About Mike

My ​​​​mission is to assist and encourage others in finding and maintaining a sustainable sense of joy, calm and healing, through writing, workshops and speaking.

The call to being a healer has been with me for a very long time. But for much of my life, I did not know what this meant for me. As a child I considered being either a doctor or a priest, however, I could not see the connection between these seemingly different roles. As time went on and I was forced into making decisions about my career, I made compromises. My path took me to completing a Masters degree in exercise physiology and university teaching. Yet, I somehow felt my true path lay between the objective and the subjective.

For many years, the subjective, artistic side of me was more or less satisfied by songwriting and performing. I took the occasional workshop, such as Reiki or relaxation massage, and I read many books about holistic healing but I could not envision myself being devoted to these paths. I recognized that holistic healing was the bridge between "doctor" and "priest" that I had sought, but I didn't feel qualified to pursue it.

Like many people who ignore the call, I got sick.

My sickness manifested itself in depression and alcoholism. I lived in a kind of cloud for many years, miserable and self-"medicating".

Then one day, I decided enough was enough and I chose to bootstrap myself out of despression. I chose to no longer allow depression to rule me.

For about ten years after that I was OK. And I was satisfied with being OK. But nevertheless, I was ​​just ​​OK. Then I came to the revelatory realization that ​if I could choose to not be depressed, perhaps I could also choose to live in a sustainable state of joy.

The good news is that not only was this true, but in learning this, I was inadvertently and ​​finally answering the call that began so many years ago. This, of course, is not to say that I don't experience sadness, grief, anger, resentment, all those fun human emotions that hit all of us from time to time. However, I now have an unshakable core of joy and calm that resides within me, always at my disposal even during the hard times.

Through various techniques of mindfulness, trance work, guided medition, energy healing and Tarot, I now help other people to achieve a much more centred, healthy and joyful life.