A bit about me to help you decide if I'm the coach for you

I’m Sheila, a late-40s Brummie who’s moved around the UK and overseas, and found my way back home to the Midlands in 2020. It turns out being back near family and familiar places is exactly what I needed after all that time away.

I met my other half in 2020, and we married in 2025 with a relaxed ceremony, wearing pink glittery shoes, followed by a party back at our house. Very on brand and worth the clean up the next day. I’m the eldest of six siblings across one dad and two moms, and we’re genuinely one big family. Not in a Sister Wives way, we all just made it work to be a family. I’m also the eldest grandchild and for sure have Eldest Child Syndrome. It’s definitely an ‘if you know you know’ situation.

I love sci-fi, fantasy, and superheroes, and I’m happiest geeking out at Comic Cons or settling in for a good movie, box set, or game night. I’ll happily curl up with a cup of tea watching Bridgerton, Grey’s Anatomy and Death in Paradise. I do love reading and have a literature degree in my back pocket, though these days it’s often easier to stick a show on than pick up a book. I’m working on balancing both.

I’ve been meat-free since I was 14 and am mostly plant-based now, without the pressure to be perfect. I’m a big believer in doing things in a way that’s sustainable and consistent rather than ideal. That applies to food, movement, and life in general. A few times a week you’ll find me doing some breathing or meditation on my acupressure mat, followed by a cold shower with a Disney playlist on in the background.

I love movement that’s fun rather than punishing: kickboxing, swimming, yoga, and ice-skating when I get the chance. After a few years of health challenges, I’m now back on steadier ground. Rebuilding fitness gently and joyfully is my current chapter.

Why I do this

Partly because I didn’t want to reach 20 years and my life needed a good shake-up. And partly because all those years working in welfare had given me deep skills and experience, but they were increasingly boxed in. The non-corporate coaching skills I had were restricted in my practice. I could see it didn't work just doing welfare support without the coaching, and it didn't work coaching to a formula and without the welfare support when needed. I could see people needed a blend of services in one place and I wanted the freedom to coach my way, to do what was genuinely best for the client in front of me, not follow a semi-script.

Helping and supporting hundreds of midlife women like me has been incredibly rewarding and gives my work real depth and meaning. I want people to know that life, especially between our 30s and 60s, is full of hard, even impossible choices, challenges, hurts, and risks. (Going self-employed and living and working out of your mom’s spare room for six months during a pandemic, for starters) It can be overwhelming, and we aren’t always equipped for it, because we were never taught how to be.