Meet Amy

They say we often create what we need the most.

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For me, that was a way to slow down - to truly listen to my body, to unlearn the habits that were keeping me stuck, and to relearn who I was and who I wanted to become.

As the third born child and the youngest in my school year, I grew up always trying to keep up. It gave me an insatiable drive to do everything quickly and there were advantages to that. I thrived in the corporate world, prided myself on being someone who could “get shit done,” and excelled in high pressure environments.

But when you’re constantly rushing, there’s no time to check in with yourself, to pause, reflect, or even recognise when you're going off course. Moving too fast for too long leads to decisions misaligned with your values… and eventually, you forget what those values even are. That’s when things start to break down - mentally, physically, emotionally.

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For me, the breaking point came in 2023.

Years of prioritising capitalist, societal expectations, to stay secure, get promoted, keep up - finally caught up with me. I slipped into depression, I went through a traumatic legal battle with my employer and lost my job, all while trying to hold it together for my two young children and my husband.

At the time, I wasn’t sure there was a way out. I felt buried under rubble, unable to move. My instinct was still to "get out quickly" - but where was I even going?

I had been practicing breathwork since 2020, originally as a performance tool. But in that moment, I reached for it not to perform, but to survive. I dragged myself to a two hour class and something shifted. The pain on my chest lifted. From that point on, I chose selfcare. Piece by piece, I began to clean up the rubble.

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I became an accredited CPCAB Breathwork Coach and a member of the UK Breathwork Association, which is working to regulate and professionalise the industry. In 2024 I founded BreathePact, where I now hold space in group and 1:1 sessions, workshops and courses, with a focus on women's health, healing, and slowing down.

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I’m still a work in progress.

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In 2025, I developed chronic urticaria and angioedema, a condition that remains misunderstood by the medical industry. But we do know this: stress plays a signifcant role, and women are disproportionately affected. Hormones matter. Burnout matters.

Through breathwork, elimination diets, rest, and deep listening, I recovered. But I had to slow down again. The need to “do it all,” to take on everything, to rush - it’s still in me. But now, so is something else - the wisdom to stop, breathe, and begin again.

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