About Me
We all have our journey.
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After over a decade working in Education in Spain in my twenties (a decade I will be forever grateful for), it was a ‘healing crisis’ in my early thirties that set me on what I have come to think of as my journey to here.
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I was living and working in Film Production Services on the beautiful island of Mallorca. Life looked great from the outside but was causing more and more problems on the inside.
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A combination of an emotionally abusive relationship and a job and lifestyle that no longer made sense to me forced me to stop ignoring the messages of my body and to find a healthier, happier way to support myself.
I was suffering from repeated viral infections that left me almost constantly in pain and felt so ashamed of the fact that I was staying in a situation that I knew wasn’t good for me.
And then a serious of chance events meant my contract suddenly ended and I was free to go! I HAD to go.
“There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.”
- Elizabeth A. Behnke
Learning to Listen
What started as a two-week holiday in Thailand became a transformative journey in a totally new direction. I learned to listen to something more than my thoughts and the stories I told myself and as I learned to listen more deeply, my body healed. I'd been told the condition I had would be life-long and would need to take medication to control it. The doctors were wrong.
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I feel so grateful that I found – and chose - a path which gives me a much deeper sense of purpose, passion, resilience and joy. A path that brought me a sense of connection with my body and the world around me. A path that continues to heal me. As long as I'm listening!
After many years of study and long meditation retreats in Thailand, India and Greece I became a certified Thai massage therapist and later, a teacher teacher of Thai massage. I also certified as a yoga teacher and this in turn eventually led me back to the UK, where I studied life-coaching and became a mental-health mentor at UWE in Bristol.
It was also back in the UK that I became a mum, and as a sole-parent (something that wasn't part of my plan), I began to really appreciate the resilience and capacity I’d developed over all those years.
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More than two decades later, I continue to learn – and to listen deeply to the wisdom and cyclical nature of my body.
The Journey Continues
Now a Somatic Coach and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I'm a menopausal mum & step-mum to twins, living and constantly adapting to life as an expat in Denmark.
Here, I've embraced the joys & benefits of winter swimming and hygge (basically, the opportunity to snuggle up by the fire with a good book or good company and a cup of ‘proper’ English tea!) and am still 'finding my tribe'!
I love beach and forest walks – mostly accompanied by our extremely friendly and energetic dog Marley - and sometimes with my husband and children (we met when my son was two and I moved to Denmark two years later). I find freedom and joy in dancing 5Rhythms, love singing (I'm exploring the full-body joy of gospel currently) and thrive when in deep connection and community with other women.
I'm known to get totally lost in the aforementioned good book and I also enjoy finding & cooking healthy and creative recipes to feed a ravenous family of five. As long as someone else does the washing up!
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You can see my qualifications and certifications here.
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This 15 minute somatic meditation will help you calm painful or anxious thoughts and feelings of overwhelm. It comes with a pdf explaining why we feel anxious (and what we can do about it) and is recorded with a backing track of Alpha Waves, designed to help generate calm & focus.
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