ADHD Coach. Cat Mum. Chronic Overpacker. Recovering People-Pleaser.
And if you're here, I'm guessing your brain works a lot like mine - which means we're probably going to get along like a house on fire!
I was 36 years old when I got diagnosed with ADHD.
Thirty. Six. Years. Old.
And honestly? It felt like someone finally turned the lights on in a room I'd been stumbling around in the dark for decades.
Growing up, I was that kid. The one who went bright red the second a teacher said her name. The "away with the fairies" girl. The one with report cards that said "would do well if she just applied herself" - which, cool, thanks, very helpful, have tried that, still broken.
I struggled to make friends, keep friends, finish literally anything I started. I developed an eating disorder as a teenager, was diagnosed with anxiety, and spent most of my life feeling like everyone else had been handed a manual for how to be a functioning human... and I was just out here winging it and slowly imploding.
I bought a one-way ticket to London on impulse.
(Classic!)
Reader, I hated it. I was lonely, anxious, numbing everything with cider every night, and couldn't look at myself in the mirror. I wanted to get healthy, start a business, stop procrastinating - and instead I just... didn't. Repeatedly.
I felt like a total failure.
Before my ADHD diagnosis. Before medication. Just coaching - and suddenly I was doing things I'd never believed were possible for someone like me.
I stopped being terrified of public speaking. I learned to manage my emotions (RSD, anyone?). After 10+ years of being absolutely terrified of dating, I met my incredible partner. I started a business, left my 9-5, and haven't looked back.
Getting my ADHD diagnosis at 36 was the missing piece that made everything make sense. But coaching was the thing that actually moved me.
Which is why I became one.
🐈 Unapologetic crazy cat lady. I stop to pet every cat I walk past - strangers' cats, neighbourhood cats, probably your cat.
🌈 Neon & bright everything. If it doesn't slightly hurt your eyes, is it even a colour?
🩵 Step mum to three boys. Chaotic, loud, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
✈️ Absolutely feral about travel. The ADHD need for novelty + a passport = dangerous combination.
🏎️ Grew up wanting to be a race car driver. Still not ruling it out, honestly.
And the more I discovered, the more I realised that medication alone was never going to be enough.
The real shifts came from understanding why my brain works the way it does - and then actually working with it instead of constantly fighting it. Things like managing my emotions (RSD is a bitch, honestly), learning how to chase dopamine in ways that didn't blow up my life, and building a genuine understanding of my ADHD brain from the inside out.
That's exactly what I help my clients do too.
Since then I have coached, supported & loved hundreds of adults with ADHD, helping them to thrive.
And I would love to help you too.
Because life is too short to just be surviving day to day. You deserve better, my friend 💛
I was part of the New Zealand documentary ADHD: Not Just Hyper.
It's raw, it's real, I cry twice & I somehow managed not to swear once - though I suspect they cut those scenes.