About

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What I Do

I help curious & tender-hearted people who identify as neurodivergent or queer or QTIBIPOC, to sense into how you really feel in a moment, so you can speak your needs, co-create collective magic, and live audaciously.

I offer soft, courageous + playful spaces, for you to experience the restoration of feeling at home in your body, re-imagine your life, embody your values, transform your relationships, step into aligned community...

and become the ancestor you want to be.

This is not coaching that separates you from the world. It's rooted in embodiment and positive collective change. It’s a practice that transforms your relationship with yourself so that you can create the good you’re here to create out there.

 

My Why

There's a different vision out there for our future earth, for the way we relate to each other in all our gorgeousness... a vision that diverges away from doom and competition and individualism and scarcity and mistrust and cultures of exhaustion. Something that reflects the values I hold close, of courage, rest, optimism, and delight.

The more space we hold to feel into that vision individually and collectively, to sense how that vision feels within our bodies, the more action we can take towards it. And that’s what embodied transformational coaching is all about: feeling and action. Being with what is here now, allowing ourselves to feel it, and acting from there.

Our bodies have so much to tell us.

With courage and practice, we can learn to notice all that is here.

 

 

When we practice what is not always easeful within the systems we live in...

invitation without expectation

belonging without contortion

s p a c i o u s n e s s 

... we generate more choice.

 

 

 

I offer online one-to-one embodied transformational coaching for people living anywhere in the world, and workplace coaching for organisations.

I also run regular embodiment workshops and online peer support groups, to gather with people from all over the world, with just the right balance of structure and spontaneity, that move beyond small talk, so you can make meaningful connections without cringe or confusion.

 

I do it for:

• the dance that happens between neurodivergent bodyminds and between queer people, when we don’t have to start at the beginning, when we make connections between new ideas at lightning speed, when we recognise ourselves in someone else.
• the love of helping you to feel into your body, to settle into yourself, to embody your values, to feel comfortable in your own skin.
• the connection when you tell me I’m the only person you can talk with about this kind of stuff… and then grow in self-belief enough to share your truth with others. 
• the simplicity of asking you the questions no one's ever asked you before.
• the delight in supporting you to make the shifts you've wanted to make forever.
• the beauty and ease that lives on the other side of a big conversation.
• the excitement of helping you find the sense of belonging and purpose you've always sought.
• the joy of stepping into being the elder I wish younger me had known. 

 

I do it because embodied transformational coaching works.

It's expansive, it goes deep, it weaves its magic into every aspect of your life, it enhances the learning and practices you’re already doing, and it generates optimistic energy and action.

 

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There is magic within the margins.

There is magic in neurodivergence.

There is magic in queerness. 

When we're wholeheartedly held, when we feel at home within ourselves, we can become the ancestors we're here to be.

 

 

With support from friends, embodiment practice spaces, communities, coaches, therapists, supervisors, and more resources than I can count, I've:

• signed up for initial coach training, because I felt envious and judgemental of the sheer capacity for joy of the people involved in it, and I was curious to know what those feelings were trying to tell me.

• let myself move towards people who I feel happy around… even when those moves felt vulnerable and awkward.
• learned how to hold the realities of my lived and living experiences of marginalisation, while also aligning with spaces and practices that feel like freedom.

• navigated a new understanding of my neurodivergence and my physical disability… and created a career and relationships that have space for both strength and rest as I live with a dynamic disability.
• moved towards the scariest aspects of my history, and taken a new lens to my trauma, away from approaches that focus only on the mind and towards somatics and embodiment.

• transformed a lifetime of avoidance into something more aligned, embraced my queerness… and trusted that it’s all happened in its own sweet way, in its own sweet time. 

• advocated for my neurodivergent kiddo and created networks of support… and learned not only the power of asking for help but how to receive it.

• built a compassionate co-parenting relationship with my ex-partner… even when we had no idea what that might look like.
• moved beyond the high ACES score I thought might define my life… and learned what it’s like to feel safe to play.
• started to feel in my body, as well as think.

 

I’ve had big conversations. I've felt new feelings and come home to ancient ones. I’ve made bold moves. I’ve felt like I’m moving backwards. I’ve course-corrected. I practice every day.

