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About Philip Ames
My journey to better myself
I came from a severely dysfunctional and unhappy family. My mother was frequently psychotic and my father was an alcoholic. I was sent away to boarding school at 6 years old and stayed there until I was 12. At that point I rebelled and demanded a home like other kids, so my parents bought one. For the next eight years my parents complained that I did not do as well as I did in boarding school. I failed grade seven three times, then dropped out after failing grade 10, having a nervous breakdown during school.
My parents did not get any treatment for me and simply said I would have to get a job.
Two years later they simply moved away and I was left on my own. I spent four years having one breakdown after another, unable to hold onto a job. Finally I found the therapeutic community called Therafields in 1970 and began to get help. In 1973 I collapsed completely and was moved to live at the community’s farm in Orangeville where I stayed for three years, working for my therapy, paying no fees. This was when I began training as a therapist, I could think of nothing I wanted to do more than be like my hero Lea Hindley-Smith, the lady who started the community, as she loved and helped me. It was many years before I realized this was not just a case of hero worship but the passion of my life, it is the work I do to be happy. I’ve always done this work as a volunteer while working at whatever jobs I could get until I started a practice in 1990. Since then I have worked full or part time as a counsellor or head of a counselling department.
What motivates me to help others?
Why do I care?
It was me in that chair before and I remember it all. I can walk you through the process of healing old hurts, teaching you how to rebuild your life so it works. You’ll do the work, get the credit, and I’ll be there to help you learn. You can do it.
In the last four years I have made a major discovery for myself as I decided to intensively research a topic that was getting more and more attention, the Law of Attraction. I still had not found how to be happy or how to create the dream I had for my work at its full scale. I decided the only way to know if this was the tool I was desperate for was to study it intensely, use my critical thinking and test, test, test it to see if it was real.
Gradually, I worked at rebuilding my mind with the new worldview that was necessary; to see the universe as a friendly place that passionately wants all of us to succeed. That, as you may have imagine, was a massive leap given how I had been ‘treated’ by life. In fact though, I was willing to give up my ‘story’ of being a victim and to work with the theory that I have drawn it all to myself simply through the ignorance of my own power to allow in what I desired.
As this learning and acceptance has progressed I’ve seen exactly what others who teach this has said would happen. People, coincidences and serendipities have appeared in my life. The universe giggled and lined up to dump good things on me. It’s been so powerful I’ve made it integral to my work. Now I spend a lot of my time rubbing my hands in delighted anticipation and thinking, “What’s next?”