My Story

How coaching helped me feel like myself again.

Hi, I’m Abbie.

Thank you for being here.

I’m a certified life coach with a BSc in Psychology and a big love of fitness, health and wellbeing.

After a squiggly career throughout my twenties and years of feeling that things weren’t quite right, turning 30 felt like the beginning of an exciting new chapter.

I had recently graduated with a First Class Psychology degree after returning to education later in life. I was in a long-term relationship and preparing to begin what I thought would be a meaningful new career in psychotherapy.

Woman sitting on a sofa holding a mug, smiling in a bright, comfortable living room.

However, things didn’t turn out as I had imagined. My relationship felt fine, but deep down I knew it wasn’t right for me. I chose to end it and found myself living back with my parents at 31. At the same time, although I was passionate about psychology and supporting people, I found working in mental health emotionally draining and realised it wasn’t the right path for me.

Suddenly, I was single, unhappy in my career and completely unsure what to do next. I had worked hard to change direction, studying alongside my full-time job, so walking away left me feeling like I had failed.

Wanting more financial freedom and the opportunity to move to London, I returned to the media industry. My gut told me it wasn’t right, but I ignored it and chose the path that felt safe and sensible.

" I had become so focused on what I thought I should do that I had lost sight of what I actually wanted."

On the outside, my life looked good and felt “fine”. I had a good job, friends, a supportive family and lived in a nice area. But internally, I was spiralling.

I became caught in overthinking and comparison, scrolling through other people’s lives and wondering why everyone else seemed to know what they wanted while I felt so lost. I was unfulfilled and bored at work, dating the wrong people and, aside from my love for fitness, I felt flat.

At my lowest, I came home from work and cried most days. I fantasised about moving abroad and starting again. I couldn’t understand why I felt so stuck or what needed to change.

The truth was, I just didn't feel like me anymore and I had stopped listening to myself.

Around this time, I became curious about coaching. It brought together psychology, personal growth and helping people in a way that felt lighter and more forward-focused than traditional therapy. Before pursuing it myself, I decided to experience coaching as a client.

During my first session, I found myself saying out loud that I wanted to become a coach.

In my 12-week coaching journey, I explored three different areas of my life: my career, my confidence, and finding a loving, secure relationship.

I quickly realised the answers I was looking for weren’t, and never were, outside of me, I already had them within me.

The more I began to challenge old thought patterns and make decisions that were true to me, the more I trusted myself.

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" The moment the dream left my head and became words, it started to feel possible."

Through coaching, I realised that my career, confidence and relationships were not separate problems. At the heart of them all was the relationship I had with myself.

I began to understand the patterns keeping me stuck, challenge old beliefs and make choices that were right for me. The more I listened to my intuition and acted on it, the more my self-trust grew.

That shift changed every area of my life. I became more confident in my decisions, clearer about my needs and less dependent on other people’s opinions. I stepped outside my comfort zone, tried new things and found the confidence to start my own business.

For the first time in forever, my life felt like an expression of who I was rather than who I thought I should be.

"I hadn’t become someone new. I had become more of myself again."

What made the difference wasn’t being told what to do. It was having the space to slow down, think clearly and feel supported, while being held accountable for my next steps.

Coaching gave me the confidence to trust myself, follow my own path and create a life that feels good to live.

It helped me feel like myself again and that transformed everything.

Ready to experience it for yourself?

Drop me a message below or book your free call using the button in the top-right corner.

I can’t wait to hear from you.

Love, Abbie x