I yearn for truth, and a way to be in the world that makes sense while honouring myself and all of creation. This has led me to a vocation whereby I support people on their journeys of change. I am a trauma-informed occupational therapist specialising in neurological rehabilitation.

As a neuro-occupational therapist, I guide people to make sense of the changes to their lives as a result of a neurological event that has caused a change to how one is in the world. I have found this approach immensely helpful when I consider the changes to my life as a result of an early menopause without having had children: There is a loss of a role and identity that I hadn’t yet had and a change to how I am in the world. This is a change that requires support and loving compassion.

I have completed the year-long course in compassionate inquiry which is an approach developed by Dr Gabor Mate for working with trauma. I am now a trauma-informed neuro-occupational therapist. Deeply embedded in this approach is the belief that there is intelligence and dignity in all of our experiences, including challenging and difficult experiences, and a way back to wholeness and sense. This has inspired me to search for the intelligence, dignity and wholeness in my experience of being a postmenopausal woman with no biological children.

I look forward to learning and sharing with you all.