Let me tell you a story...

I was born feet first under a full moon in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm.

(Talk about foreshadowing the life I was about to live!)

The trailers of "The Movie of My Life” include skydiving over Las Vegas, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, and flying the trapeze. They also show a grieving child, a teenager furious at life, a young adult making rebellious choices, and a grown woman determined not to let her past define her future.

The movie itself covers 62 countries, five careers (including solo businesses), four mountain summits, three broken hearts, two dead parents, one near-death experience, and a life of wild experiments and risky moves.

In my 20s, I partied hard and don't remember much so we should probably skip to the next decade!

(I was learning how to numb, and using my body as a nightclub did the trick)

In my 30s, I took a leap of faith to follow my passion for travel and left a successful career in graphic design. I funded an eight-month, around-the-world backpacking adventure on credit cards. I was terrified of travelling solo, but with every mile, my confidence grew. I made friends in places I couldn’t pronounce and discovered courage I didn’t know I had. 

Later, I turned that leap of faith into a career as an adventure travel tour leader, travelling full-time for five years and becoming the second-highest-rated guide in the company.

(What I didn’t realise at the time was that courage and fear can live side by side. And that true resilience doesn't come from outrunning fear, but from learning to feel safe in your own body)

In my 40s, I walked away from a high-level travel product manager position generating annual revenues of $1.3M to pursue photography, a hobby that had gotten out of hand, that fulfilled a deep need for creative expression. I hosted my first workshop for three attendees, feeling like a total imposter. But I kept going, honing my skills, regularly facing the fear of judgment and dealing with self-doubt, but trusting the process while building my reputation.

I turned my love for photography into a decade-long career as a multi-award-winning internationally recognised photographer, and a teacher to over 300 students.

(I didn’t know it then, but I was still running on adrenaline. Every bold move looked like freedom from the outside. But inside, I hadn’t yet found the kind of freedom that comes with Emotional Wisdom)

In my 50s, I found myself feeling stuck and unfulfilled. While I wasn’t ready to completely give up photography, I knew it was time to shake things up again. The next era of following my passion was loading!

So, I took another chance. I gave up my home and left the country of my birth to go on a European adventure, intending to settle after a few months... but that journey turned into over two years on the road.

(If there’s a thread running through my life, it’s this: I’ve always seen fear as a green flag! When something scared me, I moved toward it)

This time it was different. Because what started as another wild experiment and risky move became something deeper. The classic "inner journey" of more dark nights of the soul than you could through a journal at! But through the process of taking responsibility for my suffering, being willing to let go of the past, and diving into all things neuroscience and quantum physics, I healed childhood trauma, learned how to regulate my nervous system, and started a new business... (all while navigating menopause!)

The biggest lesson was this:

Through all the decades of wild experiments and risky moves, underneath it all, I was living in survival mode (C-PTSD if you want to stick a label on it).

On the outside: success, adventures, constant reinvention.

On the inside: anxious, disconnected, and running on adrenaline.

And it took me until my 50s to finally hit pause long enough to see it. And begin rewiring for true freedom and empowerment, which, I discovered, is peace.

That shift was the beginning of what I now call Emotional Wisdom: knowing when I’ve slipped into survival mode, having the tools to regulate, seeing emotional triggers not as something to avoid but as teachers, and, that "healing" is about the ability to integrate the lessons.

And now... that’s the work I share.

🪩 I'M A CERTIFIED TRAUMA-SENSITIVE MINDSET AND LIFE COACH, AND AN NLP, HYPNOSIS, AND EFT PRACTITIONER. I'M ALSO A BIT WOO.