18/01/2026
There’s a trend atm that says 2026 is the new 2016 and then you share your 2016…
If you’ve been following me at all, you’ll probably know that 2016 was the year that changed everything for me.
The year I got sober
The year I found yoga
The year I found my calling
The year I found my husband
The year I changed my life trajectory
The year I chose self-leadership
The year I chose ME
The year I refer to as my rebirth
But you probably already know the story…
If you’re new to my world though, don’t worry you’ll hear all about it soon enough
I’ll probably also do an intro post this week
What I thought would be interesting, though, is to see if every decade was as pivotal
So let’s go backwards and see 👇
1986 —> I was conceived. Pretty pivotal.
1996 —> I believe my parents remortgaged the house to send me to the best (all-girls) private school in the UK, because I was helping the teacher teach the kids at my school
2006 —> we had moved from the UK to Spain, I had gone completely off the rails (drink, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, undiagnosed mental health problems, and coping alone with a TON of trauma).
I dropped out of high school, left home, then found myself working at a hotel and sharing a flat with some guys, and that scared the crap outta me. So I did what any other lost, broken teen would do - I tried to end things. And when that didn’t work - I ran further away and joined the army.
So by 2006 I was 19, living in the Middle East in the desert. I had a bitch of an army officer who was psychologically abusing me. I’d spend weekends on base because I didn’t have a family there to go home to.
And yes, moving continents didn’t help me escape my problems. My demons followed me to the damn desert…
2016 — after some more increasingly extreme traumas, years of therapy, mental health struggles, addiction, divorce, a degree (somehow), modeling, career hopping and a LOT of partying, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
I stepped into self-leadership, marking the end of a lifetime of inner and outer chaos and instability - and the beginning of a new life and a new me
2026 — beginning the year as a happily married, stable, still sober, mama of 3, behavioral scientist, mental health mentor and coach for business women and entrepreneurs, living on an island in the Med, owner of a farm and a forest…
And that’s just how my year is starting.
So if I’m to expect something big like 2016 - pffff bring it tf on 🤩
I already have an inkling of what’s to come, fyi, but I won’t jinx it by sharing 😅
What I can share is that I plan to mentor 50 women, take them through my program, and coach them as they learn to lead themselves and change their own life trajectory.
But who knows what’ll happen.
All I know is that 2016 was a BIG year for me
And it just so happens that my word for this year is “big”…
I’m buckling up.