Jeanne Elizabeth Blum was born in Bermuda and has lived all over the world. From 1989 to 1995, Jeanne owned the Healing Light Therapies Centre in Bermuda, and then Haikuleana Sanctuary from 1996-2005 in Hawaii. She holds degrees in Massage Therapy and Oriental Massage Therapy from San Francisco School of Massage and the Heartwood Institute in northern California, having studied Swedish-Esalen Massage and Jin Shin Do Acupressure and Auricular Therapy. She is also an Intuitive Medical Diagnostic tested and trained by Norman Shealy, MD., a neurosurgeon at Duke and the founder of both the American Holistic Medical Association and the Pain Rehabilitation Center at the Shealy Institute in Missouri; and his partner Caroline Myss, Ph.D., also an Intuitive Medical Diagnostic and author of numerous books. Her book, Woman Heal Thyself, was published in 1995 by Charles A. Tuttle in Boston; Element Books in England, Australia and New Zealand in 1996; Selector in Mexico and Central America in 1997 and 1998 in Spanish; and by Falken in Germany in 1998 and again in Germany in 2003 by Luchow. A significant article on Blum's auricular therapy success curing migraine headaches, written by Patricia Bosworth, appeared in the February 1996 issue of Self magazine.