About Leslie Marsh:
Your Guide to Transformation
Your Guide to Transformation
My Story: From Alone to Belonging
At five years old, I embodied Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Alone"—I saw things differently. Raised by my grandparents and left largely to my own devices, I found solace in fairy tales from around the world and preferred the company of animals to humans.
Through an unexpected turn of events orchestrated by a stern secretarial teacher, I found myself working at the local zoo at eleven. Those animals taught me lessons no classroom could—about presence, authenticity, and the power of being exactly who you are.
This curiosity about different ways of being led me through veterinary nursing, then to a room in Glastonbury where I discovered my spiritual family and began learning shamanism. But it was the stories—always the stories—that fascinated me most.
I came to understand that every day, words and expressions strike at our psyche, leaving invisible marks. We are constantly telling ourselves stories, forgetting we're also listening to them.
Through what seemed like accidental happenings (but which I now know were anything but), I learned to excavate those "tap-rooted weed words" from people who'd forgotten their own magnificence. I discovered how changing the narrative—changing the words we speak to ourselves—creates profound healing.
I am a storyteller, story listener, and story writer. Change can happen in the blink of an eye. How we tell the tale is the power we gift it.