About Me
I remember the feeling as if it was yesterday. I am sitting on the terrace of Casa Susanna, a villa my husband and I had rented for a month, on the Amalfi Coast in Italy feeling like I had it all.
After a long period of illness and an excruciating back injury that needed surgery, I had gone to university in my 40s, graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics and become a teacher. Now, 4 years later, I was celebrating my promotion to Head of Year.
My kids were settled and successful, my marriage satisfying and solid and the icing on the cake was I had just lost 40lbs!
I felt wonderful, mentally, physically, emotionally.
Fast forward 3 more years………
I am in the back of an ambulance, being blue-lighted to hospital with a suspected stroke.
I am exhausted, mentally, physically, emotionally.
I had spent the last few years putting everyone else’s needs before my own, working far too many hours and never stopping to make time for myself.
I had sacrificed my health and wellbeing for my career and completely ignored the signs my body and mind had been giving me. It resulted in a catastrophic burnout that put me in bed for 6 months and ended my much-loved teaching career.
And although it broke my heart, I was in fact lucky, because it was not a stroke, it was a stress related hemiplaegic migraine.
But in that moment, in the back of the ambulance, thinking I was going to die, I knew I had to stop ignoring what had been calling me and start to listen to the still, small voice inside me that would lead back to health, back to the spiritual path I had turned away from and towards a career that feels like my soul’s work.
When I recovered, I trained as a coach because I wanted to help other women who were heading for or in the throes of burnout.
What I found from working with my clients was that, in almost every case, the women who were burning out were also ignoring an inner voice that was trying to guide them to do something else.
They, like me, recovered when they were ready to stop sabotaging themselves and began to listen to their inner wisdom.
They realised that they could no longer listen to everything they had been told about who they should be, what they should do, how they should feel, what they should want.
They were ready to let go of all the shoulds and to explore what was waking up in them, calling them to follow their inner GPS and see where it lead them.
As I worked with more and more clients, I was able to develop my coaching style to combine traditional coaching tools with elements of The Artist’s Way and wisdom gleaned from 30 years of studying a wide range of spiritual traditions. My influences range from mystical Christianity to Tibetan Buddhism, A Course in Miracles, Rupert Spira, Adyashanti, Byron Katie and Diederik Wolsak’s Choose Again Six Step Process.
I am currently in the 2nd year of the Ministerial Preparation Program written by Regina Dawn Akers at Awakening Together.
This program is developing my ability to
- Rely on my own inner spiritual wisdom
- Recognise universal truth in various spiritual teachings
- Embrace natural, wakeful spiritual practice with ease
- Realise unswerving clarity and discernment
I am able to bring these qualities into every coaching relationship.
I support women as they find and remove all the blocks to being the true Self.
I support them as they learn to access their own inner wisdom.
I partner with them as they confront the fear that arises when they decide it is time to birth into the world the inspired action they have been pregnant with for most of their lives.
If this resonates with you, then feel free to book a free 30 minute exploratory session.