I started my natural therapy business in the mid 1980’s – “Merrilee’s Wholistic Approach’ continuing to also work in community nursing roles. Thirty plus years on my mission to help people access integrative health has, by the evidence of global crises, widened to compassion and action to help our planet. I love, and have taken for my own, Pachamama Alliances purpose: work towards an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on the planet. We can do this by changing the stories and changing our thoughts.

As a self employed natural therapist with a wide-angle wholistic lens view I immersed myself in many enlightening experiences. I came to realise that truth and reality are dependant on each person’s experiences and world view. To effectively coach others I listen deeply to determine the client’s reality and what they want to achieve. Over the last 10 years I have worked predominantly with Indigenous Australians. I believe in two way learning and working in collaboration respecting each others world views.

Traditional philosophies of health and living intricately weave family, ancestors, spirituality, land or belonging and law. How we sustain ourselves and the world we live in are important issues for me. I am drawn to work that is ethical and just, where the organisation values human rights and justice. Personally, I am embarking on the Living in the Gift Economy.

Brigid Mary Prain is devoted to loving the Amazon and expresses that in a myriad of ways…

From documenting the Indigenous Resistance evicting trespassing oil companies, making immersive films about her Amazon animal encounters, producing music from Nature sounds accompanied by beautiful videos, giving presentations at festivals, taking her work into schools, and spreading the word about Nature protection far and wide on social media.

Through her work Brigid seeks to enliven our connection with life itself by challenging our senses and deepening our innate appreciation for existence. 

She is the Wilderness, a Wild Adventuress creating in Love with Nature, an Instrument for the Divine.

It is her deepest calling to be the voice for those who speak but are seldom heard.

She encourages us all to follow our passion, to live our bliss, to care for all life and to know that we are all indeed interconnected. Stand up and be counted!

See her current exciting project here.