About Joy
Meet Joy
Intuitive artist, Sacred plant medicine woman, Herbalist, Shamanic healer and Homeopath with 26 years’ experience - these are my passions and my medicine that I weave together and offer to others.
My love of nature led me to complete a certified four-year apprenticeship in Sacred Plant Medicine with medicine woman and medical herbalist Carole Guyette in Ireland. This was an absolute joy and led to a deeper immersion into the gifts and medicine of the plant kingdom which I offer through healings and workshops. In more recent times I am honoured to have been ordained as a Priestess of the Temple of Plants in Ireland after many years of training.
Having had no formal training in Art I have finally dismissed the inner critic (well almost!) and claimed my medicine as an Artist.
In recent years I was fortune enough to be accepted as a Sacred Art Facilitator and am delighted to be offering Sacred Art workshops to help others in ‘allowing’ the expression and exploration of their soul to come through onto the canvas. What I love about this offering is that no prior training of art is necessary and the unlimited potentiality and what can materialise is vast.
Beginnings
My path like many people has taken many twists and turns... I first encountered the spirit world as a child where I could see, sense and feel different energies.
This was compounded when aged 11 years my mother died. It was during this time I was visited by the spirit world and could see the spirits very clearly in this reality that came to visit and knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was protection and love in this experience. It was this that comforted me after losing my mum - the knowing that there was more to life than most people realise and that the spirit lives on. The legacy that my mother passed on to me was her love of plants and trees and painting. It was during my childhood that I developed a love of art and painting and would ‘lose myself’ in the escapism of the wonderful world of creativity.
Spirituality & training
After becoming a mum myself at a young age and going on to have a large family of five children and studying qualifications in accountancy, I stepped away from my spiritual insights for many years whilst immersed in the busyness of family life and working.
Although throughout all those years my love of art, plants, trees and gardening remained consistent.
However, as things come full circle and through synchronicities that I couldn’t ignore, the spiritual realm re-emerged in my life 26 years ago which led me to train in Homeopathy in which I have had a busy clinical practice in ever since.
I subsequently studied core shamanism in Ireland, Scotland and England, initially completing a two-year classical shamanic practitioner training in Ireland followed by a three-year classical shamanic practitioner training at The Sacred Trust in Dorset, UK followed by many other trainings and experiences.
Travel & roots
My love of art and creativity led me to complete a two-year Sacred Art Facilitator training. Over the last decade I have undergone in-depth training. Whilst bringing up my children, it was always my intention to go off backpacking to faraway places when my children grew up.
With going straight into motherhood from school at such a young age I had never experienced travelling so ten years ago after a major life event and the shock of a sudden bereavement I decided to just go for it and set off to backpack around Peru.
Staying deep in the Amazon for a short time I was hoping to meet a local shaman however every time I got into a boat to visit his village, his wife would tell me he’d gone fishing and would be back shortly only he never materialised. This happened time and time again, so I figured it just wasn’t meant to be!! Although my travels were certainly an experience and I’m glad I went; it took this experience to make me realise that my roots lie on British and Irish soil and that I no longer had that desire to travel to far flung parts.
Sometimes we must just go off and follow our dreams to realise that what it was we are looking for is right under our nose all the time!
Please do get in touch if you’d like to chat through how I can help.