I see my learning as ongoing!
This work is not separate from my life, it is interwoven with it, life itself has been my longest (ever humbling!) apprenticeship.
Alongside my lived learning, here are some of the formal trainings that shape my practice:
For much of my life, I’ve been a deep-feeling being.
Losing my father as a young child planted a sensitivity in me that has never really left. Grief became a way I learned how to move through the world, how to stay with what hurts and what matters at the same time. That loss opened something in me, not only sorrow, but a deep capacity for love, a way of caring that felt vast and tender and sometimes overwhelming, a feeling that life was fragile and precious all at once. I didn’t have language for it then, but I was being oriented, quietly, toward feeling as a way of knowing.
I began modelling as an awkward teenager, a rough initiation into womanhood in a world that valued my exterior over my inner life. When my body changed and no longer fit the industry’s narrow standards, I found purpose in speaking openly about it, becoming an early and unexpected voice in conversations around diversity in fashion.Through naming my experience, I came to understand that what is met with honesty begins to breathe. When lived experience is allowed to be seen, rather than managed or polished, shame loosens, and a quiet sense of agency and belonging emerges.
As social media grew and modelling evolved into influencing, I felt called to go underneath the surface, curious about consumption, worth, and the belief that we need to buy, improve, or perform ourselves into enoughness. That inquiry led to my first book, Mixed Feelings, and later to my Substack, Tender Contributions, where I explore the messiness of being human, where the personal meets the collective.
Over time, my sensitivity to personal grief expanded into an awareness of the wider grief of our times, climate, endings, systems unraveling. I’ve come to understand that what people carry is rarely personal failure, but the weight of collapsing systems, inherited histories, and unspoken longing. What guides my work is the understanding that the places we avoid are often the places that hold the most profound change, and that when we allow ourselves to stay with what feels tender, unclear, or unresolved, something begins to shift. This work is rooted in the belief that uncertainty and vulnerability are not signs that something has gone wrong, but invitations into deeper contact, greater aliveness, and a truer sense of who we are.
My work is shaped by somatic, psychological, grief-oriented, and humanistic trainings, alongside lived experience and critical inquiry. I work from a person-centred, relational lens that understands people within the social, cultural, and power dynamics that shape their lives, and honours the deep wisdom held in the body, accessed through sensation, attention, and lived experience.
I am attentive to how ideas about the body, intuition, and “inner knowing” shape the way people come to this work. While I understand the desire to find something pure or untouched beneath the noise, I have also seen how these ideas can quietly turn against us, encouraging a search for a clarity that does not exist, or asking us to override parts of ourselves in the name of truth.
The work I am interested in is not about choosing the body’s voice over the mind’s voice, or sensation over thought. It is about learning to hear them as one voice, and to discern what is actually ours within that voice, and what is the residue of systems, stories, and adaptations formed without our consent. This is not a practice of self optimisation, but of relationship, discernment, and slow reorientation.
This work, and my life, are in service to an ongoing exploration of how we make the most of our precious time here, how we live as meaningfully as possible, in whatever ways matter to us, and how we stay in relationship with ourselves and one another.
ICF Accredited Body-Oriented Coaching, The Somatic School
Body-Oriented Coaching for Groups, The Somatic School
Apprenticeship in Grief Tending (ongoing), with Sophy Banks
Climate Grief Ritual Training, Center for Climate Psychology
The Power of Embodied Somatic Coaching, Coaches Rising
Process-Oriented Psychology (1 year course), Process Work UK
Psychosynthesis Foundations, Psychosynthesis UK
Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training (300 hours), Yogavision
I am who I am because of the many teachers, practitioners, and lineages who have shaped my path—as an avid learner and an eternal student if I wrote them all down here, they would fill the entire page! While I do not practice within any single tradition, my life and work have been deeply blessed by streams of wisdom, relationship, and transmission. I give special thanks to Rachel Blackman, Sophy Banks, Francis Weller, Malidoma and Sobonfu Somé, and to the enduring words of bell hooks, Alice Walker, Grace Lee Boggs, and so many others whose presence continues to guide me.
I give thanks to my mother, whose everyday acts of generosity taught me what it means to live in service to life itself, and to my father, whose absence I would never have chosen, and whose passing continues to orient my life toward meaning, sensitivity, and purpose. I honour my grandmothers, whose lineage and love remain alive in my spiritual life, and give thanks to my siblings and my partner, whose steadiness and care make this work possible.
I am grateful to my clients, readers, friends, and mentors who walk alongside me—your encouragement, trust and reflections have been pivotal. I also honour all those who have shaped me through both encouragement and rejection, each encounter offering something essential to my becoming.
Finally, I offer gratitude to both the invisible and living world, to all the elements that support me, that ground, nourish, and sustain me, allowing me to not only do this work but to be alive in this wild world of ours!