I believe we can be part of cultural repair when we are connected with ourselves, our gifts and our purpose. I can’t wait to learn about yours.
Hi, I’m Hedda.
My mission is to help women be more themselves. I want the confusion you feel about what you want deep down to be revealed by your own wisdom.
Have you ever been reading a self-help article and felt like there’s a stranger in your home explaining yourself back to you? This can be so therapeutic – you think, ‘I feel seen!’. But I wonder if deep down you might prefer to feel a more solid foundation of self-awareness.
Would you like to welcome new experiences, knowing you are the one that knows yourself best?
I work with smart, sensitive and self-aware women skillfully navigating their lives. If this is you, you already know much of what shapes you and your world; How the patriarchy and inter-generational trauma might be affecting your experience or the role of pivotal childhood experiences. Despite all this, you find yourself struggling with energy, motivation and low-level frustration (and occasionally rage).
While you’re juggling all the things in your life, you might find yourself more often than you’d like, mentally rehearsing conversations or arguments that deep down don’t deserve this much mental space. Your attention isn’t enough on what’s important to you.
I have spent my life successfully hitting life goals. And I’m grateful to all of these experiences – the overseas work, the promotion, a lovely partner and two wonderful kids. And yet as I reached my late 30s, my life experiences kept nudging me towards something different. I was searching for a life that held more meaning and longing for the skills to allow me to be more present with myself and relationships that matter. No one had ever taught me how to navigate my internal landscape; how to be present with myself.
The process of learning to live from self-leadership took time. And it’s ongoing. But what I’ve learnt through years of research and life experience is how to be with my whole self. I want to share my framework for self-connection with you so that you can feel fully in charge of your own life.
I want others to experience a deeper sense of being at home in themselves. To experience the ease of a kind and supportive inner dialogue, where you are your own best support. This is the springboard for the creative projects and sense of possibility and abundance our world needs.
official bio
People are fascinating and beautiful and my gift is to see and love what I find. Coaching is my way of sharing this.
I am a trained social scientist. A PhD in environmental sociology at ANU launched an fulfilling career in applied research. I led the social science contribution in an inter-disciplinary engineering research program to solve the social and technical problems of our changing electricity system.
Across my career I spoke with hundreds of people, individually and as groups, to understand their motivations, their dreams and their fears about change. What I learnt is this: people want to be active agents in social change projects, not passive recipients of policy.
Along the way, I discovered Buddhism and mindfulness. After many years as a a practitioner I undertook a facilitator program and am now a Certified Effortless Mindfulness Facilitator (with Loch Kelly from the Effortless Mindfulness Institute).
I also discovered research grounded perspectives about the human condition. From my solid sociological training foundation, I explored the neuroscience of emotion, the life-affirming psychotherapeutic tools of non-violent communication and parts work from IFS (Internal family systems).
All this came together in a coaching training program at the needs-based coaching institute in Denmark. It’s a certified International Coaching Federation Course with the rigour of clear standards, principles and ethics behind it. By the end of 2026, I’ll be an ICF certified coach.