I have moved my blog to Substack, where you can now follow me at Small Lights.
As a taster, here is my very first substack post as Small Lights on 12th May 2026
From someone who found her way through
When people ask what I do for a living, I tell them with a smile that I make people cry.
I am a wellbeing coach, specialising in chronic exhaustive conditions, CFS/ME, fibromyalgia, long Covid, PVS... I recovered from fibromyalgia after years of being told it wasn't possible. Now I offer hope and support to people who have been told there is no cure, and therefore no hope of life getting any better. That conversation often involves tears of relief.
I work with people whose exhaustion goes deeper than tired. People whose nervous systems have been running on empty for years. People who are ready to discover that there is a way through.
The roots of chronic exhaustion are rarely where we expect them. They lie in what we learned as children about the world, and about how we should be in it. My approach is trauma-informed and neurodivergence-aware, integrating Compassionate Inquiry™ (developed by Dr Gabor Maté) alongside my nursing background and my own lived experience of recovery.
Small Lights began as a weekly newsletter and became something I hadn’t quite planned. It is a record of what recovery looks like from both sides. I wrote my first blog, The Tired Gardener, from inside the experience. I write now from the other side, from a new garden at the foot of the Campsie Fells.
I write every Thursday. Honest reflections on recovery, the nervous system, and finding your way back to yourself.