Over 12 years and hundreds of women later, I know this: the transformation was never really about fitness. It was about reconstruction. Rebuilding your confidence from the ground up, reclaiming your identity after years of putting everyone else first, and rediscovering the woman who was in there all along.
That's what I do, and I've been doing it long enough to know it works.
I've been recognised as Inspirational Fitness Personality 2024, nominated as a Mental Health Advocate, awarded Regional Instructor for Ireland 2026, and while those things mean a lot to me, what I care about most is simpler than any award: women leaving my world stronger than they arrived.
Today I lead EmpowHER, a transformation movement for women who are tired of surviving their own lives and ready to actually start living them. My work blends dance fitness, strength training, gut health, nervous system regulation, mindset coaching, and identity reconstruction, because real change doesn't come from the outside in. It comes from knowing you're worth it in the first place.
If that's you, you're exactly where you need to be.
“You are worthy of feeling strong, vibrant, and confident in your body — at every age and every stage.”
Maura Gilmore
I didn’t just rebuild my body. I rebuilt myself.
There was a time I felt completely broken.
An abusive relationship that taught me to make myself small to stay safe. A cancer diagnosis when my babies were one and two, a bilateral mastectomy, and the terrifying thought that I might not be there to raise them. Divorce. Single motherhood. Years of holding everything together on the outside while quietly disappearing on the inside. Self-harm. Even homelessness.
I didn't recognise the woman in the mirror. And for a long time, I didn't think she was even worth recognising. But somewhere deep down I knew that wasn't the way I wanted it to be. I felt I was meant for more.
So I started slowly, messily, with no idea what I was doing. I found movement and it became my medicine. I started paying attention to what I was putting into my body, nourishing myself instead of punishing myself, and that changed everything too. I found strength training and it became my proof that I was capable of more than I thought.
I found mindset work, nervous system regulation, meditation, hypnotherapy, and forgiveness. All the tools that nobody had ever handed me before.
Piece by piece, I put myself back together.
Experience & Qualifications12 years supporting women in strength, mindset, and holistic wellbeing, grounded in both lived experience and professional training.
Level 3 Personal Training | Hypnotherapy and Counselling Certificate | Ho'oponopono Practitioner | NLP Diploma | Inner Freedom Coach | Belief Coding Facilitator | Self Confidence and Empowerment Coach | Mindfulness Teacher Training | Menopause Practitioner
Awarded Inspirational Fitness Personality 2024, Heart and Soul Awards
Regional Instructor Northern Ireland 2022, Community Fitness Network
Regional Instructor for Ireland 2026, Heart and Soul Awards
When I'm not coaching, you'll find me doing things that scare me a little.
We Cancervive
Belfast Alternative Fashion week
Strictly Come Dancing charity Events
