Where do you come from & where is home for you now?
I was born in a place called Axwell Park, Blaydon upon Tyne, North East England. Lived there for 25 years. Blaydon sits in between fabulous Northumberland Countryside & about 3 or 4 miles from the vibrant city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Newcastle is a beautiful city with stunning architecture, on the river Tyne land marks being the many stunning bridges, even its Brown Ale beer has its own unique reputation. Newcastle upon Tyne folk being most famous for the warm & friendly wealth of soul found in the hearts of all Geordies.
Most recent landmark being ‘The Angel of the North’.
Home now, well that’s a difficult one as the old saying goes ‘Home is where the Heart is’ & often my heart feels at home wherever I am. Mostly though, my house & life are now in the South East of England, in a lovely home shared with my delicious hubby & delightful daughter in a little village high upon a hill in the county of Kent. Our home is surrounded by trees with an open garden, which lends & extends its beauty & is host to panoramic views, vast views on a clear day of up to 45 miles.
Do you have a family?
I have my immediate family i.e. my husband sharing 18 years of marriage & our teenage, lovely daughter. My family from uptd North all still live there, my elderly parents in their eighties, sister, brother, nephews & niece, aunts, uncles, cousins etc all a great miss on a day to day basis coffee & chat basis, although the telephone is a marvellous tool. Plus it’s always lovely to travel back North to see everyone for holidays & celebrations.
What did you dream of becoming when you were a child?
Oddly enough, I always wanted to be a psychologist, social worker or a psychiatrist!! I used to dream of all people being united, all friendly towards each other simply because their hurt feelings were acknowledged or their tantrums & fears soothed. I always thought all conflicts or problems were so simple & the emotional complexities always misunderstood. That if only people would speak their feelings & truth all would be so much easier & happier.
Being totally undecided of what career I wanted, my Father enrolled me into the ‘College of Arts & Technology’, studying Beauty Therapy, Art, Science & Hairdressing. As during schooling to earn pocket money, I would always do friends of the families ‘makeup’ ‘hairstyling’& ‘beauty care’.
The creativity & artistic side of beauty & hairdressing was a natural flair, the science of it all fascinating but the creating of illusions to make people feel & look more pretty, although very easy to do but a challenge ‘logically’ as I always would talk deeply, explore their feelings & why they would rely only upon just looking good externally when their natural inner beauty, radiance & confidence were far more long term then quick temporary fixes!! Trying to encourage them to be naturally themselves & accept their own beauty... hmmm obviously not what the beauty industry or my employers wanted!!
What jobs have you done in the past?
Oh so many diverse paths, yet all leading wonderfully to all I do now. I’ve enjoyed hairdressing & being a beautician, nursing, dentistry nursing & reception work, childminding, teaching painting & decoration in ceramic pottery workshops. Most recently setting up a local community ‘Family clinic’ so those on low incomes, or in violent abusive families etc could benefit & learn about Holistic health care as opposed to the usual take a pill route. Arranging their clinic time so they could come for treatments free, persuading to use some government funding. I worked in this clinic for 6 years and the legacy remains & continues, still reaching many people who now know about complimentary health care that perhaps would never have discovered it otherwise.
Yet oddly all of the jobs would end up the same resulting bottom line, within sharing much care, attention & listening to the feelings & discovering the sticking blocks of people’s emotions & private lives.
What do you do now?
Mostly working within ‘one to one’ deep Soles2Soul intuitive consultations. Combining my Clinical Reflexology knowledge to support & assist the intuitive understanding of the energy life force, reading all history of emotional trauma, physical ailments, dis-ease, imbalance, and depression etc via the soles of the feet. My energy, seeming to be very catalystic, activates the innate, profound healing mechanism from within to promote homeostasis. Enjoying work with clients’ energy & emotional healing through emails & telephone, as all problems can be equally sensed via the words or voice vibration. Also creating & host of ‘The Language of Life’ workshops & also other relationship workshops.