It's felt transformational to realise that this magical body and nervous system I own at 40 is the same one I’ve had all my life through the trauma and the joys… and to commit to taking care of it, thanking it, going easy on it, paying attention, listening to its needs.

 

My approach & lineage

I’m inspired by planting seeds and seeing what grows, by people who bring playfulness into their serious work, by people who join the dots across the constellations of individual lives, social justice and our climate reality, by people who stay creative and courageous. 

My holding of space is sustained by my own lineage that includes: ancestral guidance & practices, generative somatics, Disability Justice, humanistic psychology, intersectional and Black feminism, Lama Rod Owens, Prentis Hemphill and The Embodiment Institute, Staci K Haines, Kai Cheng Thom, James Baldwin, George Michael, Tracy Chapman, the real Blancas and Pray Tells whose names I don't know, Derek Jarman, Bayo Akomolafe, Rowen White, Camille Sapara Barton, seed-planting, my heritage, our Earth, and more music and books than I can name.

I celebrate my neurodivergence for my capacity to combine approaches and skills, in the same way that my identity is rooted in multiplicity and intersectionality. My love of diversity is evident in the way my coaching practice continues to evolve alongside my professional learning and my personal somatics practice. That is, I live this stuff and I believe deeply in its value for personal and collective transformation.

I initially trained as a transformational life coach, and am now completing training as a body-oriented coach. I bring skills in both conceptual self-awareness and embodied self-awareness to my practice. 

 

My work is and always will be deeply rooted in:

• my formative experiences in loving community with people seeking asylum
• my relationships with loved ones in Sudan who have been made refugees by ongoing conflict
• my living understanding of the ways different systems of oppression reinforce each other and enact harm
• my living experience as a mixed-heritage queer disabled Black British person

 

Before coaching, I spent twenty years collaborating with the third sector and individuals as a freelance writer, and have a lifetime's involvement in grassroots community projects built around refugees' quality of life, advocacy for neurodivergent, BIPOC, and disabled people, and LGBTQIA+ wellbeing. I bring this passion for and experience in social justice, equity and the celebration of difference into my approach to coaching.

My ongoing professional interest lies in: 

• embodied/somatic approaches to healing trauma and collective transformation
• the overlap of simple living, custodianship of our earth, generational healing and collective wellbeing
• practices that both support you as an individual and enable you to feel held in community.

 

You can find more about the books I've written, the podcasts I've featured on, the events I've participated in, and the ways I show up in the world here.

 

Professional Qualifications

 

Qualified Transformational Coach, Dr Sarah Madigan's Spectacular School

Accredited Diploma in Body-oriented Coaching, The Somatic School - currently training on this diploma and hope to achieve ICF Level 2 (Professional Certified Coach) accreditation in late 2025

Trauma-Informed Coaching, Susana Rinderle 

Self-Guided Embodiment Basics, The Embodiment Institute

SAND (Supporting Autism and Neurodiversity) Training, Differabled Sotland

MSc Creative Writing

BSc International Development

 

Current Community Memberships and Practice Grounds

The Practice Ground by The Embodiment Institute

 

 

Things I love

Voicenotes from friends, kimchi on everything, NPR Tiny Desk concerts, the buzzy energy of a playful idea, the lyrics to ‘Whole of the Moon’ and 'Under Pressure', looking closely at things, any performance that creates a liminal world with its own rules, lists.

 

Daily rituals

Doorstep cuppa, phone-free early morning, never-the-same-twice smoothie, strength-training for my hypermobile body, gratitude, podcasts, intentional somatic practice, the same (perfect) song 15x over.

 

Practices that support me

Loud music, Tarot, Focusing, Clinical Somatics, Emotional Freedom Technique, writing, forests, water, visioning with others, speaking to the birds, dancing.

 

Things I no longer do

Hate on my body and mind, compare my current capacity to how I used to be able to do things, consume so much media that I can’t be present in the world, push through moments and days where I need to rest, stay in spaces that are committed to staying the same, think that being playful is unprofessional, judge myself for all the ways I need help.

 

You can usually find me

Coaching clients & facilitating groups & parenting & writing & queering my life & practicing not knowing in community, always with a sense of wonder at the amazingness of humans and our earth, and imagining the texture of a world where everyone gets to thrive.