Since I was 16 I have had issues with my health, nothing major but yet it was major because it affected my daily life, my confidence, it got to the point in my 30’s when I finally said I needed to do something about this. I had a really good life very outdoors, hillwalking every 2 weeks, wind surfing, running, salsa, you name it I did it! I began experimenting with foods, I met my husband he owned a juicer so got healthier with him. Then when I was 6 months with my husband I was in a car accident that just really turned my life upside down. I was in agony every day, crying every day, I was walking with a limp, snails were faster than me. Reaching for a cup from a press was painful. Walking cross the road was frightening in case I wouldn’t make it across in time. I was miserable and depressed. I was out of work for 6 months, then back part-time for another 6 months. In that time I was determined to be the healthiest I could be I may be broken but I wasn’t dead. I juiced myself to health, I was in pain but I was glowing! This was the start of new path for me. Then a year later I was sitting in the Galway Clinic getting half my thyroid out, thankfully the tumour was benign but yet another strong message to mind my health. Between back recovery, IBS and the thyroid I had enough to contend with, but don’t we love a challenge. So I was married in 2009 and blissfully happy and then Oct 2010 with a big 7 month bump on me I was made redundant.

This could be seen as a bad thing which at the time it was but it really give me the opportunity into self-employment. Unfortunately my husband didn’t have much work that year. I was in the dole Q with a new born, not so nice believe me. So that was challenging but it was after that, that really got tough. John has spent the last 3 years working in the UK and in that time I had 2 babies, finished my qualification and started working for myself. I have been lucky really nothing very bad has happened to me but I feel what did happen to me was that as a wife and mum I completely lost my identity. The pressures of the last 4 years between financial, marital and just personal belief got so much, I really became down in myself, I missed my husband so much. I was just a mess. I hate even to write this. I was lonely, I had feck all income, I had no life and I was down most of the time.

My marriage was under a lot of pressure, we were spending so little time together it was challenging to be anything else. It hasn’t been an easy few years. I hate to admit how low it actually was, even to myself. I knew that I was not the only mum going through this. I began to work on myself, give myself my gift of my life back. Acknowledge who I was, I was my AmazingMe and this was worth fighting for. I had an incredible spark of a personality that I knew was buried inside of me. I just needed to show myself some love and kindness to get it back. So I began talking to lots of women, who were also on this journey as I have been. And that is when I created my AmazingMe Mums. It is something very special to my heart mums of all ages who have lost themselves need. In the last year I have achieved so much in my work, I created an online business for my nutrition business and have really created a presence as an online business mentor and coach, I love this work and going from being on the dole to getting paid 10K per client was just an incredible feeling of a lot of hard work being paid off. I love watching others blossom in their health and find their happiness.

I am continuing to work on myself and my AmazingMe program. I want to bring this to the world of mums, I want no mum to be at home alone and depressed. I want her to know that support is there through AmazingMe. I want to create a world revolution for Mums to understand that by learning from each other we can be a network of power and change and not sitting at home feeling like just ONE, we are many we are AmazingMe Mums. The world needs to recognise the daily silence of mums who are keeping families going but who inside are falling apart. If you are a mum you are either post-natally depressed or everything is great. But unfortunately that is not the truth, the truth is it is ok not to be ok. It is ok to be getting dinner or putting the kids to bed but inside you are cracking up, you barely resemble a shadow of your old self and feel that your life is slipping by. This is the message I want to get out – It is ok not to be ok. All we need to do is to support each other and really help one another, learn from the AmazingMe Program to help transform you and help your fellow mums in your area. This is my story in many ways I have been lucky, I’m blessed to have had these things in my life to guide me to where I am now. I have always wanted to be self employed and now I am. I really want to be a change maker in how mums live their daily lives. I want to help as many as possible. That is my goal and my big vision.