How did you discover Reflexology, your abilities to use energy & the soles of the feet as the Souls guide for the application of your treatments ?
During pregnancy I was quite poorly, constant 27/7 sickness, tests for many things – diabetes etc. After our baby daughter was born, about 7 months later I again started to feel very poorly, very tired. I put this down to a normal reaction, ie having no family or much support around me – naturally parenting would be exhausting & hard! So I struggled on & on, until almost 7 years later when I had swollen ‘everythings’, bloated & gained much weight that wouldn’t shift no matter what I tried to do to lose the weight. I felt like death warmed up, I would sleep 8 hours & wake up exhausted. I could hardly walk without being breathless, my whole body hurt & at times I just wanted to die as living was so painful. Cut a long story short after knocking at ‘deaths door’ & enduring many more scans, blood tests etc. I eventually went to the Dr’s & basically my endocrine system was dysfunctional to say the least! As I could feel my muscles were weak & wrecked; there was no way any amount of pills prescribed were going to make me wholly better. So after much research the most specialised therapies to treat me holistically were Clinical Reflexology & Cranio Sacral Therapy. As it happened, the Clinical Reflexologist being the nearest… so I booked up a course, desperate to try anything which could assist me to feel human again. Within moments of this lovely lady holding my feet I could sense all inside, all of my systems coming back together, as if she orchestrated the fusion, as if all had separated & were out of tune – the Reflexology united & strengthened all as one.
I was absolutely amazed & could sense every single cell rejuvenating (just as for the last few months I could feel my systems slowly closing down & slowly dying) I could feel a life force start to pulsate. It was phenomenal.
I booked a course of treatments as well as enduring the prescribed medication, daily physiotherapy in a swimming pool etc. After a while I was well enough to contemplate perhaps doing a reflexology course so I could look after my own health!! I enrolled upon a 3 year Clinical Reflexology Course. Yet the moment I held another’s feet in my hands, all paths journeyed & my destiny made perfect sense. All lessons learnt & valuable contributions to share merged and the consequential abilities became most apparent!
I love being so high up that my eye level is straight out into the vastness of the sky, I adore watching the cloud formations, the weather fronts looming, the sky threatening or saying something peaceful. I love seeing the stars at night, the cyclic moon … I love the many beautiful trees & lawn. I love the vibrancy of dawn the stillness of night & the warmth of the sun during it never ending quest as it rises high in the sky.
I love my chickens & cats, the birds & the sky – did I mention the sky?
The challenges are that I can easily live like a hermit, I won’t advertise what I do – as it doesn’t feel like work, it’s always been me. Thus I keep myself to myself & this is the first time I’m sharing so much to anyone who will be reading this. The challenges therefore being to integrate fully as the kind of intuitive therapist I am, without hesitating, accepting without fearing the changes, disruption & heartache that can be a consequence of the work explore within. The exchange is always so sacred, it almost seems a sin to advertise & speak about such sacredness. Also to cause such profound changes in peoples lives, throughout their journey to discovering all they are & all they can be isn’t always a pleasant experience to witness, as many have lived a life full of unintentional deceit as the truth is too painful, but once the Soul is ignited inside, when a truth hurtles through, balance restores, connection to themselves merges & their true self gains strength … then there is absolutely no denying the truth … thus only change & growth occur … which can be devastating for some. My challenges are to keep going & detach emotionally & just accept that’s the way my energy works! Bigger picture, broad perspectives every time!
What does spirituality mean to you?
Rising above all religions ie that today they should be used only as symbolic guides, to be used only to show guidelines, to support & assist our journey. Believing we’re Cosmic souls, one god, one love, one consciousness. As one, yet whilst simultaneously being wholly independent even though were an integral part of the whole. Sacred Love, respect, kindness & honour to all always.
Always being, finding the highest possible outcome of every situation for the greater good.
What are your aspirations for the future?
To follow & trust fearlessly the path of my Soul’s purpose & true belonging.
What do you enjoy most about your work?
