Transitions coaching

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?

  • consumed by waves of grief then, confusingly, feel fine and even enjoying yourself note: this is common
  • numb note: this is common
  • lost
  • things you once enjoyed lack savour now
  • yearning to have yourself back again note: it’s likely you can’t go ‘back’, but grow into and around the hard thing

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 (new) true self?

Coaching with me will help you:

  • Acknowledge the loss and the pain
  • Celebrate what has been good
  • Identify the strengths and values you’ve always had
  • Vision how your strengths and values could play out now
  • Look at your life in the round – friends, family, work, health and more
  • Make some priorities and first steps, and gain confidence

I will

  • Be your champion alongside and support you unconditionally
  • Help you be realistic and creative around barriers
  • Facilitate you to become your own coach and mentor

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 served on their bereavement support helpline. I now have a spiritual care role at a local hospice. 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. And/or we sit and talk. 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?

Read more

in my substack post I have no idea where I am going

You can also…

Start or extend your coaching with an embodied retreat here at Viveka Gardens. You can stay extra nights to integrate and rest, and book in for coaching at a special retreat rate. How retreats work

May 1 – 3 Quiet Retreat – yoga and meditation at Beltane
for women wanting to develop a meditation practice

May 8 – 11 private bespoke group
be in contact if this is something you’d like to arrange for your group your bespoke retreat 2026

May 22 – 25 your bespoke group retreat here for the Bank Holiday Weekend?
June 12 – 14 Transitions – yoga and coaching retreat
creatively finding your way through life, loss and circumstance changes

June 19 – 21 Perimenopause Retreat – yoga and coaching at Solstice
the Change as an opportunity to grow into the next stage of your life
July 24 – 26 Radical Rest – yoga and rest retreat
when you are burned out, rest and reset
July 31 – August 2  Embracing Elderhood – yoga retreat at Lammas
how does older and wiser play out for you?
space for a bespoke retreat
August 27 – 31 Yoga Teachers’ Retreat – register your interest
sharing practice, developing pranayama, group meditation, intentional mouna
September 11 – 14 private bespoke group
be in contact if this is something you’d like to arrange for your group your bespoke retreat 2026
September 19 – 21 – Visions – yoga and coaching retreat at Equinox
find form and courage for a business venture or other initiative you’ve conceived

This is me & this is how it works

I’ve 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 come back to life.

Check out the coaching page, about page and me on facebook and substack

Book a chat

Book in a free, no-obligation, 20-minute chemistry phone chat to tell me about what’s going on and where you might like to be.

Progress and momentum

Via zoom or in person we work in batches of four sessions usually at fortnightly intervals.

We’ll establish an arc of outcome for the work together – held in a spirit of curiosity.

We’ll agree on goals as ways of creative exploration between sessions.

Over the arc of the sessions we’ll take time to evaluate and celebrate the process. Yay!

And on November 2nd 2025 there is a Day Retreat here at Viveka Gardens

Been through transition for now? Maybe you’ve got a Vision…page coming soon.