Beyond Labels

08/10/2025

This sums up how I feel so eloquently:

Why is following the truth of a person‘s process and experience so rare?

We live in an allopathic paradigm – that means everything is looked at as a pathology to cure, to fix, to remedy.

There is little or no belief that what is happening for us is meaningful, intelligent. In this way, we stay out of touch with the essence of our being. We stay out of touch with our very soul. We stay out of touch with our deepest gifts and truth. We stay out of touch with the path we are meant to be on. David Bedrick

06/10/2025

05/10/2025

When my girls started to become anxious, it was clear they were worried. As loving parents we did everything we could to positively support them but when the anxiety became worse and nothing was working we started to worry too. No parent wants their kids to suffer, but as their well being deteriorated and their behaviours escalated, so did the opinions, the creeping fear of failure, of judgement, and a growing fear of the future. It was a frightening place for all of us. As I write this today, I have no fear at all, but I reflect with discomfort how fear is quietly driving the way society sees anxiety and neurodivergence.

It’s not something we talk about much, but it’s there, silently shaping so many decisions and conversations.

As parents, carers, and women, we’re told to manage, fix, protect. But often, there is fear. Fear of getting it wrong. Fear of being judged. Fear of what the future might hold.

I lived that fear, built my life around it, trying to keep everyone safe and everything okay. But that fear even influences how we choose to support those we love, and if fear is in the driving seat, then we are no longer in control or operating from a place of calm strength and leadership.

Recognising the role of fear allows us to begin to move beyond it, towards clarity, compassion, and empowerment.

I’ve moved through that now fear to a new understanding, but I'd love to hear from you. How has fear shown up in your journey? Are you fearful of what lies ahead?

04/10/2025

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on something that’s felt both exciting and challenging: perfecting my mission statement.

It’s made me stop and think deeply about what I really want to stand for and, more importantly, how I can be of service through this work.

It hasn’t been easy to put into words, because this journey is so personal. But as I’ve refined it, I’ve realised that at the heart of everything I do is a desire to change the conversation around anxiety and neurodivergence, and to create a space where better outcomes are possible.

I’d love to open this up as a conversation with you. What helps you feel most supported when you’re struggling with anxiety or overwhelm? What do you wish more people understood? What are your biggest difficulties?

I have my own insights, but I’d be so grateful to hear from you. Your experiences will help me shape the content and resources I create, so that together, we can build something truly supportive.

21/09/2025

Wow, thank you so much for all the kind comments and messages on my last post. I was quite unsure about putting my head above the parapet and sharing what’s been happening, but hearing from so many of you has been just lovely.

I used to know a very wise old lady who always said, “change is messy”, and it has indeed felt that way.

Changing direction, especially when it’s uninvited, is rarely easy. It can feel uncertain, wobbly, and daunting at times. But change is also inevitable, and we’ve had more than most! Yet it does open doors we might never have stepped through otherwise. And when doors didn’t open, I often found myself, out of necessity, at the threshold of new paths - some more appealing than others!

With this in mind, I want to share what I stumbled on out of sheer curiosity (and, honestly, a lack of better options at the time). During that messy spell of transition back from France, AI became a surprising ally in navigating change.

If you’re curious, and maybe a little skeptical too, I’ve put together a free guide: 5 Surprising Ways You Can Use AI to Make Life Decisions.

And for anyone who's really curious and wants to get cracking, I’ve created the AI Life Compass: a workbook that teaches you how to use AI as a complete novice, while also guiding you through your turning points, values, and future hopes. There’s even a Discovery Bonus Bundle option available.

Go me! Go You!

I'll drop links below and for the first 5 people who would like to try the AI Life Compass for free I can send you a coupon. Just comment FREE below.

Here’s to embracing change and moving forward with courage.

19/09/2025

Hello lovely friends, it’s been too long..…

If you've followed me for a while, you will remember the colourful days of my furniture painting business, the joy of workshops, and our big move to France during Covid. So many of you cheered us on, and I’ve always felt so lucky for that support.

But behind the scenes in France, life took a turn. Our children began experiencing severe anxiety and eventually burnout, and we found ourselves in unfamiliar territory trying to make sense of it all.

Like many families, we were led down a path of multiple diagnoses - autism, ADHD, anxiety disorders - in search of answers. It was overwhelming and heart breaking, so we returned to the UK last year in search of support.

It's taken time but we are healing. Through the discovery of an incredible family anxiety program, we have also begun to see things with a completely different perspective.

The program has changed our lives so much. It has challenged what I thought I knew about anxiety, diagnoses, and how we make sense of that struggle. It has cracked something open in me, and I’ve been on a mission ever since.

I’ve started writing a book about our journey, and along the way, I discovered something unexpected - the power of using AI as a tool for self-reflection and life direction. I’ve just written a course called The AI Life Compass, designed to help people new to AI use it in a grounded, soulful way to find more clarity and purpose.

I’m also working on a new course called The Anxiety Blind Spot, which will explore anxiety with more compassion and curiosity. I’m even building an app to help people explore where their anxiety might be rooted, whether it’s stress, trauma or something else entirely.

I’ll always be a creative at heart, and this new path, although deeply personal, channels my creativity in a totally new, but necessary way. I really think we need to expand the narrative and how we talk about these things as a society...

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by anxiety or lost in the maze of labels and systems, I’d love to share more of this journey with you.

Thank you for still being here. I’ve missed you.

10/01/2024

The Lemon Harvest is today. 🍋 They look so perfect against my door that I wish I could leave them just to continue to look so joyful. I also love the contradiction of all the sunshine and zesty sweetness tied up in the essence of lemon being harvested just as we are plunged into bitter temperatures and as snow clouds gather around. Anyhow, I can’t wait to taste them, they absolutely knock spots off shop bought lemons. I might actually eat one like an orange. 😂

09/09/2023

Today, we picked peaches 🍑, warm, dusty peaches, fuzzy and sweet. The juice ran gloriously down our chins. Don’t let the summer end, lets take it all inside. #

04/07/2023

Wasn’t expecting to meet this not so little guy in the garden today. Absolutely took my breath away! Deaths head hawk moth larvae apparently. 🐛 Huge!