I am an Irish writer based in beautiful West Cork. For many years I worked in the UK corporate world as a communications consultant. However my interests outside of work were quite different. I trained in BioEnergy Healing, The Work of Byron Katie, Six Sensory Coaching and meditation practices!
Because my career was busy and a high stress occupation I spent a long time trying to find a meeting place between my work and the more 'alternative' interests I followed outside of work. The only thing both worlds had in common was writing.
I came to understand that life doesn't have to be a constant trade off or a constant battle between head and heart. So I took the plunge, packed in the day job and began to work at the things I enjoy - mainly writing, healing and facilitating people who want to change their lives. All things I really wanted to do! Is it easy? Not always... Is it fun? Absolutely!!!
Dance with Life came because I didn't have it when I needed it. I was very young when I started on my own inner journey. At that time there were very few books on awakening or on how to understand the process of spiritual exploration. The books that were there were, I felt, very masculine and very centered on the practical 'how to' as it were, of self development but absolutely nothing on the feeling or the emotional experience. My question all the time as I journeyed was 'But how should this feel?' As I developed on my own journey I realized that the emotional connection, this emphasis on the feeling aspect of the journey, although the same for everyone male and female alike, was a vital element for the female journeyer and had been completely ignored in all the books I came across.
The experience for me was a very feeling one, almost poetic and beyond words at times. As the heart opens and begins to sing its song, the world changes utterly and becomes an interconnected bliss bubble of colour and feeling, rather than a philosophical theory or abstraction. It is that change in perception that I wanted to express in Dance with Life. So as a result it is a poetic and lyrical book and it is written with a very feminine bias. Interestingly though, many man have come back to me and told me that they have really connected with it too which is really lovely to hear.
Angel Prayers and Messages came along quite by chance. My friend Rosie and I were chatting about Angels and we both commented that it was impossible to get a nice, simple Angle Prayerbook. We laughed and said we should write one and left it at that. The next day I happened to be talking with my agent and told him about our idea. He rang back the next day and said that a publisher he knew wanted to do the book, how soon could we have it? Without thinking I said within six weeks!! Well six weeks later Angel Prayers and Messages was being printed...
Right now I'm working on something completely different, a children's book series for 6-7 year olds. It's great fun to do and I don't know when it will hit the selves but I've no doubt that when the time is right it will all fall into place.
Website: www.the-fusion-method.com My blog is www.dance-with-life.com. Come and visit and comment! Publisher www.katy-press.com
