I want to let you in on a little secret…

I haven’t always felt this confident and worthy. I haven’t always been this happy and fulfilled…

Let me take you back a few years ago now to when I hit rock bottom and what lead me to LOVING personal development and turning that into my passion and purpose.

For as long as I can remember I’ve always known deep down that I’m here to help people in a big way but I wasn’t sure what that would look like exactly. When people would ask me “what do you want to be when you grow up”, I’d always say “I want to help people”. I even wrote my school speech on ‘What do you want to be when you grow up’ and went on to win my school speech competition. Little did I know how powerful that speech and that moment would be for me. Because here I am, several years later, now creating a life from doing this kind of work and speaking. Ha.

For a long time though I didn’t really know what that would look like – I wanted to be a teacher for a long time. Both my parents were originally teachers, so it was in my blood. And even though I didn’t go into teaching, in many ways I feel like I am a teacher. I then considered physiotherapy – it combined my love of health and fitness, of science and the human body and of course it deeply served and helped people. So that was me, I finished school and completed my degree in physiotherapy and I loved it! It pushed me, it forced me to grow and evolve and I got to help people in some of the hardest times in their lives.

But somewhere in the middle of all that I hit rock down and realised I was deeply unhappy. In my last year of University I got “THE GLANGE” (glandular fever) and it quite literally made me stop and reassess my life. I was bed ridden for months and it took me years to fully recover. Somehow, I managed to finish my degree and get A+s. Working hard and doing well was my coping mechanism. I spent most of my days hiding away from the world and burying myself into my studies and my work so that I wouldn’t have to deal with what was really going on inside. But “the glange” struck, all my coping mechanisms were taken away and I had to face up to what was really going on. I was deeply unhappy, I had made some toxic friendships that were not serving me and I realise now that I had based my self-worth solely on achieving and pleasing others.

It was then, at my all-time low, that I realised this was only the start of my journey. So, for two and a half years I showed up and I did the inner work. I uncovered stuff, I dissected it all, healed my wounds and put it all back together again. I finished my therapy yet all the while showing the outside world that everything was hunky dory with my big smile on my face. Some of my friends and family may not even to this every day have suspected anything was up. I was so good at being good – I put a smile on my face, worked hard, ‘achieved’ all of the things, did all of the ‘shoulds’ and avoided the ‘shouldn’ts’….

Although I’d done a lot of inner work and healing, I got out the other side and there was still something missing. I didn’t really know how to cultivate self-love and true happiness. I didn’t know how to be my most authentic self. I didn’t know how to develop self-belief and inner confidence.  I was still a chronic people pleaser and a high achiever.

I knew there was more…

And then I stumbled across Life Coaching! The missing piece to my puzzle! I dived head first into life coaching – not even knowing what it was at the start, but knowing I just had to do it. I followed life coaches online, I read personal development books, I did courses and coaching programmes and I finally found the thing that was going to get me from where I was, to where I wanted to be - Life Coaching.

I started meditating, I started practising gratitude every day, I started choosing kindness and self compassion. I started to uncover my true authentic self and have the inner confidence to slowly start to share that with others. I started to believe in myself more. I learnt how to turn down the volume on my inner critic and how to calm anxious feelings. I learnt how connect with myself and to listen to my intuition.

Life coaching changed my life.

I continued to do the inner work. I went traveling and stepped out of my comfort zone and within the first month I signed up for the Beautiful You Life Coaching course – a completely intuitive decision. And here I am, a year later realising that alllllll of my journey, even the really hard bits, even the darkest of times, have served me and lead to this beautiful place where I can now give back all that I have learnt and journeyed through, to you. I can now finally say, that when I was little and said I wanted to help people – this is what I meant.

I’m Evie – I am a Life & Confidence Coach and I support and inspire others to create more self-love and self-belief, to stop people pleasing and listening to their loud inner critic and step into the world with confidence and authenticity and create a life that YOU truly love and deserve.

Because when you own your authenticity and self worth, everything changes.

Much love,

Evie