My instincts knew I was in the wrong job - but I ignored them for a long time.

A lifetime of people pleasing, trying to fit in, societal conditioning telling me what "success" meant, fear of not being able to pay the bills - and more - led me to stay as a senior leader in a large organisation for a lot longer than I really wanted.

Eventually, as it always does in these situations, the Universe took action that I couldn't ignore any more.

Burnout. 5 months off work where I couldn't support anyone other than myself. (That hurts a lot when your passion is to have an impact on the world!)

I realised that the only way to escape the endless loop of working to pay the bills, hiding my truth, spending and eating my way to supposed happiness - was to invest in myself by working with someone else.

Someone who could hold up a mirror to what was really going on and help me see myself with a clarity I'd never allowed before.

I was terrified. I felt like I was jumping off a cliff without a parachute - just hoping and trusting that somehow I would find a pair of wings and learn how to use them before I crashed to the earth.