About me

As a wellness coach, I believe that carrying a story about me and my past is of limited benefit to myself or clients, and could serve to impose barriers where there need be none.

I strive to see myself in the same way as I see you, as of limitless potential and possibility.

In a work setting, I have experience of running my own business; running a global multi-million dollar company; working within climate change, renewable energy and finance sectors; and working with charities and non-profits.

In a more personal sense, I attended boarding school for a number of years; have travelled widely and have lived in community; have had many metaphysical spiritual psychic and enlightenment moments; have worked with plant medicines from around the world; have experienced many changes in my inner and outer worlds and gone through several periods of major life changes during my life.

In terms of personal development and therapies, I have been active in exploring different modalities for decades, including yoga, breathwork, chi gung, cold exposure, meditation, eastern religions, practices from the Americas (north and south), family constellations, men's groups, coaching, counselling, tarot and other psychic / mediumistic studies, dance and movement practices. These days, I notice I am finding most benefit from activities with less distraction on the 'exotic', and with more focus on my own inner thoughts and feelings; whilst at the same time feeling open to all that life has to offer and still practising any of the above as the desire arises in me.

My interest in coaching started when I received career coaching myself, and evolved into an interest in Wellness Coaching after I started facilitating a local men’s group and felt passionate to explore and develop this further.

In life, I choose to do things that feel good to me, and I draw inspiration from Joe Dispenza’s Five types of motivation., which for example distinguishes between choosing to focus on your passions in life, or choosing to focus on money.

I enjoy supporting others through wellness coaching and group work, and I notice that this contributes in a wonderful way to my own life and to that of my clients.

People that inspire me

INSPIRATIONS

Gabor Mate

For his work on exploring how our thoughts and feelings express themselves through dis-ease

Memorable quote:
"The next time you think your wife is a bitch you should be happy about it", meant by Gabor as a joke, referring to the advantages of expressing anger rather than suppressing it, and how it has been found that people (often women) who suppress anger tend to die younger.

Brene Brown

For her focus on utter honesty in certain emotions, notably shame, as being a doorway to freedom and to experiencing complementary emotions, such as joy.

Memorable quote, from Gifts of Imperfection:
"If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way—especially shame, fear, and vulnerability.
What I’m proposing is that we learn how to wade through it [the swamp]. We need to see that standing on the shore and catastrophisizing about what could happen if we talked honestly about our fears is actually more painful than grabbing the hand of a trusted companion and crossing the swamp. And, most important, we need to learn why constantly trying to maintain our footing on the shifting shore as we gaze across to the other side of the swamp—where our worthiness waits for us—is much harder work than trudging across."

Joe Dispenza

For his work on how focussed and emotion-full meditations can help you literally create whatever future you want.

Memorable quote - extracts from C3 of Becoming supernatural:
"The quantum field is an invisible field of energy / information / consciousness that exists beyond space and time ... the only way you can exist in the quantum is as an awareness ... when you pay attention to the energy of the quantum field, your consciousness is connecting to greater levels of frequency and information ... we simply exist as an awareness that is paying attention to a field of infinite possibilities existing within an even greater consciousness and a greater level of energy"
In meditations, Joe invites people to access this field through taking oneself into the infinite black space

Byron Katie

For her brilliant approach to help end suffering, based on four simple questions combined with a sense of presence, which can facilitate a revolution in thoughts and feelings.

Memorable quote: from I need your love, is that true p182 :
" "If my children died, I could go on living." Don't be half-hearted here. Ask yourself to imagine what you think is unimaginable: the life you could lead without your children. Be a traitor to misery and find some advantages to that life. There's nothing macabre about this. The point is to break the grip of a fearful belief. Find three ways in which your life would be better without your children... It doesn't matter if these three ways seem silly, as long as they are genuine. "I could have the first shower in the morning." "

Qualifications and skills

ABOUT ME

Association for Coaching (UK)

ADCT Integrated Diploma in Holistic life, wellness and resilience coaching
2024-present

Mental Health First Aider

St John's Ambulance
2024

Kundalini Yoga Research Institute

International Teacher Training Level One
Instructor in Kundalini Yoga
2019

Qualifications

Coaching Skills

Cognitive behavioural coaching
Solutions focussed coaching
Mindfulness, & Mindful coaching
Journaling
Compassionate Enquiry
The work of Byron Katie
Coaching for self-esteem
Coaching for motivation & change
Exploring stress & the mind-body connection
Mood food and nutrition
Working with visualisation and imagery
Coaching for long term health conditions
Exploring personal triggers and interventions
Trauma informed coaching
Health coaching

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