My story
Why I do this work
In 2017 I had a hip replacement. Before that, I'd spent years managing pain that was gradually taking more and more away from me. The things I loved. The way I moved. The feeling of being free in my own body. By the time I went into surgery, I wasn't thinking about what I'd be able to do afterwards. I just needed it to stop.
What happened after my surgery changed everything — and not just physically. As I went through my own rehabilitation, I started to understand how the body works, how movement patterns change over years of pain, and what it actually takes to restore them. I realised there was a gap. People were coming out of surgery or living with persistent pain and not getting the whole-picture support they needed to truly recover. I knew I could help with that. So I retrained.
That decision led me to Gary Ward's Anatomy in Motion method — AiM — which looks at the whole body, finds what's missing in the movement system, and puts it back. It led me to training with Gait Happens in the US, leaders in foot health and movement. Most importantly it led me to building a practice in Brighton around the clients who needed this kind of approach most — the ones who had been everywhere else and were running out of options.
Eight years later, I work with people every day who feel the way I used to feel. Frustrated, overlooked — wondering if anyone is ever going to actually look at the whole picture. And I get to show them that there is another way.
As for me — post hip replacement, I am pain free. I can do everything I want to do. My movement is better than it's ever been. I am genuinely grateful for the journey my hip replacement took me on, because without it, I wouldn't be doing this work.
