Psychotherapist, academic, author, artist, artisan and social activist. Born in a time before transgender existed and for forty years constrained to live a life 'passing as other', but always aware of the incongruence - the sense that inside I felt somehow different. And then, a journey of discovery occurred whilst researching an MSc: suddenly a door opened into a new world - a world of new possibilities, the chance to live a more authentic life, that led to coming out as Transgender. The idea of the book has been about bringing the ideas and philosophies that sat within academia to a wider more general audience - to advance the awareness of transgender as a legitimate identity to encourage others to feel free to live their lives more authentically.