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24/08/2025

This time last year I thought i had put down my badminton racket for good. Then I joined a friendship group and was invited to play again. Started playing with a fantastic group on Wednesdays. Not only was I active but it was social and fun. This week Kamilah Parker asked me if I wanted to go to another session on Sunday. So I went along today. I saw my friend, Brian who I used to play with at Bournville College together with Jason Gregory. I had not seen him in years and we hugged and reminisced. I have come away on an adrenaline high and invited back next week. So I have to plan out my activities for the week now.

Wednesday - Badminton
Friday - walking
Sunday - Badminton or Hiking (depending on the weather)

Now I feel like me again and asked myself 'why did I stop?'.

Sometimes life gets in the way - work, family and even drama. But doing what you love can helps you reconnect with yourself.

I'm loving the new energised me 💯🏸🚶🏾‍♀️🌿

16/08/2025

Reflecting on MEA and the Future of Youth Support

My 1st love was and still is Community Development.

After I left university, I founded a project called MEA, dedicated to supporting young people at risk of exclusion from mainstream education in Sandwell. This included mentoring, life skills programmes, counselling, outdoor activities. (Yes that is me in the photo about to get pummelled lol). We also had a family support service as we recognised that we could not work with the child in isolation. It was a collective effort.

In addition to this, I ran St Philip’s Project - a wrap around service for children and families. The centre was open from 7am - 9pm and was aways buzzing.

We collaborated with local schools and community projects, including West Bromwich Albion football club. Over 13 successful years, I raised £1.8 million to fund youth and community initiatives.

MEA and the St Philip’s Project were more than just an initiative; it was a safe space where young people felt heard and valued. Unfortunately, due to changes in government funding, we had to close MEA after 13 years, leaving a significant gap in support for these young people.

To this day we still get young people (now adults) thanking us for giving a space for reflection and growth.

Now, with the government announcing new £88M for youth clubs, I feel cautiously optimistic. It's vital that this funding is used wisely to meet the evolving needs of our youth, especially in a digital age where social media is easily accessible and there are growing concerns around mental health and wellbeing. I hope this support can help fill that gap and create engaging, safe spaces for young people once again.

11/08/2025

Over three days, we’ve explored the Wellbeing 3Rs — a simple yet powerful guide to restoring balance in your life.

Reset – Step back from the noise, release the pressures you’ve absorbed, and return to your centre.
Reflect – Look inward with compassion, recognising not just who you are, but how your experiences have shaped you — and how you want to grow.
Reconnect – Strengthen your connection to your inner self so you can live true to you, and interact with intention and purpose in your social world.

Through coaching, I help you bring these three steps to life — giving you the tools, insight, and support to create lasting change and deeper self-awareness.

Your wellbeing is your foundation — the starting point for living with clarity, confidence, and joy.

08/08/2025

Sociology explores how our environment shapes us — from culture and class to education and expectations. It helps us see that our mindset doesn’t form in isolation. Mindset is influenced by more than willpower. It’s built through experience, environment, and expectation.

Sociology gives us the wider view.
Life coaching helps you explore your internal world — where tension, resistance, and hope often sit side by side. Life coaching supports you in untangling internal conflict, shifting your perspective, and making intentional choices.

Together, they offer a powerful lens:
✨ Understand what shaped your mindset
✨ Work through the tension between who you are and how you're evolving
✨ Create change that feels true to your story

This is coaching with social awareness. This is how we rewrite the narrative.

28/07/2025

More Than Mindset: A Sociological Approach to Coaching

You are not just the result of your choices — you're also shaped by the world around you.
Culture, community, class, gender, education... they all write chapters in your life story.

Coaching from a sociological perspective means we don’t just ask “What do you want?” — we explore “What shaped what you believe is possible?”

This is about context. Awareness. Real change.
Let’s rewrite your next chapter with all of that in mind.

21/07/2025

When working with people, it can be so easy to slip into the one-size-fits-all narrative. But that kind of generalisation puts everyone in the same category—and I can assure you, no two people will ever react the same. Why? Because each of us is shaped by different experiences, influences, and external factors.

How you’re feeling right now is rarely random. It’s a symptom of what you’ve lived through. Most people don’t just wake up one day and feel overwhelmed or low. Often, it’s a build-up—a trigger layered on top of other unresolved layers. And sometimes, you don’t even realise the impact until it starts showing physically, emotionally, or mentally.

More often than not, you don’t realise how far you’ve sunk until you begin the process of healing. That’s what happened to me.

Only now do I fully recognise the depth I was in—because I took the time to deconstruct what was underneath it all. I added self-reflection, and I consciously started doing things that lifted my happy hormones. I started working on me.

I remember having counselling—and while I believe counselling can be a powerful outlet, my experience was not. I was told that others were going through worse. That statement stopped me in my tracks. I was flabbergasted.

I listed out everything I had endured—things that had changed my life on every level. The counsellor sat in silence… then apologised.

Even if what I’d experienced hadn't been extreme, it still wouldn’t have justified dismissing how I felt. No one should ever be made to feel like their pain doesn’t matter. Every person deserves support that meets them where they are—not where someone else has been.

This should never stop you from seeking the counselling or support you need. It simply showed me that I hadn’t aligned with the right counsellor for me at that time.

That’s why it’s so important to me to explore and work with my clients where they are at, and to build bespoke support programmes tailored to you.

Because when you connect with the right professionals, the right support, and the right tools—transformation becomes possible.

Testimonials like this one highlight what’s possible when support aligns with your story.

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