About me

I have always loved to explore the nature of Reality and to rest deeply in Presence. I find this through meditation, walking by the sea, spending time in silence and solitude, watching the bees in my garden, listening to music, singing or cuddling with other beings, speaking words …or simply letting go of all of it and being no-thing, the wave that melts into the ocean of Being.

I’m deeply committed to helping others access their ocean-nature for themselves, without being bound by any one image or language for this mysterious ground of our being. So, I’m just as at home in a secular mindfulness context as I am in a variety of spiritual settings.

I draw from my childhood in the Catholic church, where I experienced deep spiritual connection as well as rejection and exile - my brothers were all allowed to serve on the altar while I was forbidden that ‘holy’ task as a girl.

I also draw from many other spiritual or religious traditions. I have practised and experienced belonging with Buddhists, Sikhs, Pagans and Quakers, among others. I have completed trainings in ecumenical spiritual accompaniment and interfaith ministry, which invited me to explore the mystical traditions of many religions, and to recognise more and more deeply the One Truth speaking through them all.

I have taught mindfulness for many years in a secular context, and have had the great privilege of training many mindfulness teachers. I’ve specialised in the Breathworks approach of mindfulness-based pain management, a powerful tool for those living with chronic health conditions, or physical or emotional pain. I’ve shared these beautiful practices and insights with young mums, music festival goers, priests, LGBTQ+ folk, civil servants, educators, health professionals and many other diverse groups.

I discovered for myself that my pain is innocent - it’s just here to let me know there’s something here in my experience that needs tenderness and care. I found that hard to believe at first when it related to my emotional pain, as I had been taught to see that as a failing, a weakness, something to be hidden or repressed. What liberation there has been for me in embracing my pain, emotional pain in particular, with love and acceptance!

As a Queer person, I know what it is to feel marginalised and excluded. I will have no truck with certain so-called ‘nondual’ teachings that minimise our beautiful humanity, our individual identities, and the trauma that we may have experienced as a result of our identity or life experience at the human level. For me, Oneness embraces and loves every hair on our heads, every human difference, every quirk and commonality. My own personal path has been one of learning to include all of it.

I have ADHD, which brings gifts of sensitivity, empathy, clear thinking and creativity, as well as meaning that my super-sensitive nervous system has a tendency towards anxiety, overwhelm and migraine. I’ve discovered to my joy that these challenges are not barriers to awakening, nor failings. They are not even obstacles to be overcome, but doorways inviting me to deeper and deeper compassion, stronger and stronger courage, a knowing at all levels that nothing is left out of Oneness. I deeply trust that the same is true for you, whatever your personal challenges.

I have experienced heart-breaking losses in my life, including my mum dying when I was still very young, and my 35-year marriage ending more recently. I find that these losses ground and prepare me for this work, as I know from my own painful experience what it is to seemingly lose everything, to grieve, to mourn, and then to love again, to live again. To find that at the deepest level what was lost was never really, truly lost, as there can be no separation in Oneness.

The wave crashes on the shore, and everything seems turbulent and upside-down for a while, then we realise, again and again, that Ocean is what we were all along, and it continues to flow through this human experience in endlessly new ways.

I’m based in Merseyside, UK, but work with people all over the world.

I like to keep things very much down to earth, so I nipped into my local high street photo shop to have this headshot done. I went just before an 11-week old speckly daschund puppy named Daisy having her first ever photo taken - I kept rather more still than the very wriggly Daisy, but she was definitely the cutest!

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