That love of movement and the outdoors grew into a passion for endurance sport. Over the years I have trained and raced across disciplines—triathlon, mountain biking, marathons, and trail running—which sparked a lifelong exploration of physical and mental wellbeing, not just for performance, but for life.

Alongside this, I built a professional career in the fields of science and sustainable development. I hold a PhD in Geography and Environmental Science, with a focus on food security, and have spent over two decades working across both research and the non-profit sector. Most recently, I have been leading an organisation that utilises sport as a tool for conflict resolution and life skills development among children and youth in some of South Africa’s most vulnerable communities.

I am a mother to two strong, complex, and wonderful adult daughters. I cannot imagine a life without them!

From the outside it has been a full and meaningful life. But like most lives, it has not been linear, nor has it been simple.

I was married for 24 years to someone I had known since childhood. Losing that relationship was deeply devastating — not just the loss itself, but the unravelling of identity, certainty, and the life I thought I understood. It marked one of the most significant transitions I have ever faced.

Over time, that period became one of profound growth and transformation. I am now deeply grateful to be remarried to a partner who shares my life and journey, and to have expanded my family in ways I could never have imagined before.

Since childhood, there have also been long seasons in my life marked by quieter struggles —periods that could be named depression, anger, self-doubt, or simply feeling lost. Learning how to move through those periods, and eventually to use them as ground for growth, has been – and continues to be – one of the most important journeys of my life.

Woven around all of this has been a deeper thread: a lifelong search for meaning, connection, and inner peace.

I most definitely do not arrive here as someone who has it all figured out.
I arrive as someone who has lived, questioned, struggled, expanded.

I create, I write, I paint, I meditate (imperfectly), and over the years I have walked alongside many others—in professional roles and in life—offering support, perspective, and presence.

Training in Wayfinder Coaching marked an important emergence for me. It gave me language, structure, and deeper tools to work consciously with energy, awareness, and growth. It also affirmed something I had long sensed: that each of us carries our own innate wisdom, and that my role as a guide is not to direct – but to help uncover and support what is already there.

Alongside this, I have also been deeply influenced by Internal Family Systems (IFS), which offers a way of understanding the different parts of ourselves with greater awareness and compassion. It has been incredibly powerful in my own life, and naturally finds its way into how I work with others, particularly where it can support deeper insight and a more integrated way forward.