Book description
When her two daughters were approaching the finish of their education
Marie Herbert felt the need to mark the end of the child-rearing phase
of her life by a rite of passage, a way to find herself a new place in
the grand scheme of things. Long drawn to the Native American spiritual
tradition, she planned a visit to the United States and an extraordinary
journey of personal transformation under the guidance of Native American
Healers. However, the end of her time of motherhood coincided tragically
with the sudden death of one of her daughters and so her odyssey was to
become far sadder and more urgent than she could have imagined. HEALING
QUEST is the fascinating description of Marie Herbert's inner and outer
journey of the heart. Vivid portraits of the people she met along the
way are combined with honest accounts of the change in her feelings -
together with ideas about how the readers, too, may learn from what she
experienced and so gain insights into his or own life, whether in
practical, emotional or spiritual terms.
Marie Herbert was brought up in Sri Lanka, went to school in India
and then attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
She has spent two years teaching English and Drama in London, five
years as a researcher in advertising and public relations companies
and also trained and worked as a transformational therapist.
She is married to the polar explorer, writer and artist, Wally
Herbert, and has accompanied him (with their two daughters) on many
journeys. These included living amongst the Inuit (the Polar Eskimos)
of NW Greenland and the Saami (Lapps) in Norway and Sweden, as well as
taking her young family on trips to Greenland. Her previous books,
The Snow People and The Reindeer People were accounts
of her experiences in the Arctic and her novel Winter of the White
Seal, was set in the southern Polar regions.
