I was working my socks off.

Believing it was the gateway to promotion, pay rises and plenty.

The problem was...

I quickly wore my socks out.

One day I woke up blind.

Couldn't see my hand in front of my face.

I thought my eyes were just stuck together. 

Nope.

I was blinder than a bat with broken radar. 

My first thought was ‘Wow, this is going to be interesting’. 

A few moments later my sight came back - phew! 

This should have set alarms off...

It didn't.

I carried on in the same way I had before. 

Then it happened. 

I was talking to someone at their desk when suddenly...

I blacked out.

Out like a light. 

The person I was talking with later said my eyes rolled up inside my head... 

I turned yellow like Homer Simpson and crumpled to the floor. 

They thought I was dead.

Luckily I wasn't.

Medical attention was swift. 

I woke up in hospital with my family around me

The doctor told me my body had spent years warning me I was pushing myself too hard...

Like making me temporarily blind...

...way past exhaustion. 

I had been doing the wrong things all those years.

And now my body had taken drastic action and simply shut me down to protect me. 

After a few days in hospital I was given the all clear and sent home with orders to completely rest...

and a suitcase sized collection of medication. 

Then depression set in

I was lost. 

Didn’t want to move. 

Didn’t want to speak. 

I could see my long suffering family were doing everything they could to support me but there was something stopping me from responding. 

All I could think was, if I had been doing the wrong thing all this time, what was the right thing? 

I was sent to a psychologist 

Over the next few weeks they chatted with me for an hour (timed to the second) 

Diving into my childhood...

wading into my history...

why I thought I was depressed... 

I had just started CBT training when something in my head told me this was not the answer...

exploring my childhood and history was not the answer... 

and I certainly didn’t have an answer as to why I was depressed... 

I knew there must be something far simpler

I just couldn’t put my finger on it.

It took a few years of stumbling flat footed following so many baffling coaching steps... 

fumbling blindly through so many bewildering coaching systems...

and bumbling incoherently through so many bemusing coaching strategies... 

And I finally found the answer

I had found a coach who I could relate to, talk to and finally understand! 

I was listening to them one day when they said something as a complete throwaway comment, I can't remember what it was and my coach won't tell me what it was to this day. 

And all I remember were fireworks and light bulbs going off in my head and my brain saying:

'What people say or think about you has nothing to do with you.'

'Your behaviour is not you.'

And my coach sensing the change in my physiology said... "Right there... you're starting to see it."

It is something sooo simple
 

Receiving a solid grounding in psychology including transformational change and 3 Principles, I completed a rigorous certification programme in 2020 studying under the global award winning David Key.

Since then I’ve been sought after across the UK helping people from all walks of life change their relationship with their thoughts to become successful in what they put their heart and mind to.