ABOUT
ME
My Journey To My Heart
I have been a searcher for meaning my whole life. Having lived in the 3 major centres of South Africa throughout my life I worked out how to adapt from an early age. My childhood wasn't easy, like so many men out there I had a hardened father so disconnected from his emotions and those around us. My sister I were eventually raised by a loving single mother and spent much of my youth masking my pain with alcohol and staying distracted from my emotions. It only helped me for so long, but in my 27th year I developed Tuberculosis, which really set me on my back and forced me to examine how I took care of myself, including my inner world I had avoided through alcohol abuse since the age of 16.
The subsequent years were spent becoming physically stronger by getting back into surfing and ultra trail running. I also learned to cultivate inner peace through yoga, breath and meditation. But I was still not focussed, I still was searching for something, I didn't know what it was. Thankfully I came across The Mankind Project in my 35th year and found a home within my heart and amongst men. The subsequent years set me up for the greatest and most deeply spiritual experience of our lives, becoming a father to my beautiful son, Quinn. He represents the deepest ocean of love and the more high definition mirror I could ask for. No hiding from my wolves here!
Now you may be wondering ok but how are you here offering what you say? Well firstly psychology was my first love after school but a triggered moment from my father ended my tertiary education immediately in my first year, sadly I didn't return to the course. But life led me in many directions, locally and globally. Based on many years of being coached and eventually qualifying myself through The Transformation Academy as a Life Coach and my time in my MKP men's circle, which I have led for 6 years I found it almost mystically effortless to work with me in this space of self rediscovery and support. So here I am. I am a coach, a guide a friend to men. Offering a space safe for you to open up and look inside at your two wolves. And I guess you're wondering why I named my practice name Two Wolves? The ancient Cherokee parable always resonated for me, although my interpretation has shifted as I have evolved. Through a process of introspection my spirit animal came to me as a golden wolf in a forest near a quiet pond. He's been there with me ever since. Coincidentally Africa has its own native wolf, The Golden Wolf.