Hi, I’m Alice…
I spent most of my twenties feeling stuck and unfulfilled.
I felt like I’d done everything right, I did well at school, I chose a career path out of a desire to help people and I had what everyone told me was a dream job working as a midwife.
And while my work was wonderful in so many ways, it was hard in just as many ways.
And so I was only a few years into my much longed for career and I was desperately unhappy. My life felt out of balance, I was burnt out, lost, indecisive and I lacked direction, purpose, fulfilment and clarity.
My life felt incredibly small, I didn’t have anything outside of work. I didn’t have hobbies, I didn’t exercise, I didn’t do anything for fun or simply for me, I didn’t have a social life. I didn’t have anything. I gave absolutely everything to my work and I felt like I had nothing left to give. I felt like a shell of a human.
But as much as my work took so much from me, it also gave me, in what I now see was an unhealthy way, my entire sense of self and my entire sense of identity and worth. I didn’t know who I’d be without work. It felt like the only thing I was semi-good at. It was the only thing keeping me going.
It was almost like a toxic relationship where as much as I knew the way I was working wasn’t right for me, I also couldn’t bring myself to consider anything else because that would be admitting defeat and would mean that I had failed.
But I also had this longing for something more, even though I didn’t know what that looked like….
In my search for answers I went back to uni to do a post-grad thinking this would lead to the career I wanted and a pathway out of shift-work.
And personally, I saw psychologists, naturopaths, life coaches, healers, listened to podcasts, read books, all trying to find some answers and clarity. I was trying a little bit of everything but honestly, nothing really helped.
And then I stumbled across Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) while listening to a podcast and it just struck a chord. And so I took a leap of faith and tried something different with RTT, and it honestly changed the trajectory of my life and I'm so very grateful for it.
RTT gave me clarity and the kickstart I needed to change my life. I had newfound motivation to reassess what I actually wanted - to move overseas. Something I’d wanted to do for years and had come close to doing several times but had always backed out of. But this time it felt different and so within just a few weeks of my first session I’d followed a lead about a job opportunity and had an interview. And within 3 months I’d moved overseas, started a new job at a London IVF clinic and found somewhere to live. And I had such an incredible year of travel, new adventures and pushing myself out of my comfort zone.
You see, my RTT session uncovered deep-rooted limiting beliefs that I wasn’t worthy or deserving of good things. So previously whenever I tried to make changes in my life or look for more, there had always been this part of me that didn’t think I was worthy of anything better than the life I was living. And so this part of me was keeping me stuck and keeping my life small. RTT not only gave me clarity and understanding around this, but it was like that part of me just wasn’t there anymore. I could suddenly see that I was worthy of more. I was deserving of a beautiful, big, fulfilling life and I wasn’t going to settle for any less. It not only helped me rediscover my self-worth but also gave me the confidence to take action knowing that I was capable.
And so having felt the power of RTT for myself, I decided to take another leap and train in RTT so that I could help others the way it helped me. Because my desire to help people will always be there, I know what it’s like to feel desperately stuck and my greatest wish is for women to stop living lives in accordance with someone else’s rule book and give themselves the permission to live the life they want.
And then the other part of my story is that I, like many women, grew up with a really complicated relationship with my body and my cycle.
From not having a period for several years due to an eating disorder where I felt like there was something wrong with me, I was broken, I felt frustrated and confused about what I was experiencing.
I’ve had times of very irregular cycles during periods of stress including overseas moves and travel.
I’ve had times when I thought I was doing everything right and was ‘healthy’ and I still felt completely lost as to my cycle and when my period would arrive.
I tried to find out information, I researched, thought about tracking my cycle, but felt completely overwhelmed and didn’t know where to start…. And this is even though I was working as a midwife and thought I had a pretty good understanding of women’s health!
So in my search for answers and a more holistic approach, I went on to train in fertility awareness which completely changed my relationship with my cycle. It gave me not only the understanding of my body and cycle, but perhaps most importantly, self-compassion.
Because I could see that all the times I’d thought my body was working against me, it was actually sending me signals and messages that I ignored and didn’t understand. It was crying out for help and my response was to berate it and judge it and speak to it cruelly. Understanding my cycle has been incredibly empowering and liberating and it is honestly something that every woman deserves to know.
So all of this is to say, that my lived experience, my gentle and intuitive nature, my professional background as a midwife and IVF nurse and my training in RTT and fertility awareness brings me to where I am today with a deep longing to help women rediscover themselves, reconnect with their bodies and live a life in alignment with what feels right for you.
Because in this world that we live in that values fitting in, conforming and where it is the norm to ‘be happy with what you have and not ask for more’… one of the most radical things you can do is live the life you want.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Midwifery, The University of Queensland (2015)
Graduate Diploma in Child, Family and Community Nursing, La Trobe University (2019)
Certified Hypnotherapist (2024)
Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner (2024)
Trained Teacher in Natural Fertility Education (2024)
