I lived in 5 different countries around the world for a total of 31 continuous years before returning to my home country, the United Kingdom, in 2016. The countries that I lived in overseas where I worked as an English Language instructor included Turkey (3 years), Saudi Arabia (2 years) and the United Arab Emirates (6 years). I then moved to South Africa where my wife and I ran our own soft skills training company for 13 years, before moving to Qatar where I held the position of Group Training Manager in a large holdings company for 6 years.
While living in Qatar, I was diagnosed with Melanoma skin cancer in 2013 which metastasised to my lymph nodes in 2015. After surgery to remove the infected nodes, I rejected the conventional immunotherapy treatment, which had some quite awful side effects and also did not offer a good prognosis at all for 5-year survival anyway, in favour of a mind-body approach that utilised some of the treatments in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
After applying a huge amount of research that I conducted to help me regain my health through a CAM approach, I felt strongly that I had to share my journey with others, so many of whom opt for conventional cancer treatments which do not have the same success that I and millions of other like-minded people experience. Therefore, I spent 6 months researching and writing my e-book, '15 Things You Should Know To Help Prevent And Heal Cancer Naturally'.
I then decided that I could not deal with cancer only and so expanded my research into the mind-body connection as it related to a number of different physical conditions including heart disease, migraines, psoriasis, allergies and irritable bowel syndrome, as well as a variety of mental disorders including anxiety, panic attacks, bipolar disorder and depression. After another six months of research and course design, I had produced a 24-module video program running over 5 hours entitled 'Your Mind-Body Journey Towards Wellness'.
I am passionate about the mind-body connection, particularly as it relates to health, and if I can give people an opportunity to free themselves from an often unquestioning acceptance of, and total reliance on, conventional medicine and take them to a place where they explore the potential of mind-body healing, I will consider my purpose fulfilled.