My Story
I never set out to be a Therapist, Counsellor, or any kind of Healer. I only ever set out to heal myself.
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.
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I was in no way set up or prepared with the necessary skills to succeed in life.​
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For much of the early part of my recovery journey, I struggled on my own. In those days, there was not the level of research, knowledge, and understanding about the true impact of childhood abuse and trauma there is today.
​​With the work of great Psychologists, clinicians, and researchers like Alice Miller, Bessel Van Der Kolk, Dr Gabor Mate' and many others that came before them from the fringes of a closed system, that is changing. However, we still have a long way to go.
The mainstream system, the medical-industrial complex, and the conventional Mental Health arena are still profoundly lacking in their understanding, and in what they have to offer in terms of treatment and support for people affected by trauma, particularly childhood trauma. This is largely due to vested interests, as well as the rejection of the fragility of childhood and the spiritual dimensions of the human experience.​ This became blatantly obvious to me from my own experience with the 'system.'
Intuitively, I knew there was no remedy for me in the conventional model, 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 more than we have ever been led to believe. This is Holy Ground.
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I became ignited by the magnitude of my experiences and followed an impulse to begin creating courses for women suffering the effects of childhood trauma and Self-alienation. The first was an 8-week program called, 'Women's Spiritual Health.' That was over twenty years ago now, and it is as relevant and vital today, as it was then.​ Around the same time, I also wrote my autobiography, One More Breath~ A struggle for self and soul.
We are told time heals all wounds. The truth is wounds that remain unhealed through direct engagement and processing, remain in our system where they play out within the theater of the external world.
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When it comes to healing, there is no one-size fit's all process or modality that can magically cure all our ills. In truth, each of our journeys is unique. No two paths are alike, just as no two snowflakes are identical, and no two sets of fingerprints are the same. However, similar themes, patterns, and archetypes are encountered along the way.
We can help ourselves by looking to others who have undergone the journey before us for guidance and support, by reading books, and by learning from quality teachers, therapists, and way-showers. However, our unfolding is a right of passage we must take sole responsibility for.
When you understand the journey you are on is an evolutionary, multidimensional one, your perspective has the opportunity to change, making way for you to become more the willing explorer of your own interior, rather than stay stuck in a version of yourself that was not necessarily of your own making.
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There is much to discover about who we are and what makes us tick. If you're willing to dive in and become the explorer of your own inner landscape, you will, bit by bit, shed the false layers that hide you from who and what you really are.