About Me

As a child I had always felt different from my peers. My school days were passed in either daydreaming or excessive chatting. I found it hard to complete my school and homework, starting with enthusiasm but rarely finishing anything.

Being unable to understand why I struggled so much, I concluded that I was a failure because I simply wasn’t trying hard enough.

These beliefs led to years of low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. I thought that if I pushed myself into an “adult” role, I would eventually start feeling like one. So, I trained to become a nurse—a challenging career for someone with poor working memory and executive functioning challenges. I drove myself with an endless list of “shoulds”:

• I should be a responsible adult.

• I should be able to manage a career and family.

• I should have a varied social life.

• I should have a beautiful home.

Having children was my breaking point. I was trying to juggle a career and motherhood, but I felt like I was failing on all fronts. Feeling exhausted, overwhelmed and depressed. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was experiencing burnout.

In my search for answers, I stumbled upon information about ADHD. It was a revelation—like a lightbulb switching on. This discovery led to my diagnosis, medication, and lifestyle changes. More importantly, it helped me begin to unpick years of negative self-talk and feelings of failure.

This journey eventually led me to start my own business and use coaching as a tool to help me manage it successfully. My passion for coaching was ignited, and I knew I wanted to share these tools, along with a sense of acceptance and empowerment, with others. After six months of intensive training with ADDCA gaining my ICF accredited ACC certification, Kaleidoscope coaching was born.