working with Helene Anne for a while now. The work she does has changed the way I think about things. My perception, my reaction to life’s happenings have completely altered. I am more at peace.
She has lovingly guided me to a truer, more genuine self. She opens her heart and soul while gently showing you the way. Thank you dear lady. B.L.
Helene is an incredible mentor, who has truly helped change my life, by giving me more confidence in my gifts as a highly sensitive person.
She has given me knowledge, tools and guidance as I’ve navigated many unknowns, changes and opportunities. She inspires me to use my sensitivity to help others, as she has done for so many. R.B.
I have been working with Helene Anne regularly for 1.5 years. She is one of the most incredible women I know: smart, intuitive, caring and a character!
Helene Anne’s highly successful and effective brand of mentorship combines working with the body’s energies, the brain and the heart…
When all of these channels are open and fluid (and Helene Anne does this oh so well) we move forward from a place of authenticity and strength… V.C.
I must say, today was such a blessing. I still feel a calmness, with the excitement of our day but gently. I have been seeking a mentor for some time. Not really knowing how to or who I should seek out but as the universe does, it set me on a path leading to your zen-like studio in the Gatineau Hills.
I just have the best time with you. So enlightening, so inspiring, so comforting and safe… like coming home. Not only do I feel a beautiful kinship with you, you have made my visions clearer and valid/worthy enough to bring to life. B.D.
A Few of my Articles…
I love to write. Here are recent articles that have appeared in international magazines. Enjoy!
Food for Life: Through the Chinese Medicine Lens
Copyright Helene Anne Fortin
About 12 years ago I got struck down by Lyme Disease. I followed the Western medical route and ended up at the Centre for Disease Control (C.D.C.) hoping to get a diagnosis and some semblance of relief.
Why was I seeking help? To put it bluntly, it was like my previously well-functioning high-energy body had been taken over by an alien: night sweats drenched my body from head to toe to the point where I would be changing sheets over and over throughout the night.
And then there were these thousands of ants (that’s what it felt like) running up and down my spine making sleep impossible for months on end. And finally, the brain fog that rendered me a vegetable. The Centre for Disease control (C.D.C.) dismissed me saying it was all in my head.
I live in Canada in a crazy tick-infested area. The Canadian medical approach is that Lyme disease does not exist. More…
Direct Messaging (DM) Dog
Copyright: Helene Anne Fortin
OMG the tube of deep rich paint is missing… It’s one of those extra concentrated ones. Deep purple.
I’ve searched everywhere. What did she do with it… that new fluffy puppy Zara who invaded my studio four weeks ago.
She hides things in her “nest”: an ever-growing collection of toys, blankets, stuffies and every single loose mat in my studio.
The white paint tube has been found thankfully. But the floor in the kitchen has become an abstract masterpiece of white paint and paw prints. Yet the purple paint tube remains carefully hidden.
Zara (I’ve come to realize) is a direct messaging (D.M.) dog. Pay attention to me or watch out. Walking into my office just now she announces her water dish needs filling (there’s a big empty water bowl in her mouth). Definitely a D.M. dog…
This dog reminds me of how chronic diseases or other unexplained health issues arise. Just like a loud fearful siren yelling at us to stop, these are direct… More…
Worry & Over-Thinking
Copyright Helene Anne Fortin
For decades I was the queen of worry. I could worry at any time, day or night, consciously or unconsciously, standing up or sitting down.
Truth be told that worry and its buddy, over-thinking, had eaten away at my energy for decades. I wanted desperately out of that cyle. This is how I got myself, my health AND my zest for life back… perhaps you can do the same.
For a decade now, I have been studying the brilliance of Chinese Medicine (CM). I love the way CM sees us as a whole: body, mind and spirit. How it understands what heavy and constant emotions do to our long-term well-being. More…
Creativity: Your Journey Home
Copyright Helene Anne Fortin
And my client wrote,
“I’m writing to you in the middle of a 24-hour shift (as an EMT) at the ambulance station. It involves a lot of sitting around in between calls.
The fluorescent lights are humming a low buzz, a pizza box is cracked open on the table in front of me with the scent of greasy pepperoni seeping into the air, the big screen TV is turned on in the corner of the room at high volume, and I can’t find anything safe or remotely soothing to look at.
I’m uncomfortable. Uncomfortable in this building, uncomfortable in my body, and uncomfortable in my life. I have spent the last four days obsessing over how to stop bingeing. More…
The Season of Peace
Copyright Helene Anne Fortin
Deep within the philosophy of Chinese Medicine is the concept that we humans replicate the seasons and the external world within our bodies.
This is a metaphoric view of not only how connected we are to Mother Earth but that we are HER. And that the illnesses or dis-eases we mirror within often reflect what happens outside our window.
We, as energy beings, are sponges. We often happily allow the energy outside our door to permeate our lives without ever realizing its deadly impact (i.e., the news) on our well-being.
Inside our world – yours and mine – are the seasons of our life, our personalities, our health issues as well as our pre-destined life. More…
You are a Marvel…
“And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France.
When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michaelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.” Pablo Casals
Pablo Casals (the brilliant cellist who lived until 96 — due to his love affair with music). His photo at right. Photo credit: unknown.
Mentor
Helene Anne Fortin –Photo credit: Eva Matthys
Get in Touch
Tel: 819.459.2161
https://heleneannefortin.thinkific.com/
Opening Hours • Location
Tuesday through Saturday 11- 5 pm or by appointment.
Location: 5 Burnside Road, Wakefield Quebec Canada.
Website Artwork: I would like to thank Joan Garnett for the lovely outdoor image of me and Zara used in the Direct Messaging Dog article. All other artwork credited to Helene Anne unless otherwise noted. The Kanji (Chinese characters) used herein mean Spirit and Gold, respectively.
Helene Anne Fortin • kind mentor 