It began with two healers, and one shared belief.
That lasting health begins with genuine self-knowledge. The Barefoot Healers started with two women walking barefoot along the Silver Coast. Six years on, the practice continues with me at the helm, and a growing vision to become a network for healers, therapists, and the people who need them.
How The Barefoot Healers came to be.
It started on a beach, back in 2020. During the pandemic I would walk barefoot along the Silver Coast with my dogs, and my dear friend Bo would often join me. No agenda, no clinic, no appointments. Just two women who had spent decades working with the human body, in very different ways, talking about what we had seen, what conventional medicine kept missing, and what might be possible if the two approaches were brought together.
Those walks became a question neither of us could let go of. Over the years that followed, Bo and I built The Barefoot Healers together. We created courses, hundreds of digital resources, and countless shared client journeys. We trained health coaches and poured ourselves into client education, always following the roots before the symptom, always helping people understand the why.
We also grew, as people. We learnt from one another, pushed each other out of our comfort zones, and held each other steady through it all, with a great deal of laughter and a few honest tears. That kind of partnership changes you.
In time, life moved us in different directions and into new seasons, Bo among them stepping into the joy of becoming a grandmother. With love and gratitude, The Barefoot Healers now continues with me at the helm. The vision ahead is to grow it into a network: a trusted home for other healers and therapists, and for the people who need support finding their way back to health.
Health is not something to be fixed. It is something to be understood, supported, and lived.
Every modality I offer serves one purpose: helping you understand yourself deeply enough that your health becomes something you steward, rather than something that happens to you.
I have been a Registered General Nurse for 27 years, with 12 of those in critical and acute care across vascular surgery, colorectal surgery and ICU. I am registered with the Ordem dos Enfermeiros in Portugal, hold a BSc in Nursing and an MA in Medical Ethics and Law, and trained as an Advanced Life Support Instructor and Critical Care Outreach Matron.
When my own health collapsed following a fluoroquinolone antibiotic injury and mould toxicity, I found that conventional medicine had the diagnosis but not the map forward. To understand what was happening in my own body, I trained further in nutrition, integrative health and medical astrology. Medical astrology has become my favourite tool to use with every client. A birth chart, I have found, can reveal patterns that years of appointments never surfaced.
I have a passion for autonomy in healthcare, and that comes from understanding your body. Not being told what is wrong with you, but actually knowing why. That shift changes everything, and it is the foundation of everything I offer.
Some people call me a health and healing wizard. I rather like that.
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For six years Bo was my partner in building The Barefoot Healers, bringing more than twenty years of herbal medicine, energy healing and aromatherapy, and a deep trust in the body's intelligence and the healing power of the natural world. Her belief that the right plant, at the right time, can change everything shaped so much of what we made together.
Life has since carried Bo into a new and beautiful chapter, and she now pours her energy into her own work and into being a grandmother. I remain endlessly grateful for the years we shared, the courses we built, the clients we walked beside, and the friendship that carried it all. Bo is the first practitioner in the growing Barefoot Network.
The principles that guide everything I do.
These are not marketing statements. They are the beliefs that shape every programme, every consultation, and every piece of content I create.
I will always tell you why before I tell you what. Understanding your body, your constitution, your patterns and your timing is not optional preparation. It is the healing itself.
Clinical rigour and ancient wisdom are not opposites. I read blood tests. I also read natal charts. Both are taken seriously here, without apology and without false hierarchy.
Bodies do not exist in isolation from minds, emotions, histories or environments. I do not treat symptoms in isolation. I look at the whole picture, because the whole picture changes everything.
I have spent 12 years in critical care across a 27-year nursing career. I do not deal in fairy dust. What I offer is warm, rigorous, and firmly rooted in both clinical reality and lived experience.
I work alongside conventional medicine, not against it. I support your relationship with your healthcare team, and I am clear about what I do and what I do not do.
Every modality I offer, medical astrology, integrative health, nutrition and clinical care, serves one purpose: helping you understand yourself deeply enough to take the right action at the right time.
What people say when they find the right support.
Real people, real health journeys, and real outcomes when someone is finally seen as a whole person.
My medical astrology report is incredible. An amazing affirmation when you see it written down, a reflection of your own nature and how you function.
I had suffered a long and agonising period of ill-health. Jennie's plan changed my life. I have gone from house-bound to bike rides with my kids. No more pain, no more hospital visits.
For the first time in years, I understand what my body is actually trying to tell me. Jennie connects the clinical and the cosmic in a way that makes complete sense.
My daughter's serious health condition showed remarkable progress. Her doctor was even surprised. Jennie gave her confidence and genuine understanding of her own body.
Jennie identified patterns in my health that no doctor had noticed in twenty years of appointments. It was the first time everything finally made sense.
For the first time, someone looked at the whole picture instead of one symptom at a time. I finally understand my own body, and I feel far better equipped to support myself.
Jennie on the Richie Allen Show.
I am a regular guest on the Richie Allen Show, one of the most listened-to independent media programmes in the UK and Ireland. These conversations cover the full range of my work: integrative health, medical astrology, the gaps in conventional medicine, and the conversations that matter.
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