About Me

When I was young, in my teenage years, I had anorexia nervosa, and it was quite serious for a while. 
At university, I had regular bouts of depression and a long spell of chronic fatigue. And I hadn't really found any ways around this at the time.

Years later, after I got married and we had our son, I wanted to do something to improve my mental wellbeing and levels of happiness in the hope that I wouldn't pass that on to him (and I haven't!).

And that's when I discovered yoga. First of all, it was just a DVD from the supermarket with the lovely Barbara Currie, but it passed through different styles like Power Yoga, Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow, until it landed eventually on the kind of fluid, almost dance-like yoga I mostly enjoy practising now. After a few years of practice, I trained as a Yoga teacher and taught for nearly 10 years.

At the same time, I had begun to meditate daily and that evolved into an interest in manifesting. When you become aware of your mind and your thinking as you do when you meditate, you begin to realise the connection between that and your unhappiness. But that's also when you come to understand that you have the potential to change it for the better.

Together with the gently uplifting spiritual connection I experienced when I was meditating, this progressed naturally into a fascination with manifesting which has continued for more than 15 years now.

A few years ago, I came across hypnotherapy and started learning more about it and it seemed to be a way to enhance our inner quality of life and happiness in similar ways to manifesting. It combines practices that aim to reframe past and present experiences and relieve emotional discomfort, so that we can live more comfortably and joyfully and begin to own and welcome who we are. 

And that's where I am now - using everything I've learned over the years to build that inner happiness and improve life on the outside too.  And that's whay I'm interested in doing for the people I work with as well.