I was about to become a single mother of a toddler whilst also being six months pregnant. It had been a high-drama year that pushed me beyond my limits.

I felt anger at the situation and my then-husband’s behaviour. I felt guilt and shame at the break-up of my marriage. And I was terrified about how I was going to cope with the future. This wasn’t how I had ever planned for things to be. I was a coach and leadership trainer. Surely I was the one person who ought to have their act together?

Then, in that 3am moment where I really thought I couldn’t do any more of this, the lightbulb hit me.

Yes, the situation was awful. But what was causing the emotional pain, the fear, the worry and the anxiety was the stories I was telling myself about it all.

It was the 3am what-iffing that was leaving me exhausted, not what was actually happening in the physical world. It was the worry about what might happen that meant I was constantly catastrophising, preventing me from being able to find practical solutions.

My body had got addicted to the adrenaline from the drama. Those worry-thought-habits had become hard-wired in my brain. And I had given away my personal power to choose how I experienced life.

I was already a certified NLP Trainer and knew all about how our ‘thoughts create our reality’. But I had no idea how to change those thoughts. The strategies I had been taught weren’t working. And yes, I beat myself up over that - blaming myself - surely I should know how to handle this?

I soon realised that there were lots of experts telling me what to do (think positive thoughts) but I couldn’t find anyone sharing the how.

So I started experimenting, one thought at a time. 

And, slowly, oh-so-slowly, I noticed things shifting. My fuse got longer. I started to worry less. I slept more (as much as a newborn allows). Life didn’t feel like as much of a daily battle. But it was still too slow and unreliable.

So over the next few years, I kept studying. I spent three years studying to become a meditation teacher. That created breakthroughs. But it was still too slow.

Then I studied for another three years to become a yoga teacher. More breakthroughs. But still too slow.

Then I did post-grad courses on working with the vagus nerve to release micro-traumas that are stored in the body, making us hyper-vigilant and stuck in the stress fight-flight-freeze response, constantly on the look-out for threats.

The whole journey took over a decade. It was transformational. But far too slow. Who has ten years to spare, figuring out how to tame their self-talk?

So I used my background as a Six Sigma engineer to identify the most important elements of what I had learned and the strategies I had developed over the previous decade, and to use these to create a process that works for you, fluff-free and research-backed - my Natural Resilience Method®. 

I taught that to my one-to-one clients and in face-to-face trainings and watched worlds change. I even applied it to my work co-leading the EU VAT Action Campaign to change EU law, back in 2016, despite 10 Downing Street telling us it was impossible.

I saw the Natural Resilience Method® strategies work for people who were burning out, for clients who were recovering from bully bosses and toxic teams, for clients and students who had been promoted to the level at which their coping strategies stopped working, and for clients who were hungry to have more impact, but who secretly knew that they weren’t just holding back - they were subconsciously sabotaging their success.

The breakthrough-creating effectiveness of my Natural Resilience Method® has now been proven by thousands of clients, students and readers.

In the meantime, I had written and published my first four books, all about how to feel happier. I had become a sought-after keynote speaker and trainer in my specialist areas of ditching Imposter Syndrome and changing the world by changing yourself. I had used my expertise as the former Head of Market Research for one of the world’s most disruptive brands to design and lead the landmark 2019 Imposter Syndrome Research Study - the UK’s first large-scale research project into the phenomenon.

Friends, colleagues and clients had nagged me for years to write a book about taming your inner critic. So I did. I wrote two, in fact: Dare to Dream Bigger, based on my 7Cs strategy for supercharging your impact, and Ditching Imposter Syndrome. And people loved them. 

But some readers still weren’t getting the breakthroughs that I knew they deserved, which I knew the books were creating for other readers. There were readers who were still only skimming the surface of what it was possible to shift.

The thing is that you have to be super-dedicated to fully apply these techniques if you’re learning them from a book. It’s far too easy to put that book down and forget about it for days, weeks, months or even years. Not everyone is a book-learner. And a book can’t change your life unless you actually read and implement what it shares.

This kind of inner work creates the best breakthroughs when you don’t do it alone, when you have the personal support you need with accountability, sharing the journey with like-minded souls, and have the direct support from a tutor to keep you on track, answer your questions, and celebrate your successes with you.

You get to dive in even more deeply, to fully implement what you’re learning, and you learn so much more from others’ questions and experiences than when you sit at home with a book doing it all on your own.

But there’s only one of me and there’s a limit on the number of clients I can work with, one-to-one, each year.

That’s why I created the Inner Critic Bootcamp™.

It blends the psychology, neuroscience, body-work, and demystified ancient wisdom that all built on each other to finally lead to the breakthroughs I had been searching for - in bite-sized, practical chunks, so you can create shifts you will feel, in minutes, not months.

My Natural Resilience Method®’s framework means each module from this training builds on the previous work, making those changes as easy as possible, in ways that are fast, fun and forever.

And it comes with built-in support to keep you on track and make the journey truly life-changing. I’d be honoured to get to share this journey with you.