British psychiatrist and healer Dr. Brenda Davies was 4 when she saw her first angel, a shining being that she regards as her first spiritual experience. From that time, she was able to see light emanating from and around people, commonly known as auras, and within them, vortexes of energy, the chakras. It was natural, therefore, that she use chakras as the basis of her healing, leading to her first book, "The Rainbow Journey."

Now she lives in Texas (where she bought a small ranch in 1995 to start writing because the climate reminded her of Africa), though work keeps her on the move much of the year.