Covered in Yucky Mucky Mud: Time to Wake Up

By Hollie Belle

This book is a step-by-step guide to finding your way home. It will help you sift through all the distractions that life has thrown at you. Following the process contained within these pages can assist you in discovering the truth about who you are. Letting go of all the lies you have been holding onto.

It may not take you all the way home, but it is a start. It is the first step on the path that leads to your heart. To your truth. You cannot create the life of your dreams until you know who you are. Understanding every decision that you have made along the way up until now. And all is as it should be.

With Covered in Yucky Mucky Mud, you will learn:
• Who you are
• What your heart truly wants
• To let go of all the lies that are holding you back
• The truth about all relationships
• To release the beliefs that are tying you down
• How to be at peace
• To embrace your feelings and accept them
• What it is that you are truly looking for
• How to see the perfection in everything

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Dec 9, 2020
• ISBN: 9781504323697

Hollie Belle

Hollie Belle has spent most of her life living in a fog, though she has always known she is different and unique. Since her awakening, she is passionate about sharing her knowledge with everyone who is ready to wake up, helping others gain clarity about their own lives and find their true purpose in life. She lives with her daughter and husband in Sydney, Australia.

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Balboa Press rev. date:  12/07/2020

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to you. My dear sweet soul. Yes, you. The one reading this book. I’ve been told that you need me. It would be wise to have this book, especially in these times of uncertainty, where we have become lost. I hope that you will see yourself within these pages. And when that happens, you may begin to unravel the truth.

The language in this book is simple. My love for you is just as simple. Words sometimes get in the way of what we are trying to communicate. And by the end of this book, I don’t want you to have any doubts about the message that I am here to share with you.

There is a conversation you have been putting off for many, many years. I am inviting you to have that conversation with me right now. So get yourself a cup of tea or that cup of coffee. Pull up a chair. Please, stay for a while. Let’s talk.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1     What’s It All About?

Chapter 2     What Are You Looking At?

Chapter 3     Separation Is Now Complete

Chapter 4     Falling In Love

Chapter 5     Working Hard Or Hardly Working

Chapter 6     Home Sweet Home

Chapter 7     So You Wanna Be A Parent?

Chapter 8     So You Think You’re This Meat Suit?

Chapter 9     Reaching Halfway: The Mid-Life Crisis

Chapter 10   Well, Now What?

Chapter 11   Planting A New Seed

Chapter 12   Home - Are We There Yet?

After Thoughts

About The Author

PREFACE

So here we are again, my beloved and treasured soul. I am talking to you through yet another of my many messengers. I have come to you through this book to guide you back to you. For you have strayed so far off the path that you don’t even realize there is one.

Far have you strayed, looking for this and following that, and at this point, you feel lost. But don’t fret. If you are reading this now, you can find your way back to the path. What path are you talking about? you may ask. Well, my dearest soul, the one that leads home, the passage that leads to your heart.

For there are many roads along the way. Some lead to fame. Others lead to fortune. Others still lead to despair and chaos. Many tracks lead to many different experiences and when you are done walking down all these walkways, will you finally realize that there is only one path you long for. Only one direction that your heart yearns to follow.

As a parent, you send your kids to school. You watch them play in the park after school. They have all their little adventures throughout the day. But at the end of the day, all they want is to come home, to be home.

Similarly, your soul wants to play. It desires to experience this and it wants to try that on for size. But when all is said and done, it just wants to come home. It longs to be home.

You see, when the messengers realize that they have a message to give to the world, it becomes their responsibility to share it with everyone. Their information becomes a global issue. As we know it, our planet is in trouble, and to save this beautiful earth, we need to alter our thinking. Our focus and attention need to shift drastically, and more importantly, our belief systems must change.

One person alone cannot do it. But if every one of us steps up and changes the dialogue going on upstairs, miracles can happen. As a matter of fact, a miracle is taking place right now. You are here. You found me at the precise moment that you need me most. We are one because what affects you affects me too. This concept is something that will become very clear to you by the end of chapter two.

If the sun decided not to rise tomorrow, it would devastate all of us. If all the waters on earth dried up, life would perish. All of life would cease to exist if the air was no longer available to breathe it in and exhale it out. The earth is begging us to wake up and live in harmony with it.

