On this page I am stepping outside the norm of presenting a professional resumé. If that is the information you are looking for, please refer to the Bio page.

The fact is that my personal journey has contributed at least as much as my professional journey, in enabling me to support and serve you in the way that I am able to. So to hold back on an overview of my personal journey would be to deprive you of the opportunity to accurately evaluate what I am able to offer and why.

Like all of us (whether you've thought about it or not) I had an imperfect childhood. By my teen years I was seriously depressed, though not yet officially diagnosed. I tried to fix how I felt by living in accordance with the family and societal recipe, that is by achieving external things, in order to feel better.

It didn't work. I achieved things, but still felt bad. Then one day, I was amazed to discover that the quickest and surest way to feel OK was to simply take substances to physiologically create the desired state. Suddenly all the striving everyone else was doing seemed absurd when there were these things one could ingest that took one straight to the desired feeling state.

It worked so well, and reliably, for a very short period of time. And then it didn't work, and reliably, for a much longer period of time. The inner state got increasingly worse. The striving, to find the right ingredients out there in the world to make it all better, got increasingly desperate. The stakes got frighteningly high and the denial became harder and harder to maintain.

There was a catalysing event and I had to choose between probable insanity and possible death, or starting again from scratch. I chose to walk away from one life and start a new one (truth be told at the time I didn't feel like I really had a choice). The change happened overnight. Literally. Everything changed apart from the city I lived in and my family. Friends, work, abode, beliefs, assumptions and habits all changed. I walked away from the outer world I'd created, I was assisted in knocking over the few remaining bricks standing in my inner world, and I began reconstruction from the ground up.

I am not the only person with such a story, by any means, so this story doesn't make me special. 20 years down the track, what it does mean, however, is that I have significant experience, strength and hope to offer in supporting people in breaking their dependency for happiness on externals and creating, instead, a harmony and balance between inner and outer focus.