I know what it is like to understand yourself intellectually and still feel disconnected from yourself somewhere underneath it all.
Just like you, I wanted to feel like myself again.
My professional life began in healthcare before moving into higher education. I knew how to learn, analyse and understand. I was trusted, responsible and capable.
But understanding wasn't the same as feeling connected.
Talking helped me understand. Learning helped me make sense of things. But knowing why I felt or responded a certain way didn't necessarily change how I experienced it.
So I kept looking beyond understanding.
I became curious about what the body holds, how the nervous system shapes our experience, and where spirituality belongs alongside what we know about the mind and body.
That curiosity led me into somatic practice, coaching, mindfulness, meditation, trauma-informed practice, energy work and spiritual traditions.
Over time, those threads began to meet.
I wasn't looking for one modality with all the answers. I was beginning to realise I didn't believe there was one.
Those different threads eventually became SORA Soul Collective and The Regulated Soul Method™.
I believe being human isn't a problem to solve.
And that one of the most important relationships we ever build is the one we have with ourselves.
The science and the soul are both welcome here.
My work has been shaped by two worlds that are often treated as though they shouldn't belong together.
My professional roots are in healthcare and higher education, as a diagnostic radiographer, lecturer, researcher, academic mentor and quality assurance lead.
Alongside this, I have spent more than a decade exploring coaching, mentoring, mindfulness, meditation, somatic and trauma-informed approaches, energy healing and spiritual practice.
TToday, I am a trauma-informed coach and mentor, and creator of The Regulated Soul Method™.
I continue to learn because I don't believe doing this work responsibly means reaching a point where you decide you know enough.
SORA exists at the meeting point of those worlds. Not because science and soul are interchangeable, but because human beings are bigger than any single lens we use to understand them.
Explore my approachYou don't need to become someone else.
What if the work is learning how to come back to yourself?
To hear yourself underneath the noise. To notice what you need and what no longer fits. To trust yourself enough to make different choices, and build a life that increasingly reflects the person actually living it.
That is what I mean by soul-led living.
Explore the philosophyStart somewhere small
You don't have to know exactly what you need to begin.
You can start with one small experience of coming back to yourself.
A few things that don't usually make the bio.
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I share my life with a black adopted cat called Akiro, who has no interest in nervous system regulation when breakfast is late.
02.
In the great scone debate, I'm cream first, always. It's pronounced scone, and it's only “scon” when it's gone.
03.
I'm a Star Wars nerd and make no apologies for it.
04.
I have a squint. It taught me early what it means to be seen.
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I'm learning Greek, enthusiastically and with an ongoing personal feud with the letter gamma.
I'd love to continue the conversation.
Come and see what I'm sharing over on Instagram.
