Changed circmstances take the map away.

Often too, it’s an identity crisis: who am I in this strange, new landscape?

Read more in my post on substack, I have no idea where I am going

Is this you?

Are you at a stage where you don’t know who you are anymore? Maybe caring and family responsibilities have moved on. Maybe it’s the end of the relationship, the end of a career, a diagnosis. It could be a bereavement.

Do you feel like this?

Are you grieving something lost? Are you feeling lost yourself? Are things you once enjoyed lacking taste now? Are you yearning to have yourself back again?

How would it feel…

…to get up each morning with joy and purpose?

…to vision ino the next phase of your life?

…to be at one and authentically living your true self?

Here’s me

This year I turned 60 and like many women I’ve been through a number of transitions – into motherhood, out of a long-term relationship, becoming an empty-nester, end of a career and a vocation, peri-menopause, bereavement, big disappointment…and now embracing elderhood. I’ve been through a lot. I know what it’s like to feel at a dead end and sit with that.

This is why I can help you

I LOVE transition! Change is painful but the time between the old to the new can be the most fertile. When coaching came to my aid, I updated a workplace mentoring qualification to an Advanced Diploma in Life and Business Coaching in 2017. I have trained with Cruse and serve on their bereavement support helpline. As a long-time yoga practitioner and teacher I bring knowledge on the body-mind connection and practices for peace. As a holder of retreats at my retreat place in Devon, Viveka Gardens, I have hospitality in my veins: I can hold a safe space for you to explore.

This is how I will help you

Through radical listening, reflecting and questions we explore your issues and ideas.  As appropriate, we use gentle breathwork and short meditations to slow the mind. Some sessions might involve easy somatic yoga moves and/or yoga nidra to move out of the busy pre-frontal cortex into intuitive parts of your body-mind, to bring fresh insight. With journalling techniques and classic coaching tools, you’ll drill down for greater clarity and self-knowledge.

This is why it’s important

The poet Mary Oliver puts it so beautifully (and accurately):

what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Life is too short to bumble through wondering. Family and friends may support you, but they may not see the true you that is waiting to be expressed.  Quite often they want you to stay the same. Growth is our birthright. Is it time to grow more into your true, authentic self?