I invite you to visit Ways of Being, a website dedicated to advancing knowledge and raising awareness and understanding of after-death contact and its relationship with psychospiritual growth, spirituality and the afterlife.

The website presents my research and is a reflection of my personal and professional interest in death and the afterlife, all of which have their origin in the lived experiences of my own life. This relationship with the afterlife, which began in my childhood, was precipitated by diverse experiences of what I term non-ordinary or other-worldly phenomena. 

These experiences taught me that death was simply a doorway which led to another kind of existence, another ‘place’.  These experiences, which have continued into my adult life, inform how I live in the world as an embodied being and how I understand ‘life’.

As an adult I was bereaved several times, which also included becoming a relatively young widow.  During this time I experienced the presence of those close to me who died ‘returning’ on numerous occasions, without provocation from myself. These unexpected and random other-worldly encounters led to my decision to undertake after-death contact research and to complete a PhD in bereavement, grief and the afterlife (University of Sydney, 2013).  Death had never been this personal before, and I wanted to demystify it as I did the after-death encounters I was experiencing.

If you would like to know more, please visit Ways of Being