How long have we got? The longer I live, the more there is to compress into a few words! 

My life ambition from age 8 was to have babies. The more the better. It started out as an unrealistic 30, got reduced to about 12 when in my teens, and ended up as a more manageable 5:  4 daughters with a son sandwiched neatly in the middle. 

They have been my greatest teachers and I'm beyond grateful to have them, ditto my lovely granddaughters.

I've been passionate about health and nutrition since the early 1990's, when I also discovered rebounders and acquired my first one from the Next Directory - it was grand in it's early inception! 

In 1996 I bought the single best book of my life in terms of its impact on my health, "Radical Rejuvenation" by Roxy Dillon. It was full of amazing facts about supplements and herbs, which I proceeded to use - as much as money allowed at any given time. 

The main thrust of the book is about eating a raw food diet yet  this  took me another 12 years to fully embrace. Thankfully, it was at exactly the right time to haul me through the menopause relatively unscathed. 

Consequently, as a nutritional therapist (since 2004) and a freelance nutritional health writer, I've spent many years absorbed in the world of health, fitness and healing.

I am still passionate about all of this, but wanted to expand and change up what I was doing, so I became certified as a Reiki Master and dipped my toes into Animal Communication. 

Then along came The Emotion Code - via my youngest daughter who had discovered it whilst in some far flung land and subsequently became a practitioner herself.  

For me it hit the spot immediately. It made such sense. 

We all carry emotional trauma. We all need relief from this to live our healthiest best lives. Instead, we trundle it around with us, haphazardly adding more and more as we move through relationships, jobs, family life and so on. 

I am a living example of what happens when years of stress build up and goes unrecognised.

I thought I knew when I was stressed. I thought I had learned how to handle this. I thought I was in excellent health and  nicely fit. 

Then  BOOM... out of nowhere ...an injury that  never fully healed but which I'd 'managed' for 3 years... led to me having difficulty walking.

 Fit, supple me, surely not. 

I was told by the osteopath I (finally) consulted, that I was like a piano wire about to snap and if I didn't remove the source of stress I'd soon be in a wheelchair.

I've managed to avoid the wheelchair but I'm still on my own healing path and for the last 5 years have been held up by crutches (which someone is minding off camera, ready for me to grab, in the above photo.)

It is apparently some kind of healer (or rather, healing facilitator) paradox, that we can effectively help others  but get somewhat stuck when treating ourselves! I rather suspect it is because when two people are working on the healing,  the  combined energy is far greater. 

However, I was well on the road to recovery in 2019 after the Barefoot Doctor appeared in my life and subsequently offered his healing expertise. I had never experienced energy healing to this degree or been in the presence of such absolute, pure, unconditional love. 

Then a few months later, he died. Since then, it has been a more challenging  process, but still heading in the right direction. 

So, I understand chronic pain both physical and emotional. I understand stress and difficult relationships. I understand parenting and concern about children's futures. I understand money worries. I understand not feeling good enough. I  understand ageing (dammit). I understand trying to figure out where we are right now in this existence and trying to make it work for us. 

My wish is to facilitate the healing process for anyone in need, to the best of my abilities, which I am continually honing and levelling up.

Life is exciting and amazing, and the changing world is one to be embraced rather than feared, as we all magically bumble along, co creating our reality(ies).