This book is a record of my observations. These views are not fact or fiction. Merely what I perceive in my daily life. If any part of this book profoundly offends you, then my work here is done and I can rest in peace. You see, you can lie to everyone else, but you cannot lie to yourself forever. Deep down, you know the truth. And that’s why you are here right now.

Life is simple. Life is easy. We need to shed all that is no longer required and step into the light.

Ultimately, all it takes is one breath. Breathe in. Breathe out. There you are. Now we are talking to each other in my language.

INTRODUCTION

It has been three years since I completed my first book. From the moment it was published, I knew that it wasn’t the end. A voice inside of me kept nagging me to pick up my pen. My work is not done here. I’ve had a few people ask me: When are you going to write another book? They told me that they really enjoyed the first one.

So I am now on a mission, and what exactly is that mission? You see, we all get home in our own unique way. Some find it on the top of the mountain where all is still and quiet. If it is their time and if they are ready to surrender. For you can be on top of the tallest mountain and have a raging war going on in your mind. You’re not going to find peace here today. Come back in two thousand years, please.

Eventually, I came to my peace through reading many, many, many, did I say many - books. I felt like the King in the movie: The King and I. Thirsting for knowledge my entire life, and yet peace kept eluding me. We were taught specific things in church (as my Mum was a devout Catholic), but a voice in my mind kept saying that can’t be right! And I was only eight years old! So many things didn’t feel right. But they were part of my journey.

Then in my early twenties, I discovered Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. These books blew my mind away. They helped me release a lot of my guilt, but I wasn’t ready yet. You see, you can read till the cows come home, but until you have the experience, it just doesn’t mean a thing.

There were so many things that I was so sure were right. This is definitely the way to happiness. It has to be. I can feel it in my heart. And then I got there and that feeling inside of me didn’t change. No matter what I did, no matter what happened in my life, nothing changed inside, until it did.

I want to be clear here that I am just as human as everyone else. There is nothing special about me at all. I’m not supermodel material. Nor am I athletic in any way. I don’t stand out in a crowd at all. Half of my teeth have been pulled out over the years. I have plantar fasciitis, so my right foot is constantly aching, and I have pain on my right side, where the doctors took out my gall bladder. I like to think of that pain as the blade that pierced Jesus’ side. It is my little reminder that there is a little Jesus in all of us.

We’re all hauling our crosses and carrying our burdens, yet all blessed with the same gifts. Each of us is a miracle maker in our way. I am writing this book and will continue to write because it might just be what you need to hear to go yes! It all makes sense and I get it now. I can finally be at peace.

You see, there cannot be peace in the world until we hold the peace within our hearts: every one of us. The earth is simply a reflection of how we are feeling inside. The turmoil, the chaos, the anger, and angst we see in our world today are the very things clouding our minds. We are allowing thoughts of fear to govern our lives - concepts of lack. Ignorance and hatred are invited to roam free in our minds.

I started writing this book with no direction whatsoever. I have been putting it off because writing my first book was easy. All I had to do was write my life story. Each chapter was five years of my life. Five years of memories and experiences. But where do you go from there? I had no clue.

In truth, I couldn’t put off writing this book any longer because the voice inside my head kept telling me to trust the process. Just go with the flow. Take that first step. So here I am, and here we are.

It is no accident that you are here holding this book, and it is definitely not a coincidence. You may not see it at the moment, but you are meant to be here. If at any time you feel angry or offended, then you’ve come to the right place. Resolving these issues is my speciality. So what are you waiting for?

Put your seat belt on and hold onto your hats. We are in for a bumpy ride! Let’s get to work.

CHAPTER 1

What’s It All About?

S o you may be thinking at this stage. What’s it all about? Good question. I don’t know. The truth is that there is no point to your life. You are just here to experience everything and that’s it. Hopefully, that has answered all your questions and cleared any doubts you may have had about your life. Thank you for buying my book and I hope you have a wonderful day.

Wait, wait, wait. Hang on a minute! Right now, you might be thinking, what are the next two hundred pages about then? You have no idea how thrilled I am that you asked that question.

