If you are reading this right now, I believe our paths were destined to cross. 

If we already know each other - hello again. If not, it's a pleasure to meet you. 😃

I am the person behind ROAR!

A few years ago, I had a successful corporate career, as a female executive in a Big Four consulting firm. However, my success came at an enormous price. I was bullied by my boss and on the brink of a nervous breakdown - mentally and physically exhausted. My relationships with the people closest to me were suffering. It all came to a head one dreadful day in the boardroom when he demoted me, with no prior warning, in front of my team. That was the final straw; I quit. Somehow, I believed that I was the problem. I worked harder and harder to prove myself. In the process of being bullied, I started bullying myself.

How my past influenced my present

I didn't realise how something traumatic that happened to me when I was very young - I thought I was over it - would happen to me again as a woman in the workplace. When I was eight years old, I was sexually abused by a neighbour - he could've been my grandfather. I was twelve when I understood it for the first time. I realised it was wrong and I exposed him - my very first ROAR! However, I believed it was all my fault, and my shadow of shame and guilt - my inner bully - was firmly formed. I started exercising obsessively and restricting my food, unable to bear the weight of my shame and guilt. This spiral of self-destruction continued for 15 years. My eating disorder eventually landed me in rehab. Fast forward to today. I can now see how the workplace bully reignited my inner bully and self-destructive patterns of behaviour; how my past influenced my present.

Abuse is abuse - full stop

When I left my corporate career to start my own business, I reignited my life's purpose - to help people be successful, fulfilled and healthy - and I understood for the first time how my abuse were in fact gifts. I learned that abuse is abuse - full stop. It doesn't matter if the abuse is physical, verbal, emotional or sexual, the invisible scars cut deep. I share my full story in my book ROAR! How to Tame the Bully Inside and Out. ROAR! is how I strive to live my best life every day: with PURPOSE, COURAGE & POWER- to face difficult conversations with others and myself - head on.