I left school, studied Accounting and Finance (not because it lit me up but because it had good career prospects) and before I knew it I was thirty, an accountant and an adult!
In my early thirties, my life shifted. A divorce. A new city. The beginning of what should have been an intentional new chapter but then COVID arrived and that plan dissolved over Zoom calls and far too many bottles of wine. I was working long hours, my mental health was deteriorating and I was quietly questioning everything.
My choices. My future. My identity.
And I kept coming back to one thing: alcohol was threaded through all of it.
I took tactical break and felt extraordinary but then started drinking again because it was someone's birthday or a holiday or just a Friday.
Until 2022, when I made the decision, properly and finally, to stop.
My Journey ...
I started training to become a coach, because I needed somewhere to channel the energy that alcohol had been absorbing for twenty years, and something remarkable began to happen. For the first time in my life, I started to focus on myself. Not the version of me that everyone else needed. Not the version of me that showed up at the work dinner or the birthday party with a glass in hand.
The real version. And she had opinions. She had ambitions. She had boundaries she'd never enforced.
I turned down a promotion that felt completely misaligned. Something I would never have had the clarity to do before. A year later, I was starting a new role in Germany, living as an expat, fulfilling a dream I'd quietly held for years.
I rebuilt my friendships, not by losing people, but by understanding which relationships needed to evolve and finding the courage to let them. I built new connections that were rooted in who I actually am not who I was when I was drinking.
I went from thinking I was open-minded to realising I absolutely wasn't. I started wild swimming. I trained for and ran my first half marathon. I discovered that Saturday nights could be extraordinary without a drink in hand and that Sunday mornings were the best part of my week. It opened up my world to possibilities I'd have dismissed as completely ridiculous three years ago. And eventually, I reached my career high, CFO before 40
Within three months of quitting, my entire life changed direction.
I understand your world because I've lived in it.
I know exactly what it feels like to stand at the networking event with a sparkling
water while someone asks you, with genuine bewilderment, 'but why?'
I know the particular kind of Saturday night loneliness that arrives when you've quit drinking and everyone else hasn't.
I know what it's like to watch your travel friends slowly disappear as they settle down and to quietly wonder where your people are.
I know the strange joy of your first wild swim, your first sober holiday, your first run that you
actually finish.
And I know what it feels like to question your entire identity when alcohol has been part of it since you were sixteen.
This is not about sobriety.
It's about identity.
Quitting alcohol doesn't just change your evenings. It changes everything: the way you see yourself, the relationships you want,
the career moves you're brave enough to make and the version of your life you're finally willing to demand.
My coaching is for women who are already alcohol-free and are ready to do the deeper work. Together, we explore:
Who you are now and who you're becoming
This is not surface-level. This is not a podcast or a self-help book.
This is deep, personalised coaching with someone who has lived every part of this journey and come out the other side with a career, a community and a life she's genuinely proud of.
The identity shift that your are feeling
Your confidence, your boundaries, your career trajectory
What to do with all the space that sobriety creates - the Saturday nights, the Sunday mornings, the mental clarity you've never had before
The relationships you need to let evolve and the new ones worth building
Your mindset, your wellbeing and the life you're designing on purpose
Why Invest in Coaching?
You've spent money on the holidays, the hotel rooms with incredible views, the handbag you told yourself would
“go with everything”. You've invested in everything that looks good from the outside. And some of it does feel good.
But you already know that none of it is filling the gap. Isn't it time to invest in what feels extraordinary from the inside?
The women who work with me are not looking for a quick fix. They are incredible women who are ready to stop starting things and never finishing them. Ready to finally build the version of themselves they've always known was possible.
My coaching qualifications include a diploma that is triple-accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the Association for Coaching (AC) and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), the three most respected bodies in the coaching industry.
I am a CIMA-qualified accountant, a CFO and a Positive Psychology coach. My approach is grounded in evidence-based psychology, lived experience and a complete refusal to let my clients stay small.
I also practise what I preach. I have invested significantly in my own growth: in coaches, mentors and programmes that have challenged me, stretched me and shaped the way I work. I know first-hand what it feels like to be the client in that seat, to make the decision to invest in yourself when it feels uncomfortable and to come out the other side knowing it was the best decision you ever made.
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