A word about my health and how it shaped my work
- Over the past few years, my own health has required me to slow down, listen more closely, and rethink how I live and work. From early 2022, I experienced overlapping long Covid and perimenopause, alongside lifelong migraines that became significantly more severe during perimenopause. Over time, this was joined by a frozen shoulder and, later, a resolved early-stage skin cancer diagnosis.
- For a period, my life involved regular GP and hospital appointments across multiple departments, long waiting times, and the cumulative toll that comes with navigating the medical system while still trying to live and work. Although everything was successfully treated, and my health is now stable and rebuilding, that period changed me, and it changed my work.
- What I learned first-hand is that health challenges don’t just affect you physically. They affect your confidence, your capacity, your identity, your work, your relationships, and your sense of control. They ask you to make peace with uncertainty, often while others around you struggle to understand, minimise what you’re dealing with, or quietly ignore and move on.
- This experience has deepened my work with women navigating mental load, hormonal change, chronic health considerations, menopause and the internal recalibration that often follows. Working with them in a capacity led realistic way.
- My philosophy around this work is simple: accepting what is real, educating yourself so you can make informed choices, and advocating for yourself within the systems you have to navigate. I had to do this for myself. Now I help others do the same.
