I could tell you my life story and the many challenges I’ve overcome.

I could also talk about how I managed to heighten my intuitive abilities; we all have those too. Or how I created my Finally Free™ system. But actually, the best way to tell you about me is through the eyes of my clients.

Take Susan, for instance.

At the end of our session, she has a serene look on her face – a look that shows she’s finally broken free from the enormous emotional weight, which, until now, has stifled the joy in her life for many years.

Smiling warmly at me, she says, “You need to tell people that it’s possible… it’s possible to feel content, to feel this good.”

My heart wells up with pure joy. I’m so happy to have helped Susan – who previously saw numerous therapists but experienced little change – bring an eight-year long internal struggle to an end.

It’s a humbling, life-fulfilling moment.

For me, nothing beats the feeling of helping someone transform their life for the better.

Seeing my clients free themselves of inner challenges and past baggage, as they get back to who they really are. Happy, calm, and at peace with themselves.

Perhaps best of all, I see the positive ripple effect their transformation has on their family, friends, business and the world around them.

As Susan leaves my rooms, she turns to me and earnestly says, “You need to help many, many more people feel like this. This content…and light…and free. And let them know, it is possible to feel this way again.”

“I promise I will”, I smile back at her.

While studying at university, and for no apparent reason, I began to feel disinterested in life and sadness seemed to follow me everywhere – which was not in my nature. The dark fog in my mind and the heavy feeling in my body began to wear me down.

Being an action-taker, I wanted to sort it out fast!

So, I visited my doctor. He told me I was depressed and explained that a chemical imbalance was causing my symptoms. Of course, he prescribed a popular antidepressant, which I took religiously, thinking it would solve my problem.

But actually, things got worse.

After three months on the medication, I felt more numb and sad than before. When the doctor suggested I try another type of anti-depressant, I was quick to say no, convinced there had to be a better way.

Others said to me, “Well, why don’t you try therapy?”

I had considered it before seeing my doctor. To get a sense of what it might offer, I asked some friends and fellow depressed students who had been seeing a psychologist for six months or more if they were feeling better.

The most common answer was lukewarm at best: “A little…”

“A little” was not going to work for me.

Nor was I willing to accept what some others said: “You’ll just have to live with it.”

Medication wasn’t the solution. I wasn’t willing to “live with it.” And I had no interest in feeling only “a little” better.

So I decided I was going to figure out how to get rid of the depression myself.

And then I had a stroke of good luck…

I developed severe lower back pain!

Immobilized by back pain, I asked a friend for help.

She gave me a copy of Louise L. Hay’s book You can heal your life, which introduced me to the mind-body connection and psychoneuroimmunology – the study of how the mind can affect health and wellness.

To my amazement, the book accurately pinpointed the cause of my back pain and set me on a course to explore my way out of the hellish depression I was trapped in. But the path wasn’t always easy to see.

During these pre-Google days, I read every book I could find on the topic. I figured out one of the suppressed emotions causing the depression was anger.

And so I attended many self-development courses to learn how to deal with anger. I was taught to manage it, distract myself from it, intellectually engage with it and control it. (Practically speaking this means ‘Suppress it’).

But the problem was that all these techniques approached dealing with your emotions at a conscious, intellectual level only.

Unfortunately, that only brought some slight relief.

The medication, the distraction-based techniques and the courses that taught me to ‘manage my emotions’ didn’t bring any real change. They may have helped me decrease how often I felt those difficult emotions, but they didn’t free me.

So, I decided my only option was to become my own guinea pig. I would use my knowledge of the mind-body connection, metaphysics and my intuitive abilities, coupled with countless hours of self-analysis, to uncover new ideas and processes, which I would then test on myself. Some things worked well, others didn’t – but it was all part of the learning process.

After six months of trial, error and breakthrough, I finally figured out a process that freed me from the subconscious shackles that had held me captive. I ran out of the tunnel of depression and into the light.