The arrival of her children led to a change of direction and after training as an NLP Master Practitioner she is now delighted to be involved in bringing the healing work of Dr.Eric Pearl to Budapest. A trained Reconnective Healing® Practitioner, she offers Reconnective Healing®, (a new form of “hands off” work using energy, light and information that within three sessions helps to restore people to balance, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually) and The Reconnection® (a two session process that accelerates a person’s spiritual journey and helps advance them on their life path).

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1. When did you arrive in Hungary and what brought you here?
On a hot, sweltering day at the end of July 1992. In the street where we first lived the tarmac melted under my feet in the heat and the smell of nail varnish remover hung heavy in the air. I came with Richard, my husband, “for a year”.

2. Have you ever been an expatriate elsewhere?
No.

3. What surprised you most about Hungary?
How beautiful it is and how full of secrets. The weight of history sits heavy here. Also that however difficult the language and however many attempts it might take, you can always find everything and everyone you need. Never give up.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend – what must they absolutely see and do?
Walk the streets – particularly in the inner city. The Szechenyi Baths in winter, the tip of Szentendre Island in summer. The market in Feny utca and then tea and süti at the Auguszt Café. A walk at Normáfa and then cheese pogácsas up at the Normakert Vendéglõ or stop off and sit in the sunlight on the terrace at the Villa Bagatelle on the way down. Supper at 26 Csalogány.

5. What is your favourite Hungarian food?
Töltött káposzta –once a year.

6. What is never missing from your refrigerator?
Dry white wine,champagne and butter. I have also learnt to keep all my flour, rice, grains and nuts in the fridge -to keep out the moths.

7. What is you favourite Hungarian word?
Örülök. (I am delighted, very pleased). It sounds like a bird of paradise.

8.What do you miss most from home?
My old friends. Good theatre. Smiles.

9. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
Being a painter and a sculptor.

10.What’s a job you would definitely never want?
Being a lawyer.

11. Where did you spend your last vacation?
Cornwall, in the UK.

12. Where do you hope to spend your next holiday?
Paris, visiting friends who used to live here.

13. What was your favourite band, film or hobby as a teen?
The Rocky Horror Show.

14. What can’t you resist?
Cuddles from my family and Lindt 70 % dark chocolate. Oh, and cheese pogácsas.

15. Red wine or white wine?
Both. And rosé, particularly in summer.

16. Book or movie?
Both.

17. Morning person or night person?
Morning.

18. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
Brain-washing and hypnosis by mass media.

19. Buda or Pest?
Buda in the day, Pest at night.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
At the moment, something written by the Dalai Lama that I came across recently: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”