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Healing and using my intuitive gifts feels like coming full circle for me. As a child, I saw auras, spoke about my past lives and communicated with spirits almost daily. Even though my mother was able to see and communicate with spirits, acknowledging these gifts outside the family was not done. My parents warned me - be careful who you tell these things to. At age seven, I could no longer get away with my "active imagination" without coming off as strange. After an awkward situation at school where I pointed out another student's aura (that no one else could see), I must have shut down, because I have no memories of auras or spirits after that. My mother and sister sensed spirits throughout our lives, but these experiences were kept as interesting family stories, rarely shared with outsiders. 

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In my 20s, I studied at the Melbourne and Brisbane Schools of Natural Medicine, where I learnt deep tissue massage, Swedish massage and herbal medicine. At the end of my diploma, I was craving deeper knowledge and enrolled in a Bachelor of Science at the University of Queensland and then a PhD in marine molecular ecology. Through my many years of study, massage was my beloved side hustle. However, my collection of herbal books (and my intuition) gathered dust. Science left no room for spirituality. In the scientific religion, intuition is imagination and psychics are considered showground fraudsters (this is slowly shifting though... glacial pace, but shifting). When I start to sound a little woo-woo to my science colleagues, I am often met with an awkward smile and a change of subject, or sometimes - open derision.  It's safe to say that by the time I'd finished university, my psychic dreams, spirits and auras were packed away so tightly that even when presented with undeniable proof of the mystical, I remained stubbornly sceptical. 

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I have lived a truly blessed life, full of many incredible encounters with the natural world. In my science career, I have tagged great white sharks, hand-built artificial seagrass beds, fished for crabs with wild Welsh fishermen in tiny boats and crazy seas, mapped underwater habitat in the Persian Gulf, netted for shrimp in the croc-laden waters of far north Queensland and flown around Australia in a six-seated flying sauna counting dugong and turtles. The sea spray on my skin, the first dip in the ocean, moss under my feet - these experiences made me feel more alive - but this ineffable feeling was fleeting. I had no context for it, no scientific reason to feel those expansive emotions other than - I love nature, so it feels nice to be in it. My science brain wouldn't allow a spiritual reason for these feelings, but in those moments, my body understood that the world is energy, and my soul was calling for deeper wisdom.

 

When I returned to Australia after a 3 year post-doctoral position in the UK I fell into a deep depression and a year-long existential crisis. I couldn't find work as a research scientist. If I wasn't a scientist, then who was I? I grieved the loss of an identity that I had clung so tightly to I was desperate to do something different. A friend of mine (a true anam cara) offered me a Theta healing. In this session, I had an incredible vision and an energy healing that opened my heart and changed my life in ways I could never have anticipated. It put me on a path of connection with the world and with my higher self. 

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On this new path, each step is one towards my true self - and I am closer every time I follow joy and listen to my inner wisdom. On this path, I have learned to garden and grow food, sketch, paint, write, meditate, breathe, give and teach Reiki, read the Akashic records and the mystic tarot and open up my intuition. I have had (and will continue to have) many mentors and teachers who have taught me ways to reach beyond the veil and connect with spirit and higher consciousness. In my first Lomi Lomi massage course, I instantly knew I needed to be offering this to people. My hands instinctively wove healing Reiki in with the flowing Lomi hand movements - a natural merge of modalities. As I continue to learn, I integrate new wisdom into my massage and Reiki sessions. In Lomi Lomi, we acknowledge our ancestors and ask them to be present for the healing. With every massage, I am always honoured to receive intuitive information specific to the client. I meet people where they are, at that moment. Every session is slightly different because the client is different. We are not static beings (no matter how much we try to be) we are continuously evolving energy fields.  

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You may have met me through Greenspace Creative or other collaborations, but now I have something that is wholly my own and I have finally decided to step into this healing space with gusto! I have named this adventure The Healing Bower. 

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The Healing Bower is inspired by the satin bower bird. The male bower bird is a midnight-coloured, purple-eyed mischief, who builds an impressive avenue of twigs. In front of this avenue, he scatters many varied blue treasures to attract females. Like the male bower bird, I collect many different skills, life lessons and stories and weave them together to create a service that is my unique offering to the world.

 

My deepest and most simple intention is to make the world a better place and assist people in any way I can to release unhelpful constructs and live a happier, healthier and more authentic existence. I believe we can heal and create more time and space to see the magic in the world.​​ All of my offerings embody these core beliefs. 

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I'm so grateful that you have taken the time to read my story. I would love to hear yours! If you would like to experience energy healing, a quantum hypnosis session, a reading, or a deeply relaxing Lomi Lomi massage, review the offerings and book in. See you soon!  

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