I’m a mindfulness and meditation teacher who specialises in – and is deeply passionate about – helping people awaken to their greatest inner strength, especially through times of adversity. I’m here to help you find the unshakable inner strength and peace you need in the hardest moments of life.

I believe everyone should have access to the life-changing tools that allow us to stay strong, thrive, and live a full, rich, and meaningful life.

Since I was 17, I’ve been on a mission to understand why some of us, in the face of adversity, tip into anxiety, depression, and struggle, while others unlock their highest potential: their love, courage, clarity, and wisdom.

I wanted to understand why some people rise and become a force for good, while others feel broken, defeated, or bitter. Along the way, I came to see that the power of the human spirit to rise is a gift we all share, but most of us have simply never been taught the skills to access it.

That journey became my life’s work. And after helping over a million people across two decades, I’ve distilled the most effective insights and tools into a simple, powerful method — praised by psychologists, spiritual teachers, academics, and mental health experts around the world.

It’s called The Deep Resilience Method. It blends the spiritual wisdom of mindfulness with the the best evidence-based, cutting-edge tools for mental resilience and peak performance.

My book on this method became an international bestseller, and the courses I teach based on it have transformed lives across the world.

If you’re here because you’re longing for greater peace, strength, and empowerment in the face of what you’re going through… I’m here for you.

I grew up in some ways, very blessed. 

In the small town of Mullumbimby, Australia, I grew up riding horses with my brothers, running around barefoot in the forests and fields, eating oranges and berries from trees, and swimming in the creek with friends. It was idyllic. But there was also darkness – a shadow over my life that I couldn’t shake. 

By the age of seventeen, trauma from my childhood had pulled me down into depression. I developed an eating disorder and was full of hurt, confusion, and self-hate. I was unable to concentrate at school and unhappy at home.

Eventually, I hit a crisis point. I was in so much pain that I had to make a decision. Either I take my own life or find out if it’s possible to be free of this pain.

I chose life.

Finding Hope

I had no idea where to start, so I went to the school library (there was no internet back then. I’m showing my age here!) and started reading everything I could find on mental health, happiness, healing. I read books saying you could train your mind to let go of suffering and stress. What I realised was that inner strength was a skill. Something I could learn.

It was game-changing. 

So I went and found a meditation course where I started to train my mind in new ways. I learned how to step back from my negative thoughts and transform my relationship with them. What followed was a series of breakthroughs that totally changed my mind, healed me in profound ways, and ultimately changed the course of my entire life. 

Within just a couple of months, my eating disorder and depression had dissolved and I could focus better at school. I began to like the person in the mirror again. And I started to love life again.

Uncovering Deeper Peace

Over time, as I continued my journey, I started learning all kinds of skills to grow my inner strength. I also started to understand that not only could I ease my suffering and stress but I could also access inner peace, a profound sense of wellbeing, resilience, and mental clarity.

Over time, feelings of wholeness, oneness and deep love for life emerged. I felt reconnected to the spiritual dimension of myself and all of life. I realised there was a whole other way we could live. 

After years of my own inner work, this fuelled my passion for helping others. I went on to teach mindfulness and mental resilience skills to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, eventually co-founding mindfulness.com and the mindfulness summit as well as being involved in fund raising activities for mindfulness and mental health charities around the world.

The Rise of Hard Times

Over the years of teaching, the world changed. Life began to test us in new and relentless ways — from pandemics to war, climate change, and rapid technological disruption.

Then came a chapter in my own life that brought me to my knees. A period of darkness and loss that forever changed how I understand inner strength.

In a short span of time, three loved ones died, I got divorced, then developed a chronic illness that led to being unable to work, and then a complete breakdown.

It was one of the most humbling – and ultimately transformative – periods of my life.

During that time, I began gathering the research, practices, and timeless wisdom that could help me not just survive, but grow through the pain. From that work, The Deep Resilience Method was born. A four-step, psycho-spiritual framework for catalysing personal and spiritual growth and helping people stay empowered, compassionate, and skilful in the hardest times of life.

Since then, the most rewarding part of my work has been guiding others through this transformative process – people navigating everything from divorce, financial stress, chronic illness, and the loss of loved ones, to anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges.

It turns out that no matter what we’re facing – whether the struggle is within us or around us – there is a reliable path for unlocking the best of human nature: our highest potential and deepest strengths.

There is a source of resilience and wisdom within every human being that is always available to us. A light that can guide us, no matter how dark the path.

How Can I Serve You?

If you’re reading these words and going through a hard time. If you’re feeling defeated, scared, uncertain, or deeply tired, please know you don’t have to walk this path alone.

I’ve guided many people through their darkest seasons. People who felt just like you do now, and watched them rise into new clarity, courage, growth and a renewed love for life.

The work I do isn’t about “bouncing back” or putting a positive spin on pain. It’s for those who are ready to metamorphose — to alchemise struggle into strength and awaken to a new way of being: wiser, steadier, and more deeply at peace with life.

Below are some options of how I can support you…