My Story

I want to share a small part of my personal story here with you now. It’s important because our path makes us who we are today. And, we learn and heal from each other's stories.

I woke up alone, with a fright, at dawn on the perfectly still, and eerily calm morning of Christmas 2016. My heart racing, skin clammy, intense anxiety gripping all of me, breath rapid and shallow. Disorientated, frightened and terrified I was falling through the floor. Seconds felt like hours. There was no refuge, no shelter, no escape, no distraction from the silence and panic. Collapsing to the carpet in my bedroom provided no relief. I found absolutely no escape from this. An overwhelming tsunami of inner torment and swirling emptiness.

This moment had been building for decades, continued intensely for weeks, and took years to heal. And, yet this morning marked my breakdown, and my breakthrough.

Growing up in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, my family environment was emotionally disconnected and distant. School was difficult socially for me and and I had a chronically and terminally ill mother at home. I watched dementia take her humanity, her body turn to dust, and her love of life destroyed. Escaping home at 16 to avoid witnessing this slow-motion horror show, I carried my already intense inner chaos and fear out into the world.

After losing mum, my brother, and father would be next, and I would leave a series of failed relationships behind me. In hindsight, each woman I found was an attempt, and tool for me to seek comfort, shelter and refuge from my intense inner chaos, emptiness and unnamed pains.

I worked harder, I embraced 'rise and grind', threw myself into cognitive excellence, career and corporate progression, and 13 years of competitive CrossFit to escape the inner chaos. I turned the volume of everything up, to drown something else out. I qualified as a Commercial Pilot, became a Police Officer, progressed my Corporate Career. Yet none of it earned me peace. Then, the morning of Christmas 2016 came to break me loose.

Looking back now, I see I had turned off all the Light inside of me to numb the pain. I had disconnected and separated from myself. I had broken myself into pieces to contain the pain.

And then, when needed, the loving and healing intelligence of Life convulsed intensely in me at the right time and applied enough pressure for me to change course.

From that point, I went from healing, to new growth, to blooming. I moved naturally deeper into the worlds of Coaching, Counselling, Ceremonial Healing, Spirituality and Psychology.

Standing here today, I support Leaders who feel something is missing, and know more is possible. A leader is born when we look beyond themselves. I work with Leaders because I understand the territory, and because Leaders exponentially impact the World.

My path of learning how to serve started a long-time before it was obvious to me. I’ve now had the privilege of 20 years experience in the field of Human-Potential, People Leadership and Coaching within a number global organisations, dynamic high-performance private business, and 1:1 clients.

I help Leaders increase Impact, Clarity, Peace, Freedom & Expansion.

My mission is to help people reclaim their lost Light, and claim for the first time their forgotten Light. I want the world to Light up. May your Light brighten, may your Heart open, may others be touched and inspired by you, may you ease deeply into this One Precious Life of yours.

The light in me sees and honours the light in you,

-Mike