Feature – Healthy Futures Magazine

I’m delighted to have been featured again in the latest edition of Healthy Futures Magazine by Health Coaches Academy.
In this article, I share the personal story behind Cambridge Health Coach and the turning point that led me to leave my corporate career and retrain as a Health & Wellness Coach.
Like many people in midlife, I found myself juggling a demanding career, family responsibilities and my own health, all at the same time.
Looking back, it taught me an important lesson: health isn’t simply about doing more or feeling squeezed. What good does that do anyone in the long run?
It’s about creating space for the things that support us – a life that gives us the energy, resilience and capacity to thrive.

I’m grateful to the Health Coaches Academy for the opportunity to share my story and some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way. This change in direction helped me re-evaluate what’s truly important in life, and reminded me that sometimes life is unexpected detours can lead us somewhere we never imagined, but exactly where we need to be….

I’d love to hear what resonated most with you if you have a chance to read it. Click here to read!

 

 

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This smoky Chipotle beef and quinoa bowl is simple nourishing and packed with protein fibre and colourful vegetables. One of my favourite quick lunches or dinners, that feels really balanced without being complicated and there's always plenty left over for lunch the next day.
For many years, I thrived in a senior corporate role, working long hours in a demanding environment. But beneath the surface, the relentless pressure was taking its toll, affecting my health in ways I could no longer ignore. I’d always been someone who kept going, rarely taking a day off. But during the lockdown years, I had a hysterectomy, I caught Covid three times, then needed eye surgery, and shortly after returning to work (too soon!) and under pressure, I then developed shingles. It was, quite simply, my body’s way of saying: enough is enough.
When I first trained as a Health Coach, I carried some pretty loud internal expectations: build a social media presence, keep your clients as case studies, get clients quickly, launch group programmes, move into corporate work  -  do this, do that, do it all. There’s such a wealth of ideas and so much content to draw on from our training that it can feel overwhelming, as though you should be doing everything at once, and that how quickly you do it will define how successful you are.
This smoky Chipotle beef and quinoa bowl is simple nourishing and packed with protein fibre and colourful vegetables. One of my favourite quick lunches or dinners, that feels really balanced without being complicated and there's always plenty left over for lunch the next day.
For many years, I thrived in a senior corporate role, working long hours in a demanding environment. But beneath the surface, the relentless pressure was taking its toll, affecting my health in ways I could no longer ignore. I’d always been someone who kept going, rarely taking a day off. But during the lockdown years, I had a hysterectomy, I caught Covid three times, then needed eye surgery, and shortly after returning to work (too soon!) and under pressure, I then developed shingles. It was, quite simply, my body’s way of saying: enough is enough.

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