Estralia was viewed as weird by many of her teenage friends and later colleagues in her adult life. Some saw her as eccentric-dancing to the tune of a different drum. The way she spoke about people and situations was different than-and foreign to-her peers and colleagues. She used words like energy, vibrations and intuition to express business situations that were traditionally expressed in more "logical" business jargon. She was often asked, "What do you mean the energy didn't look or feel right?" Estralia's ability to see and feel the electromagnetic field surrounding people, animals and objects inspired her to study the healing arts, where she found that she could manipulate the energy fields around people and cause what appeared to be a shift in how they felt.