I am a healer, modern educator and bestselling author whose passion is transformation and the limitless potential of human beings.
I understand transformation because I have been through it myself many, many times. I know what it feels like to hit a wall with life, and how that impact can manifest as physical illness, burnout, extreme fatigue and overwhelm. I understand ennui, sadness and the deep dissatisfaction that comes with a life that is at odds with the person we want to be. I also know what it feels like to have nowhere to turn for help.
My own professional and personal turning point came in 2003. At the time, I was a senior editor at a national newspaper having completed my MA in history at Cambridge. I loved my work, but chronic stress resulted in debilitating health challenges, creative blocks and a complete questioning of my life choices up to that point.
A three-month sabbatical, which my GP had to pressurise me to take, saw me travel to Peru on what seemed like a whim. There I met a Peruvian shaman – an eminent archaeologist turned healer – who cured my health issues and explained their causation to me in language I could understand.
Fully recovered, he offered me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study with him, one-to-one. So began an exceptionally rare two-way commitment between an indigenous healer and his unlikely student - a journey that saw me visit Peru at least once a year for 20 years and which I documented in The Shaman in Stilettos, my bestselling memoir published by Penguin.
That relationship ended when my mentor pronounced me a Doña, a master healer. Over the past two decades, I have worked with thousands of leaders, private clients and corporations around the world including Greenpeace and multinational investment banks. I take my clients on a journey that reconnects them to complete health physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. My work gives them the confidence to express their full potential through living multi-faceted and fulfilling lives that are in alignment with their purpose and their joy.
As a single healer, I have a limited reach, but as my clients shine, they inspire positivity and kindness within their circles and networks.
It is my firm belief that the combined ripple effect of all these lights, and the potential they embody, will ultimately change the world for the better. At this moment in humanity’s history, a movement for impactful positive change is especially important. This is the ultimate driver behind my work.
‘Wisdom is planting a tree under whose shade you will never sit,’
Peruvian proverb