Why Choose Me?

My first job, was school teaching.
I loved it for years, but finally I had to choose – my soul and my sanity, or the job?

I chose myself (soul + sanity included)

– and as often happens when you put your own needs first, it didn’t go down well!

I took a job as a receptionist in a local dental practice.
It was fast, pressured and full of clients brought there mainly by pain or fear.
But like teaching, there were plenty of opportunities to practice empathy and compassion, and to learn to really listen.

With no schoolwork now to fill my weekends, I dug deeper into my interests in alternative and complementary health.
Ultimately, I trained to professional level in Reflexology.
I left the dental job to go into business for myself.

I noticed that many women felt trapped by circumstances and were anxious, unsure and indecisive about their way forward – and their feet showed that.
When arthritis limited my ability to do Reflexology easily, I combined my interests and professional trainings to help women ready for change, on their journeys of self-discovery and transformation.
And here I am.

In ‘other news’, I have officiated at a funeral, and I have presented at a worldwide Women’s Empowerment Summit.

I have my Compostela – the document awarded by Church authorities in Spain – for walking the Camino de Santiago.
The walking bit was easy.
But my bag never arrived in Spain, and I quickly learned to make do with little more than I stood up in!
This is me, on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela near the end of the Camino.

My home and on-line-working-space is in Feilding in New Zealand’s Manawatu, with a fine view of the Ruahine Ranges by day and huge starry skies by night.