In 2015, with one year of motherhood under my belt, I treated myself to a course on Transcendental Meditation. I’d been watching a clip of David Lynch talk about how it helped his depression and fired up his creative thinking and wanted to learn more.

Meditation encouraged me to slow down and helped me begin to untangle my beliefs about who I was. It was the first tool of many in a lifelong journey of discovery.

Cue a second baby a few years later and being made redundant from my creative agency job; I qualified as a coach and started working with clients, incorporating journalling and creative writing as catalysts for the healing and change they’d brought to my own life.

In summer 2020, I trained in Emotional Freedom Technique and Matrix Reimprinting, bringing these tools into my coaching to work deeply at a subconscious level. I then trained as a Breathwork Facilitator in 2021. (Read more about breathwork here.)

After experiencing burn out yet again, in early 2022, I was formally identified as Autistic and ADHD, aged 39 (read about that here and here) and suddenly my life made sense in a way it never had before.

As a highly sensitive child, I picked up on the energy of others so strongly that I often felt overwhelmed and confused. As a coach, this honed ability to tune into others is my gift.