Some people call me a doctor, some an acupuncturist, others a teacher or a mentor.

I do not cure, heal or treat sickness. I help to awaken the health and thriving that’s already there.

After qualifying as a doctor from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Imperial College, I worked as a hospital doctor and GP in the NHS before turning to classical Chinese medicine and acupuncture. I ran an acupuncture practice in Central London for over twenty years. Having been introduced to meditation in two Buddhist traditions at an early age, I went on to study it in depth and taught it for fifteen years.

I did my best for my patients, and I kept seeing healing I couldn’t account for — remarkable recoveries that had little to do with anything I’d done or said.

Meanwhile, for most of my life, I experience long-standing, mental and physical health challenges and despite all my training and knowledge, nothing I tried produced lasting healing and change.

So, for a long while, I sought an answer to this perplexing question: Why do some people heal, and others — including me — not?

What I eventually saw was this: health isn’t a goal you reach. It’s what we’re born with and then lose sight of, buried beneath everything we come to believe about ourselves. And that lasting healing happens when you catch sight of this.

I came to this realisation in 2020 through the Three Principles, an understanding first articulated by Sydney Banks. This informs much of what I now do.