Gabrielle Asher Barnett - Flower Essence & Cream Manufacturer, Product Design

Gabrielle with Sky (4 years old)

Gabrielle's Creative Background - Music, Animals, Judged 42 Breeds of Dogs, Mark Leishman, Suzanne Paul - and much more!

Gabrielle was born in Timaru, South Canterbury and later lived in the Christchurch area into her twenties. From her primary school days learning the cello, attending choir and orchestra, Gabrielle advanced through Burnside High School as a keen composer of music, and a talented creative writer. These talents lead her to graduate at 20 years old with distinction from Canterbury Teachers College, majoring in Music. Gabrielle recalls her joy, to this day, in discovering in her second year of teaching that she had an upright piano in her school room!

Her talents by no means ended in leaving teaching children, when she left to follow her heart in importing, showing and breeding Champion Record breaking Newfoundland dogs. Gabrielle loved her rural life in Woodend, North Canterbury and extended her abilities here in numerous ways by trialling her own herbal healing methods, running and forming several Canine Show Dog Clubs plus finding time to Committee on the local Judges and Stewards Associations. It was after many years of sheer hard work, determination, study and bloody mindedness that Gabrielle developed her intuitive gift for treating animals with holistic methods and teaching the use of same to hundreds of people for years to come.

Her move to Auckland at the end of the eighties, studying Classical Homoeopathy, running workshops on her specialities with people and animals, Gabrielle forged a niche for herself within several healing disciplines; Herbs, Homoeopathy, and later through her natural gift for making Flower Essences. Gabrielle launched her first range of over 40 single flower essences in 1997, called Aquarian Love.

Entrepreneurial endeavours were second nature to her, from appearing on TV with Mark Leishman, helping Suzanne Paul, attending to radio interviews. Gabrielle freely shared her gifts of working alongside the nature and animal kingdoms with her unique perspectives, including animal communication.

Later work included the setting up in her local community of a four week programme for raising self awareness for women, called 'The Olive Grove', where Gabrielle cut her teeth on raw edge, "tell it like it is" Dr Phil-style presenting, also with success.

From Gabrielle herself ...

I became interested in natural remedies 30 years ago and began trialling them when living in North Canterbury on my hobby farm. I became fascinated with good results, went on to study Homoeopathy in Auckland and later set up my North Shore Family Practice in the 90s.

My culmination of 18 years judging pedigree dogs at the NZ Kennel Club, my dog breeding experience, plus trialling natural remedies with my own animals brought me to study and specialise in this field in 1993.

In 1997, I began manufacturing my own range of Flower Essences after reading and hearing about their magic. I loved the relaxed feeling I felt when I was making them. I always felt peaceful and centred during the gathering and manufacturing processes of the flowers. As a natural extension of this work, (or should I call it play?) I put several 'Emotional Recovery' mixes together and trialled them in my Practice with people and their pets and had great results.

As a Homoeopath, I saw people struggling with everyday circumstances and realised that women, men, people just needed a SIMPLE, easy to use product at home, or to carry with them for those unexpected moments in life. So I set to work on it and here it is!

I made several "tweaks" to the base formula of GEM over some years, adding extra Flower Essences, to finally bring about the birth of GEM - for you. The GEMPet range for Animal Friends was released in 2007.

Simplicity is so lacking in today's busy-ness, let GEM help clarify yours.

I'd love to hear back from you via email, how you find GEM works in your daily life and whether you would recommend it to your girlfriends, mother, workmates, men or other people in your busy lives....