About Me & the Work I Love to Do
We all have a story to share.
This is a little of mine.
I never set out to be a Therapist, Counsellor, or any kind of Healer. I only ever set out to heal myself. Coming to passion and purpose was something unexpected, and that seemed to flower naturally over the years of my journey. I grew into it, or maybe it grew into me. Either way fits.
As a child, I experienced extensive trauma through physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, and religious abuse, all of which created deep, internal fractures and invisible vaults where split-off parts of myself went to hide.
My trauma was so severe that I went through the school system learning nothing. I was not prepared in any way with the necessary skills to succeed in life, especially when it came to connecting with others, intimate relationships, and motherhood.
I had what I now understand to be my first awakening experience when I was 25 years old. I was newly married and the first-time mother of a beautiful baby girl. At the time, I was ironing while watching a late evening documentary. I didn't understand it then, but that program was a catalysing event that initiated a path I have been walking ever since.
For much of the early years of my healing journey, I struggled on my own. In those days, there was not the level of research, knowledge, or understanding about the impact of childhood abuse and trauma that there is today.
I tried to live my life in the way I thought I was supposed to, tried to fulfill what was expected, without having any idea of what a life without pain, suffering, and trauma could be like.
I attempted to find understanding, reassurance, support, and remedy through counseling, psychology, and psychiatry; however, I came to know very quickly that there was no restoration or safety there for me. Only professionals as stiff as their neatly ironed shirts and polished exteriors, lack of comprehension, labels, and medication.
Something 'other' inside me screamed to be known and recognised, so I followed the nudgings of my soul and took a different path, there to encounter the hidden, deeper aspects of myself. I discovered that what lies beneath our traumas, all our wounding, conditioning, and programming, is infinitely far more than we have ever been led to believe.
This is Holy Ground.
Over the years, I had many profound, 'otherworldly' experiences that shattered the beliefs I'd been raised with, both challenging and opening me up to a whole other reality. The more I learnt, the more inspired I became.
The magnitude of my experiences ignited in me a desire to share what I was learning with others, so I followed an impulse to begin creating courses for women suffering the effects of childhood wounding, trauma, and Self-alienation. The first was a successful 8-week program called 'Women's Spiritual Health,' followed by another called 'The Marriage of Will and Intention.' That was over twenty-five years ago, and those courses are as relevant today as they were then. Around the same time, I also began writing my autobiography,
One More Breath~ A Struggle for Self and Soul.
I continued to live, struggle, read, investigate, study, and learn through my experiences many different things relating to spirituality and healing, even as I still had much to unravel about my story, the way it impacted me, and the bigger picture behind it.
I became a massage and Reiki practitioner, studied Community Services, worked with different people across the community sector, and ultimately became a Mental Health Case Worker. It's safe to say I have experienced the university of life in a way that prepared me for something I have always known I was meant for. To be a Guide, Teacher, Speaker, and Wayshower for others.
After I left Mental Health, I studied more healing modalities, undertook intensive training to become a Therapeutic Tarot Practitioner, and later became a Master of Transformational Coaching, Hypnotherapy, Timeline Therapy, and Neuro Linguistic Programming.
In more recent years, I have taken everything I have learned that I know works and woven it powerfully into the creation of my own healing process called, Integrative Timeline Healing.
Where are things now?
Thankfully, with the work of great psychologists, clinicians, and researchers like Alice Miller, Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dr Gabor Mate' and many others, including those who came before them from the fringes of a closed system, awareness of the fragility of childhood is changing. However, we still have a long way to go.
The knowledge and understanding we have now needs to be incorporated into how we as a society make decisions, create, and run our systems, from the top down and the bottom up. Until that bridge is crossed and we have achieved an integration of wisdom with heart-centred governance and leadership, we will continue to see family, children, and childhood as something on the lower rungs of human endeavor.
My life is now dedicated to birthing more light and awareness into the collective field and the individual lives of those clients I have the privilege to connect with.
My work is steeped in grounded spirituality. I do not subscribe to any one system of belief, rather, I understand we are each in a uniquely personal relationship with 'Life,' with the capacity to connect with the Divine free from any ascribed dogma or teaching.
We each travel through life having a singular experience, while also being part of the whole. They can't be separated. The mantra, 'We are all one,' does not supersede the sacred sojourn of the single one.
