For over 25 years, I have taught and built a career as an educator and a leader. I worked in the UK state sector (extreme sport on days!) and independent sector before going international fifteen years ago. My husband and I had time in Cairo, Egypt (during the Revolution and its aftermath), China, Myanmar (the tragic country of my birth) and now we are in Taiwan with all the joys and challenges of being in a sensitive geopolitical zone. 

Ostensibly, what a wonderful and successful globe-trotting life we have led and continue to lead. YET, I experienced all these moments with deep anxiety and dread. Change seemed to be forever thrust upon me. I wasn’t making most of my choices. Most of the time it felt like walking on a minefield, blind folded! I was terrified of daily disasters my next step might bring. When things seemed to be going well, I was waiting for it to collapse. Was this the curse of being ‘Wednesday’s Child’? Full of woe? 

Then, I lost my father. He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly over a weekend in November 2021. I was shattered, lost, confounded.  He had been - and continues to be from his heaven - my greatest champion. The gift of his parting was his eternal mantra, ‘Nothing is impossible’. He came from a town in the Delta in Myanmar and went through Medical School teaching himself English. He was the only member of his family who made it to university. I had mocked his words as a young woman but suddenly they resonated loud. He had conviction and courage. That legacy was mine. If I chose it.

At about the same time as I was grieving, Life gifted me something extraordinary-Coaching. That learning process first encountered through 4C’s Coaching then with immense depth through CTI, opened unimaginable worlds within me. I discovered self-compassion, self-belief and self-authority.  I grew not just to listen to other’s words but to sense their whole being. Connections became stronger and more authentic. My whole adult life, which had felt faded and at times too jaded, revealed itself in vibrant colours I so admired in others. My choices and boundaries became firm and clear. I stepped into the woman I am becoming, and my journey continues.

As a Coach, I see myself as a Mixologist (I do Mocktails too!). I invite you to step forward and create with me the true colours and flavours that mirror the person you are set to become.