Welcome to my website. I am so happy that you are here and that I can share my beautiful crazy life with you.
author and writer
I have always made up stories in my head. I see my whole life as one amazing story that continues to get chapters added to it every day. I can’t imagine a life without them. In fact, I’m so passionate about writing that I have the word write tattooed on my wedding ring finger.
As a journalist and newspaper editor I’ve written for magazines and newspapers in the UK and South Africa. Between 2017 and 2019 I was the features editor for Touch, The Reiki Association’s printed magazine, distributed in 16 countries.
My books are for sale on Amazon. If you want to know more about my books click here: Books.
teacher and healer
It is part of my life’s goal to help people bring balance back into their lives. I use my own transformation of overcoming the effects of long-term trauma and fear, as well as 21 years of studying, implementing and teaching concepts of healing, spirituality, philosophy and psychology during treatments and workshops.
My tools include mindfulness exercises, meditation training, chakra balancing, energy healing and visualisation techniques. I am an experienced meditation and mindful living workshop facilitator and I also teach Reiki classes. Reiki is a Japanese healing technique that helps you relax, heals your physical body and helps you build your confidence.
In addition, I present and give talks on mindful awareness and mindful living.
communications expert
I am an expert communicator who specialises in telling stories. I find gold nuggets in the mundane and can help you shape both your own and your company’s messages. I’ve worked with organisations like: Microsoft, Cisco, Text 100, Hotwire PR, Compuware and EasyNet.
My strength lies in my decades of experience in developing and managing international communications plans for global organisations. I’m a great storyteller and a patient and supportive spokesperson trainer.
I also enjoy working with small businesses and individuals to help them develop their business strategy and tell their company and personal stories. These include: charities, hairdressers, psychic and energy healers, musicians and photographers.
My LinkedIn profile:Laurika Bretherton
personal
A South African by birth, I’ve lived in Namibia, USA, the UK and Sweden. I’m a world nomad who travels and lives where my soul feels at home. My love for life increases exponentially when I walk, take random buses and read about people who are a little different. Patti Smith, Frida Kahlo, Pema Chödrön and Keith Richards are my guides. I can spend a whole day staring out the window of a bus watching the world go by, or walk on busy city streets, small towns where time stood still, down dusty country lanes, in flower-filled parks, in silent forests where the trees are the only witnesses to my passing, or at the edge of a wild foamy ocean.
I am a collector. I collect stories, moments, people and little gifts left by the universe for me to find when I go walking. I pick up anything that catches my eye – stones, shells, pieces of metal and plastic. I keep these gifts and when the time is right I take them out, make small hanging sculptures infused with healing energy and write stories about the art on my old Erika typewriter.
on a technical note
I have a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. I am both a certified life purpose coach and life story coach and a Usui Reiki master teacher and Reiki for animals practitioner. I have trained and volunteered with the UK’s Samaritan’s in listening and offering emotional support to callers who are suicidal and in distress. I also have certification in both tarot and oracle card reading.
Over the years, I’ve performed a great many jobs. A shortlist includes: newspaper features editor, corporate communications manager, making fudge in my mom’s kitchen, help a music production company with their business and communications strategy, selling make-up at a department store, cleaning dog cages at a humane society, volunteering at the Samaritans Suicide Helpline in the UK, offering emotional support at a London prison, energy healer, Reiki teacher, meditation teacher, mindfulness workshop host, dog and house sitting, and the one I’m extremely proud of: a bunny girl at a casino.
email: laurika.bretherton@gmail.com