What is offered here is not a role of authority or mastery, but a simple willingness to observe life as it is. This way of seeing did not grow from curiosity alone, but from necessity, from early experiences of trauma, including sexual abuse, and, the long struggle to live with what those experiences left behind. Attention was not learned as a practice at first, but as a way to live a full life in spite of those experiences.

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Out of that suffering came a gradual turning toward the body, the mind, and the quiet space in which both appear. What is shared now does not arise from certainty or resolution, but from an ongoing exploration shaped by pain that no longer defines the present. There is no claim to having arrived, only a recognition that what once caused harm can also open the door to deeper honesty, gentleness, and freedom.

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My background is rooted in the body. I hold degrees in Sports Science and Osteopathy, and, for my work has alsways focused on movement, injury, and physical performance. Running and swimming have recently been a large part of my life, and I have taken part in races of many kinds and distances. These practices taught me discipline and resilience.  They also revealed something deeper: that service, gratitude and connection are instrumental in cultivating peace and joy.

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My journey has also included addiction and recovery. I am a recovering addict and have completed a 12-step programme, which continues to shape how I live. Today, I mentor others moving through the same path. This work has taught me humility, honesty, and the importance of not pretending to be fixed or finished. Recovery, like mindfulness, is not about perfection, it is about seeing clearly.

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My meditation training includes a two-year teacher training programme with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, as well as the Become a Teacher of Presence training with Eckhart Tolle. These experiences have been deeply influential, not because they gave me answers, but because they encouraged direct seeing rather than borrowed beliefs.

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I do not offer mindfulness as a system to follow or a method to master. I offer it as an invitation to look, to notice thought, sensation, fear, and habit as they arise. In this looking, something gentle unfolds: less resistance, less inner conflict, and, more space to meet life as it is.

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I am still learning. Still undoing old patterns. Still discovering how awareness moves through work, relationships and difficulty. What I offer is companionship in that inquiry, not instruction from above, but exploration side by side.

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If you are drawn to mindfulness not as an escape from life, but as a way of meeting it more honestly, you are warmly invited to walk this path with me.

Not as student and teacher.

But as human beings, discovering together what it means to live with attention.