My story
I love helping people experience life differently - with more ease, clarity and a deeper sense of being at home in themselves.
For a long time, I wasn’t – at least not mentally and physically.
After struggling with an eating disorder in my teens and early 20s I dived into a career in the City firstly in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then in financial PR. I may have looked like I was doing well from the outside but inwardly I was struggling. I didn’t realise the impact that my state of mind and the way I was living were having on how I felt and how I was showing up.
A turning point came for me when I took a year out to study for an MA in Classical Acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. At drama school, there was nowhere to hide. Metaphorically speaking, I was stripped bare, which was momentarily terrifying, but eternally liberating.
Again and again, I was told ‘get out of your head’. And slowly but surely, the penny began to drop - we have choice - something I see so deeply now.
Whilst at drama school I became so fascinated by how often we feel we need to present a version of ourselves to fit in, to be accepted, to belong that I ended up writing my dissertation on the concept of the social mask.
In the years that followed, I became increasingly curious about what really helps people thrive. I founded a personal training business, working with busy professionals and quickly realised that my ‘beasting session’ wasn’t enough. In order to create real change, we needed to look at what was happening outside of the sessions too – sleep, nutrition, movement and I would suggest most importantly as it plays into all others - state of mind. After all the only thing that can get in the way of sustaining a healthy habit is a thought we treat as real.
In 2013, I co-founded Gazelle Partners, a corporate wellbeing business focused on sustainable behaviour change. We combined the principles of lifestyle medicine with a deep understanding of how the mind works, supporting thousands of people through one-to-one coaching and digital programmes with clients like Google, Accenture, Shell, Rio Tinto, British Land and Red Bull.
Alongside my deep focus on the role our state of mind plays in all that we experience, I have become increasingly drawn to exploring who we are at our core - what that really means, and what becomes possible when we spend more time there.
I work with individuals who want to experience life differently - whether they are students, CEOs, or somewhere in between. Some come to me because they are feeling stuck or are struggling, others are doing fine but sense there is more ease, confidence, or clarity to be had.
Alongside this private practice, I create tailor made programmes for organisations who recognise the value of having their people spend more time working from a clear, calm state of mind. I have also created The Way Home - a guided audio programme available for both adults and young people, helping them access greater clarity and ease from the inside out. The adult version is designed for individuals and organisations, and The Way Home for Teens is now reaching into schools.
And then there is my love of nutrition and nutrigenomics which I continue to find fascinating and bring into support my clients as and when required.
It is an absolute privilege to walk alongside my clients, however they have come to me, and to witness first-hand the life-changing insights they have on our journey together.
I have sought to create the kind of support I once needed - and now get to share that with others.
Anna x
