About Me

Hi, thanks for your interest!

I’ve had a varied and unconventional working life, making the choice to avoid the corporate world early on in my career instead being a crusader for work/life balance and working as a ski instructor. This was a great way to live for a number of years and I enjoyed success and recognition in both hemispheres. However, everything in life comes with its compromises, for me that was not having a place to call home and not seeing enough of my friends and family in the UK.

I reluctantly joined corporate life eventually climbing the ranks in a variety of industries both in the private and public sectors. I’ve always been ambitious and driven by perfectionism but in the workplace the stress and pressure came at a huge cost to my health. I suffered corporate burnout on more than one occasion and then I was diagnosed with cancer.

Cancer has impacted all generations of my family and regrettably I’ve experienced it both as carer and as a patient. Clinicians provide support, care and compassion from diagnosis through to the end of treatment, but in most cases that support structure is gone as you’re about to move forward with life.

Adapting to my life after cancer was hard. On one hand I was so pleased that treatment was over and I was deemed cancer-free but I didn’t know how to ‘do life’ anymore after what I’d been through. My priorities had changed, I looked at life differently – I’d changed, but I no longer had the clinical support structure around me and people who understood the impact.

I felt a huge weight of expectation to return to normal life and be happy that it was all over but instead I felt a sense of loss at no longer having the structure of appointments to attend or the familiar faces of the team who had saved my life and understood my challenges. I didn’t feel the person that I was before and I didn’t know who to talk to that would understand and help me see how I wanted to start living life again. I’d also become disconnected from my body and felt it had let me down by after years of being fit and healthy.

As part of my cancer treatment I was put into medical menopause which came with a different set of challenges, some of them similar to chemotherapy. I felt tired most of the time, I was forgetful and had brain fog. After another episode of burnout I was offered coaching, which changed the trajectory of my life.

When I felt physically strong enough, and I had regrown some hair, I attended my first yoga class post-cancer. I knew I wanted to bring some movement back into my body but I wasn’t prepared for the mental respite that class gave me. My inner dialogue stopped and my mind switched off for the hour of the class as I focused only on the instruction from the teacher. It became my solace and I slowly gained confidence in my body again learning that it was capable of more than I had imagined after all it had been through.

Recognising the impact that coaching and yoga had on my rehabilitation, I felt driven to retrain and offer these life changing services and that much needed support to people adapting to life after cancer, from someone who understands.  

I finally left the corporate world and now work full-time as a transformative coach and yoga teacher helping others to thrive after cancer.

I’m English, with a multi-national name, living in Hampshire, UK with my husband and two dogs.