My golden rules for a healthy and happy life are: 

• Plenty of fresh clean drinking water 

• A good well balanced diet 

• Love

• Fresh air

• Exercise

I do realise my own privilege in writing this. Not everyone in the world has access to all these elements for all kinds of different social and geographical reasons, but I maintain that they are vital to our well-being. 

In the western world, busy stressful lives often make us opt for processed convenience foods to feed our families in spite of the effects they have on our bodies. When clients consult me, I ask about their diet and lifestyle: not to judge, but to get a picture of the whole person. While people generally know what's good and bad for them, certain conditions and complaints can be improved by eliminating certain foods, even if on a temporary basis. 

So what about love? Take a moment to close your eyes and contrast how your body feels when focusing on someone who really annoys you or makes you angry, and then on someone or some animal you truly love. Can’t you feel how much more beneficial it is to your whole organism to feel the latter? Although love is such a vital ingredient on our planet and such a simple healing tool, it often gets lost. Not just love for others, but love and compassion for oneself. Once in tune with it, we'll also be more kind to our planet as well as our fellow beings. 

A good dose of fresh air and exercise also keeps us calm and energised. If I ever have a period of time without enough physical exercise, I am usually alerted by tiredness and a head full of mental chaos

Stress, anxiety and emotional distress in general play havoc on the body’s organism. They can totally highjack our daily lives! Fortunately, they can be treated fairly easily, but it's important to feel at ease with the therapy and practitioner you decide to work with. And that is why I like to propose a free 15 minute introduction.

One of my passions as a practitioner is to accompany parents from conception to birth.  Aromatherapy massage, when used safely, is a wonderful and gentle way to treat the body during pregnancy. ‘Aroma-babies’ tend to be born Zen!  

However, parents having difficulty conceiving can find this very distressing and stressful. Whether they are following a medical procedure or not, I will accompany them by treating both parties. 

For mothers who have already experienced a traumatic birth or who fear childbirth itself, I use EFT to help clear the trauma and aromatherapy to gently lead the way towards future pregnancies.

There are all kinds of different addictions and dependencies. It is a multi-layered problem that often triggers negative feelings of shame, loneliness, lack of self-worth, guilt and so on. For this reason, it's often an individual's family, friends or colleagues who bring attention to the problem. In my experience EFT is an incredible tool to help clear the root cause and to bring self-compassion.  

I see a woman's hormones as being like the black box in an airplane. If there has been a crash, the black box gives all the information necessary to track what might have gone wrong. So, when working with women, I ask all about their menstrual cycle – no matter what their age. There is a reason for heavy and/or painful periods and for hot flushes and other such symptoms during the menopause – and it is my job to seek out the likely cause. Both aromatherapy and EFT can treat these kinds of hormonal imbalances very effectively, bringing the body and mind back into harmony.

What happens when you feel stuck? Or you sense that no matter how much work you do on yourself, things aren’t changing? This is sometimes a sign that what you are carrying around doesn’t belong to you – either physically or emotionally. 

Here in rural France, I often see several generations of the same family. I see patterns emerging and behaviours as well as physical complaints and illnesses repeated. Traumas that have ricocheted through the generations (such as war and sexual abuse) can be picked up by later generations without any conscious awareness. This led me to learn EFT as a way of helping such people free themselves of their ancestral burden.