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an Englishman. They lived together in a 400-year-old thatched farmhouse which Kerry renovated. For over two decades Kerry worked as a registered nurse specialising in accident and emergency and family practice, furthering her link with the unseen. "I was an excellent A&E nurse because victims would come in thinking that things were minor, but I knew otherwise. A lot of medical people are highly intuitive – we're healers!" At home Kerry was also able to explore her gift thanks to a woman who, while not physically present, would change the course of her life. "There was a girl who had been there nearly 400 years. She was the murdered nursemaid of the children at the farm. When I had my children she became very concerned about them. She would wake me up in the middle of the night to check on them by pinching my arm or dropping things on me. She really became quite a nuisance." Around the time of Kerry's marriage breakup, the female spirit of the house felt even closer. "One night I was sitting knitting and she was being particularly disruptive. What I didn't know at the time was that my husband was seeing another woman and I believe she was trying to warn me. I thought I was happily married and I didn't know there was a problem until the day he left." In 2004 Kerry sold the haunted 400-year-old farmhouse, relocated to Te Horo, just out of Otaki and re-built her dream home and lifestyle. For the next three years she worked at the Otaki Women's Health Centre teaching self-esteem, anger management and recovering intuition to women recovering from drug and alcohol problems. Most did very well and were able to care for their children again, leave violent relationships and learn to love themselves. She also wrote a course on Self Esteem and Recovering your Intuition after Trauma that was accepted by the Otaki Women's Health Centre in 2005. Kerry is proud to say she has now 'come out of the closet'. She is currently self-employed as an intuitive counsellor, a psychic medium, a healer, animal communicator and animal rights activist, and helps people find answers and empowers them with their own truth. "Mediums are healers and we can clear up past issues. Forgiveness sets people free and releases huge burdens of themselves and others some carry around for years." In September 2010 Kerry became involved in marine mammal rescue and helped with the stranding of 90 whales at Cape Reinga. "I sat with a whale on the beach and something happened. People say that once you've been eyeballed by one that life is different. I sat there and I knew I was dedicated to these animals. We only saved 14 and I drove home physically and emotionally exhausted, but I knew I had to do more. "I've learnt not to ask what other people think because they'll probably say I'm mad. I follow my heart, and I didn't know why kept hearing 'go to Taiji' but the call wouldn't go away. In January 2010 Kerry travelled to 'The Cove' in Taiji, Japan where an average of 2,000 cetaceans, mainly dolphins, are slaughtered every year. The Academy Award-winning documentary film The Cove alerted the world to this atrocity in 2009. Richard O'Barry of Save Japan Dolphins.org, who was in the movie, has people on the ground documenting and witnessing the hunt daily. Other groups are present as well, but Kerry went as an independent to record, document and educate. "I tried to get to know local people and find out their views, to 'hear' them rather than judge, and to explain how we felt about dolphin hunting. My experience of Japanese people is that they are very polite charming and courteous. This is one small part of Japan and not indicative of the nation as a whole." The slaughter runs from 1 September through to 30 March annually. The activists witness pods of dolphins being hunted and driven into the cove by fishermen using banger poles, which they hit with hammers to confuse and disorientate the dolphins – it has a devastating effect on the dolphins highly developed sonar. Terrified and exhausted, the dolphins are driven into the cove and systematically and brutally bludgeoned to death. By the end of the 2010-2011 'drive hunt' season 850 dolphins were "Mammals in aquariums are on medications for stomach ulcers caused by stress, anti-depressants and antibiotics... While across the world they're being slaughtered, thank goodness we opt to save them instead of kill them in New Zealand." HER MAGAZINE | February/March 2012 | 87