I grew up in Ireland and spent over 10 years in the Middle East, living in Dubai and Saudi Arabia . It was there my journey of self-discovery started. Through RTT, I came to understand how events in my younger years had impacted me and led me to behave in negative ways. 

I now realise what is important in my life, what I truly value and what I need to feel fulfilled. 

However, that has not always been the case: There were many times over the years when I felt stuck and was not enjoying life (which seemingly looked pretty good from the outside). I was lost, had no focus or clarity around my career and didn’t even know what or who made me happy anymore.

As a teenager, I had already developed harsh self-criticism and low self-esteem. After winning Miss Ireland,I felt a constant expectation to be a certain weight, to look and dress a certain way, for me to feel “validated” and “deserving” of the title. That, coupled with battling an eating disorder since the age of 16, failed relationships and the never-ending negative chatter in my head as to why my life hadn’t turned out as I assumed it would have, very often left me agitated, unhappy, feeling not good enough and alone.

My professional background in Recruitment, taught me a lot about people, especially the hard lessons in not living a life of balance and being in a job that was unfulfilling. It was all about hustle, striving, pressure, comparison and judgement, which we know does not serve us well in the long term.