User:Viv Griffiths/Sandbox

'''Helen Parry Jones. Healer and Writer'''

Born in Chester on the 8th August 1959

Helen's first strong memory of her spiritual awareness is an incident which happened when she was four. From then on, Helen was aware of not only seeing but also hearing the spirit world around her more and more strongly. In the flat where they lived, Helen repeatedly heard an old woman banging on the ceiling and calling her name. Finally, Helen's mother went to investigate. The gentleman who lived in the flat above told her about his mother, who had been bed-ridden and had banged on the floor to call attention, and who had died twelve months before. Because of her 'imaginary friends', Helen was taken to see a doctor. Luckily, in a time when 'this sort of thing' was not spoken about, this particular doctor advised Helen's parents to simply let her be, and not to worry too much about it.

At the age of twelve, Helen remembers being given a special opportunity from the Spirit World. She awoke one night to see a small but very bright light in her room. Her first assumption was that her neighbour was in his garage working under a torch, but it was black outside. This light, the size of a candle flame but burning very brightly, moved around Helen's room and stopped in front of her face. The young girl was terrified, yet at the same time she felt the most amazing 'warm and loving .. whole and secure' feeling all around her. Although at the time she was frightened, Helen now knows that this was a gift of enlightenment.

Soon after this experience, her grandmother lay in hospital dying of cancer. One night, in the early hours, Helen awoke to see her grandmother sitting on the end of the bed. She told Helen that she was better now and that she was going away on holiday. They kissed and Helen went back to sleep. In the morning, Helen's parents found her story difficult to believe, as the hospital was many miles away from their home, but they were more accepting when they received a phone call to notify them of their mother's passing in the early hours of the night.

And so Helen's life went on. She attended school and made friends and studied to become a dental nurse, whilst every day seeing things around her that were unexplainable, seeing and hearing people that no-one else could and passing on messages to those around her. Finally, in her mid-twenties, Helen took the courageous step to give up her successful dentistry career and to begin a career as a medium and healer.

From this point onwards, Helen has hardly had a moment to herself, being kept busy with private sittings, clinics and seminars for both small and large audiences, and it is a career that has, understandably, been well documented by the press.

Life story Hands of an Angel Helen's life story is recently been published by Random house