My Journey Of Navigating

Transition Through

Human Design

MY JOURNEY

If your life looks exactly how you planned it and still doesn’t feel like yours, you’re in the right place.

You’ve done everything right. The career. The progression. The life that made sense on paper. But somewhere along the way you started clock watching by 10am.

Googling “how to know if it’s time to leave” at midnight. Reading three articles. Closing the tab and going back to work.

Not because you don’t know. Because something keeps repeating and you haven’t yet been able to see the pattern underneath it.

That was me.

December 2024.

My mum died suddenly.
I went from planning my next career move to buying manifestation courses trying to find my life purpose because suddenly the life I was building no longer felt like mine.

I discovered Human Design and thought it would just work. It didn't. Every time something didn't land I bought another course, went back to square one less clear than before. I kept trying harder, planning more, and looking for the thing that would finally make everything click. I rarely told anyone what I actually offered. I assumed I was the problem.

I was recording a podcast episode about the solar plexus in a family dynamic parenting was the niche I'd landed in, on the promise it would be more financially viable than the thing I actually wanted to build: working with women in business/life.

Then, one evening at 5pm I sat down to record my weekly episode and, I hit delete instead of publish by accident. I tried again. It didn't land the same way. So I dropped the script entirely, grabbed the mic, and just spoke about what I was actually living.

That episode became one of my most downloaded.

That's when everything shifted — but I hadn't fully understood it yet.

Not long after, I ran a webinar on Human Design and parenting. Advertised it for two weeks. Nobody came. I could have called it a failure. Instead I got curious, and realised I wasn't even doing what I actually wanted to be doing. I changed niche and got clear on who I actually wanted to serve.

I thought that was the lesson learned. It wasn't.

Eight months later, the pattern showed up again in a completely different outfit. It was my son's 3rd birthday, halfway through a Brand Accelerator, and I decided not to touch the business for the first two days of our family staycation. Before that, my days had no gap built for feeling anything at all up at 5am, working my day job by 7:30, home by 5pm, bath and bed for my son by quarter to eight, then the laptop back open until 10pm most nights.

Two days of spaciousness and it all landed at once a wall of exhaustion I'd been carrying since the start of that year. That's when I saw it properly: it wasn't just burnout. It was a pattern of overriding what I was actually experiencing and carrying on anyway, because I thought I should.

Two months later, the same pattern found a third shape. I burnt out again twice in two months, something I'd never experienced in 39 years. This time I'd been forcing Instagram to grow my business through sheer effort, creating from obligation instead of joy, drifting further from the thing that actually lit me up: Human Design itself.

Once I had the spaciousness to actually look at what was happening, I stopped forcing it and went back to my podcast publishing on Substack for the first time in eight months, and gaining four new subscribers from one episode. I went back into Facebook groups, showed up as myself, and had one of the warmest responses I'd ever had to a post leading to an invitation to run a Human Design workshop locally.

None of it came from trying harder. It came from finally reading what my experience had been showing me.

That's when I understood the pattern properly. Different circumstances. Different symptoms. Same pattern underneath. None of it was separate failures. All of it was information.

Human Design perspective

When I looked at my own design, I saw the through-line I'd been ignoring. My incarnation cross is the Left Angle Cross of Obstruction. My Gate 60 sits in my conscious Mercury, on a three line. I'm a 6/2 profile. My design points toward learning through friction recognising what I'm experiencing and turning it into wisdom.

I'd been trying to build a business around self-trust and decision-making, while overlooking the very thing my design was asking me to communicate: pattern recognition.

What I didn’t understand then:

Misalignment isn't something to fear or fix. It's where your clarity lives. Stop avoiding things going wrong and start getting curious about what it's trying to tell you.

The more I got things wrong, the faster I found what was right. I stopped trying to get it right first time. I stopped searching for purpose outside of myself, and started building a life that actually felt true to me.

Getting it wrong is the point.

I'm a Human Design coach for women over 40 in life and career transitions. I help you take your design from something you read about to something you actually live using misalignment as the process, not the problem.

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