Hello and welcome to MS Positive,

I’m the creator behind MS Positive - a play on words due to my Multiple Sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, being a woman and as everyone who knows me thinks I am a very positive person, although that’s not always the case.

I was diagnosed with MS over ten years ago now, work a corporate 9-5 as well as in the middle of completing an accredited coaching qualification. People who know me personally say I love nothing more than a good natter and that I get such a buzz out of seeing and helping others succeed. For that reason when I discovered coaching, whether that be for career or personal goals I really felt like I had found my niche. It felt like it was meant to be and in some part, way, shape or form I’ve been doing coaching my whole working life but didn’t have the correct label associated with it.

I’ve created this site to help build a positive community to celebrate overcoming difficult challenges, achieving goals and sharing my journey of navigating life with a chronic illness in a corporate world. I hope that together we can support one another, celebrate the little (and big) things we’ve achieved, re-learn positive behaviours that support our goals, share our struggles and work together to be happy and as healthy as can be. As really health is wealth, healthy and happy is all we should really be striving for (in my opinion anyway!).

Although I am inherently a sunny side sunshine sort of person, I know that this site won’t always be full of positives as we know life doesn’t always work out that way but I will show my up’s and down’s, warts and all. But I also know that there is always a rainbow after every storm, so I know I always end up in the sunshine even if sometimes it takes a little longer to get there. As being on this Earth and growing old is a privilege not all get to experience and trying to remember this regularly helps to keep me on the straight and narrow. I know that I always end up in a positive place after any storm has passed.

I hope that by sharing my journey, coaching techniques and tips about trying to live my best life, you’ll gain some inspiration or share yours to help enhance mine. I hope this will be a safe space to share and that it will become somewhere others who are struggling can turn too to find a little sunshine on dark days. I want to create a place where it provides hope, somewhere I would have loved to of stumbled upon in the early hours of the morning when I couldn’t sleep because I was scared of what lay ahead when I first found out I was sick.

I’ll try my best to share the struggles and achievements of living with a chronic illness, alongside a corporate role, navigating family dynamics whilst practicing self care and protecting your own peace. I’ll share my growth as a person in all aspects of my life and my journey as a coach. Hopefully it will be something worth reading, but I’ll let you be the judge of that - but please be kind :)

Thanks for reading,

MS Positive x