My bio

I’m a Certified Embodiment Coach. I trained in person with the Strozzi Institute in Barcelona and Washington DC.

I spent a lot of time travelling in South and Central America when I was younger, and wrote my thesis on body image in Argentina, a project involving people and places that will forever stay very close to my heart. I started out in arts PR, working with some amazing comedians. I loved watching their processes and paths unfold, and being around the power of making people laugh. Then I moved into international leadership programmes with a small but significant UK organisation, and spent ten years on the ground, meeting people and building networks in places going through change and sometimes conflict.

For a long time my career didn’t feel like a cohesive story. I see now that the common thread was more who I am than what I was doing, and I often come back to one of my favourite poems to remind me of this:

You will be lost and unlost, over and over again. Relax, love. You were meant to be this glorious. Epic. Story.

- Nayyirah Waheed

My story

I’ve been doing inner work since my twenties. For a long time I looked for help in places that seemed to leave me feeling worse. Sometimes I felt like a set of symptoms to be managed, and other times I was pushed to look at something about myself that I didn’t know what to do with. I often felt alone in the work, and very dependent on other people to tell me what was going on. Everything I tried seemed to leave me further from myself.

I reached a point where I could no longer feel who I was and what I wanted, and I was determined (actually, desperate!) to change. It was a long and messy process, and I didn’t do it alone. With teachers, a somatic coach and a community who held me, I slowly worked out what I needed. I began to embody my own transformation arc and find comfort in change, the ones I call in and the ones that arrive unannounced. 

My own journey is reflected in my coaching presence, I do this work slowly, in relationship, and with deep respect for whatever you’re carrying. I know what it is to feel lost and to change anyway, one small step at a time.