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 the Buddhist tradition at an early age, I went on to study it in depth and taught it for fifteen years.

While I did my best for my patients, 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 experienced 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 a perplexing question: Why do some people heal, and others — including me — not?

Then everything changed when I eventually saw that: health isn’t a goal you reach. It’s what we’re all born with and then lose sight of, obscured by everything we came to believe about ourselves. That lasting healing and change happens when you catch sight of this and come home to who have always been.

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