Welcome, soul-seekers!

I’m Christine. I’m a soul coach, nature connection guide, musician, and storyteller, based in Wales in the UK.

Back in 2015, it looked on the outside like I had it all figured out. I was making a comfortable living playing and teaching music, with some storytelling on the side. I had just signed up to do a Masters degree in Folk Music at a prestigious music academy in Helsinki.

I’d moved to a new country to study my passion of music, but strange aches and pains in my body meant I couldn’t actually play my violin. I kept pushing myself to try to figure it out, to do all the things, to create my dream music career, but joy and creativity felt further and further away from me.

The truth is, I was on the run from a dark pit that was growing in me. Chasing the next thing and the next thing, hoping that it would make the darkness go away. Spoiler alert: it didn’t.

I was eventually diagnosed with depression and anxiety.

Meditation and some counselling helped, but that wasn’t the end of my journey into darkness. After throwing myself into many more projects and opportunities in a desperate quest to push away the darkness, I got sick. Really sick. A flu virus triggered a descent into complete full-body shutdown, where I became unable to leave my bed, unable to feed myself, barely able to get to the toilet, because of extreme 24/7 symptoms. Admission to a Finnish hospital resulted in further trauma and no help. My parents flew out to Finland to collect me from the hospital, and took me back to their place, where I lay in bed for the next four years.

The illness became progressively more severe. I spent years lying in bed, unable to leave my bedroom, let alone the house. I experienced symptoms of frightening intensity. There were times I felt I was dying, and times I wanted to die. No doctor could help me; I was alone.

Then I found a way out.

It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, maybe the hardest thing I’ll ever do. It was also the bravest and the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done.

The more I learned about the nervous system, and how it lets us know when things are out of alignment by sending us physical signals, the more things made sense.

To recover, I had to dive into my body and face everything that had ever made me feel unsafe, hopeless, disempowered, and ashamed. I slowly learned to embrace all of it with love and acceptance, and to transform it into safety, hope, and empowerment. Piece by piece, millimetre by millimetre, my brain and nervous system rewired, and became more resilient.

Nervous system healing got me part of the way to healing, but not the whole way. There was still something missing: a connection to Soul, to Spirit, and to my purpose on this Earth.

I started to regularly get out into Nature, and began deeply listening to the wisdom within and around me. Ever so gradually, with occasional lightning-bolt leaps forward, I remembered my true nature, and joy, healing, and aliveness came into my life.

I learned more through this process than in all my 8 years of university education.

Now, I feel compelled to share that learning with others!

My Vision

I know that inside every person is a wild joyful being; a Self that is resilient, connected, and free. We only have to look around us at the beauty of Nature to see how miraculous we are, too. Every leaf, every creature is perfectly formed; and so are we. Yet our true selves get hidden, buried under the weight of our struggles and challenges.

Imagine a world where we are all connected to our true nature; a world where everyone is inspired, empowered, purpose-driven, fuelled by joy. I want to help create that world.

When I was at my sickest, I knew that no-one else could save me: only I could. I had tried waiting for various doctors and therapists to save me, and it hadn’t worked.

I also knew that in order to make it, I was going to need support. I found that from an excellent coach, and I could not have created my transformation without her. She guided me to connect to myself and my own power, with incredible results. I was inspired to train as a coach so that I can offer that same support and guidance to others.

As well as coaching, nature connection was a huge part of my recovery, and I also felt called to train as a forest bathing and nature connection guide. Read more about that here.

For a more in-depth version of my recovery story, listen to this podcast episode.

If you’d like to try working with me, you can book a free Soul Freedom Session on this link, or send me an email on [email protected] with any questions.