My name is Andrea. I am a healer, I use that generic term as I work intuitively with a spiritual team and with many tools. In my healing toolbox - Angel Reiki Master Teacher, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Past Life Therapist, Spiritual Life Coach, NLP Advanced Practitioner Life Coach, NLP Master Practitioner and Hedgerider (similar to shamanistic practice).
I have found that the philosophies of Louise Hay (if you are not familiar - see her book ‘Heal Your Life’) are very true and that many problems, manifesting physically are actually coming from an emotional or spiritual imbalance. We can absorb messages from around us from a very early age which impact on our health without us realising. Or sometimes we know exactly where we have been hurt or damaged but can’t face ‘dealing’ with it. In my practice, I will never ask you to keep going over your past, or even talk to me about it if you don’t want to. Healing is about the future and moving forward and with my hypotherapy tools we can bypass what could be hours of painful talking therapy.
About hypnotherapy - some people are wary of going through this process. Some people incorrectly believe that a hypnotherapist can plant ideas without any awareness on your part. I can say 100% tell you that everyone who has undergone hypnotherpy with me has enjoyed the experience, or at the very least - if the work was very emotive, such as dealing with ptsd, they found it to be comfortable and were very happy with the result. I see a hypnotherapist as the mediator/ go between between you and yourself. I facilitate your conscious brain talking to your subconscious brain about the changes that you want to happen. Everything comes from you, it’s all about what you want to happen. The process of hypnotherapy itself is similar to meditation. It’s very relaxing.
Bringing joy and light into the world is my passion. It’s difficult sometimes to find joy when you are unwell or experiencing dis- ease. I like to empower people to continue their healing independently of me also so that light begins to flow into your life, for you, through you. Quite often people visit me once and leave with a recording for future use and never need to address that issue again. Sometimes it’s more complex than that. However, there’s no pressure to come for a set amount of times. What I would say is to have as much patience with the process as you would if being treated in more conventional systems.
As an Angel reiki master, I do reiki treatments and I also do reiki attunements, teach angel workshops and generally rave about the role of angels in my life. They work with me in my healing practice, and life, and guide me whatever healing modality may be being used. They are the reason that I now walk this path, my true path.
Past life work is of great fascination to me. I believe that we are a soul in a human body and that our soul has experienced many many life times. I trained to be a past life regressionist with my hypnotherpy training. However, it became apparent, quite quickly, that often people regress to a life in need of healing as it impacts on the current life time. So, I took it a step further and trained to be a past life therapist and now past life work has become a healing tool also. I can do regressions with no more intent than just for fun, however, should the need arise we can help to repair soul damage from previous lives and not leave with an open door that has stirred up issues. We can do regressions for therapeutic reasons with the sense that that is where the problem lies- often a person has an idea that is the case.
Regressions may also be within this lifetime in the form of inner child work or shadow self work. We all carry around our ‘programming’ from childhood. We all benefit from a new download of ‘software’ that’s up to date.
You may have wondered’ when reading the first paragraph - what is a hedgerider? Hedgerider is a witch term ( yes, I happily identify as a witch, among other things- I’ll explain later what that means to me). If you are more familiar with the term shaman, that would give you some idea of what a hedge rider does. Hedge riding is journeying the spirit to other realms for the purpose of healing and includes aspects of soul retrieval, inner child work, shadow self work, psychopomp and generally the more what is considered ‘out there’ type of work done in other realms.
Witchcraft is close to my heart but maybe not what you have considered to be witchcraft before. To me, a witch is a pagan, a person who doesn’t align with any man made religion but follows the earth, the universe and the cycles within. Witch was a name given to eradicate the traditional ways and pave the way for hierarchies and power derived through violence and fear. To me witches are the healers and the peace lovers and couldn’t be a more positive word. I run workshops on witchery and also run a festival of witchery, see details below.
I consider healing to be more than seeking therapies or treatment, it’s about raising your vibration through daily activities. I am also a teacher, with QTS working for many years teaching GCSE and A level, so it makes sense to me to continue to teach. Now I teach very different subject matter, linked to healing and spiritual development, through workshops and experiences. These are under the ‘Events’ tab to the left of the main page. I try to make the healing process accessible to those on tighter budgets by bringing healing teachings and tools into a group setting.
‘Following the Joy’ is my sister company - literally, as I run it with my sister, Gerry, who is a keen and talented crafter. She also has a teaching qualification for teaching adults -PTTLLS www.facebook.com/andreaandgerry Here you will find a full listing of events also.
We also run weekend events/ retreats - Creating Joy www.facebook.com/fellfoot and be- Witch www.facebook.com/festivalofwitchery in beautiful woodlands. Both are festivals filled with love and light and are community and workshop based with the intention of ‘JOY’. Our woodland events and retreats are so back to nature and uplifting. We can’t wait for the summer season so we can be in our beloved Fellfoot Wood in Cumbria.
We run a women only weekend working with the divine feminine, a beautiful weekend of sisterhood and reclamation of beautiful energies- ‘Authentic Woman’: and a couples retreat ‘Balance’ where we enhance our spiritual, emotional and physical bonds by balancing and restoring the divine feminine and masculine energies to work in harmony.
I hope that you enjoyed reading this snapshot of my healing philosophies and that it helps you to decide if you are drawn to my healing practice. The universe will give you a nod if you need to come see me or come to an event/ workshop. All is as it should be.
Blessed be.
Andrea x
