Author and our South Icaria correspondent

Edith has been there since September 2013

She says: I read Ursula’s Ikaria platform with pleasure and interest, which has become an important source of information about Ikaria. As a “half-icariot” I would like to report from the south side of the island. Getting to know the island of Ikaria and the prospect of working with people there was a dream for me. At the end of the 80s I quit my job as a health and nursing teacher. I then lived on Ikaria with my 4-year-old son for two months and quickly fell in love with these diverse, unique landscapes. From then on, I returned year after year as J. Canacakis’ assistant to accompany grieving people in seminars. Kiriakos, a kind, fine person, gave the island a different face. We lived together for 15 years in Ikaria, Switzerland and Australia until his sad death in 2006. In 1998 we bought a 200-year-old farmhouse in Katafihi, just below the top of the pass on the way to Agios Kirikos, renovated it over the years and quickly felt at home.

Edith has experience traveling (South America, Southeast Asia). She is a nursing specialist, painting and expression therapist, grief counselor, Esalen massage practitioner, sound massage therapist.

Edith: Today I commute between Switzerland and Ikaria. I have known Ursula since 1987. We have always been connected by our mutual affection, shared interests such as grief work, sound massage, circle dancing as well as the connection to Ikaria and the special thing about being Swiss who have found their loved one in Ikaria.