In Provence, I found myself waking with the sun. Before emails or meetings, before the day asked anything of me, I slipped outside to sit by the infinity pool. Mont Sainte-Victoire stretched across the horizon, bathed in light. The water was still. The air was cool.

There are two versions of me that often feel as though they sit side by side.

One is the executive coach: structured, strategic, guiding leaders through complex organisational challenges. This part of me is grounded in systemic thinking, neuroscience and the frameworks of change.

This summer, I stood in front of more than a hundred people gathered at a festival. Music floated across the field, the night sky stretched overhead, and as the session began, something extraordinary happened: a group of strangers surrendered to the breath together.

For years, I lived in the shadows of my own work. Comfortable, steady, familiar. Supporting others in deeply transformative ways, while allowing them to take centre stage.

It felt natural to let the work speak for itself, to remain private about my own vulnerabilities and to avoid anything that could be perceived as self-promotion.

On the outside, it’s easy to appear composed. To look like the one who has it all together. But inside, my body tells the truth. The urgency. The depletion. The whisper that says: “this isn’t sustainable.”

Dissociation isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes it shows up as composure, logic, or high-functioning detachment. In this post, I explore how dissociation masks itself in everyday life - and how breathwork helps us gently return.

“I’m Not Sure I Want to Go There”

So many of us are afraid of breathwork — but not for the reasons we think. This post explores what we’re really avoiding when we avoid the breath, and how the fear of losing control may actually be the doorway to coming home.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve wrestled with the tension between standing out and fitting in. It’s a thread that’s run through every part of my life: culturally, professionally and even within my own family. In the spaces I’ve inhabited, I’ve often felt like an outsider looking in, trying to decode what it would take to belong…

What Happens When You Commit to Your Breath?
Breathwork isn’t just a healing session, it’s a daily practice of self-regulation, clarity and emotional resilience. In this post, I explore the powerful shifts that emerge through consistent breathwork, from walking in nature to holding clients in moments of release - and how the breath becomes the metronome of safety and transformation.

What’s the Worst That Can Happen, Mummy?
It started with a question from my daughter. What followed was an emotional unravelling that changed us both. In this deeply personal story, I share how one breathwork session at a festival cracked open years of unspoken pain - and set us on a path of healing I never expected.

From Insight to Initiation
What happens when a tenured practitioner decides to say yes to the breath? In this post, I share how a two-day event with over 200 people, teachings from Zulma Reyo and Penny Boyland, and a deep personal journey led me to Christian R Minson’s breathwork facilitator training in San Diego - and into a new way of living, healing and leading.