Greetings!

In my opinion, the three pillars of a healthy, rewarding and abundant life are; Creativity, freedom and joy. Namely, to fully express your individuality and uniqueness in every part of your life, enjoy and own all choices that you make, have fun and laugh often. These are important components of my life, and I operate my business - Day One Life Consultancy, with the same philosophy.

As a professionally trained Life Coach with a busy global practice, I feel as though I will never work another day in my life! I’ve found the work I love and beaten stress, cancer, depression, fear and crippling self-doubt to achieve my vision. My purpose in life is one of inspiring others to do the same.

 ‘The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.’
Norman Vincent-Peale

Originally from Australia, I spent 10 years in the UK building a career in the recruitment industry,  enjoying a very active social life before embarking on an enormous journey of change five years ago. My decision to change was heralded by the diagnosis of breast cancer - at age 35. Things had to change. I began to investigate the way that I lived my life, and had to admit that I’d been burning the candle at both ends for too long. The balance had tipped way over the edge and it took cancer to spell this out for me.

The entire experience of my working life, whilst stimulating, challenging and rewarding, presented a great degree of stress and work-life imbalance. Long hours, irregular and unhealthy meals, commuting and battling traffic’, all of which contributed strongly towards my desire to educate on what it means to enjoy true life-balance and well-being, and how we might orient ourselves towards the attainment of this goal.

Presently I live my life with integrity, honoring and enjoying who I truly am. As Joseph Campbell said – ‘Follow your bliss!’

Having applied natural and integrative methods of cancer treatment (without chemotherapy, radiotherapy or pharmaceuticals), I researched natural medicine and many healing modalities. For more than two years I worked with another breast cancer survivor establishing a non-profit aimed at educating on disease prevention. During this time I had the honor of meeting many people experiencing just about every disease known to man. The only true common denominator for both creating and restoring disease seemed to me, to be faith or the loss thereof. Here, I formed the belief which is my greatest learning yet, that of the effect of the mind and emotions on the body.

The knowledge and experience gained in this area enhances my professional practice, to assist others in embarking on their own journey of self-discovery and empowerment, through the application of positive psychology and extreme self care.

We are all here on this earth, to experience joy. There is no greater reason for your existence! It is true that what you put into life, is what you get out of it, so why not invest all that you have and prepare to receive the abundant rewards?

Jodie Barrett
Life Coach
Founder of Day One Life Consultancy