Who Am I?

I've spent more than thirty years walking an Irish spiritual path and tending the deep places where land, ancestry and identity meet, and that work has shaped my life as a Bean Draoi, an author, a priestess dedicated to the Irish Goddess Mórrígan, and a cultural educator.

It also shaped me as a single mother of three and now a grandmother, a woman who has rebuilt herself more than once and who has sat in the dark with the same questions you might be holding now.

On paper it reads well enough. I've written nine books on Irish history, mythology, magic and sovereignty, with my tenth in process for a US publisher, and I earned a Masters degree in Irish Regional History, specialising in Ogham and Irish identity.

I founded the Ogham Academy and the Morrigan Academy, I professionally managed the ancient royal Irish heritage complex of Cruachán (Rathcroghan), the home of Queen Medb and the Goddess Mórrígan, for over a decade, and I founded the Irish Pagan School, where we've taught tens of thousands of students through culturally grounded, academically solid, ethical, Irish spiritual practice.

I know what it feels like to hold the pressure of ancestry, abuse and old religion in your bones, and I know what it's like to hit midlife and realise that the version of you who carried everyone else can't carry you any more.

I know what it means to lose your sense of self after years of being the dependable one, the strong one, the quiet one who just got on with it.

I've lived through the collapse of roles and identities that once felt permanent, including two previous marriages and parental estrangement both up and down the ancestral lines, and I walked the long way back to myself, guided by tradition, land and hard won sovereignty.

My work now is to support women who are ready for that same shift. Women who don't want performance, spiritual tourism or borrowed ritual, and who need depth, boundaries and a native Irish voice that can hold the cultural, emotional and ancestral complexity of their lives.

Women like you, now ready to stop carrying what isn't yours, to honour what is, and to step into the next phase of life with clarity, strength and integrity.

I teach from lived experience and long study, and also from a very ordinary Irish life of raising children to grown, becoming a grandmother, having a career and running a business, and rebuilding after loss - choosing myself with a steadiness I didn't always have. My authority is maternal, ancestral and earned as much as it's academic and professional, and I'm walking the way of the Cailleach.

If you're carrying old wounds you're finally ready to face, if midlife has cracked something open that you can no longer ignore, or if you're standing at the threshold of the woman you're becoming and want guidance that's culturally true and spiritually grounded, then you're in the right place. 

I’ve been where you are.
And I know the way forward.