The Day My Body Walked Me Home

There's a moment when something inside you just... stops cooperating.

When your body starts walking you home before your mind has even made the decision to leave.

The Breaking Point

It was 2017, and what should have been another ordinary sunny morning in London. I was walking to my HR role, mentally preparing for a to-do list easily as long as I am tall. (And I am tall) :-)

But I had only taken a few steps when I realised my feet were carrying me in the opposite direction - back to my front door, back into my apartment.

I can't do it. I can't do this anymore.

Earlier that week, I'd arrived at my desk to find a queue of people waiting before I'd even removed my coat. I moved from one crisis meeting to another, then got an urgent email: they needed me at a different London office immediately.

As I rushed to catch the tube, someone decided they needed me too. They followed me out of the office, into the lift, across the station platform - only stopping when I reached the barriers. At the same time, my phone started ringing. Someone else needed me.

The final straw came when the Director of one of my client groups got his direct report to sit next to me on the train after a team meeting. She pretended to build rapport, then whispered that perhaps I should consider leaving.

I had become a shell of who I was when I first walked into that organisation.

And I wasn't willing to put up with it anymore.

Why This Work Matters

I do this work because watching brilliant, sensitive, wise women live lives that no longer fit them - and sometimes never did - is one of the most painful things I've experienced personally and witnessed in others.

I know what it feels like to look around at a life that technically works, that checks all the boxes, that other people admire... and quietly feel the absence of joy, alignment, and aliveness.

I know the toll of:

• Staying agreeable to keep the peace

• Saying yes when everything in you screams no

• Pushing down your inner knowing because you're afraid it will cause disruption

• Carrying the weight of all those "almosts" - almost asking, almost leaving, almost creating, almost trusting yourself

The Deeper Truth

But I also know this: There comes a time when something in you refuses to keep living out of sync. When the cost of staying becomes greater than the fear of what might come next.

I believe in a world where more women are living lives that reflect their actual values. Where inner leadership is strong enough to override old conditioning. Where decisions come from alignment, not obligation. And where we stop confusing being "capable" with being whole.

Here's what most people don't realise: We don't get to that kind of life just by rearranging our outer circumstances.

We get there by strengthening the foundation that all of it rests on - how we see ourselves, how we relate to fear and possibility, and how deeply we're willing to be honest about what we want.

This is the part most people skip. Not because they're avoiding growth, but because they don't know it's the missing piece. They don't realise that the "stuckness" they feel isn't laziness or confusion or a need for more productivity hacks.

It's the symptom of an inner foundation that can't yet hold the life they want to step into.

What This Space Offers

My work emerged from a lifetime of holding back and a handful of key moments where I realised there was a different way.

It's a space to do the deeper, quieter, more powerful work of becoming someone who can live in alignment with what they already know to be true.

This isn't about becoming someone else. But it is about evolving - learning to think in new ways, learning to trust a deeper wisdom. Because a different life requires a different kind of seeing and being. One that doesn't collapse under the weight of the unknown.

If This Resonates

If you've felt the quiet ache of living out of sync with yourself - the subtle disconnection, the flatness, the sense that you're watching your life more than inhabiting it—this space is for you.

Not because you're broken. Not because something dramatic needs to change. But because you're ready for a different quality of relationship with yourself.

One where your choices don't come from pressure or fear, but from something more rooted. More spacious. More alive.

That's what this work holds: A reorientation. A remembering. A return to something essential - and the tools to start living from that place with more steadiness, clarity, and trust.

A question for you: What would change in your life if you trusted your inner knowing as much as you trust everyone else's opinions?

Write to me and let me know - I read every single reply.

And if someone comes to mind while reading this - a woman who's quietly holding too much, who's lost connection with her own compass, or who's on the edge of something new but not sure how to begin - please pass this along. Sometimes the right invitation arrives exactly when someone is ready to hear it.

With love, Lisa x