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Drained ⇢ sustained
High-achieving women with chronic illness don’t need more discipline.
They need a strategy built for the life they’re actually living.
You don’t have to do this alone. You are not alone.
Does this sound like you?
You’re managing a demanding career, responsibilities, or simply the business of having a life, while managing a body that doesn’t always cooperate.
Your ambition is still there. But the strategies that used to work, the pushing, the planning, the sheer willpower, have stopped working, and nothing has quite replaced them.
Maybe you’ve tried the journalling, the meditating and the self-help books. You understand, intellectually, why they should help, but making any of it work in a life with fluctuating capacity is another matter.
You might be:
– Exhausted by the boom-and-bust cycle, overdoing it, crashing, repeat
– Quietly grieving the confidence and identity you had before illness got so loud
– Still ambitious, but increasingly unsure how to act on it without paying too high a price
– Tired of advice that amounts to either “push through” or “lower your expectations”
– Ready for a different way, but not sure what that looks like yet
The problem was never your ambition. It was a strategy built for a body you no longer have.
Here's the truth:
Are you ready to find new ways?
Your ways?
To live a life on your terms, with chronic illness,
and not in spite of it?
SHIFT to Alignment is an 8-week, 1:1 experience designed to take you from drained to sustained, chaos to calm, uncertain to confident.
It’s more than just coaching. It’s nurturing, expansive guidance and strategy rolled into one — and you’ll literally have me at the other end of the phone, cheerleading as you progress, grow, and SHIFT.
We work through all five phases together. The work combines coaching, reflection, practical strategy and support between sessions, so what we build has to work in your real life, including the weeks when your capacity changes.
The SHIFT to Alignment framework underpins all of this work. It gives us a way to explore what has changed, what still matters, and what comes next, in order, in layers.
SHIFT to Alignment is more than just coaching.
SHIFT to Alignment includes:
- weekly one-to-one 50mins zoom calls
- weekly journal prompts
- weekly focus planning and intention setting
- weekly accountability check-ins
- between-call WhatsApp support, during UK office hours
The SHIFT call is free. No obligation. No hard sell. It exists so we can both find out if this is the right fit.
What changes?
Not vague transformation. These are the actual shifts clients describe coming out of this work.
– More steadiness in how you respond when life or your capacity changes
– Clarity about what actually matters, and what you’ve been carrying that isn’t yours
– Confidence in making decisions that fit your real life, not your old one
– Ambition that no longer costs everything to act on
– A life that feels like yours again
What clients say:
After my initial call with Lorraine to decide whether to work with her all of these concerns were allayed, and I went into our first coaching call feeling confident that she was the right fit for me.
The experience was amazing. I learnt so much about myself and feel more confident than ever. Everything I thought was holding me back was actually not what was holding me back at all!
It wasn't about not having the right techniques, it was all about my mindset.
I feel that I'm much more resilient mentally/ emotionally. I look at my life differently, and my reactions are much more positive. I am procrastinating less, I feel more confident in myself and when I don't I can quickly snap out of it.”
Working with Lorraine was absolutely amazing. Beyond anything I could have thought beforehand. I have continued to grow in my confidence and in using my voice.
I’ve been taking what I’ve learned into other aspects of my life and I am, overall, feeling so much better about what I’m doing and where I’m going. In many ways.”
An honest note...
This isn’t medical treatment or clinical advice, and it isn’t a quick motivational boost.
It is coaching for women who are willing to look honestly at what is happening, what they want, what their body and life can sustain, and what they want to choose from here.
I won’t give you a formula for becoming your old self again. We’ll build something that fits the person and the life you are living now.
If you’re not sure whether you’re ready for that, the SHIFT call is a good place to work it out. There’s no commitment on either side.
Questions
* Is this programme applicable for any chronic illness?
Absolutely! I have ME, and respiratory issues, but I use general “chronic illness” terminology. The lessons and tools learned in this programme can be used on ANY chronic illness journey. I’ve used these tools for many illnesses including chronic stress, anxiety, depression, IBD, cancer, POTS.
* Can I join this programme if I’m not sure what’s wrong, or waiting for diagnosis?
100% yes!
* I’ve tried coaching before and it didn’t help. Why would this be different?
Most coaching isn’t built for women with fluctuating energy and capacity. The strategies tend to assume a consistent, predictable life, and when your energy isn’t consistent or predictable, those strategies fail. SHIFT is built differently, from the inside of chronic illness, not looking in at it. If you’re still not sure, the SHIFT call is exactly the right place to ask that question.
* What if I have a flare during the programme?
Such a valid question, and thankfully, being chronically ill myself, I get it. If things get really bad, we pause. If you need to miss a call, as long as you give me plenty of notice, we just shift you back a week. No penalty. No pressure. We resume when you’re ready.
* Will I be cured?
No, and I won’t lie to you about that. What you will have, if you do the work, is your life back. A life that makes sense for your body. Clarity, steadiness, confidence, direction. If choosing what’s best for you, finding ways that work for you, and living the life you want sounds like your definition of cured, then yes.
* Do I have to commit to weekly calls?
Calls are at a time convenient for both of us, preferably the same day and time each week. The WhatsApp support between calls means you’re never stuck waiting if something comes up in between.
* What is the time commitment?
The calls are 50 minutes. You decide how much time to put into the journal prompts and action items each week.
* It’s on Zoom. Can I wear my pyjamas?
As long as you’re comfortable.
* Do I need to be in the UK?
Not at all.
* Do you read the journals etc?
Journals – no. If you want to message and share something, great. I read the weekly accountability forms, which you send me no less than 24hrs before our call, and we create the focus planning and intention setting together during the call for you to action before the next call.
When you're ready
There’s no commitment on either side. The first step is just a conversation.
We’ll talk about where you are, what you’re navigating, and whether working together feels like the right fit. No pitch. No pressure.
Not ready for 1:1 coaching yet?
There are other ways in. Start Here will help you choose between the SHIFT Quiz, Mini-SHIFT, the podcast and Mindful Monday Moment, depending on what would be most useful now.
