As someone who thought all through schooling, that she would become a doctor, in the late 70’s, as an accidental new mum, I was attracted to all things natural healing – and specifically to acupuncture. Anything that kept my newborn from following his father into the realms of eczema and asthma took my attention.
Along the way, I ended up being the first woman acupuncturist in Brisbane city in the late 70’s, designing, writing and teaching an alternative acupuncture curriculum in a new college from 1981, adding in the various body aligning tools my own eclectic lecturer had added into our initial course.
This meant, besides being a chiropractor by trade, as he was also a womb whisperer, determined to assist those who were childless, prior to IVF arriving. I also took on the mantle of assisting all women who were troubled by their women’s bits.
Prior to the advent of laproscopies, hormonal replacements, anti inflammatories, and laser surgeries, I worked with all that would aid women to live lives worth living.
Always being an independent thinker, I strove to be the best I could be for all who came to see me.
People by then were usually at the end of the medical route, with ‘Hopeless’ as their label.
Adding in ever more skills there came lymphatic and soft tissue moves, much body work and touch therapy, naturopathy, herbalism (Western and Chinese), Reiki, vibrational ways, meditation practices, the Arvigo/Maya holistic system of healing, and eventually I came to Mercier Therapy.
Working within intuitive body mechanics, the added moves in the Mercier toolbox after my own professional and personal path of Moving Blockages, has added a new depth to the functional and structural possibilities I can now offer. The amalgamation of all of this eventually became its own package – I have combined all I found worked into a graceful, elegant process – The Gentling Way
Teaching has always been my passion. Besides mentoring acupuncturists still, since 1999 I have been developing tools to assist those who seek new ways of being. Starting with a meditation site, from the now free meditation tracks and artwork, to the more recent self paced self help online courses
Having written and published three books (all various takes on manuals for living easier in a body), now there is a library of eBooks, posters and courses to light your way back to healing. All involve change. You beginning over as repeating what has led you to here will keep you hostage to your beliefs as they seem to not be serving nature’s call to action. Body warnings eventually stop you in your tracks.
My journey is to discover new ways of seeing life;
of dealing with the consequences of life residues,
and of turning people’s lights on – to the ways we were meant to be – helping humanity in its path back to grace.