Biography

Prior to becoming a Life Coach, I had a successful 20 year career in Engineering initially working at companies like Canon and Cochlear, and later running my own consulting business. While I initially found this a tremendously rewarding extension of my childhood hobby, I eventually burned out and lost interest. The creative/emotional side of my brain was crying out for attention and I found I wanted deeper relationships than seemed to be available professionally in the Engineering environment. I stopped caring any more, and work went from being a joy into being a nightmare. I have long been fascinated by personal growth and development, and had 9 years prior experience as a volunteer telephone counsellor with Lifeline. So rather than stay in a job where I was depressed, I decided to change career, become a Life Coach. That way I could help other people to have a great life and pass on what I continued to learn on my own journey.

I grew up in a family where emotion was rarely expressed, and when it was the results were often destructive. As a very young child I felt confused because I had very strong feelings that I didn't understand, and my family didn't seem to know about or relate to. Both my parents had low self-esteem, and I concluded at a very young age that my parents didn't even like, let alone love each other. I learned to dislike myself to fit in with my family, and my religion taught me that I was sinful even when I couldn't think of anything I was doing wrong. I always got picked last on the all-important sporting teams at school, and grew up believing that there was something wrong with me and feeling inferior to just about everyone.

With this early programming in place, learning to love myself on the road to self-acceptance has been a life-long journey for me. I know from my own experience how a negative self-perception and the associated self-limiting beliefs that can cause enormous frustration and make life into a struggle instead of an adventure. I am fascinated by the power of the human mind and the way that our conscious and subconscious beliefs about ourselves and the world around us determine everything about how our life goes.

My role as a Life Coach is to teach people how to overcome their self-limiting beliefs so that they can be free to truly be themselves, develop the mindset that they need to achieve their goals, and experience the life that they were meant to have.

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