If you are receiving the call to step into a more meaningful life…
…as we navigate the murky territory of late-stage capitalism, do not doubt that the world needs you.
Allow me to guide you with the maps I’ve gathered and created along the way through my own innumerate twists, turns, and detours as you design and embody your own next chapter.
Evolving into a new version of yourself, and creating a new routine, income stream, and even identity is not all sunshine and roses. Just like life in the corporate world, it has many ups and downs, highs and lows.
As Mark Manson* recounts, all opportunities come with their own unique set of problems, and ultimately choosing the problems we are willing to accept and work with is part of any decision that moves us forward in life.
* In his book ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’.
Having worked closely with many creative, sensitive, empathetic, and intelligent women over the past 20 years, I have observed the following.
It is next to impossible for women to rise to the top of organisations without having to exile or cut off parts of themselves.
Exiling parts of yourself while shrinking others is exceedingly bad for your health.
Hidden addictions are rife, be it substance abuse, eating disorders, unhealthy relationships, or the most socially condoned – workaholism and perfectionism.
Excellent employees with integrity, commitment, and care for their work are consistently over-shadowed by those who play the game.
Neurodiverse employees find it difficult to play the game, because it requires inauthenticity and oftentimes dishonesty.
The ‘modern workplace’ is not fit-for-purpose for sensitive, socially-conscious, deeply-feeling people.
Such people give too much, care too much, feel too much, and observe too much.
My Background
An undergraduate degree in Modern Languages was my path into the world of business. This was followed in subsequent years by a Post-graduate Diploma in International Business Development from DIT, and a Diploma in Corporate Governance from Smurfit Executive Business School.
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I have 15+ years’ experience in a variety of sectors ranging from US Tech to Social Enterprise to Not-for-Profit to the Arts, and as such, a decent level of awareness of the challenges inherent in these systems and the impact they have on those who move within them.
From 2014 I began embarking also on a parallel learning track. I trained in Sales Coaching, Story Coaching, Coaching with Neuroscience, and more recently – PSYCH-K®, and Rites of Passage facilitation. I’ve also studied, trained, and taught in accordance with many schools of Yoga, including Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Functional Yang Yoga, Yoga for Menopause, and Yoga for Women’s Health.
My own inner unfolding began in earnest in 2013, and has since offered me many more life lessons than all these courses combined. It’s been a process of learning to listen to the inner voice despite the volume, power, and social capital of the external voices, and to stand my ground no matter how much my own voice shook in speaking my truth. It’s been a process of releasing huge swathes of what I learned from our culture, and beginning to value my own innate wisdom, inherent uniqueness, and right to discard the rule books that are no longer serving me or the world.
It's a process that will no doubt continue for the rest of my life.
In my coaching, teaching, and writing practices I layer the learnings from many of the teachings I have received, both from my own human teachers, and from Life itself.
The work I share is grounded in my own embodied and lived experience, which based on my own work as a client with therapists and coaches, is a starting point I have come to consider a prerequisite. Experience cannot be replaced by the reading of books and acquisition of certificates.
Why I care deeply about this work
I believe that life is precious, and that too many of us are leading lives that do not honour our potential, or that of the collective.
As someone who has spent approximately 30 of my years to date on this Earth doing my absolute best to operate in a system that I believe is not conducive to even a fraction of our capacity as human beings, I am determined to create a more joyful, connected, pleasurable, liberated, and easeful existence, and to empower others to do the same.
I wish to bloom into the summer of my life, and to enjoy my daily rituals along with meaningful, impactful work, rather than invest my hard-earned money or time in clinging to a life stage and lifestyle I’ve outgrown.
For sensitive, deep-feeling, and highly creative beings, to be forced to operate in environments designed for the era of the industrial revolution is corrosive not only to our souls, but also to our minds, hearts, and bodies.
We’re not blind to the dysfunction. We see it everywhere. We are oftentimes the victims of its winning players as we find ourselves over-stimulated, exhausted, and detaching from our bodies’ wisdom to survive.