I am here to help you ease your mind. If the thoughts in your mind are easy, then your life becomes easy. If your thoughts are simple, then there is less chaos in your mind. And I am guessing that you are here because the chaos is getting way out of hand. Am I right? That’s how my process started. I had just had enough of the conversation that was going on upstairs. Do you know what I mean?

The noise in my head was deafening and I didn’t like a single thought I was having. Mostly the ideas I had about myself. My thoughts about the world were primarily negative. I was stuck in a rut but knew deep down in my heart that there had to be a better way. I could feel it with every fibre of my being.

Life is hard because we are engrossed in judging this and judging that. We are caught up in placing labels on things. This is right. That is wrong. But what if it’s all right and what if it’s all wrong? What if, every belief you ever had was not true? Have you ever stopped to think about that?

Just as an example, I spent over fifteen years waiting to have my first child. I honestly believed with all my heart that when this baby came into my life, my life would take off. Thinking that I would never be angry again and that my life would be perfect. Well, that day came and went. Now, I love my little girl with all my heart. Don’t get me wrong. But my life wasn’t perfect after she came and the anger didn’t go away.

If anything, she accentuated all those emotions. In fact, my anger intensified, causing despair to set in because I had believed that she was the answer. All the love I would have for this tiny little being would mean no longer having room for any other feelings. But instead, the emptiness I felt inside before she came, felt like it was amplifying. I thought I would feel connected to everyone and everything when she was born. Despite my belief, I found myself feeling more disconnected than ever. More separate.

What was wrong with me? Why couldn’t I be happy? I had nothing to complain about. More importantly, I didn’t have any health issues causing me constant pain. There were no issues that stopped me from doing what I wanted to do in my life. My husband was kind and loving, and we had a wonderful home. Then one day, my husband asked me a question. This question turned my life around. And now, I am going to ask you the same thing:

Are you still looking at your mother as if you are five years old?

Pause for a moment and think about this. It doesn’t necessarily need to be your mother. It can be your father or a parental figure in your childhood that you are harbouring negative feelings for. A grown-up or an older sibling that in some way, made you feel less than who you are. Let’s carry on.

I was stuck at a point in time. Stuck! This question made me so angry. How dare you? Who do you think you are? Asking me such a stupid question? Looking at my mother as if I am still five years old! I am a grown woman. I’m forty-two years old, dammit! The nerve of this guy. Can you believe it?

Weeks went by in this state of irritation, outraged. How could he say that to me? I thought he loved me. I couldn’t believe he said that to me. Then one day, it hit me, months later, after this question had been stewing in the back of my mind the whole time. I had made a decision about myself at that moment in time. I thought that my mother no longer wanted me. She no longer loved me. I believed it with all my heart and all my being.

Ultimately, that feeling of not being wanted was the root cause of my anger. Later, in my teen years, it was the root cause of my depression. I thought my mother didn’t love me anymore. It was that simple. I mean, how many animals in the animal kingdom bring their young into the world and abandon them? How many don’t want them or don’t care about their offspring? It makes me so sad to think about it now. A little child at the age of five, feeling unwanted and unloved.

But so many people suffer this affliction - this feeling of not being wanted by one of their parents. As a matter of fact, that’s all it takes. Just one parent not caring or not expressing their love in an obvious way to the child. Sometimes it can be both. But there is a way around this. There is a way for you to work through this with me. And that’s why we’re here. So let’s do this! Are you pumped? I’m so pumped!

The first step is acknowledging the moment. You must look at it and accept that this happened, without judgement. Look at yourself when you were five years old. What decision did you make about yourself in regards to your relationship with your mum? What beliefs did you create at this age about your relationship with your dad? This acknowledgement is so essential if you wish to move forward in your life.

If you didn’t have parents, that’s okay. This process works for everyone. To begin with, let’s observe the grown-ups who raised you. There must have been adults in your life who fed and took care of you until you could do it for yourself. Let’s examine your relationship with them. Let’s start with the adults you spent most of your time with before turning five.

You can’t ignore what happened to you. It has made you who you are today. Burying it and pretending it didn’t happen doesn’t fix anything. Yes, we can use these tools to protect ourselves from the pain, but they don’t heal the pain. And so you live with this scar your