About me.
I am triple certified and accredited Life, Health and Nutrition Coach with expertise in emotional intelligence, neuroscience, eating psychology and alcohol free coaching.
I have a warm, compassionate, empathetic and deeply intuitive nature and bring that to my coaching to create a safe and non judgmental space to explore your inner world.
As a highly sensitive person (HSP), I have a natural ability to deeply empathize with your experiences and emotions. This means I can truly understand where you’re coming from and offer support that is both compassionate and non judgmental. My sensitivity allows me to connect with you on a profound level, ensuring that you feel heard, validated, and understood throughout our work together.
My coaching approach goes beyond surface-level solutions, focusing on the deeper aspects of your personal and professional life.
Choosing to work with a highly sensitive coach means choosing a coach who will see you, understand you, and walk alongside you with empathy and care. Whether you’re looking to manage stress, enhance your emotional intelligence, or pursue personal and professional growth, I have the lived experience to deeply understand your challenges.
Also me.
It's fair to say that I love the simple and finer things in life, I love loose leaf tea from a tea pot with a bone china mug, Clean Sheet Sunday with beautifully crisp Egyptian cotton sheets, cashmere scarves, 85% dark chocolate....
I love food, I love eating and confession time...I don't particularly love cooking! So you won’t be finding any recipes on here. Cooking in my home is a messy and highly improvised affair and usually done in batches so I don't have to do it every day.
I have a degree in English and Communication and wanted to be a journalist until I actually spent a few weeks of work experience working at a local newspaper. The reality definitely did not match my expectations! I am fortunate to be able to enjoy my love of writing through my blog posts and rather lengthy social media posts.
I have worked in a wide range of organisations from the engineering, sales and marketing departments of a telcommunications company, a further education college and the University of Cambridge. All roles involved coaching and mentoring so it was the natural choice to be a coach.
I am a creative person, I find painting deeply relaxing and have an intimate working knowledge of Farrow and Ball paints. If we have the opportunity of working together you’ll see that I colour matched my website to my office paint!
I am a parent to an exuberant, curious and smarter than me 8 year old. I found becoming a mother for the first time aged 40 to be a deeply transformative experience, one which I have learned so much about myself and my own childhood. I bring this learning to my coaching, it helps me to really understand the challenges of parents.
I am a nature lover and am happiest by the sea, I reinvested my red wine fund on a paddleboard and swapped holiday hangovers with early morning paddles.
More about me.
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My Story.
After two decades as a Leader in Education and Corporate organisations my health was failing me. My life looked great on the outside, I was successful in my career, beautiful home, gorgeous holidays, amazing friends and yet on the inside I was crumbling. Perfectionist tendencies had me continually striving at work, at home and across my entire life. The pressure felt relentless.
Abandoning myself and sacrificing my own needs to prioritise those of my family, friends and work colleagues. People pleasing and performing all the roles I had been assigned. Resentment simmering under the surface, boiling over and exploding all over anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity.
The anxious thoughts taking up residency in my head were deafening and I drowned them out with Malbec. The uncomfortable emotions trying to be heard, were stuffed so far deep down inside with food that I had become numb to any feelings.
In pursuit of perfection I had disconnected from life.
Maintaining this 'perfect' image came with a cost and that cost was my health. Behind closed doors I was teetering on the verge of burn out.
The burn out arrived after the loss of my Mum in 2020. My body had been trying to communicate to me, emotions were expressed as symptoms that I stuck a plaster on and carried on. Eventually, my body exhausted from screaming at me, simply said 'enough'. The physical and mental exhaustion was paralysing and forced me to stop and take an honest look across my life.
It was here that my journey into coaching started.
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My Credentials.
Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach (accredited with the UKIHCA)
Certified Mind Body Eating Coach (Institute of Psychology of Eating)
Emotions Coaching Practitioner (In Good Company)
Diploma in Life Coaching & Emotional, Behavioural Psychology (accredited with the IAPC&M)
Diploma in Neuroscience for Coaches
Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
Dryy Alcohol Free Coach
