About the author

I grew up in the Westfjords of Iceland but moved to Reykjavík at 16 to continue my studies. I studied Spanish in Barcelona for one summer, was an au pair in a small Finnish town, completed three university degrees, one of which was abroad, and set up the website Innblastur.is, about studies, employment and travel for young Icelanders, and worked in an advertising agency as well as in the marketing department of an international company. Today I work as a project manager at The Icelandic Mental Health Alliance (Geðhjálp) as well as Bataskóli Íslands (recovery college).

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I accomplished all this despite struggling with depression and anxiety, but I grew up with alcoholism and was bullied in elementary school. For a long time, I was looking for ways to improve my mental health, but I began my spiritual journey when I was 25 years old. I felt that the answers I was looking for were not available in the health care system, which quickly led me to turn to spirituality when I began seeing a psychotherapist and attending regular healing sessions.

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At the start of my spiritual journey, I visited a medium who recommended I try a tarot card reading course. I took her advice and attended a course in tarot cards at the Healing School and courses such as dream interpreting, healing and mediumship, and Reiki healing.

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Throughout the years, I have been involved in various meditation and development groups and learned, for example at the Heart Center. In the fall of 2022, I graduated from a three-year study in shamanism with Patricia WhiteBuffalo. A year later I completed the "Your Personal Transformation" programme at Starcodes Academy, as well as Angelic Reiki 1&2.

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I have worked on myself a lot for the past thirteen years and I know how important it is to work through the difficulties and setbacks one faces in life. Through the years, I have learned quite a bit about myself and spiritual matters, and I am determined to continue developing myself, as long as I live.