A little about me

In case you wanted to know 😉

My Story

So here goes a little about me.

I’m 52, married to the love my life (got it right second time around), and have 5 amazing kids from nearly 11 up to 23. My older 3 kids were the most amazing blessing from my first marriage, then I met Jimmy and we were blessed with our 2 boys. I have four sons and one daughter - my Tara, who is 21. She is a beautiful human who sings, is self taught on the guitar, writes music, and is just a gorgeous gentle soul who balances out the strong masculine energy of my boys, who love soccer, steak, strength training, and sun (in that order!).

I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I left school back in 1991 (who does?). So I did a admin course and earned some money in a bank for a while before I took off travelling. This ended only after 6 months as I got very sick with ankylosing spondylitis throughout my body and my eye. I had no clue about this type of thing back then at 22 or 23! After a year or so recovering and lazying about, I then took off around Australia for a year of back packing and just overall fun. I saw so much of this incredibly beautiful country of ours.

I can’t remember when, but at some point I started a bachelor of education with a view of becoming a kinder or primary teacher. But once I finished I didn’t want to teach, so I ended up back in another bank in their HR area, teaching bigger kids all about understanding themselves through things like personality profiling. Quite ironic really, given I had no clue who I was!

By the time I turned 27 I had met my first husband who was in final year medicine, and we got married. By 28 my first born was here. I left working and for the next 10 years or so stayed home to raise my kids (which included a move to another state from Sydney to Melbourne, and a divorce by the time I was 35).

In my early 30’s I did find running as a means of an escape, and let’s be honest, trying to keep my weight in check. This led me to a personal training qualification, which I did on and off for about 12 years. At 39, I was told I had fat in my liver and was on the way to becoming type 2 diabetic.

This was my tipping point.

I don’t know when in my adult life I became dependent on alcohol, but it happened sometime between 13 and 25 or so. I just didn’t have any awareness of other resources to manage the stresses of every day life. I certainly had never learned that I had things within me that I tap into that could help me to manage ‘life’.

But searching for answers to what I knew wasn’t ‘normal’ was a blessing. I feel so grateful that someone finally told me how it all worked and helped me to see that I indeed had everything I needed within me to thrive.

Around 12 years ago, I began unlearning and re learning in many areas of life, but particularly in nutrition. I was able to use this new knowledge combined with my own learnings on being human, to break free from the clutches of not just alcohol and binge eating shit foods, but also from the grips of insecure beliefs and thoughts. It wasn’t a quick process, and in many ways, it’s still evolving.

During this time, I saw very deeply that it was never my relationship with people, alcohol, or other substances that needed to change.

It was the relationship I had with myself.

During 2020 and the first year of what we know as Covid lockdowns, I discovered an immense love of writing. I decided to show up daily and share truths that I had discovered on my inner journey with my small gathering on Instagram. While i never did too well in English at school, I realised during this time that writing had actually nothing to do with being good at English.

All that was required was to write with an open heart and share from deep, lived experience. It didn’t have to look perfect or even have correct grammar.

To touch another human soul in the written word, it just had to be born from another human soul.

Funny, because every time I write something, I get asked by this forever present AI to write it better for me. But I have always resisted this.

It took me 47 or so years of my life to find my own voice. I sure as heck won’t be giving it over to something else now.

From 2021 to 2024 I self published 2 books, both of which chronicled my own healing journey and how I was helping my clients on theirs. Then earlier this year, I met a mum through my son’s soccer team, who owned a book publishing company. She publishes human interest books, so I gave her a copy of my first book and just asked her to give me her honest thoughts on whether it could be published.

She said YES - but she needed a first edition! So I got to combine both books, refresh my insights and words, and we came up with a first edition book called The Gifts Within.

This book is my most proudest of achievements.

On the 13th December in Melbourne, I will be speaking at the Melbourne Vibing festival at Docklands. I will also have some pre release copies of my book to sign. Officially not in stores until March 2026. I will share more on this event soon!

This brings me up to now. Where I’m sitting in the backyard in the sun with my dog, writing to you.

I’m now building my next chapter in which I’m creating two global platforms where I will be supporting both practitioners, and alongside an incredible team of coaches, anyone looking to join a community to continue to grow, evolve, and find their path to thriving. I hope to have these ready to go by January, so stay tuned for more.

If you’ve read this far, thank you! I am grateful for all the connections I’ve made on this road. I’ve lost people, but I’ve gained so much more than I ever imagined was possible.

When you heal your heart and open it up to love, love becomes the driving force behind all that you do.

There is no greater force in the universe than that.

Tracey