I know what it's like to struggle at work — because I did

I spent over 20 years as a solicitor. Then my sight began to go. I kept showing up, kept masking, kept telling myself I should be coping — until I wasn't. There was no map for what I was going through at work, and nobody around me quite knew what to say.

I also navigated becoming a widow eight years ago, which taught me more about resilience than any training course ever could — and how much difference the right support makes when everything you thought you knew has shifted.

That's the gap I now sit in as a Resilience Coach and Inclusion Coach based in Altrincham, Manchester. I coach disabled professionals across the UK who are struggling quietly at work — with confidence, identity, adjustments, or just the sheer weight of holding it all together — and help them find a way forward that feels like theirs.

I'm ICF-accredited, Barefoot-trained and neurodivergent-informed: legal precision, real warmth, and lived experience of rebuilding a working life.

— Hannah