To answer the most asked question - I have been here since 1992.
I arrived here in September after having toured most of the southern bit of France, in a large camper van with 4 children.

So, no, I didn't put in the plumbing or electricity, but on an on-going basis I have been renovating and improving, and creating a garden, to set off the natural beauty.

My "other" work:
I'm a psychotherapist; currently training in a specialisation of psycho organic analysis with a Paris school. I do "coching work" in the personal developemnt area and also aromatherapy and reiki healing. I love it and I'm passionate about it. I practice whenever and wherever I can. So here is a little bit about it:

Quite naturally since living down here I've given up wearing a suit and going into work with a brief case. I work on a one to one basis as a psychotherapist and as a coach, (although personal development is a subject taken very extensively into the business world). So I have more freedom of movement and have evolved a far less rigid and formal approach which is able to incorporate healing on a physical, emotional and mental level.

My clients come to me for various motives. Theu may need support through a bad patch, and they may also come for specific "coaching" or personal developpemnt for use either in their private or professional lives. They often like to combine a good holiday with this more serious aspect. Clients also visit me for a one off hourly appointment of aromatherapy in order to relax or "strees-bust".

Some examples might include:

• Because she wants a relaxing aromatherapy massage
• It can be because he has physical aches and pains in his body
• Has has stress related problems
• Finds that although they are largely happy with life, they feel there is more to it and that they are just not fulfilling their potential
• She really wants to improve communication to diminish conflict with colleagues and at home
• Or simply someone who wants to make changes and advance a bit in life, etc.

I love talking about all this so do please ask me anything you like.

Some comments from clients:

• My business really took off and I now have the tools to face different situations which arise and which previously seemend so horrendous.
• .. made a real difference in my life by letting me see I really do have choices, although at the time I didn't think I had, and certainly not that I needed them.
• .. connected me to things I knew about long ago but had forgotten I knew.
• .. changed the way of thinking I had about my own life.
• Susie led me into a place that was bright, white, warm and safe. A weekend took the mist from my eyes and gave me the confidence in myself to see more clearly