So you want to know a little more about the person behind these pages?
Well read on and if you are still curious then I am more than happy to answer your questions.
My name is Dori. (Dorothy to some, Dot to many, but I really do prefer Dori!) I live in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.
One thing that seems, in others eyes, to set me apart, is that I am a Healer, a medium. As you read I hope to dispel the myth that being a Healer or a medium makes me different. I do not consider myself special in any way. I am ordinary woman who has worked hard all her life and brought up a family of four, three girls and a boy.
My eldest daughter works widely for Spirit, see's hears, senses and has just published her fourth book.
The other three have their own gifts.
My son and my middle daughter are natural healers who just have to step out on to their pathway. They may deny their gifts at the moment but I have seen the evidence.
My youngest daughter can 'see' and 'hear' so very clearly but is not ready to take up the mantle just yet.
Our family as a whole and individually have been through illness, bereavement, much pain and many heartaches.
We are no different to any other family. Life has touched us in many ways.
Although I am a Reiki Master, I do believe that there are as many names for healing as there are for 'God' and I practice both Spiritual and Reiki healing.
I am also a Clairsentient or sensitive ~ sensitive to the presence of Spirit, to those who have moved on from Earthside of life to Spiritside. I feel their presence and if I settle long enough to listen then I will hear! I see in my mind rather than externally.
I was, from a very early age, aware of Spirit ~ aware of a power unseen but ever present. I had a quite a few 'experiences' when I was young but I cannot remember seeing and hearing Spirit on a daily basis. When I did see it was as if that person was real ~ children are so much more open.
I wasn't constantly talking to 'dead people'! In fact there are no ‘dead people’ because they are very much alive ~ just in a different form.
I took it as the normal thing to see or hear things that others didn’t. It was only in later years that I confided in my mother and found that she was very aware but had never put things into practice. Her life was long and hard and she had little time to give.
I believe that I was guarded and guided throughout my life. If I ever strayed, then I was given a gentle reminder to get back on track. Spirit walked by my side ....waiting until the time was right and I was ready.
I was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland but before I was a year old my parents moved with me and my older brother and sister to County Sligo. This was an idyllic time – I had the freedom of the countryside. I lived a fairly solitary existence because my brother and sister where at school but I was never lonely.
It was a big culture shock when we all moved back up North. We settled in Belfast to live with my paternal Grandmother and her brother, Great Uncle Harry. My Great Uncles house was tall and old. It was a busy house in a spiritual way and could also, on occasion, be creepy.
In Northern Ireland it was the 'norm' to attend church regularly no matter which religion you were born into. Sometimes I would be brave, although painfully shy, and question authority ~ it didn't get me anywhere. You were expected to accept the teachings of the church and not question them.
I trained as a nurse because I wanted to help people, to make them better, to take away their pain. To comfort the ill, the dying and those left behind
When I qualified I 'left home’ and moved to London where I worked as a community nurse with drug addicts. Years passed, I married, had four wonderful children and many different jobs. Spirit never left my side even when I ignored the signs.
I still searched for something, not realizing that what I was searching for was constant ~ always there. I always thought that you had to be special to do what I wanted to do ~ to help people find peace, to prove that they never walked alone, to aid them in their grief, to heal whatever part of their life needed healing.
As my children grew up everything started to come together Spiritually. My eldest daughter became a Reiki Master and took me through the levels so that in turn I to became a Master. Reiki gave me one of the answers and the confidence to say ‘I am a healer’.
More recently I met a wonderful spiritualist medium who took me into her development group and helped me pull everything together. Instead of working in a random way I started to work towards platform work and private readings.
So it has taken quite a few years for me to realize that I had other work to do here on earth ~ not the work off mans church ~ but the work of Spirit, off a higher source, off 'my God'.
It has taken time for me to put aside the teachings that said there was only one path to 'heaven'. Now I know that there are many paths and we are all on that journey.
It is a very personal journey. Our paths may cross but we do not all walk the same road. However all roads meet in the end.
For this very reason we should have an understanding and be accepting of all religions, creeds and beliefs.
It also took time for me to realize that you did not have to be special to work for Spirit. I had always read a lot and had a great interest in Spiritualism. When I started to have problems with my eyes I went to healers and attended Spiritualist churches. Many of the people were kind and good but in the main they preached the 'I am special, I am chosen, not all can do this work' attitude.
Those who heal, see or hear Spirit are not special people ~ they are just ordinary, like me. They are not chosen, for we are all off Spirit, we are all special. Everyone who has a love of helping others can heal.
You will find out that I do not take myself too seriously for we need laughter in our lives. I am however extremely serious in my belief that this life is just part of the big picture. We do not die ~ we just move from Earthside to Spiritside of life. As a caterpillar moves from one life to become the beautiful free butterfly of another, so we cast aside these human bodies to return to the freedom of Spirit and the knowledge of our true form.
There is a fine veil between and if you listen carefully you will hear Spirits voice and if you ask, you will find answers.
