Meet the Therapist, Spiritualist, Healer, and Medium behind The Healing Dimension

From Lost to Found:

Donna’s Journey of Spiritual Awakening and Healing

I’ve always been a sensitive soul and grew up in a house with a resident spirit that no one else could see or feel and I remember feeling terrified. As a teenager, I was attracted to tarot card readings and the readers would always tell me that I could read cards, but this was discouraged in my Christian family. I often had dreams that occurred the following day and had premonitions about things.

In my twenties, I had a career as a corporate PA, I married and had a family, but this all came crashing down when my marriage broke up. I was in my early forties and had completely lost sight of who I really was. I had no understanding of spirituality. I had a very difficult few years as I struggled my way through some big life experiences.

One weekend I took my girls camping at the Organic River Festival which used to be held outside Levin and in the middle of a paddock surrounded by didgeridoo music, Hari Krishna chanting, organic food and tarot card readers I had a revelation that I could train in massage. Never in a million years would I have considered this my path, but I investigated this possibility and with the help of my first tutor at the local high school night classes I enrolled at the NZ College of Massage and completed a Certificate in Relaxation Massage.

Once I had qualified I set up a practice in Lower Hutt and everything just flowed for me.

However, I started having very strange experiences with clients that I couldn’t explain. I was guided to the Petone Spiritualist Church and there I discovered that I was a medium and healer and I learned to understand the experiences I’d been having. I spent several years sitting in spiritual development circles, both in and out of the Spiritualist Church, and I did hands-on healing at the Church every week to gain experience. 

I completed a Certificate in Allied Therapies at the NZ College of Massage. I also started reading books written by some of the non-religious spiritual teachers of today, e.g. Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay. I gained confidence in giving readings in an appropriate and respectful way and I now have an understanding of how the Universe works and how to walk a spiritual path.

My girls left home and I travelled overseas for six months, walking El Camino across Spain, spending two