My name is Sarita Leonie Jarrett and I was born on Feb 22nd 1973. At the time of writing this bio, that makes me 41yrs old. I was born in the English County of Essex but moved to Buckinghamshire aged about 18 months and then to Cornwall aged 4. I remained in Falmouth, Cornwall until the age of 28. Since then I spent 9 years in Wiltshire and currently live in Hampshire since 2010.
I am the eldest of 5 daughters of Malcolm and Leonie Jarrett. At this point all my sisters are married and most have children of their own with the oldest of my siblings just over a year younger than me and the youngest 13yrs younger. In contrast I have remained single throughout my life. My life has not taken a ‘typical’ path for many reasons and this is one. I believe I am one of the few with the ‘gift of singleness’.
Over the years I have had many hobbies and learned many new skills. I don’t understand the term “bored”! Many of the better things I have done can be found somewhere on this site. My interests are wide and I’m always working on a bunch of different projects at the same time, that is, when I can do anything at all.
There are 2 main things you need to know to understand anything about me and my life so I will major on these 2 areas from this point. The first of these is my relationship with God and the second is the impact of severe neurological illness from a young age.
I was blessed to be born into a genuinely Christian family. By ‘genuine’ I mean a couple who actively sought to follow Jesus in every part of their lives not something they claimed only on a Sunday or because of the country in which we lived (as did some parents of my peers). No matter what the faith of my parents nor how much they took me to church, none of that could make me a Christian myself. That is a decision only I could make, just as all have to make our own choice in this vital area. To read more about how, when and why I made the choice to become a Christian myself, please click here.
My logic at the time of choosing to become a follower of Jesus proved true and He has been a very ‘safe’ pair of hands throughout a life that has been anything BUT ‘safe’. I have been through some horrendous times as well as some wonderful times and I can state with certainty that He has been faithful to me throughout it all. He has never left my side and I am certain I would not have made it through on a number of occasions but for His support and, at times, direct intervention. To read more on my perspective on why God would allow the difficulties in my life and the whole subject of a good God and suffering etc., please use the ‘Why God’ tab or click here.
At the age of 31 I had experienced one of the closest calls yet with severe depression when I was introduced to Biblical Counselling. I had experience with other types of Counselling as well as Psychology and even trained in Christian Counselling so was curious what this Biblical Counselling was and whether it was the same old same old or something different. I had zero expectations when I first met with Jim Phillips at North Hills Community Church in Jan 2005 but in our first meeting he immediately picked out where one of my main heart struggles was and gave me a book by Dr. Ed Welch on the subject (When People Are Big And God Is Small). I would not have identified myself with the labels on the cover of the book but within the first chapter I was nailed!
It changed my life in a week because it opened my eyes to new meaning to familiar Bible verses and, most importantly, it gave me hope that this was different and maybe things could change for the better. This was something I had given up any belief in until that week. The second meeting with Jim a week later and he asked me if I was interested in training as a Counsellor myself!! He didn’t know me well at that stage so had no idea of the training I had already done nor how I would grab that offer gratefully and run with it until I later became one of the first fully certified Biblical Counsellors in the whole of the UK. For more info on what Biblical Counselling is, please click here.
The second massive daily influence on my life has been my poor health. Officially I was diagnosed with M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) starting in Jan 1988 when I was 14 but evidence now suggests the real start of my illness goes right back to when I was just 6 months old. For more detailed info on my health journey, please click here. For more info on what M.E. is (and is NOT -
At the time of writing, my health has brought me to the end stages of life with a ‘window’ of time that we cannot know how long it will last. It is my hope that this website will be a useful resource before I leave to go ‘Home’. Death does not scare me but is the doorway to my total healing -