About Me

My path has never been a straight line. But it has always led here.

I’ve been self-employed and outside conventional employment since 2009. Not because I had a plan, but because I’ve never quite fitted the structures that were on offer — and learned, slowly, to trust that.

For a long time I called myself various things. Healer. Coach. Guide. The titles kept shifting because the work kept deepening. What stayed constant was this: women at thresholds. Women in the in-between. Women who had come through something and couldn’t yet see what came next. I kept finding myself in the room with them, and I kept finding that the room needed to be quieter, slower, and closer to the ground than most rooms are.

The path that brought me here has been a lived one. I walked through fertility treatment that didn’t lead to pregnancy, through miscarriage, through a traumatic birth and the particular tenderness of raising a premature baby. More recently I walked alongside my father through his illness and death from terminal cancer — a long, slow, reorienting experience that changed what I understand about grief, about love, and about what it means to cross a threshold with someone rather than simply waiting on the other side of it.

These weren’t detours. They were the education.

I live in South Cumbria, where the fells are outside my door and the seasons are not a concept. I grow food, forage, tend an apothecary, and practise wyrtcraft — the old word for working with plants as allies rather than ingredients. The green world has been my steadiest teacher, and increasingly it’s become the doorway I offer to other women: not as a subject to study, but as a place to come back to themselves.

My formal training spans Reiki and energy healing, herbal medicine, astro-herbalism with the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, Wyrtcraft with The Green Arte, and Sister Stories circle facilitation — alongside a postpartum support certification and over a decade of working with women in transition.

But the qualification that matters most is simpler than any of that: I’m either living what I guide, or I’ve lived it already. This isn’t a polished framework I’m offering from a distance. It’s the actual path I’m on, in the actual landscape I’m in, with the actual plants outside my door.
If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re in the right place.

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