Category : Anna’s Journey

Goodbye 2011, growth-filled and messy. What I learned.

Happy new year to all readers, clients and students.  I wish you and your loved ones happiness and prosperity in 2012. In 2011, I: Brought out the Professional Intuitive Training Program and worked with guinea pig students throughout the year to develop the course Moved out of Christchurch, NZ and into a semi rural town [...]

Gifts from a Disaster

Three weeks ago, a major earthquake hit my home city of Christchurch. In three short weeks, I witnessed destruction, and death. I learned that time really does slow down when you think you’re about to die, and that people are incredibly good. And I experienced upheaval, trauma, heartbreak and the heart being put back together [...]

Glad to Be Alive – Christchurch Earthquake

Yesterday there was an earthquake in my home city of Christchurch. I’ve been touched by the emails from readers asking if I’m OK and sending their prayers and well wishes. Thank you for thinking of me. I am obviously OK as I’m writing this, and out of the city now. Last night I wrote an [...]

27 Today, 3 Years Ago Today

Today is my 27th birthday. Three years ago today I left my job teaching English in a language school in Northern Spain. At the risk of sounding like a drama queen, I’ll say I was dying inside at the job I was working in. I was exhausted, tired of the monotony and lonely, away from [...]

Life Is Not Such A Bitch After All

Several weeks ago, I recorded a podcast with intuitive counsellor Alex Wu of Intuitivewu.com. It was a podcast about careers and life purpose.  In that podcast, while Alex and I were talking, I surprised myself with a realization.  (Maybe this realization had been percolating for a while, or maybe it had been popped in there [...]

The Dark Side of Spirituality? – My Past Experiences With Fundamentalist Spiritual Teachers

Fundamentalism: the interpretation of every word in a sacred text as literal or absolute truth. I believe that fundamentalism is by its nature violent. This is because a religious or spiritual fundamentalist says “This is (or I am) the Way and the Truth and the Life.” They are also saying “your way is not the [...]

On Being Embarrassing And Obnoxious

OK, so this is one of those blog posts which looks like self-absorbed drivel until about half way down when I spring the moral of the story on you ******* I have been surprised and pleased about the response to the survey I asked readers to do, earlier this week.  (Everyone who did the short [...]

Thursday Odds and Ends

A couple of weeks ago I had the flu. I juggle a teaching job with doing readings and writing for my blog and it can be difficult to get back to normal when one of the balls gets dropped.  All the balls got dropped and I had to cancel everything and lie on the sofa [...]

Psychic But Sane – New Website Design and Name

If you have visited this website before, you’ll probably notice that it’s got a totally different look and name than it had before. It’s gone from healingandinsight.com to psychicbutsane.com. Why the new name and design? A few months ago, I realized that I didn’t like my design anymore.  It was a website that a friend [...]

3 Life and Productivity Lessons I Learned from Creating the Psychic Awakening Course

In case you’re new here, let me tell you about what I’ve been doing since September 2009.  In short, I’ve been creating the Psychic Awakening course (you can see a picture to your right, in the sidebar!)  I am very proud of it and so glad to get it finished.  It is a complete course [...]