What good is a youthful glow when your whole life is off course?
I must begin with the assertion that I don’t believe in airy-fairy therapies. If there’s no noticeable improvement on the body part in question, what’s the point in unblocking your chakra flow?
So when I met Katie Winterbourne, resident psychic healer at Urban Retreat and charmingly beautiful with strawberry blonde, waist-length waves, I sat with my face blank and lips firmly shut, determined not to give away a shred of information.
After a few moments, no hint of incense or panpipes, she opened her eyes and spoke of my mirror-image older sister, newly pregnant with twins after years of trying; my daily runs, heat wave or snow storm; my forthcoming trip to Greece and my early morning sugar habit in place of a healthy breakfast. Cue speechless skeptic! But what good is such insight without constructive advice to back it up? And that is where Katie’s other-worldly talent becomes something quite unique.
After months training as a yoga guru in India, including a series of grueling cleansing rituals, Katie discovered her gift for ‘channelling’. Without succumbing to a long list of supernatural superlatives, Katie uses a variety of skills to interpret and pinpoint the guidance that will be most powerful.
Nourishing to your soul in the way that a quality cream leaves you glowing, Katie is particularly skilled at breaking damaging behaviour patterns. Gentle, wise and non-judgmental, she often precedes sentences with ‘I hate to tell you off but…’ only to offer the kind of non-threatening advice you only wish your friends could conjure up in times of need.
Perhaps most important is her ability to feel actual emotions which belong to those around her, the result of which is a calming, immediately relaxing sense of peace. An hour spent with this extra-terrestrial fairy godmother is a cellulite cream short of life-changing.