I feel like I'm evolving rather than arriving, standing on the edge of a real shift. I'm now working in a way that's in true service to my future self and the legacy I want to leave in the world.

I listened to a podcast recently that felt like the host was speaking directly to me and to the experiences I write about in my book. He was talking about coping with grief whilst still carrying on, because you have to. And then he said something that stopped me in my tracks: he described it as carrying the weight of what you've lost, whilst still carrying the weight of what you're building. That line hit me like a ton of bricks. It named something I had lived but never quite

This half-term, I’ve been lost in two books that have genuinely shifted something in me. I started with Rachel Rodgers’ We Should All Be Millionaires, which led me to Gay Hendricks’ The Big Leap. Between them, they’ve sparked a lot of reflection about where I’m really operating from - and where I could be.

Last weekend I completed the Deadly Dozen and I’m feeling very proud of myself! In 2022, I started training. Not because I'd always been a fitness person — I absolutely had not. I started because I was watching someone I love more than life itself fighting the hardest battle of their life, and in that pain, something shifted in me and I had no excuse not to look after myself.

Writing Healing and Hopeful was both an offering and an act of survival. It was cathartic, confronting, and unexpectedly healing. I speak briefly about that journey in a recent podcast conversation, but the deeper truth is the book came from a season I never would have chosen, yet one that shaped me in ways I could never have imagined.