When I first learned about positive thinking and affirmations, I thought I had to think the polar opposite positive thought to any negative thought I had, which at times, just felt very challenging. At the time of learning about manifesting I was also starting out in my career and being trained in suicide prevention and mental health. I found myself thinking; what about when you’re really struggling? It sounds patronising to tell someone to just think more positively when they’re…
Back in 2007-ish, I was living my life in London, I’d been practicing Reiki for a couple of years and just started my training as a Probation Officer. I was also getting right into personal development and lapping up all kinds of books, when my mate Nikki gave me a book by Sandy Forster called “How To Be Wildly Wealthy FAST.” 📖 The book was great, but for some reason I felt cringe for reading it and used to…
Recently I was interviewed by Brad Walsh for the Empowerography Podcast. We talked about some pretty heavy and important shit. We spoke about mental health, self-care vs self-love and suicide prevention. It was such an important and inspirational conversation. You really need to check this episode out. My goal is to help people to become their truest, most authentic version of themselves and to love themselves so much they won’t let anyone or…
Recently I’ve been asked by a few mums whether I work with teens. The answer is yes. ✅ Back in my early 20’s I was a mentor for youth at risk of being expelled from a school in Peckham, a low socioeconomic area in South East London. Each week I’d turn up for a chat with them and they seemed so relieved to talk to me. 🥹 I wasn’t their parent, teacher or friend. …
**If you can’t see the video above, click here to watch on YouTube** I was watching a video on YouTube last week which was a Ted Talk discussing the cultural taboo’s of suicide and mental illness. It’s stuck with me ever since and so I felt the need to share some info here. Back when I was a Probation Officer in London, I would have to write pre-sentence reports and risk assessments, and I would have a drop down menu…
Recently I was interview by Neary Heng for The Paradise Within Show. Initially we were going to talk about how I came to find my passion in life, doing what I love for my work. As we got into our conversation we found ourselves delving deeply into the subject of suicide and how I ended up coaching people through change and trauma. It became a really interesting conversation where I share a few gold nuggets about what people…