Founder of Sycamore Wellbeing | dōTERRA Blue Diamond | Faith-Based Mentor & Wellness Educator.
I didn’t grow up knowing the Sycamore Tree was in the Bible. I just knew I loved it.
As a young girl, I would draw trees constantly — over everything I could find. Scraps of paper, the edges of books… never the walls, at least! Just before she passed, Mum reflected on the tree with me and said “You drove me crazy with that tree!” I didn’t understand why it mattered so much. I’d never even seen one in real life. They don’t grow around here.
I learned that the Sycamore Tree has long been a symbol of strength, restoration, and divine encounter across the Middle East. In Egypt, it’s believed to be the tree where Mary and Joseph stopped to wash the baby Jesus after their journey from Israel to Egypt. They arrived at the place of this tree, to rest after the very stressful trip they endured with a newborn. I’ve stood beneath that tree. I’ve walked those streets. I know how hard Egypt can be.
There’s an entire city in Israel called Petah-Tiqva — the gateway of the Sycamores. And outside of the Temple of Karnak in Luxor an ancient tree still thrives. I’ve stood under its branches, and taken shade from the heat. And I have been blessed eat of its magnificent fruit. I started to understand this tree was so much more than just its name. It’s a biblical tree – the one that Zacchaeus climbed to see Jesus clearly.
I didn’t know it then — but God had been calling me through that tree my entire life.
As a child, I hated my name. It was hard to spell, and I was teased for it constantly. It felt like a burden I never asked for.
It wasn’t until 2020, during one of the hardest but holiest seasons of my life, that I came to see it differently. Unlike the common interpretation — Peta, from Peter, meaning “rock” — I discovered the Hebrew meaning behind it, which my Mother didn’t know when she decided to add an H to my name.
Petah means the opening of the door to the Tent of Meeting.
Jane, the feminine of John or Johanna, means grace of God.
My full name:
The opening of the door of the tent to God’s grace.
No wonder I felt so burdened, and no wonder I was in deep rebellion for most of my life. No wonder I had to learn to grow in it, and no wonder God used this tree to call to my soul.
My journey hasn’t been linear. I’ve lived multiple lives — coach, presenter, traveller, teacher. And to be honest, I was searching for truth, health, and identity in all the wrong places. I knew what I needed to do, and did it but without God.
After being swept up in the new age wellness world, like so many before me, I encountered the living God of the Bible in 2020 and everything changed. The striving stopped. The seeking stopped. And the healing began.
What followed was a season of deep restoration — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I reversed chronic health issues, shed layers of spiritual confusion, and began to rebuild from the ground up. Wellness became worship. Business became ministry. And my voice returned with purpose.
Today, I lead a global dōTERRA team, run mentoring and coaching programs for purpose-driven women, God fearing and those who are learning about Him. I host wellness retreats and Bible-based tours through Egypt — the very land that once held my heart in both bondage and breakthrough.
Together with my husband Ura, we now run Sycamore Wellbeing — a space for individuals and couples to live with clarity, steward their health, and rise into their God-given calling.
I don’t believe in formulas or hype. I believe in rhythm. Alignment. Stewardship. Grace. And that healing belongs to God, and only always leads to purpose.
If you’ve ever felt stuck between who you were and who you’re becoming… I see you.
If you’ve felt the pull to return to simplicity, rebuild your health, and walk in obedience to the deeper call… you’re not behind. You’re being invited in.
“Look, I am doing a new thing. Do you not perceive it?” – Isaiah 43:19
Today, when I take people through Egypt, we stop beneath the Sycamore Tree.
And we pray — yes, even in the chaos of Cairo.
We tell the story of Zacchaeus.
Of Mary washing the baby Jesus in the shade of the tree — by the living water. We speak about vision.
And we remember:
Nothing is accidental. Not even a tree a little girl once drew, over and over again.
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