Two healers.
One shared belief.
We built this practice because we had both lived the gap between what modern medicine offers and what people actually need. We know what it is to be the patient. We know what it is to be the practitioner. And we know the difference a whole-person approach makes.
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The most powerful thing in healing is being truly seen and heard. Not managed. Not categorised. Seen.
Across 27 years of nursing and two decades of energy and herbal medicine, that is the one truth that has never changed. People arrive confused, dismissed, foggy. They leave appointments with a prescription and no answers. They try everything and feel worse for it. They are told their tests are normal and then go home to a body that disagrees.
We built The Barefoot Healers to be the thing we wished had existed. A place where a birth chart and a blood result are given equal weight. Where the patterns are followed all the way to their root. Where the whole person, not just their most recent symptom, is the subject of the work.
This is not a wellness trend. It is a practice built from lived experience, clinical depth, and a deep respect for the intelligence of the body.
From critical care to root cause.
This is not a polished origin story. It is the real one. The one that explains why this practice exists, what it cost to build, and why Jennie holds her clients the way she does.
I have been in that fog myself. I have battled unexplained symptoms, misdiagnoses, and the emotional weight of not feeling understood. That is why this work is not just about protocols and supplements. It is about clarity, connection, and truly understanding the whole person.
Jennie is a Registered General Nurse since 1999, 12 of those years in critical and acute care. She is registered with the Ordem dos Enfermeiros in Portugal, holds 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. She is also a Medical Astrologer, Integrative Health Practitioner, and Therapeutic Masseuse.
But those credentials are not her story. Her story is below.
Born in 1978. A happy child, living in a dream world, with an imaginary friend named Elfie and a fascination with anything medical from as far back as she can remember. From an early age, she also remembers wondering why modern life seems to suck the life force from people. That question has never left her.
Recurrent throat infections throughout childhood. Round after round of antibiotics. Chronic fatigue so severe that teachers let her sleep in class. She would crash the moment she got home, sleep 12 hours, and wake unrefreshed. At 10, a collision with a car on her bike pushed her front teeth back into her gums. Years of dental work followed. What she now recognises as chronic fatigue, brain fog, and gut disruption began here. She did not have the language for it then.
At 17, first job in a care home at £2.05 an hour while friends slept in on Saturdays. She was up at 7am, caring for the elderly, and knew with complete certainty that nursing was where she was meant to be. She aced her A-levels and got into nursing school at 18. A bout of severe gastroenteritis in the first year led to an IBS diagnosis and a lactose-free diet. The gut-brain connection was not a concept in the curriculum. It would become one of the most important threads of her practice.
Vascular surgery. Colorectal surgery. Critical care. A role she describes as being like a detective: reading bodies, tracking patterns, advocating for patients the ward system had stopped listening to. She became a Critical Care Outreach Matron. She developed, she says, an ability to see what others missed. She also developed a deep empathy, claircognisance, and clairsentience she did not yet have a framework for. She was exhausted much of the time. She put it down to shift work and nights.
A miscarriage in 2005. A pregnancy that should have ended but did not. Months of retained products. Multiple gynaecologists who dismissed her. A scan that revealed she had been carrying a dead foetus for months. She says: no wonder I felt like I was going crazy. A D&C. Two years later, her first child, a traumatic birth. In 2011, another son, another difficult birth, a faster recovery. Three months later, she packed up and moved to Portugal.
Portugal. Mould exposure, though she did not know it yet. Reflux. Extreme fatigue. Wine and coffee and burning the candle at both ends. A CrossFit phase that transformed her body into the strongest it had ever been. Then: a relationship breakdown. PTSD. Panic attacks. Insomnia. And then ciprofloxacin, a fluoroquinolone antibiotic she had administered hundreds of times in ICU, prescribed for a recurrent UTI. Within two or three doses, her body felt like a bomb had gone off. She went from back-to-back CrossFit sessions to barely being able to make her bed. More mould exposure during a home renovation. Adrenal dysfunction. Wired all the time. Then tired all the time. Her gut, sleep, and emotional health collapsed together.
A Reddit post about fluoroquinolone injury. Jennie did what she does best: she investigated. What she found unravelled something fundamental in her understanding of modern medicine. She enrolled in courses, read hundreds of books, ran every functional medicine test on herself. The results: mould toxicity, SIBO and H. pylori, nutrient deficiencies, almost zero melatonin, poor oestrogen detox, disordered cortisol, an MTHFR genetic mutation, and electrohypersensitivity. A career built on medicine, and yet the medicine had almost broken her. She began to rebuild herself using everything she now teaches.
She met Bo. A Reiki Master. They became friends, spent most of 2020 walking in the hills with her dogs, putting the world to rights. Bo introduced her to energy healing, Reiki, shadow work, and eventually to medical astrology. Something shifted that no supplement or protocol had reached. They realised that together, they had something nobody else was offering.
Jennie launched her Integrative Health Coaching business in 2020 and quickly saw that what she had experienced and studied was remarkably effective across a wide range of conditions and complaints. The Medical Astrology Guide app followed: classical astrological medicine, iatromathematics, made accessible. The Barefoot Healers was formally born in 2024. A place where the whole picture is taken seriously. Where predisposition is not predestination. And where being truly seen is the first act of healing.
