Healing Beyond Limits: Transformative Therapy and Coaching
My story is your story.
We can all change and learn from our experiences. My story is about resilience, transformation, and redefining the meaning of each life event. It illustrates how a life can be reset repeatedly if you can remove the emotional pain and physical dis-ese that comes from being out of synch with yourself.
True change means reaching deep within us to shift the subconscious beliefs that steer us, even when we’re consciously trying to forge a new path. Having worked with and for some of the World’s most renowned personal development leaders, I learned that true transformation requires aligning conscious and subconscious thoughts, emotions and actions to create the life you desire.
Ying and Yang
From profiling exercises and knowing myself I know that I am an unusual, finely balanced mix of left and right brain, ying & yang (male and female) energy, of business acumen and spiritual gifts. I describe myself as a ‘Sensible Maverick’ and I draw on these gifts and my life experiences to inform my therapy and coaching.
Life Behind the Mask
My life has transformed radically over the decades. Thirty years ago, after extensive PR experience including AB FAB Lynne Franks PR, I was launching my own PR agency. Twenty-five years ago, I was a highly successful PR figure in London, outwardly thriving but hiding exhaustion and addiction.
Fifteen years ago, I’d survived cancer, buried my mother, was newly remarried, head of marketing and communications for an International Charity, yet still wrestling with past traumas.
Ten years ago, I was navigating another chapter after a second divorce and training in transformational therapy. I’ve faced hard times and incredible highs, each shaping my empathy and insight for those I help today.
Power in vulnerability.
For years, I stayed behind the scenes, promoting others. But sharing my own story transformed my life. After an interview about my journey, I became a radio presenter, newspaper columnist, and eventually published my own award-winning book, Reset: A Blueprint for a Better Life. My story of triumph over adversity has resonated with many and illustrates the power of vulnerability as a source of strength.
Roots of Resilience
My values were shaped by my childhood. As the daughter of a grocer, I spent my early years above the family shop, seeing my mother’s quiet acts of kindness as she helped struggling families. A childhood illness made me introspective, fostering a love of books, creativity, and debate. These early influences taught me to look out for others and champion the marginalised, values that remain central to my life and work.
Building a Business Legacy by Age 40
In my PR career, I learned to be both an introverted observer and an extroverted leader, creating my agency, RPPR, which went on to win the UK’s Best Small Consultancy Award.
Along with huge corporate clients, I represented some of the world’s top personal development experts, including Tony Robbins, Robert Holden, Brandon Bays and Edward De Bono. My foundational understanding of epigenetics and brain functioning was laid down.
I trained in NLP with Richard Bandler and hypnosis with Paul McKenna incorporating the modalities into my thriving business.
Despite this outward success, stress and not being true to myself led to health struggles, and I was pushed to explore various therapies. I came to understand that good health and balance require a personalised journey.
Navigating Health, Loss, and Reinvention
Selling my company and thinking I’d retired successfully to the Bahamas at 40, my life quickly shifted. I faced isolation, health challenges, my father’s stroke, my own cancer diagnosis, my mother’s terminal illness, financial loss and the breakdown of my marriage.
After returning to the UK as a single mother, still having cancer treatment, I endured a divorce and had to rebuild my life from scratch. These experiences deepened my resilience, ultimately leading me back into a career of service and healing.
It also gave me the insight that true transformation starts when you are willing and able to see things differently. It’s about rewiring your brain and thoughts as once you learn to work with your mind then the real change can happen.
Life imploded and had to be reset
Determined, I rebuilt my life, first as Insight & Innovation Director for a top Training & Development company, then as Head of Marketing and Communications for The Leprosy Mission, an international charity. I spent five years advocating for some of the world’s most marginalised individuals and took on additional roles as a Non-Executive Director for charities supporting ex-offenders in the UK.
During this time, though cancer-free, I experienced early and severe menopause, leading to misdiagnosis, Citalopram prescriptions, and emotional isolation. Struggling through therapies, from CBT to mindfulness, I encountered setbacks, moments of self-doubt, and the need for deep personal support. Yet, somehow, I emerged resilient, armed with a profound understanding of the power of compassion and the strength required to rebuild.
Synchronicity and finding my life’s purpose
When I was contemplating my second divorce and hitting a ceiling in my marketing career, an email about training in the then Marisa Peer Method (now RTT) arrived personally from Marisa Peer.
That moment changed everything. I immersed myself in hypnotherapy, NLP coaching, and transformational therapy, discovering not only the skills and expertise to help others but also a passion rooted in my own journey of healing and transformation.
Today, I’m honoured to use my life’s lessons to guide others toward their best selves.
For more, read my interviews in the ‘In the Media’ section or explore my award-winning book, Reset: A Blueprint for a Better Life.
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Powerful stuff
“My stomach and the ibs (doesn’t deserve big letters) have been absolutely brilliant. No comparison. I have only had one day where I’ve felt bloated since our session and that was yesterday.
My dad and stepmother are over for Christmas and she is a very demanding person to have around, so I think that by yesterday I was getting stressed. But I did your recording twice and have managed to let go of some of the stress by telling myself this time will pass and to enjoy the time that I’m getting with my dad.
I have had a really good talk with my dad about my session with you and he deeply apologised for his part in it all. It was a very powerful discussion and, thanks to you, I was able to be calm and centred whilst still expressing how it had affected me.
Powerful stuff huh? I am listening to your recording daily and am so pleased with how things are going that I’m sending a huge hug right now..”
Rachel W, France