My Story.
Hi, I’m Jennie (as you may have already gathered) and I am born and bred in Yorkshire, England.
Through my late teenage years I studied photography and art and design. I have always been a creative soul and love seeing the world from a different perspective. I also love seeing the world in all its glory and travel is a passion of mine too, I think when we travel we broaden our minds.
I would say I have always been spiritual, without even realising at the time. When I was younger I was a ‘Wiccan’, known as a white witch and I spent most of my days researching this religion, collecting crystals and offering my thanks to nature. My spirituality is now part of me and my everyday life, this plays a big part in my health and wellbeing as well as my coaching. I am a firm believer in the Law of Attraction and how powerful our words and thoughts can be. Whatever it may be that you believe in there is no doubt that when we raise our vibrations and start making positive action the universe will guide us and have our backs.
I started my self-development journey in my mid-twenties after battling with a ‘party girl’ lifestyle which eventually started to have detrimental effect on my health, especially mentally. I’ve had my fair share of late nights, toxic relationships and the need to fill a ‘void’ which I think we are eventually forced to face whatever that ‘void’ is and face them demons head on, but I will speak more of that later.
I was around 25 when I picked up my first self-development book around ‘Mindfulness’, it sparked a new interest in me, I was a little obsessed with the mind and all its intricacies. This naturally opened up a whole new journey into the health and wellness world. I started to swap my late nights for early mornings, started to nourish and fuel my body with nutritious foods rather than toxic substances, I was beginning to really enjoy exercise and practicing yoga. I began understanding the mind and body connection and how important it was to look after this.
Although I had gained this knowledge and developed my health and wellbeing I one day hit a wall, I had a breakdown and was completely overwhelmed with life. I was living a life I was expected to have, commuting every day to my corporate job in the city, wearing a mask, trying to hold it together whilst battling my relationships with others and myself. I had developed major depression and anxiety and what I now know to be complete ‘Burn out’. It was at this time I was forced to battle them inner demons, I seeked therapy and revisited the path of self-development and growth. I had to dig deep to find my inner love and grow as a person and began to understand why I was feeling a certain way.
I want to share this with you as I believe it is majorly important to understand the journey of self-development never ends. There is never a destination with this, we are forever growing and evolving as beings on this journey we call life. The universe also likes to repeat situations in which we did not learn the lessons from the first-time round.
This leads me onto where I am now, it all makes sense, I was supposed to have these battles, it was almost destiny for me to live the life I have so far. I have a purpose, to share what I have learnt, to pass on the torch, to coach others with their health and wellbeing.
The point of me sharing this story is to show as your coach I do not see myself as any bigger or better than you, we are the same, I have scars and have battled with my own demons. I am a coach not to dictate to you how you should live your life, but I will guide you and motivate you to make the right choices for you. We are in it together.
Take that first step.
That’s all it takes to start the journey of change.