I’m Saira. I’ve had many different careers and many tough times in my life. A little while back I had a particularly bad time when my whole life as I knew it sort of just…fell apart. The word ‘painful’ does not do justice to how bad that time felt. I had a choice; lie in bed and cry forever or get up and try and find something, anything, that would help me make sense of how I had got to this place and more importantly, how to not be there anymore.

So I got up, I read and I meditated and I cried and I journaled and I did a million other things to figure out more about me and more about life. I trained as a life coach. I travelled the world for two years and six continents. And I learned some stuff..

Sometimes in life, pain is necessary but sometimes we get stuck in suffering or we learn to cope in ways that make our pain bigger. Sometimes we don’t know where to start. Sometimes we don’t know how we feel, just that we don’t feel good. Sometimes we suspect that our childhood or our mistakes have damaged us and we may never not feel broken. Sometimes we want love and are afraid we won’t get it or we don’t deserve it and we can’t even give it to ourselves. Sometimes we are afraid, sad or lonely and joy and love feel like they will never be ours. Sometimes we cannot see the truth of ourselves and we feel ugly or unlovable or not good enough. And that is ok.

However you feel is ok. Let it be the rock bottom you hit before you let go of all of that stuff you don’t want or need anymore. Like I did. Trust me, if I can do it, you can too. I was caught in all those places too and was afraid and lost and sad and alone.

That is why my life’s purpose is to help people move through those times, feeling what you need to but not suffering unnecessarily, learning, growing, healing – practically not just theoretically, and I want to help people do so with support and guidance and love. I don’t want anyone to go through pain they don’t have to, to feel stuck or like they don’t know what to do or to feel alone in this.