about
You may wonder why I have done this.
I am a mum. I have often wondered over the years – how I would have coped had I not known what to do.
As a new parent (and in a strange land knowing no one but my husband) I surely had no idea starting off in pregnancy unexpectedly at 21 years of age. As we all do, I got wiser as the decades rolled on – and I kept finding myself in the family way (1977, 1984, 1986, 1994).
My life path changed in pregnancy when I realised that I wanted the very best for my newborn. The health of his father was such a concern that I must make sure the same fate did not await him or her.
I found all I could to ensure wellness happened.Discovering new things was always my way. I lived locally and birthed my first born in Byron Bay hospital – at that time le Boyer was the way to go – Childbirth Without Violence. I turned to what had helped his dad – acupuncture and natural ways of being.
This theme continued with the book ‘Continuum Concept ‘as my parenting guide. When Ina May Gaskin brought out ‘Spiritual Midwifery’ – I was set. On a mission! No one would have to have the horror of a disconnected birth that I felt I had experienced.
That was my son’s beginning. There were so many people around me and me not knowing what to do and what sense to make of the sensations – and all watching – I felt I had with my first birth.
I began training as an acupuncturist when my newborn was only 6 weeks old. As a new mother at my training’s onset, I saw all acupuncture and allied natural health and healing study through my maternal eyes. Using hands and heart, I have always specialized in women’s business – in obstetrics and fertility, and in all ‘difficult’ cases.
Time passed. As a classically trained acupuncturist, and naturally inclined body and energy worker I have always been a pragmatic clinician, course designer and teacher in Brisbane Australia, and in my home country NZ since early 1979. I wrote ‘What Dads Can Do’ in 2005 intending this to show how simple opening up to birth really is,
In my now four decades of working with problems apparently ‘hopeless’ and with those wishing for more than orthodox can do, I have developed my own style of Moving Blockages to Healing. The Gentling Way . . .
I would wish for my grandchildren that they are birthed in love and cared for as the mammals that we are. I wish the same for you and yours – and that the instinctual primal ways make their path clear to you.
I am passionate about improving and sustaining life force/Jing. Starting with couple then family concerns – touching, and being bonded, as the primates that we are. Loving staying together to raise our children together. Being happy in the ups and downs that will happen. Loving being parents as we bonded and stayed for them – for us.
I hope to bring back the magic into pregnancy and all that follows on.
