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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?
We can’t always control our health, or what else life might throw at us. But we can choose to take control of our thoughts, our emotions, and how we act.
We can choose how we treat the body carrying us through all of it.
Are you fed up, frustrated, feeling alone with the treatment plan you’ve been given?
Maybe you haven’t been given a plan. Maybe you’re still waiting to be diagnosed.
Do you believe there’s more to your future than the limitations being put upon you?
Have you had enough of the journalling, the meditating, the self-help books only kind of helping? You understand how it should work, but you’re still not sure how to actually make it work?
Sometimes you can really feel it happening. Your health is getting better. And then you wake up on a bad day and wonder if things will ever really change.
That’s the thing with chronic illness. Sometimes it’s two steps forward, one step back.
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
– Ready to let go of the fear, the shame, the anger, and the denial, and find your way back to yourself
The problem was never your ambition. It was a strategy built for a body you no longer have.
Here's the truth:
If you want to take your life back from a chronic illness you have to CHOOSE to make the SHIFT.
You can get better control of it.
There’ll always be an improvement, an adjustment, to make. Because that’s life. That’s everyone’s life.
Normal healthy people just appear to have it easier.
In some ways, they have it harder…
I look at my illness as a gift
A gift that forced me to slow down.
That gave me time to choose the things that really matter to me, and the things that actually make me happy.
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 your personal mindset blocks. We work through ways to work best with your body, and how to see her for the powerhouse she truly is. We break through barriers. We don’t just slay the dragons — we dissect them and find what they’ve been feeding on.
We look towards focus, success, and living life on your terms.
The SHIFT to Alignment method is the structured framework underpinning all of this work. Not a list of things to fix — a path back to yourself, built around your actual capacity, not the capacity you used to have.
S – Self
Before anything else can change, your body needs to feel safe. We start here. Not because it’s the easy part, but because nothing else works without it. Recognising the patterns and survival modes running on autopilot, and beginning to shift out of fight-or-flight.
H – Health
Not about going back to who you were before illness. Getting radically honest about the body you actually have, energy, limits, needs, and building a life that genuinely fits it. Honesty over denial. Clarity over pushing through.
I – Intention
Who are you now? Chronic illness forces that question whether you’re ready for it or not. We answer it deliberately, on your terms, choosing your values, your vision, and your next chapter from a place of possibility rather than loss.
F – Focus
You know what you want. The gap is the strategy. We build one with real flex. One that doesn’t require a perfect week to move forward, because there are no perfect weeks.
T – Transform
Tactical execution aligned with your energy. Small actions paced around your actual capacity, not borrowed from future capacity you don’t have. Finding the anchor habit that holds everything else in place. Making change that genuinely sticks.
SHIFT to Alignment is more than just coaching.
SHIFT to Alignment includes:
- weekly one-to-one 50mins zoom calls
- weekly journal prompts to maximise the transformation opportunity
- weekly focus planning and intention setting
- weekly accountability check-ins
- between-call WhatsApp support, during UK office hours
The consult 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.
– A calmer nervous system, less reactivity, more steadiness
– 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...
No one can do this for you. No one can want it more than you have to.
I’d love to be able to tell you that complete recovery is possible, but we both know I’d be lying to you. What I can tell you is that being able to manage and get back on track, each and every time, is possible.
You have to want it. I can show you how.
If you’re prepared to take responsibility and put in the work, I’ll support you to find your own answers, because no one knows your life better than you.
This coaching may not be the right fit if you’re looking for medical treatment or clinical advice, that’s not what this is, and I’ll always be clear about that boundary. It’s also not a quick motivational boost. This is deeper work. It requires some willingness to look honestly at what’s actually going on, not just the surface symptoms, but what they’ve been feeding on.
So let’s talk. There’s no commitment, but I’ll encourage you to take action, whether that’s working with me or taking a different first step.
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 consult 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?
Start with the free mini-SHIFT. The mini-SHIFT is five mini versions of my pillars, one per week, that you can complete at your own pace.
Doing this work has such a profound impact on my life. Not by giving me all the answers, but because as life changes, new things come up, as we heal one thing it makes us stronger to take on the next.
