For years, my identity was built around helping others.
My experience started in early years, later working with families with complex needs, delivering domestic abuse programmes developed by Women’s Aid, and supporting Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) recovery awareness training.

I also worked within foster care services and in frontline services, supporting children and families experiencing poverty and crisis. That work gave me a deep understanding of how our early experiences, relationships and environments can shape the way we see ourselves, relate to others & move through adult life.
Alongside my professional learning and being a parent something more personal was happening too.

I was becoming increasingly aware of parts of my own childhood and life experiences that I had normalised, pushed down or simply just “got on with”.

Like so many women, being capable, caring and the person others could rely on had become part of who I was. Supporting others gave me enormous purpose, but somewhere along the way, I had lost sight of myself.

 

As my children grew up and became independent, life brought challenges of its own, I realised I couldn't keep pouring from an empty cup.
For perhaps the first time, instead of asking:

“How can I help everyone else?” I started asking: “What do I need?” That question changed so much for me. It led me to deepen my understanding of beliefs, trauma, the nervous system and human behaviour, but perhaps most importantly, it led me to understand myself differently.  Today, it's the same question I gently encourage other women to explore.

 

A little more about me…Away from coaching, I'm happiest surrounded by the countryside and woodlands close to my home, although my ultimate dream is to one day be living by the sea! I'm a wife to an amazingly supportive hubby & mum to two gorgeous grown-up children who I'm immensely proud of. Parenting was demanding (whose isn't!), but I can honestly say those were some of the best years of my life.
Now, I'm in a different chapter.
I'm using the experience, skills and wisdom I've gathered, professionally and personally & putting that same love and energy into helping other women create lives that feel fulfilling, purposeful and importantly, their own.
I don't believe personal growth has to mean endlessly analysing everything that's happened to us.

There should be hope, laughter and plenty of real life along the way.