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Your life looks fine from the outside.
But when you look in the mirror,
you're not sure who's looking back.
And yet you can't explain it.
You know you're lucky. You have no right to feel this way. And somehow that makes it lonelier.
You are competent. Remarkably so. Whatever life has thrown at you, you have managed it. You are the woman other people rely on. The one who holds things together.
And somewhere in all that managing, you managed yourself out of the picture.
Maybe something has cracked it open recently. A diagnosis. A birthday. A morning you woke up and simply couldn't. The slow dismantling of perimenopause. A job that used to mean something. A relationship that has quietly changed shape. Something small that turned out to be the final straw.
Or maybe there's no single thing. Just a feeling that has been growing quietly for years. That this doesn't fit anymore. That the life you built — the good life, the grateful life — belongs to someone you're not sure you still are.
You think about it mostly in the in-between moments. In the mirror. In the car. In the silence before sleep. And then you fill the silence with something else, because what would you even do with it if you didn't.
You are not broken. You are not ungrateful. You are not having a breakdown.
You are a woman at a threshold. And thresholds have always required a story.
WHO I AM
I am a storyteller. I guide women through midlife transitions using the oldest medicine I know — myth, witness, and the living landscape.
I came to this work because I needed it. In 2020 I was diagnosed with cancer, in a pandemic, far from home, watching my father die. The world went very small. I walked in a forest every day and let the land hold me while everything else fell away. I returned to poetry. I returned to Scotland, the country I was born in. The landscape gave me back to myself when nothing else could.
And then, on the other side of that — once I had ground under my feet again — I had to reckon with everything I'd been carrying. The beliefs. The silence. The version of myself I'd been performing for years. I had to go down before I could come back up.
I know both journeys. I have made them both. And I will not send you anywhere I haven't been.
WHAT HAPPENS
We begin with a thirty minute call. I'll ask you a few questions — not about your history, not about your pain. About where you are. What season you're in. What you're carrying or what you've lost.
By the end of that call, I'll know which journey is yours.
From there, we work together over four months. Ten sessions, ninety minutes each, fortnightly. I'll give you journal prompts and guided meditations to carry between sessions. We'll meet briefly mid-way through each fortnight to make sure nothing is sitting too heavy.
Each session we begin with what has surfaced. And when you're ready — we take the next step.
You set the pace. I hold the path.
THE FIRST STEP
If something in this page has felt like recognition — that's enough.
You don't need to know what you need. You don't need to have the words for it yet. That's what the call is for.
Thirty minutes. No obligation. Just a conversation.