About me

I did not take to retirement easily and now I am using my bad experience to help others have a more positive one.  

I have had a long and rewarding career in law enforcement.  Rising to senior management and in latter years having a role that very few people in the country could do. I was so proud of that! It had taken a lot of hard work and me having the focus to get there. However, it was stressful and the organisation I worked for were very poor at dealing with stress and mental health at the time.  As a result the stress affected me badly and I was forced into an earlier than planned retirement.  I wasn't ready, I hadn't planned and as a result suffered over a year of depression and mental health problems. 

Suddenly I had no purpose in life, it was unstructured, I felt useless and worthless and struggled to fill my days with meaningful things.

I then realised it shouldn't be like that and didn't have to be so.  I had delivered training in my previous career and mentored others.  I began to dabble in coaching and suddenly realised I could use my bad experience to help others have a good and fulfilling retirement. One where the individual is in control and confident and where life has structure.  I used my mentoring and training talents to begin delivering lectures for those coming up to retirement.  I knew I could help others have a better time of this major change in their lives than I did.

It then made sense that the processes used to help in retirement could be used in other periods of change. Such as redundancy, starting a new career and returning to the workplace after a period of leave such as child birth or career break. Or even for when you want to change your life.  Simple things like goal setting to help you achieve the things you actually want to.  We all have goals, better diet, weight loss, fitness, to make more money, have more time and so on.  But how many actually achieve those goals. We can help you with all of this, you just need to  ReFocus and.....