The Aliveness Cycle

Before my work with Re-childing, I was studying physiotherapy — ticking all the boxes: high grades, hospital placements. But inside, I was fracturing.

The pressure to follow the safe path clashed with my hunger for freedom, music, and adventure.

After being unexpectedly dismissed from university, a blow that felt like failure but became freedom, I followed that pull for over a decade.

I taught in Spanish schools. Guided rafting in New Zealand. Lived in caves through the pandemic.

I got good at noticing what lights people up. And what dims them down.

I gathered golden threads… Wisdom from strangers, play in unexpected places, moments of being fully alive. The things that bring life back into colour.

When I returned home, I watched the school system slowly shut down my little brother’s creativity, dimming that same light I’d spent years protecting in myself. That experience changed everything.

It sparked The Way of Play, a body of work that invites people back to joy, wonder, and belonging.

I’ve guided thousands of people through this lens, and this is the most intimate version yet.

I know what it’s like to be boxed in by the world’s expectations. I also know the liberation of stepping into my truest rhythm.

That’s what I help others do now:

To reclaim feeling, freedom, and fun. To remember what it feels like to be truly alive.