Healing Guide, Spiritual Mentor and Author
I believe healing begins when we become willing to understand ourselves more deeply.
Hello, I’m Tina.
I’m a Healing Guide, Spiritual Mentor and Author of Be Aware, and I support sensitive, heart-centred women who are ready to understand themselves, heal old emotional wounds, and reconnect with who they truly are.
My own journey into healing did not begin because I had everything figured out.
Quite the opposite.
For many years, I struggled with emotional pain, childhood wounds and chronic illness. There were times when I felt overwhelmed by life and disconnected from the person I knew I was meant to be.
Yet somewhere beneath all of that, there was always a quiet knowing that life could be different. I just didn’t know how to get there.
My Journey Back to Myself
For a long time, I carried emotional wounds from childhood, including the deep impact of sexual abuse. Like many people who have experienced difficult things early in life, I learned ways of coping that helped me survive, but did not necessarily help me thrive.
Eventually, I began to understand that healing was not about simply trying to think more positively or becoming a different person.
I needed to understand why I felt the way I did, why I responded to life in certain ways, and what was happening beneath the surface.
That awareness became the beginning of a very different journey.
I explored emotional healing, personal development, energy healing and spirituality. I learned to listen more closely to my body, my emotions, my thoughts and my intuition.
Little by little, I began to let go of old patterns and beliefs that no longer belonged to me. And one of the dreams I had carried quietly for years finally became real.
I dreamed of living beside the sea. Today, I do.
That dream represents much more to me than simply living near the ocean. It reminds me that transformation can begin with something very small: the willingness to believe that another way of living is possible.
What My Own Healing Taught Me
My journey has taught me that healing is rarely a straight line. There are layers to us.
Our emotions, experiences, beliefs, relationships, bodies, nervous systems, spirituality and sense of self can all become intertwined.
Sometimes we need to look backwards and understand what shaped us. Sometimes we need to learn how to feel safe in the present. And sometimes we simply need space to stop, become aware, and listen to the quieter parts of ourselves.
This is why my work today brings together emotional healing, self-awareness, nervous system awareness and spiritual exploration.
I don’t believe you need to become someone else to create a better life. I believe healing can help you come home to yourself.
The Work I Do
Over the years, I have trained in and explored a number of approaches to healing and personal transformation, including:
Life Coaching, Reiki, EFT, NLP, Ho’oponopono, Colour Therapy, Spiritual and energy-based practices
These tools have each contributed something valuable to my own journey. But the most important thing I have learned is that no single technique is the answer to everything. We are each unique.
Your healing journey is your own, and sometimes what you need most is not another thing to fix, but a safe space in which to understand yourself more deeply. That is the space I hope to create through my work.
Beyond the Work
There is much more to me than healing work. I love creativity and making things with my hands. Crochet, upcycling and DIY projects give me a wonderful sense of play and allow me to create something beautiful from something ordinary.
I love the simplicity of life beside the ocean, beach walks, yoga, quiet moments and the feeling of being at home in my own space.
My spirituality is an important part of my life too. I meditate, practise Reiki and spend time connecting with God in a way that feels deeply personal and respectful of the many ways people understand spirituality. I don’t believe spirituality has to be complicated. For me, it is about connection, awareness, trust and becoming more conscious of the deeper meaning within our lives.
Why I Wrote Be Aware
My book, Be Aware, grew from many of the lessons I learned through my own healing journey. At its heart is a simple idea:
Before we can change something, we often need to become aware of it.
Be…
Aware of our thoughts.
Aware of our emotions.
Aware of our patterns.
Aware of the beliefs we carry.
Aware of how our past may still be influencing our present.
Aware of the deeper part of ourselves that knows there is more to life than simply surviving.
Writing Be Aware allowed me to bring these ideas together and share them with others who may be travelling a similar path.
If You Are Here Because Something Inside You Is Asking for More
Perhaps you are beginning to realise that an old way of living no longer feels right. Perhaps you are tired of repeating the same emotional patterns. Perhaps you are becoming more aware of your emotions, your intuition or your spiritual side. Or perhaps you simply know that you want to feel more like yourself again.
You don’t have to have all the answers. You don’t have to rush your healing. And you don’t have to figure everything out at once. Sometimes the next step is simply becoming aware.
I’m glad you’re here.