Introduction: Where Light Meets Shadow Coaching is often described as a space of growth, empowerment and possibility. We talk about transformation, mindset shifts and courageous conversations. Yet like any professional practice that works with human systems, it also has a shadow side. When we fail to see it, name it, or address it, we risk
The power of language, and how we use it, has always fascinated me. I have a wonderful friend whose use of language is just exemplary – he uses phrases and pacing in sentences that draw you in. I know someone else who will use his words as a weapon, and more often, I am seeing
Thirty-two months ago, life changed in ways I could never have predicted. In Part 1, I shared what it meant to live with uncertainty, to navigate illness without a clear diagnosis and to learn how to advocate for myself when the system could not offer answers. This second part shifts focus from my personal story
How do we begin recognising the new inner landscape when life as we know it changes completely? When the things we once took for granted — movement, breath, energy, ease — suddenly become difficult, or even impossible? When I was 17, my then-boyfriend (later my husband) was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. MS is a neurological
If you know me, you will know that I am not always the loudest in the room. I like to sit back, observe, take things in. But give me a subject I care about – coaching, leadership, true embedded learning, ethics, the messiness of human growth – and I am all in. This is one
Have you ever paused to consider how you digest emotional information? From the moment we are born, we are fed a steady diet of beliefs, rules and ‘truths’ about how the world works. Much of this information is offered by well-meaning adults, teachers, or wider systems who have themselves never questioned what they have absorbed.
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