Seeing the transformation of unconditional love & grace hurtle through peoples’ body, sensing their truth merging as their Soul unites again with Mind & Body. Witnessing incredible recovery & healing.
Being blessed to taste the many flavours that drench many peoples’ lives, to feel the activating essence pulsate through the Soul of a person ready for enlightenment. Making a wee difference in the lives of others.
One of the best ever, seeing a very angry, violent child, who couldn’t speak, who wouldn’t allow anyone to hold him, touch him or even look at him at times, look at me, smile & take off his socks & shoes, then hold his hand out. Bless then after a 5-minute treatment, he holds my hand, smiles and whispers “hhaaank hue.”
Who has been the biggest inspiration in your life?
So much & so many people inspire me, whenever I need to learn & grow the required teacher calls. I have had so many wonderful people to learn from, so many inspirational experiences. It would be truly difficult to pick, single out just one person as every person, every inspiring experience, every trial & tribulation is of equal value. All are of great significance, without one the other couldn’t occur. Everyday I read & use all I meet, all I see & exchange – all inspire. Saying that, I think the eternal flame of Love inspires me the most.
What was the most memorable 'light bulb' moment in your life?
Asking any God who would listen why wasn’t it just easier to die, as living was almost physically impossible at one phase , that I was tired & why should I be alive as it was just so dammed hard & painful & what was the point anyway! Only then to look up at the ceiling & see the most vibrant vivid blue orb circling around me then penetrating down into me, then subsequently at different times seeing another blue one & a white one. Thus realising if I wasn’t insane, I was connected energetically to all things, that like every being I am part of the universe & the universe Is part of me and just maybe god, the universe, the spirit & mind is all as one. After that I could feel the trees inside me, the breath of wind, the emotions of the sea, the tenderness of the petals opening towards the light & warmth. All strangely reminding me of all of the love that emanates & resides within for all people, that love is endless if people dump their egos...
What does a typical day involve for you?
Sleepy & warm in beddy-byes, watching through open curtains the dawning, the magnificent sun rise. Then dozing until 6.30m/7am. Then we get up, for a moment we both admire the morning view whilst trying to get dressed … then I go outside to let the chickens out & the cats come out too. Make breakfast, sandwiches for lunch & wave our daughter goodbye as she heads off to school. Then I have a quiet delicious breakfast often with the eggs from our lovely chickens Quick read of the paper then clients arrive. Days are never the same, all clients different whether it be full emotional recovery, infertility, blockages etc every day is amazing. Then energy emails, then chickens then maybe an evening client or playtime. Sky watching, writing or philosophising. Listen to music whilst considering how much change is happening in the lives of children, teenagers etc. How much delusion & illusion there is in their world of things, gadgets & virtual realities. Then turn the music up, have a mocha coffee & stop thinking!!! Mmmm, in the summer have a BBQ or family meal or friends around. In the winter a roaring log fire. I love writing, philosophising & connecting to clients/hearts all over the world via energy fusion exchanged in writing.
I see a very changing world, hopefully full of people being more kind, loving & a lot more tolerant of each other as all transition; integration will be much more the norm. I see lessons learnt, mistakes made & solutions drawn. Evolving souls unite with a vision & quest to heal the planet, hearts & minds of mankind. I hope to see children educated in ‘Soul energy medicine’ i.e. instinct & intuition is an integral part of intellect & reason, when they can sensibly consider what belongs to who, who’s stuff it is & respect accordingly . That the heart is the voice of wisdom, compassion, empathy & pride whilst the ego kneels on the floor gasping for its last breath, dying as forever the fool.
Any final words of wisdom?
Be all you can be, as you really can’t be anyone else. Live without fear of humiliation or failure, Hold no judgement s of others as you then give birth to limitations. Always trust life’s purpose & process which guide from the inside out … ie gut instinct!. Allowing all others to be all they are too. That unconditional love freely flows & emanates to all you meet, as often words are easily forgotten but how you make a person feel – never!
Live love – love life… in a blink of an eye it’s over!
When time has no meaning, life is at its most exquisite best moments.