Firstly I am a mother of three beautiful adult children and grandmother to eight.
For many years I worked within the field of Traditional Healing as a Psychic/Spiritual Healer. I produced two mediation CDs and have conducted workshops on Spiritual and Psychic Healing across Australia and in the United States.
The course of my life altered in 1988 when I was reunited with my daughter who had been taken from me when I was a young mother of sixteen. The reunion had a profound impact on my life and set me on a course to find out why my daughter was stolen from me simply because I was unwed at the time.
The reunion with my daughter also brought up intense feelings of rage and grief through which I have been working over the years. Because of these feelihgs and the need for support I joined a mothers' activist group in 1994: Mothers for Contact and the following year I co-founded a group with another mother: Origins. I was Chairperson in both groups. During all this time as an activist I continued my healing work which assisted to fund my activism. This included funding my attendence at a conference in Felixstowe, England.
After acrimonious internal politicking I parted ways with Origins in 1998 but not before successfully launching an Inquiry into past adoption practices. Unfortunately my success in this area led my healing work to be targeted by those who saw me as a threat and I suspect it was the only way to stop my endeavours to have past barbaric practices exposed.
After leaving the group I was targeted by the programme, A Current Affair, ironically on whose programme I had previously appeared on three separate occasions speaking out on behalf of mothers. As a result of the smear campaign I was shunned by some of the mothers for whom I had worked - I withdrew from activisim and went to University at the ripe old age of 48 years.
In the last seven plus years I have completed a double degree in law and social sciences with majors in Psychology and Sociology. I then went on to do Honours in Sociology and am presently doing research for a Doctorate.
My research has bought me full circle - back working again with mothers. Hopefully this time what I do in my personal life, outside of activism, is not bought up to stigmatise and silence me because of bigotted self interest.
Additionally Healing is an ancient art form practised by all traditional societies and we could do well to embrace some of its practices to assist us in our own journey of self-healing.
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FOOTNOTE:
Unfortunatley I have been the target yet again of the programme, A Current Affair - one can only speculate at the reasons why, but I was informed by an ex-Origins member, that it was because "they got wind you are about to publish a book".
It must be added that the Tradtional form of healing that I practice is supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO)and is identified as part of the cultural practices of Indigenous healers. Though not an Indigenous person myself I trained with the Indigenous/Traditional Healers in the Philippines. The WHO tabled an International Report on Traditional Healing in 2001. It stated that Tradtional forms of healing should be supported by Government and that legislation should be passed to protect it. It also stated that the media should educate the community on the value of Traditional forms of healing. In Australia it seems the media has its own agenda and rather than support Traditonal forms of healing it has conducted a smear campaign that borders on Sedition.
