Being made redundant hit me hard, but also opened up a fabulous opportunity for consultancy and back to corporate training.

What I didn’t factor in was a dreadful home life that brought me to my knees.

Back then I didn’t connect my body rebelling with what was going – I simply existed.

In 2014, I left the home life that held me hostage and started a new adventure, but…

In 2016, my thyroid went into overdrive. However, I was better equipped to work though my issues. Using nutrition, energy work, visualisation, and writing – specifically writing from and for the throat chakra. I healed naturally.

In 2018, I fractured my spine. High prolactin. Crushing fatigue. I used the same tools – nutrition, energy, visualisation, and writing. This time the writing took the form of an unpublished book about healing osteoporosis and pages and pages of journal entries. I healed again.

In 2019, I was diagnosed with MGUS. For the first time, I felt mortality breathing down my neck. I decided to live with the fatigue, eat well, and rest. I wasn’t always successful at the rest.

In 2025, I discovered my immune system was attacking my thyroid. I changed my diet again and felt the tiredness settle deeper into my bones. I realised I didn’t have the energy to be “out there” anymore, so I retreated and focused my energy on what I could do.

Somewhere in the middle of all this healing and breaking down and rebuilding, I lost myself. I think that is easy to do, isn’t it?

I stepped away from word alchemy. I kept trying to be what I thought would work, what would sell, what would make me visible, but my body kept pulling me back home.

So here I am. The Word Alchemist again. Not because I’ve figured everything out, but because I know what works when everything is falling apart.

I call my community the Soul Writers Lounge because that’s what it was from the beginning, before I tried to make it into something more marketable.

I’m here to do what I want and invite you to do the same – to write your way home, however that looks for you. Whether it’s one sentence a day in a journal, or a dedicated creative life writing course, or anything in between.

All you need is an open heart, an open mind, and a pen.

I guide my community through the messy middle – that uncomfortable, transformational space where you’ve outgrown who you were but haven’t fully stepped into who you’re becoming.

I help them recognise where their creative energy has been going (people-pleasing, perfectionism, playing small, constantly putting themselves last) and redirect that same powerful energy toward what matters: their heart’s desires and Heart Project.

Heart’s desires are the raw material of your heart and soul’s longing. They’re not the polished, presentable wishes you share at dinner parties. They’re the secret ones, the impractical ones, the ones you’ve learnt to dismiss and learnt to hush.

The Daily Bits

I live in the peace of the hills in a tiny hamlet in Almería, Spain, with three elderly rescue dogs – Marley Moo, Angel, and Tommy – who ensure I walk, breathe, and keep perspective.

As a 3/6 emotional projector and INFJ, I see patterns others miss. I sense when someone is ready for transformation, when they’re hiding from their truth, and when they’re finally prepared to claim their voice.

My journey taught me that our stories, especially the messy middle parts, are often our greatest gifts.

Not because they’re dramatic or unique, but because they’re deeply human. They are the bits that connect and heal us. And they give others permission to stop betraying themselves, too.

I didn’t set out to be a book coach. I arrived by creating safe spaces for women to learn to write and heal. Clients came to write without the pressure to publish and then asked me to help them publish.

That became my book Writing to Heal, followed by Plan Your Non-Fiction Book In A Weekend and over 13 years of guiding real people with real stories: the 13 Women’s Stories project (2013), The F Factor anthology (2015), and many more.

In 2018, when my spine fractured, I kept working because this work mattered. Through the pandemic, I balanced part-time corporate marketing roles and then published the first Healing Book Project anthology (2022). It was meaningful, and it burned me out – that was a big fat lesson.

I remained in part-time marketing and book coaching until early 2025, when I got the call to write Words From The Wild. This is part memoir and part self-help. Sometimes the heart calls.