A little personal history
There's nothing like a major crisis to turn one's life around.
In 1989, after first training as a State-Registered Nurse and working for a time as a producer in corporate video, Sue's life took a dramatic turn.
A friend and she were flying a light aircraft at 3000 feet one beautiful August evening over Southern England when the propeller stopped turning.
Astonishingly, they walked away from the wreck with scarcely a physical scratch. But that experience of trauma and near-death catapulted Sue onto a healing journey that profoundly changed how she looks at herself.
Following the plane crash, Sue trained with the Elisabeth Kubler Ross organisation as a Life, Death and Transformation facilitator, and went on to explore many avenues of emotional, mental and spiritual healing.
In 2001, Sue took a Masters Degree in Theology and Religion at King Alfred’s College in Winchester, specifically in the Rhetoric and Rituals of Death, with a thesis on The British Media: an Evaluation of the Spiritual Effect of Reporting on Death through Tragedy and Disaster.
This led her to meet Dr Peter Fenwick, and to begin research into end-of-life experiences.
In 2004 Sue qualified in Person-Centred and Existential Counselling with a post-graduate diploma.
Following the publication of The D-Word, Sue is changing direction with her writing to work on book about sex, meaning and the menopause.The book is due out in June 2011.