I'm a Chartered Accountant and a former Chief Financial Officer. I've held the whole of a company's finances, through fund raising rounds and redundancies - but the job was never only the numbers. A CFO sits with people through the decisions that frighten them: what the money means, what's coming, what to do about it. Half the work is the figures; the other half is the person in front of them, and how they feel about it all. It turns out that combination is the one thing almost none of us has for our own money - and it's exactly what I do here.

I spent years learning what it costs to keep earning your place rather than simply inhabiting it - building a career, overriding the signals, until my body stopped cooperating. I developed an autoimmune condition, and I left. And I did my own reckoning with money, worth, and what I'd always believed I had to do to be enough. That experience sits behind everything in this work.

So do fifteen years of meditation, which taught me something no finance training ever did: where these patterns come from, why they're so hard to shake, and how they actually change. And so does what we now know about the brain - why the worry can carry on long after the bank balance says you're fine, and what it really takes to quiet it.

Financial Equanimity didn't begin as a method. It started with friends and family who came to me because they trusted me and I happened to hold both sides at once. What I noticed, sitting in a cafe in London as we went deep into the numbers and into the stories, was that it needed the combination. Everyone started telling me it had changed their life: not just their finances, but how they felt about themselves. So I kept doing it.