Helping you find your story again
So your life and work feel like they belong together.
I’m a narrative-based coach working with people navigating chronic illness, disability and fluctuating capacity.
Together, we make sense of work & life in a way that actually fits your reality, not the version you’re expected to keep up with.
For individuals: 1:1 coaching around work, life, identity and capacity.
For organisations: Talks, workshops and consultancy around disability, accessibility and inclusion.
When things keep changing, it's hard to know what works
I work with individuals and organisations to make sense of work, life and capacity when nothing stays consistent for long.
For Indviduals
When your health, energy or circumstances keep changing, it’s hard to trust your next step.
This isn’t about pushing harder or “getting back to normal.”
It’s about building something that works now.
Together, we:
understand your capacity with no judgement
separate what’s yours from what’s expected
find ways of working that flex with your life
So you can move forward with clarity.
For Organisations,Teams & Leaders
Talks, workshops & consultancy
I support organisations to understand how work design, expectations and communication impact people living with chronic illness and fluctuating capacity from a lived-experience perspective.
My work helps organisations:
move beyond surface-level adjustments
understand fluctuating capacity in practice
create ways of working that support both people and performance
So support becomes meaningful, not performative.
The Shift I Help Create
I use narrative coaching and systems thinking to help you untangle what’s going on, see the patterns more clearly to find ways forward that works in real life.
From overwhelm → to clarity
Making sense of what's happening so you can see what matters most and what might come next.
From pushing through → to working with your capacity
Finding ways of living & working that recognise your actual energy, needs and circumstances.
From losing your sense of self → to reconnecting with what matters
Making space for the person behind the expectations, roles and responsibilities.
From “how am I supposed to do this?” → to “what could work for me?”
Not fixing you. Not forcing a solution. Create change that is real and sustainable.
What people say
"Lorraine has not just helped us communicate better—she’s helped us think differently. She has fundamentally shifted how we engage with our community."
-Melissa Morelet-Weaver
Alumni Relations Manager, CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education
"I recommend this book wholeheartedly for those experiencing chronic pain and for their loved ones as a tool for understanding and self-help"
- Dr. Lori Beth Bisbey
psychologist, speaker and author
Ways we can work together
For Individuals
1:1 remote narrative coaching for work, life and capacity
A space to make sense of what’s happening when your health, energy or circumstances keep changing.
Together, we can explore decisions, boundaries and changing priorities and what's realistic within your capacity. You don't need to arrive with a clear goal or a plan. We can start with what’s happening now and work from there.
For Organisations
Talks, workshops and consultancy
Lived-experience-informed support around disability, accessibility, inclusion and fluctuating capacity.
This work is grounded in lived experience alongside practical coaching and workplace insight. The focus is simple, to make work more realistic, sustainable and aligned with how people actually function, rather than how they’re expected to.
Time to Thrive
I’m a storyteller, writer, speaker and coach living with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) and a volunteer with the Riding for the Disabled Association.
Living with chronic illness has shaped how I understand resilience, communication and what it really means to navigate work and life when capacity isn’t consistent.
My work sits between lived experience and language.
I help make the invisible visible, so you can understand what’s happening and find a way forward that makes sense.
Because often the gap isn’t information.
It’s understanding.
My Story behind my work
I’m the author of The Surrender Agenda, exploring the lived experience of chronic illness and chronic pain with honesty, humour and a healthy dose of irreverence.
The book explores what happens when your body, your circumstances and your expectations of life don't quite match up and what it means to find a different way forward.
Those questions sit at the heart of my wider work too: disability, identity, work, capacity and the stories we tell ourselves about what a life is supposed to look like.
The Surrender Agenda was placed third in the Ink Book Prize Awards 2025 and is available in print, e-book and audio.
Ready to explore what might fit?
Whether you're looking for coaching for yourself or support for your organisation, you don't need to have everything figured out before you get in touch.
Let's Find The Story That moves you Forward