‘To touch the soul of another human being

is to walk on holy ground.’

I was born Oct. 1, 1962 in Denmark. I spent my earliest childhood in Germany, but was otherwise raised in Denmark.

After completing a Master’s Degree in Geophysics in 1989, I spent two years doing research on volcanic earthquakes in Iceland for the Nordic Volcanological Institute.

In the eighties, I became interested in alternative ways of living and took a variety of workshops in natural living and personal growth. This interest kept on growing and eventually I learned various massage techniques, rebirthing and body-oriented emotional healing. At the same time, I joined an ongoing group working with codependence recovery, personal growth and energy healing.

After two years, I left Iceland for a seven-year stay in the United States. Upon moving there, I went through an exercise to determine what my purpose in life was. Finding my purpose is to be a powerful healer, I took my first leap of faith, left the world of science and started working as a massage therapist, eventually branching into counseling, emotional healing, astrology, giving lectures and doing workshops.

During my first sojourn in Iceland and while living in the US, I traveled extensively to various Earth power spots in order to boost and accelerate my own healing, growth and transformation. This remains an integral of my personal life; I spend time each year visiting various healing and power places in the wild and awe-inspiring Icelandic nature.

In 1998, while contemplating emigration to Australia - as I don’t really like weather below 15°- I received ‘an order from above’ to return to Iceland. After spending an evening crying my heart out – in Iceland it seldom gets above 15° - I surrendered and moved to Iceland in 1998, where I had lived since.

A few years later saw me with a son and a counseling practice centered around codependence therapy and emotional healing. Later, I started giving workshops and seminars on codependence and also added DreamCatcher coaching to  my services.

In 2001 I got sick with Chronic Fatigue. This led me to become involved with Farida Sharan and the School of Natural Medicine. In 2007 the School in Natural Medicine opened a branch in Iceland - Heilsumeistaraskólinn - under joint management of Farida Sharan, Lilja Oddsdóttir and myself. As a result of the financial crisis hitting Iceland in fall of 2008, we were forced to restructure the school and separate from the School of Natural Medicine. In fall of 2009 Heilsumeistaraskólinn got recognized as a secondary school by the Icelandic Ministry of Education. Besides managing, I also teach in the school, with a special interest on the parts of the teaching that relates to emotional healing and personal growth.

My main focus of work, though, is Positive Power Living: Whether codependence therapy, DreamCatching coaching, or emotional healing, the work is unique in how I integrate therapy, healing, energy work and awareness, as well as natural medicine to facilitate self and life transformation in my  clients, and myself.

From a letter explaining my work with codependence recovery:

I am not a psychotherapist, psychologist or psychiatrist. I do not do psychotherapy, psychology or psychiatry, nor do I wish to.

My work is codependence recovery.

Understanding codependence is not enough to recover. Willpower alone will not make you recover. No one but yourself can make you recover and you cannot recover in solitude. As with anything else in life, you need a guide to show you the way, and the best guide is one who has traveled the road herself.

Such a guide am I.

I have spent more than a decade constantly working my own codependence recovery. I am a living, breathing example of someone who has recovered from codependence, and I can role model what it is to be non-codependent. Because I am what I teach, and always walk my talk, I hold myself qualified. And my clients agree.

Being with various teachers has taught me many things, most especially how not to work with people. It is very easy to develop a big ego when people come asking for help and to start abusing power.

So how do I handle this very real danger?

Constant self-monitoring and most of all, as in this letter, total honesty.

My clients know about my issues and imperfections and the small and big mistakes I make. This is an important part of my guidance: To recover from codependence total honesty is necessary. I role model this honesty. By also making sure that everyone knows I am human and still dealing with issues, I make (damn) sure that nobody mistakes me for a guru. 'Guru-itis' is a disease I prefer to live without.

I have found (surprisingly?) that my honesty about myself and my life is one of the most important things I do, in so far as enabling client's amazing 'changing-at-the-speed-of-light' recovery.

Also for my own integrity's sake do I need to be honest. To present myself to my clients as having no issues myself is deception and dishonesty...which is not congruent with codependence recovery.