My story…
I was the woman who did everything right and had it all.
On paper.
Privately, I was completely frozen in my own body
People saw me as capable and accomplished. By every external and societal measure, I had adapted, assimilated, and was succeeding.
Professionally, I had spent two decades in big pharma, navigating complex regulatory landscapes, designing governance, influencing senior stakeholders.
Personally, I had moved country, married, had children, and when the marriage came to its end, slowly rebuilt my life from the ground up.
But internally I was frozen. Disconnected from my body. Living almost entirely in my head. I was going through the motions of a life I had built by the book, and quietly, persistently wondering — is this it?
I didn't have the language for it then. I only knew that something essential was missing, and that no amount of doing more was going to find it.
The beginning of everything
My youngest daughter, at two years old, had tantrums that shook the house.
Extreme, relentless, and terrifying to me not because she was doing anything wrong, but because I couldn’t hold them.
Her big feelings triggered something in me that I couldn’t name or access. I would freeze, flee — deferring to her dad — or fight. The fighting didn't always look like fighting. It looked like control — me white-knuckling the small, meaningless things that didn't actually matter. And when I couldn't hold that grip any longer, I would explode.
Looking back now, I understand that through these tantrums she was expressing everything I was holding inside but couldn’t feel or express myself.
The Shift -from Pharma to Dharma
The thaw began slowly, with a tiny spark.
In 2020 I began the somatic work that would change everything. Not therapy rooms or yoga mats — but the nervous system and body, in the places where years of unprocessed experience are quietly stored.
My body had been speaking and screaming at me for years through chronic migraines and endometriosis. I had been responding with every medical intervention available. Something in me quietly and stubbornly knew that none of it was reaching the root cause.
When I finally listened — truly listened — the symptoms that had defined my life for years simply dissipated. I learned how to create safety within myself. To voice my boundaries, my needs, my truth. In all my relationships: romantically, socially, and professionally.
“The cold never lasts my darling, it just teaches the heart how to burn” - Raye
And the ember caught light
As I reconnected with my body, something shifted with my daughter as well. Her tantrums began to settle and self-regulate. I was able to be fully present for the emotional storms that had once felt impossible to hold.
When she was eight, she said to me:
"When I was a little girl, I thought you were a witch who wanted to eat me. But I don't think that anymore."
My heart softened at her courage in revealing this to me. It both ached with the grief of knowing how I hadn't shown up in the way she needed. And it quietly lifted in knowing that she felt emotionally safe to share this with me, it wasn't too late and I wouldn't miss it all.
When she was ten, she told me:
"We have magnetic hearts. When I'm at school, I look out the window and send you my love, and I can feel yours come back into my heart."
This is what our own inner work makes possible. And not just for one person — but for the people around us who matter most, the children who grow up inside a calmer nervous system. This work, these embers, catch and spread.
And it changed my career too.
As I came back into my own aliveness, something shifted professionally as well. I started showing up with presence, confidence, and a playful cheekiness I had spent years keeping carefully contained to be "professional."
This authority and aliveness didn't come from my CV or my credentials. It came from feeling genuinely at home in who I had always been and was too afraid to let people see.
That presence opened doors and promotions where effort alone had not. It led to advancement, increased leadership opportunities, and visibility that finally felt safe rather than overwhelming.
It gave me the self-trust to co-author peer-reviewed research in my field even when colleagues questioned its relevance, and to found the industry benchmarking group for patient support programmes. I was recognised and trusted in a way that felt entirely different from anything I had experienced before.
This was no longer about performance and results. I was able to radiate from being genuinely, fully internally resourced.
Why I’m here, doing this work…
I completed my VITA™ coaching certification — 600 hours of advanced training integrating neurobiology, somatic attunement, and body-centred awareness.
This year I am taking the leap of faith in myself. I left big pharma to re-allocate my energies to create REMEMBER and work with individuals on a more intimate and deeper level.
I have not stopped believing in the value of western medicine, or in the importance of the essential early access pathway.
I remain deeply committed and will continue that work through my consultancy.
But it is time to channel my energy toward helping those who don’t suffer from life-threatening diseases yet simply don’t feel fully alive.
I know what it took to find my way back to myself. And together we will help you find yours.
Are you ready to ignite the spark
Drop me a message -
let’s REMEMBER together