Intuitive self-development changed my life

My story

I was kicked out of preschool.
Not many people can say that.

A teacher pulled my mum aside and gently told her I wasn’t thriving. The other kids didn’t want to play with me because of my stutter. I was isolating, turning in on myself. She said it just wasn’t a good fit. Luckily, my mum listened and took me to a speech therapist. That was the start of a long journey of being “different”. 

School was a minefield. Diagnosed with dyslexia and Irlen syndrome, unable to read or write until I was ten. Every time it was my turn to read in class, I’d stumble through words, sounding them out while classmates rolled their eyes. Teachers told me I’d have to work twice as hard as everyone else just to be average. I decided I would never be average.

So I worked. And I worked.

But working that hard came with a cost.
By high school, I burned out.
By university, I burned out again.
And in my first digital marketing job, I burned out once more.

At the same time, I learned early that standing up for myself wasn’t “safe.” My cousins would bully me so creatively and cruelly that my parents didn’t believe me when I told them. Once, when I mustered up the courage to walk away from their taunts, they threatened to push me in front of a bus.

All of this shaped me into someone with huge dreams and a relentless work ethic… but also someone who was a pushover. I believed I had to over-deliver to be worthy of love, attention, or respect, and people took advantage of it. I felt unlovable, invisible, and like my potential was locked inside a box no one had the key to.

When I entered the corporate world, that belief was reinforced. I gave everything to my job – late nights until 4am, big presentations to the heads of PepsiCo and the BBC by 8am – and still, when I asked for a raise, I was told, “We’re just not getting enough out of you.” I had nothing left to give. My body and mind were running on fumes. My self-worth was on the floor.

So I left. I went freelance. But the clients I attracted didn’t want to pay fairly or had values I couldn’t align with. With encouragement from friends, I started my own ethical beauty business. I learned everything I could about the industry… and after two years of pushing myself to the limit, I burned out again. My neurodivergent brain was exhausted, my spirit was drained, and the world still felt grey.

My passion, my drive, my enthusiasm, my hard work, my sacrifices, my creativity, my intelligence did not match what I was achieving at all.

I was stuck.
I was sad.
I felt like a failure.
I felt like a waste.

Life felt heavy. I was carrying the weight of struggling family members who were navigating addictions, depression, and suicidal thoughts, and using food to self-soothe, fill the void I was feeling, or to punish myself for not being enough. I didn’t know how to be kind to myself.

And then, a door cracked open.

A physician (Dr. Divi Chandna) I’d seen as a teenager was teaching classes on energy work and shadow work. I remembered how yoga and meditation had helped me during my university burnout, so I decided to try.

Something clicked.

The relief was immediate – not a magic fix, but a spark. I followed that spark and enrolled in a year-long intuitive coach training program (taught by Lynnette Brown and Dr. Divi Chandna).

I signed up for the inner transformation, not to become a coach.
But within three months, everything began to shift.

I started healing old wounds: the fear from my cousins’ threats, the grief and stress from my family’s struggles, the buried resentment from years of being overlooked and overworked. I learned to say “no”, and to my shock, people respected it. I stopped abandoning myself to please others.

By the end of that year, I started to like myself and was on the path to love myself.
I had kindness for myself.
I trusted myself.
I felt vibrant again.

Life filled up with rich experiences and relationships improved. Gratitude became my natural state. The grey lifted. I realised: this wasn’t luck. It was the direct result of doing the inner work to reconnect with my intuition, release what wasn’t mine to carry, create boundaries that honoured my worth and train myself to see the beauty in life.

That’s when I knew I wanted to share this work.

Because intuitive self-development coaching isn’t just about “feeling better.”

It’s about finally seeing yourself clearly and liking who you see.
It’s about trusting your inner compass in a world full of noise.
It’s about waking up to a life that feels alive, aligned, and deeply yours.

If you’re tired of living small, if you feel that quiet ache that says there must be more than this, know that there is.

And it’s closer than you think.