As a professional life coach and counsellor, I help you reach your full potential in all areas of your life by developing your emotional intelligence and fostering healthy relationships with yourself and others.
27/08/2025
For the longest time I confused wholeness with perfection. I thought if I could just get it “right” aka people-please, overachieve, push harder, then I’d finally be loved and accepted. But that’s not wholeness.
Carl Jung called wholeness individuation, the journey of becoming who we were created to be. Healing is not a finish line - but a lifelong journey. Every step toward authenticity is a step toward wholeness.
That’s why I love the art of kintsugi where pottery is repaired with gold. The cracks don’t lessen its value, instead they make it unique and beautiful. Just like us.
Take your first step toward wholeness. Step into who you were always meant to be. 💙
01/08/2025
Grief Casts a Long Shadow
Grief isn’t only about death.
It can stem from the loss of a relationship, a pet, a dream or a sense of identity - anything that has significant meaning to you.
Sadly, we live in a grief-illiterate world that expects grieving to follow a timeline.
“How long will this last?”
“When are you going to get over it?”
But grief doesn’t work like that because when something significant is lost, there is no “getting over it.”
There is only learning how to carry it and how to live alongside it. And this takes as long as it takes. Each person's grieving process is unique.
Your grief is valid, and there is no finish line you have to reach.
If you’re feeling stuck or alone in your grief, please know:
There is space for your pain, your process, and your way of adapting to a world that looks and feels different now.
If you’d like support navigating your loss, I’m here 💙
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In 2013, my life was literally falling apart. A vicious cycle of rejection, inferiority and approval addiction, left me with severe anxiety and depression. I was unfulfilled in my career and in my second marriage. I constantly doubted my ability to parent my two sons from my first marriage...Enter life coaching!
Through the radical transformational power of life coaching, and lots of hard work, I went on a journey of self-discovery.
A new awareness and acceptance of who I truly am showed me my purpose and calling in life. It revealed my strengths and corrected the many lies I used to believe about myself and my perception of the world. I started making decisions based on my values, and started living a truly authentic life. My thoughts, words and actions became aligned.
Today, my marriage and family life is back on track, in fact, I’d go so far as to say, thriving. (Despite moving from Cape Town to Ireland in 2018.)
I left the IT industry after 20 years and I’ve subsequently qualified as an Erickson Certified Professional Life Coach. I am an ACC (Associate Certified Coach), accredited by the ICF (International Coaching Federation). I am also an accredited Enneagram practitioner.
I’m living my dream and helping women every day to get themselves out of the deep holes they find themselves in.
My passion lies in facilitating you to unlock & realise who you truly are and what makes you unique.
Partnering with you, so you truly know, love and accept yourself.
Personal experience has shown me, that when you make decisions and take actions based on your values, things start falling into place as you start fulfilling your purpose.
You are the reason I do what I do!!
Whether you are feeling stuck, paralysed by a lack of confidence and clarity, or feeling trapped by low self-esteem, I am here to help you.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story, and I hope that I get to hear yours soon.
