My journey to become a therapist has unfolded from beginning to take on healing myself. My experience of life has had maybe more than it's fair share of knocks and bangs, which I now find, supports me in understanding a multitude of different issues people are dealing with in their lives, on all levels, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
I have raised two strong independant children, who are now in their teens and early twenties, travelling with them to many different countries. I played music on the street, and painted decorations on shop windows in France for Easter and Christmas to earn a living. It was during this period that I was in a car crash and underwent 5 hours of complex surgery to fix my broken neck.
In 1995 we settled in Spain for 10 years where I built a house in the mountains. I continued to paint, doing some sign writing and, inbetween intense periods of building, I would return to my seasonal work in France.
In 2003, I caught Lymes disease, which started with a bang and then developed into chronic fatigue for three years. I was burnt out from physical, mental and emotional exhaustion, having been a workaholic and lived an emotional rollercoaster of codependant relationships whilst single parenting my children.
I attended codependants anonymous and began to experience the benefits of sharing and listening to others. I practiced Sufism for three years and began to see a number of different healers, training with a creative kinesiologist for one year, and began my ongoing practice of meditation and kundalini yoga. After three years of living with Lymes disease, I finally made my peace with patience, it was a great teacher, one I thoroughly respect, and was granted relief during a session with a spiritual healer. The virus dissapeared from one day to the next, and I had very conciously experienced it's withdrawel from my body. It was a gift that strenghthened my calling to healing.
In 2007 I began my training at the Karuna institute, as a craniosacral therapist. My journey has been really hands on as I experienced releasing the shock held in my nervous system, vertebre, and in all the cells and tissues of my body from the car accident. On my own and with the support of my collegues, I have used this work to literally give me my life back. I have learnt to reinhabit my body and resolved many patterns of emotions held in my family for generations. It is an increadible journey, and one I am moved to help others to travel.
I recognise my purpose is to encourage others to find their truth.
I am here to acknowledge your experience, and the deep wisdom within you, that maps out your journey to heal yourself. I bring to my sessions, the vision of life as constant opportunity, that there is light in every situation, and to make a choice to have life empower you rather than being at the effect of life. To learn to love and cherish yourself, the key to all healing, and have the ability to profoundly connect with others.
In 2008 I met my spiritual teacher Sri Purohit Swami, to whom I am most grateful.
I have recently discovered a great love of dancing.
I am also currently training with bristol-based Relaxed Birth and Parenting, to be a Doula, (birthing assistant).
In the words of Franklyn Sills, senior tutor and founder of the Karuna Institute, who has shared with me the huge gift of his expansive knowledge in this field;
"May all beings be happy, may all beings be healthy, may all beings know their own inherent luminosity!"
