Annie sitting beside a window with an open book, smiling as she looks outside.

Annie is an Explorer.

Annie comes from a home surrounded by books and curiosity. Both her parents were primary teachers, interested in nature, gardening and how things work.

Her New Zealand heritage began with both sides of her family emigrating from the UK, through Australia, to New Zealand. While her ancestors travelled in search of opportunities and a better life, Annie's reasons are from a different perspective. Curiosity is what gets her moving, and exploration is what keeps her going. Her enthusiasm for road trips has earned her the family nicknames of Gypsy and Nomad.

Since Annie's late fifties, most years she has visited the UK, often house-sitting, exploring landscapes familiar to her family and to her own ancestral memory.

A mind map mirrors the way Annie makes connections; it is the way her mind works. She follows a path that moves from being analytical, to story, to understanding energy, to intuition — and back again.

All of that braids together into a tapestry of knowing.

About Annie

Turning Points Along the Way

1953 – 1959 - Early Childhood
Suppressing of her natural elfin self.

1960 – 1971 - School Years
Becoming acceptable to family traditions.

1972 – 1973 - University
Introduction to the hippie lifestyle; seeing another way of being.

1973 – 1978 - Teachers College & Primary Teaching
More stripping away of conditioning.

1978 – 1982 - Office Administration
Discovering her talent for systems and perfecting analytical processes in communication.

1982 – 1984 - Life in Sydney, Australia
It's OK to be different.

1985 – 2008 - Motherhood
Finding her own way of doing things and standing on her own two feet.

2009 – 2010 - New Discoveries
Learning that driving is her best way to meditate; hearing voices from another self.

2010 – Present - Continuing the Exploration
Updating her truth and following the thread of ancestral strengths.