This video clip celebrates the joy of that event and the fun we had!
Also, this morning Mailchimp just told me it’s been 187 days since my last community newsletter. That’s over 6 months – eek! Quite a gap, quite a silence. I think it’s high time I got back into my communicative flow doing what I do best (and love!) and share what I’m up to, what I’m learning, what I’m teaching and energetically how my life pulse is expanding, contracting or in stasis – as that’s what we’re all here to learn to flow with ultimately. (Learn more about your life pulse in this article.) Recently was a stasis period. Let me explain.
Not writing my newsletters wasn’t that I didn’t want to tell you about the rest of my Big Impact Without Burnout book tour across the UK, India and the US, with its cherish-forever highlight moment stopping traffic at the Barnes & Noble 5th Avenue book signing in New York.
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to invite you to download the Banish Burnout Christmas Advent calendar I made with the Daily Mirror to share my lovingly written, filmed and produced daily December videos (this was sooooo much work I definitely pat myself on the back when I reflect on this one.)
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to share my glee at winning the 2025 Global Speaker of the Year after 12 months that included talking on 74 stages, being interviewed on 82 podcasts and vibing with customers at 44 book store signings. Oh my.
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to fill you in on my Leicester Square event in London’s oldest bookstore with Melinda Messenger where luminaries like Oscar Wilde hung out.
Equally, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to share my speech from the intimate celebratory night with treasured friends and family at my book launch event in London’s iconic Daunts bookstore.
And no, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to direct your attention to all the British Press coverage the book and my work garnered. Or that Liz Jones, ex-Marie Claire editor and Daily Mail legend doesn’t just write about our work together referring to me as her therapist but also her ‘friend’ (and she doesn’t make friends easily apparently).
And not even that I didn’t want to gush about the humbling conversations I had with leaders in their field like Davina McCall, Marianne Williamson, Lewis Howes, Paul McKenna, James Corden and other inspiring gems my world collided with last year.
No, none of that. Because I did in fact WANT to tell you about all this shiny stuff. I kept writing newsletters, rich in all this news, but it never quite felt right to send them. I even made a highlight reel of my 2025 joy bursts, but again it didn’t feel right to share it.
This juice is all sitting in Drafts.
Why? It suddenly all felt so shouty. So salesy. So ‘Look At Me’. It felt too brash. Too loud. Too In Ya Face. Just so Not Me In My Integrity. Suddenly, perhaps coinciding with the noise and polarising opinions in the world intensifying, I no longer wanted to add to the cacophony by cluttering your inbox. Especially not with a sales message (which is where I was being directed hard last year). I felt shame each time I wrote a newsletter.
THE WAY OF INTEGRITY
Integrity is the last strategy in my book for a reason.
Integrity is the magic key to success, joy, love, dreams, to fulfilment.
You know when you’re out of integrity. When you’re suppressing or oppressing or repressing an aspect of yourself. When you’re not being entirely truthful in some way. You know – The Niggle, the ‘This Doesn’t Sit Well With Me’ energetic ripple. It’s uncomfortable. A signal. Last year, my work goal was to make Big Impact Without Burnout a best-seller. Tick, I did that at launch in March, achieving the revered top 10 status, and still we continued to sell copies and still the work opportunities kept exploding across the year. For that I am truly grateful.
But eventually it just didn’t feel interesting, nor appropriate to keep on shouting about it all and pushing the ‘Buy The Book’ message to you. So, in September I decided no more pushing. I downed out-of-integrity publicity tools and embraced The Land of No More Push.
At that time, having finished more healing modality certifications across 2025 for my clinic practice, this time Life Force Nutrition and Morter Institute Energy Codes therapy, I decided to go deeper in my impassioned study of energy – quantum physics, manifestation frequencies, epigenetics, psychoimmunology, the Human Energy Field and more. And so I began my bio-energetics psychotherapy degree, at the world’s leading university for integrative healing, embarking on 4 years of deep inner work in service of deepening the transformation I deliver for my clients. Deep, deeper, deepest.
My sunny yellow therapy room. This work makes me so happy.
A lot was happening in my personal life across last year too – sorrow, tragedy, trauma, way too many horrific emergencies and constant gut-wrenching chaos for a delicate heart to cope with. By Christmas 2025 life as I knew it was no more, both internally and externally.
So, I started feeling into my energy and instincts more than ever before. I began trusting my own signals as The Most Important Thing. I surrendered to the pulsing waves around me. I allowed life’s events to become my teacher. I softened into Feeling before Doing. I delicately buried any residual Push force entirely and went into a phase of soothing hibernation. I dropped into the void. I took a breath. I paused. I slept a lot. I spent time with my family and in Nature. I deconstructed and lovingly put to bed the parts of me that needed retiring, those that no longer serve me. I stopped working out obsessively. Stopped my rigid diet and allowed bread onto my plate again (wild eh, granary obvs!). I realised my post-50th birthday dabble with sobriety was me in fact joyfully, and almost with a sense of relief, giving up alcohol forever – I’m happily 15 months sober now :-).
I found the me beneath the swirl and at the centre. I healed. I regrounded. I tentatively found new footings, a fresh undefended sense of self, and gradually I started to sense what new foundations could look like and be. Gently, I found my life force again. I connected with an honest sense of purpose. With Integrity. I connected with a new way of working, being and living. And now it’s Spring. The daffodils are blooming, blossom is budding, and my desire to write again is sparking (and sparkling).
2 new columns of mine went live last week – SheThePeopleTV, with an audience of 400m Indian women, and the Women’s Business Club Women’s Business Club, thousands of British female entrepreneurs. I’ve written for The Well Crowd, the legend Dr Vanessa Vallely OBEof We Are The City’s new book, my own next book is being shaped, and here we are, a first article/newsletter in six months, my writing buzz is back.
So, hello.
I hope you are well and your 2026 has started in integrity, with inner calm despite the unprecedented outer turmoil weighing the world down right now.
My intention for these articles now is to share what I’m learning, explain how I’m applying it to positive effect with my clients and inspire you with pragmatic ways to harness the magic you hold within, to create what it is you so desire to create, to flow with your Life Pulse.
I’ll be sharing how I’m navigating my own life transitions – leaving a huge corporate career and salary, building a fourth business from scratch again (1992, 2004, 2019 and 2026…) obligations and distractions to boot, kids flying the nest, troublesome teens still in the nest, death, addiction, moving home, divorce, marriage, parenting, aging, trust, long-distance love, all of life’s rich and endlessly undulating challenges and joys through energy, intuition, integrity and soft power. I’m excited again.
I needed 6 months off. Thank you for bearing with me. Until next time…
PS Shelley Zalisinspiring founder of The Female Quotient, friend and world-class entrepreneur described my book this way:
“A refreshing guide for women seeking to succeed without sacrificing themselves in the process. Dive in and discover how to make a big impact without burnout!”
We have 100 copies to give away at SXSW The Female Quotient so if you’re there do pop along and grab one.
PPS If you enjoyed this newsletter please share onwards with loved one, colleagues or visionaries you know equally care about a world where Soft Power is dominant, thank you
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