About

I started GROW because I became tired of the way we're taught to think about personal growth.

So much of self-development can start to feel like another form of pressure: become better, do more, think more positively, build better habits.

Even healing can become something we feel we have to be good at.

I don't believe we need another project to perfect ourselves.

I believe growth can be slower, more complicated and much more human.

It can mean understanding yourself more deeply. Making space for the parts of you that don't fit neatly together. Learning to trust yourself. Questioning the beliefs you've inherited. Resting when you need to. Changing direction. Allowing yourself to become someone you couldn't have predicted.

Where this comes from

This grew out of both lived experience and a desire to understand people more deeply.

I'm a qualified life coach, with a background in Social Policy (MA) and History of Art (BA). I've worked within the nonprofit sector across mental health and unpaid carer spaces, served as the youngest trustee of a carers' charity, and contributed to advocacy through podcasts, campaigns, radio, writing, panels and youth engagement.

Then I experienced burnout myself.

It forced me to slow down and look more honestly at the patterns, beliefs and expectations I had been carrying for years.

I began exploring what was underneath them: identity, emotional patterns, nervous-system regulation, self-trust, and the ways we learn to relate to ourselves.

I didn't come away with a perfect formula.

I came away with better questions.

A space for those questions

GROW is a place for thoughtful learning, honest conversations and reflection on what it means to build a life that actually feels like your own.

Here, we can talk about the complicated things: ambition and rest, identity and belonging, relationships, family, burnout, the body, emotions, self-worth, change, and everything in between.

Through coaching, writing, conversations and The Growth Pages journal, I want to create something that feels thoughtful rather than prescriptive, beautiful without being superficial, and useful without turning your life into another project.