In the beginning...

I was a diplomat kid, living all over the world - France, England, Malaysia, China, Canada and Northern Ireland.

Music was always important in the family - my Mum is a trained pianist - and my sisters and I played the piano (with mixed success) and the whole family sang. (Car journeys were noisy!)

At boarding school in England I began playing the violin. At 13 years old I was a late starter, for sure, but I loved it (and my first violin teachers) and worked hard and went on to study performance at Trinity College of Music, London.

BUT...things didn't go so smoothly after that.

My violin professor and I just didn't get along. At. All.

Despite trying so hard to get on board with his methods - which included the first year of 'back to basics', with dry scales and studies and practically no music at all - I found my confidence eroding, and my belief in the dream of becoming a professional musician, fading rapidly.

I ended up dropping out of music college

(after squeaking through my Performer's diploma) and moved to Spain in a 'What do I do with my life now?' miserable moment.

Then followed a 10 year cycle of career changes; teaching English, then finding a new violin teacher who encouraged me to get back into violin freelancing - mainly orchestral gigs in and around Madrid - then, in a desire (and need!) to earn regular money, a focus more on violin teaching.

Which is when I discovered...

EFT Tapping

Even though my violin teaching studio was going great - and I was leading and performing with a semi-professional orchestra at the weekends - I was still hankering after my first love, playing and being on stage.

But I couldn't see past all my limiting beliefs - that I wasn't good enough, that there weren't the opportunities for me etc.

In desperation I reached out for solutions and discovered this slightly strange-looking technique - EFT (which stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques) AKA Tapping.

Soon I began working online and in person with Brad Yates, an amazing, and very highly regarded, EFT life coach.

I was hooked!

Working with a coach, and using these energy techniques, triggered a period of career expansion and huge growth; I moved into increased orchestral performing; created violin videos and an online violin teaching course; founded a piano/string quartet and learnt how to get booked - and even paid - for concerts; started a violin and guitar duo, with whom I made two CDs; and even wrote and self-published a book - The Music Inside - about the whole process.

Phew!

Using EFT tapping also increased my sense of self-worth, confidence and compassion, and really helped me to understand that there's always an underlying reason for how we act and react the way that we do.

And how changing those reasons - working from the inside out - can make ALL the difference to our success, wealth, and happiness.