Discover - My Story

I was born in Gloucester UK in 1949. Although I didn’t appreciate it at the time, my childhood was “challenging.” My parents weren’t happily married, my older brother wasn’t happy either and took much of this out on me. Because of my father’s job we moved home and therefore schools every three years. My father was also an alcoholic. Of course, to me as a child, this was all normal.

Fortunately for me I was quite good at sport so made friends fairly easily. Somehow the sporty ones of us are more acceptable than the studious ones!

When it came to leaving school, I had no idea what I wanted to do so plumped for physiotherapy. It was not a particularly good choice and I found it unsatisfying and tedious. Having trained and with little money, I felt stuck in this job. Not feeling that one is doing much constructive or with meaning, is not good for you.

I woke up one morning after a “heavy” night out, feeling really, really ill but believing it was due to overindulgence I went to work. During the drive to the clinic I was working at that day, I felt even more unwell and thought that I might be dying.I woke up one morning after a “heavy” night out, feeling really, really ill but believing it was due to overindulgence I went to work. During the drive to the clinic I was working at that day, I felt even more unwell and thought that I might be dying.

I started sweating, seeing double, my heart started racing and so I took myself to casualty. I was told I was having a panic attack. Over the next 2 weeks I went on to develop about 20 more symptoms.

What was going on? I took myself to a doctor and all the tests results were negative apart from one that said I’d had a viral infection. I had had a rash on my leg similar to shingles. I was told as I was older that it took longer to get over things, I was 34 not 94.

I went home and got no better. I struggled on working as a physiotherapist for another 2 years and then resigned. I got worse as I let go the struggle.

I saw several doctors and got several different diagnoses; myocarditis, hyperventilation syndrome, idiopathic tachycardia.

After 6 years of trying to find an “orthodox” treatment, I started to explore the alternative and complimentary therapies and then I started to improve. I began a journey of self-discovery and the deeper I went, the better I got. Recovery was a by product of self-discovery.

I came to see that my plunge into ill health had been a wake-up call, a shock treatment to show me that there was a whole different side to life, beyond just materialism, a spiritual side that is largely not acknowledged by many, especially orthodox medicine. Now my physiotherapy training came in use, I had an understanding of the material side of medicine and now I was embarking on learning about the spiritual side, the complimentary and alternative side. Life suddenly got a whole lot more interesting. And I continued to recover. In fact my life now is so much better than before I got ill that I am grateful for my disease.

Wake up calls come in many shapes and sizes, financial, traumatic, loss, mine was illness.

The reason I have written this blog is to show you there is a way through and out of this condition. I am not the only one who has done it and everyone I know who feels they have recovered has had to do some soul searching, a rewriting of our personal history, a retelling of our stories.

I would like to help you, if you want my help, to find your own way out.

Many therapists who have invested money and time in their therapy are convinced that theirs is the right one for you and – they maybe be right. Or they may be right for a certain time, but they may not be. We may need to do a particular practice, e.g. yoga, meditation, MFR for a period and then find something else such as self-enquiry, tai chi or dietary changes.

ABOUT ME

As you can see, I have completed many courses which could be considered both orthodox and alternative. I have had a long fascination with different healing modalities because I came to recognize that one size does not fit all and that at different times in our lives, we may need to apply different therapies. If it doesn’t work, try something else. Continuing to do the same thing and expect a different result is, simply madness, pointless and a waste of time and money.

What I would like to do, if I can’t personally help you, is help you find what you need to do in order to heal. So, email me with a question, a request and let’s take it from there.

And if you find my blog helpful, please pass it on.

October 1972 - Orthopaedic Nurse Training, (with Honours).

December 1972 - Chartered Physiotherapy Training

December 1972 - State Registered Physiotherapist

January 1987 - Graduate Diploma of Physiotherapy

1992 -1995 - Member of the West Country Natural Healing Fellowship

December 1999 – The Journey Therapy with Brandon Bays

December 1999 – “The Journey” Therapy with Brandon Bays

December 1994 - B.Sc. at Open University

October 2007 - Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection levels 1, 2 & 3

March 2010 - Animal Communication Level 1 w/s

April 2012 - Oneness Blessing

November 2012 - Working with Trauma based on Somatic Experiencing w/s

August 2014 – licensed HeartMath Coach

November 2014 - Creating from Higher Guidance

March 2015 - Meta Health Introduction

May 2015 – HeartMath Certified Trainer

January 2017 - Meta-Kinetics Practitioner Level 1

2017 – Flow Genome Project Foundation

January 2018 - Lifestyle Prescriptions Foundation Course

March/June 2018 - EFT Levels 1 & 2

CHARGES

Initial exploratory session 30 mins - free

Long covid - free

Body/mind healing sessions - £100 for 90+minutes

Stress management and breath work - 3 x 30 minute sessions - £100

My Little Book of Big Intentions pdf - £5