Serge’s sessions felt good, but I was not open and ready for the depth of healing he was offering. So I went a couple of times and then I forgot about him. It was also quite a distance to drive from my house to where Serge was working out of his converted garage in Alstonville.

​Years later, after I had a breast cancer diagnosis, someone again mentioned him and recommend I go to see him. So I met Serge again. That was about 12 years ago. At the time I was trying to heal the cancer myself and I did not want to see any doctors or have surgery.

His healing sessions were/are something else, something I had not experienced before, and this time I was beginning to be ready for true healing. 

At first I didn’t understand what he was saying about breast cancer being about a woman not nurturing herself, as I thought that many of the things I was doing were nurturing eg: eating all organic and mostly raw food, doing juice fasts… 

Hence why we can watch a little bit of war from our warm, comfy, heavily cushioned living room sofa, 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria, and when we've had enough, switch over to, say, Celebrity Big Brother!

​And then there’s the deceptive, polished media images of faces, bodies, lifestyles, all contributing to us detesting ourselves in parts or completely, so we will go and buy a solution to ‘love’ ourselves once again. 

We live our lives through screens and images in this way, and we don't seem to distinguish what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't even seem to matter to us. This creation of images can affect life even more powerfully and stealthily than enunciation, or even enactment. The imagined pictures can lodge way too deeply in the private sphere, especially when the public sphere is already so fragile, dislodging much else. ​

​Over the years I became very cynical of ever finding a philosophy of truth that would make a difference to the world, one that was practical and easily lived. It seemed to me that the world was full of people and organisations who claimed to know the magic of the Universe but with each and everyone I explored, it was easy to see they were not living what they were so very keen to talk about. They took money for what they claimed to know and lived it not. What was the worth of any such claim or talk that was not lived? Their talk changed nothing except to entrench people even deeper in the malaise of the world, being promised answers that were as false as quick sand.

The way I see myself, the understanding I have of who I am, and the lens I have not only of my personal history, but of the world as a whole is now the widest of wide angles with insights beyond anything thought possible.

It is the connection to his own Soul and with that to the One, the Universe and to God, where we all come from. This connection and how he lives this divine aspect of brotherhood and love on daily basis in a physical body very practically, is what has pulled me to this work from the first time I met him. This life style allowed me to make so many changes throughout the last 11 years.

My childhood was a minefield of abuse, so by the time I met Serge in Sydney in 2001, I was anxious, distressed and unable to connect to who I was. In fact, I had no idea who the real Sarah was at that point. Quite honestly, it's a miracle that I survived. 

He has always been there to support our family as an equal mentor and friend. There are no airs and graces about Serge Benhayon, he lives with a knowing that everyone is capable of great and wonderful things, that we all come from the same place with exactly the same makeup. With all the wisdom Serge naturally lives I have observed him approach his day with a knowing that he is going to learn something anew, or connect to something on a deeper level, to me this is what makes a great teacher.