About Me

I am a Holistic Life Strategist – Trainer, Mentor, Writer, Speaker. Emotional quotient (EQ) is my passion followed closely by Spiritual (SQ), Physical (PQ) and Intellectual (IQ) quotients.

What comes naturally to me is a calling I turned into a vocation well over 25 years ago. I am your Global ‘go to’ critical thinker, your ‘common sense, pragmatic’ guide, and a great believer in experience being internalised and developed into self-awareness. I identify patterns and problems sometimes before they happen, spot solutions quickly and always see the bigger picture. I don’t like quick fixes. There are very few if any, that are sustainable. I am energized by helping you find accurate, efficient, simple, pragmatic solutions to problems, any problem, be they emotional, physical, mental or spiritual. Self-awareness leads to self-sufficiency, self-confidence and adaptability, three vital life skills. I work with individuals, couples, families, organisations and educational institutions and have a particular interest in education on old age, dying and death. I also focus on entrepreneurs and helping young boys develop the emotional skills to transition into men.

“When my client has learned to answer their own questions, my job is done”

I grew up in Durban, South Africa and graduated from Natal University in 1977 with a B.A (Hons.) majoring in English and Drama. I lectured in Drama before moving to Wits University in Johannesburg to study and lecture further. After being widowed in 1984, I returned to Durban and began a successful career in corporate sales. I later remarried, had two beautiful daughters, divorced in 1997 and even attempted another very short-lived marriage a few years later. The benefits of living life to the fullest are found in the rich lessons I’ve learned and wisdom gained from being an avid student of the University of Life. Learning through experience as well as study brings authenticity.

My interest in the emotional/spiritual world was founded in my rigid Anglican upbringing. My first late husband (a Russian, Irish, Jewish, Buddhist divorcee, passionate about words and photography) encouraged me to look at the bigger picture and to question both my ‘White Anglo Saxon Protestant’ upbringing and the world as a whole. I delved into a wide spectrum of spiritually related subjects and the emotional/psychological aspects of them. I experienced my first ‘out of body’ experience at 25 – which really made me think.

I left the corporate world in 2002 to run a full time business from my home in Kloof, Kwa-Zulu–Natal focusing on Emotional and Spiritual Quotients. It became a successful practice, seeing clients of all cultures, ages and belief systems, conducting individual, group and couple’s sessions, retreats, talks, courses and workshops. I enjoyed creating and writing the original content used in all training.

After relocating to Johannesburg in 2005 with the aim of expanding my practice into the education and coaching of Emotional Quotient E.Q and Spiritual Quotient S.Q in the business world, I wrote an in-depth course: “Living a Simple and Integral life; having all the parts necessary to be complete’. The first of many businesses to have their staff trained in this course was a leading South African bank in 2010. The course explores the understanding, internalising and implementation of the four basic forms of intelligence – mental, emotional, spiritual and physical – these being essential for self-knowledge, self-awareness, authenticity and a heightened level of responsibility, accountability and consciousness.

The ability to investigate ourselves honestly brings genuine wealth; that of wisdom, grace, courage, discernment, integrity, self-confidence, contentment, good health and freedom from fear-based limitations.