About Me
This is a picture of me taken this Spring at one of my favourite spots close to where I live in Hebden Bridge. I have spent the day outside going for a walk by the river. I love spending time outside in nature – I find the light, sunshine, trees, rocks, fresh air, earth and water to be deeply restoring and nourishing. And I feel really alive!
The Here and Now
Today I am a qualified as an integrated Energy Healer, an Advanced EFT practitioner, and a reiki practitioner. I love my life working with people to release energetic patterns held in their bodies, and learning more all the time about how this happens. You can read more about my Qualifications and the professional organisations I belong to.
The History of an Illness
It wasn’t always like that for me. In 2003, I caught a cold, and was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / ME – from one day to the next. I was deeply emotionally, physically and mentally exhausted, and that just wasn’t going to go away quickly.
For the next three years, I was in what one of my clients calls the "hell of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / ME." I had to be careful about everything I did. I couldn’t listen to the radio or music or watch television, as it tired me out; I could only go outside for a short time – and once a day at the most; I had to be careful about the number of people I talked to in a day (a short telephone conversation could tire me out), and I missed out on the very early years of my two lovely nieces. I had a continual what I called “brain fog” which meant it was hard to concentrate on anything – reading, writing, or adding up numbers (I worked as an accountant!)
The Path to Recovery
The therapies I have chosen to train in are ones that have really helped me to regain vibrant health. Energy Healing and Reiki have literally been a journey back to the freedom to be myself, letting go of unhelpful patterns and behaviours which were consuming my energy. EFT has helped hugely with a lot of the emotional issues that surfaced as I was trying to get myself better, and has also helped me with other things that have supported the healing process – for example, giving up unhealthy foods, regaining self confidence, overcoming fear of being ill again.
I am passionate about the therapies I have trained in, and hope to be able to share some of my knowledge with you.
As a result of my own healing journey through Chronic fatigue Syndrome / ME, I am now specialising in helping clients suffering from this debilitating condition - in addition to my other, general work. You can read more about the way I work with people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / ME by clicking here.
A Few More Things About Me
As well as my own experience of recovering from a debilitating, chronic illness, chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, I also bring to my healing practice my years of meditation. For over fifteen years, I have practiced meditations which increase awareness and increase compassion for yourself and for other people.
Through meditation, I have been going inside myself and getting to know myself better – developing more awareness of myself, and more love and acceptance of myself. For me, a key factor in the healing process is about turning that awareness, empathy and acceptance out to another person.
People tell me that I am very empathic and intuitive as a healer, and that I am able to hold people with loving acceptance as they go on their healing journey. I see this as a natural result of my years of spiritual practice, as well as the intense training at the School of Energy Healing.
