Since qualifying as a transpersonal psychotherapist more than 25 years ago, Chris Partridge has witnessed how life experience is always trying to wake us up to who we really are beyond our everyday 'ego self'. How our emotional wounds can form the foundation for our greatest gifts, if we are prepared to see their deeper messages through our pain...

A good therapist helps to make sense of complicated feelings and emotions. Chris now aspires to do this through the written word, placing established psychology within the enlightening framework of spiritual meaning and insight. Particularly at these unprecedented times in our planetary history.

Chris Partridge was born in London, England. He spent much of his early career travelling the world working for an international airline where he also worked as a supervisor in the staff counselling service. Through this work, and the enlightenment of travel, meeting and working with people from many cultures, creeds and continents, he learnt that we are all, ultimately, searching for one thing: Self-fulfilment.

Witnessing the myriad of ways people universally try to fill and complete themselves, Chris became increasingly aware of how we suffer when we try to achieve this solely through external means. He continues to work on how unchecked ego keeps us in suffering and victimhood. And aspires to surrender to, and transmute, his own pain into higher awareness.

'Wake Up' is Chris's first full length book. He has written many articles for magazines and journals and contributed to the seminal text, 'Aviation Mental Health' published by Routledge (2006).

He splits his time between London and Barcelona where he continues to write, facilitates workshops and trainings, and works as a supervisor of other therapists.