Q and A with Angela from New Zealand

“…we are meant to live joyful lives where we feel like we are contributing to life in a positive way.”

Q: Tell us about yourself.

A: I am passionate about the books that I write, both for adults and for children, and bringing about change. With the children’s books I write, I love to encourage kids to be kids, building up their self-esteem and in a sense letting them know that it’s ok to be playful and free. To show and not tell.

I believe that we all have innate intelligence, including children, and if we encourage the true expression of self to come out that there will be less emotional trauma in the world and that just as we teach children, equally, we learn from and respect them.

Q: What were your younger years like?

A: I don’t remember a lot about my early years, but I do know that my first school report said that I lived in a world of my own and that this has turned out to be one of my greatest assets utilized in the children’s books that I write!

From my late teens, I trained as a singer and acted as a narrator for plays. This for me, was a way to overcome my extreme shyness.

I have promised myself (and as a nod to both my speech and singing teachers) that one day I will come back to these first loves of mine. For sure, the calling to do so is getting stronger.

Q: What is something valuable you’d like others to know?

A: I believe that if you have a dream, you have been given it for a reason no matter how insurmountable it may seem. Your dream wouldn’t have found you if you weren’t meant to fulfill it.  

When we are immersed in what brings joy it oozes out from us and is infectious! This doesn’t mean that there won’t be challenges along the way. There will be. But no matter how many times we are brought to our knees, it’s important to remember that there is always a way.

If that way hasn’t appeared yet, don’t give up. Ask for signs and a clear pathway to be shown to you and keep on believing in you.

I wrote my first children’s book “I Love Myself” back in 2007. At that time, I was a single mother without a spare dime to my name. I hadn’t intended to write the book, but… after an experience that had happened at my son’s school when he was five and after a conversation with a friend, where she recommended that I write a book, I did just that!

I’d never written a book before and had no clue as to how to publish such a book, nor did I have the money to do so. What I had to learn to do, was to take inspired action as and when it hit and that is exactly what I did. Most of the artwork in the book was created by children, a colleague of a friend gifted me the design, and after an Angel Investor pulled out of sponsorship, I blindly, but with the belief that I could sell these books, ordered a 3,000 offset print run of this book title.

That was back in 2007 and I’m just about to rerelease this title (with an updated cover and slightly adjusted text) here in 2023… a book that I believe will stand strong beside the other books that I have since written and published.

Q: What does feminism mean to you?
A: I’m neither for nor against feminism. To me, equality is important no matter what gender, age, or race. Though here, in New Zealand, we were the first country to give women the freedom to vote, and I’m proud of that.

MORE ABOUT ANGELA:

Six years back, I was told by an intuitive healer that I would write a companion guide to one of my children’s books but that this time, the book would be for adults. Most of my books have come about via a prompt or a sign and so I took note.

The day after my healing session, the title of that motivational book came to me and then the introduction, and with that impetus, I was away. Words often flow to me when walking along the beach, of which I am spoilt for choice where I live.

This Stepping Into Love –A Journey to Self-Healing has done just that, it has healed me. It has led me back to the core of who I am, that of love. It is a book for those of us that have read every book, and enrolled in umpteen courses, yet still feel like we’re on a hamster wheel of life going nowhere fast. Not that it’s about speed per se but we are meant to live joyful lives where we feel like we are contributing to life in a positive way.

I believe that this book will change lives; in fact, early readers have told me that it has changed their lives. I know it has mine.

I’m originally from the UK but moved to New Zealand when I was ten with my parents and five siblings.

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Here is my book: I Am Me: Unique and Free