The plant. The person. The practice.
Bo has been a Reiki Master for over 20 years. She is also a Herbal Medicine Consultant, drawing on Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine constitutional profiling to understand not just what a person needs physically, but what their system is in excess or depletion of on every level.
Her work begins with listening. Not just to what a client says, but to what the body is doing underneath the words. She offers personalised herbal support, constitutional profiling, aromatherapy, crystal healing, and Reiki both in person and at distance. She also trains Reiki practitioners at Levels 1 and 2 for those called to develop their own healing practice.
Bo's philosophy is rooted in a trust that nature has never needed improving. That the right plant, at the right time, offered with the right understanding, can move something in a person that nothing else will reach. She brings this belief to every session and every protocol she creates.
She is the energetic and herbal backbone of everything The Barefoot Healers does: the Alternative Remedies pillar of the Roadmap, the herbal and Reiki dimensions of the Healing Partnership, and the energetic thread that runs through the whole practice. Her creator range, Bo-tanics, brings that same philosophy into botanical home products.
"Plants have been healing people for thousands of years. My job is to listen to both, the plant and the person, and trust what I hear."
Health is not something
to be fixed. It is something
to be understood, supported,
and lived.
Every modality we offer, integrative health, medical astrology, herbal medicine, energy work, serves a single purpose. Not to tell you what is wrong with you. To help you understand yourself deeply enough that you can do the work of getting well.
We do not separate the physical from the emotional, the clinical from the spiritual, the planetary from the personal. These are not different languages. They are different lenses on the same truth. And the whole picture, always, is more useful than any single part of it.
Portugal's Silver Coast. 2017.
Jennie and Bo met around 2017, long before the business had a name. What started as friendship became something harder to describe: a recognition, on both sides, that they were working towards the same thing from different directions.
They spent most of 2020 walking in the hills with Jennie's dogs, talking about what was missing in modern healthcare, what the body was capable of when genuinely supported, and what it might look like if clinical rigour and energetic wisdom worked in the same room rather than in opposition to each other.
The Barefoot Healers was formally founded in 2024. Everything they had built separately, Jennie's integrative health practice, Bo's herbal and energy work, came together into one coherent home. They are based on the Silver Coast and they work with people all over the world. The work is the same wherever it happens: helping you understand yourself well enough that your health becomes something you steward rather than something that happens to you.
The work, in their words.
"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 and Bo's plan changed my life. I've gone from house-bound to bike rides with my kids. No more pain. No more hospital visits. Just energy and a second chance at life."
"For the first time in years, I feel like 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 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 and Bo's plan changed my life. I've gone from house-bound to bike rides with my kids. No more pain. No more hospital visits. Just energy and a second chance at life."
"For the first time in years, I feel like 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."
"Together they have helped me reconnect with myself physically, emotionally, and energetically. Bo's Reiki sessions helped me access and release deeper unresolved pain. I feel more balanced, more aware, and far better equipped to support myself."
"Thank you for your understanding, support and access to your resources, which continue to be so useful as we navigate this new path."
"I can sense the healing beginning before the session even ends. Bo's Reiki is like being held in the most loving, grounded energy I have ever felt."
"Together they have helped me reconnect with myself physically, emotionally, and energetically. Bo's Reiki sessions helped me access and release deeper unresolved pain. I feel more balanced, more aware, and far better equipped to support myself."
"Thank you for your understanding, support and access to your resources, which continue to be so useful as we navigate this new path."
"I can sense the healing beginning before the session even ends. Bo's Reiki is like being held in the most loving, grounded energy I have ever felt."
"Jennie was spot-on from the beginning with planning the correct approach for my daughter's serious health condition. The progress was remarkable and even surprised the doctor. Being heard and seen has had a huge impact on her health."
"Your explanation of the planets' influence on my life journey made total sense. It helped me see my struggles as part of the plan, not personal failure. I am free of guilt now, filled with strength and confidence."
"I've really enjoyed the course content so far. The Body Consciousness module is the largest amount to digest. I now monitor what effect everything I do has on my health."
"Jennie was spot-on from the beginning with planning the correct approach for my daughter's serious health condition. The progress was remarkable and even surprised the doctor. Being heard and seen has had a huge impact on her health."
"Your explanation of the planets' influence on my life journey made total sense. It helped me see my struggles as part of the plan, not personal failure. I am free of guilt now, filled with strength and confidence."
"I've really enjoyed the course content so far. The Body Consciousness module is the largest amount to digest. I now monitor what effect everything I do has on my health."
The Richie Allen Show.
Jennie has appeared as a guest on the Richie Allen Show, speaking on health, integrative medicine, and medical astrology to an international audience.
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Our services are educational and supportive in nature. They do not diagnose, treat, or replace professional medical advice. Jennie Lowes is a Registered Nurse (Ordem dos Enfermeiros, Portugal) and Integrative Health Practitioner. Bo Lemm is a Herbal Medicine Consultant and Reiki Master. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for health concerns. The Barefoot Healers is IPHM-accredited.