Could you tell me a time you felt growth?

I didn’t realise how much I have grown until I look back on the last few years. I was in a toxic and unhealthy relationship a few years ago while suffering with pretty bad acne. I was isolated from friends, family and everyday life because of both of these things. Looking back, it was probably one of the lowest if not lowest points in my life.

I finally got out of that relationship and after being on medication, my skin had started to clear. I then moved to Australia by myself which is one of the best things I have ever ever done and as cliché as it sounds, I started to find myself again. It allowed me to take myself completely out of an environment that had been bringing me down for so long, meet loads of amazing people and experience so many new things. I spent a year in Australia and I think I changed my flight about 3 times as I didn’t want to come home. I was so on the fence about staying in Aus or coming home to finish University. I decided that finishing University should be my priority so I came home, when it was still lockdown in the UK and I remembering feeling really lost about what I was going to do next.

Lockdown ended and I then started working at a fitness studio, where I still work today and fell completely back in love with my fitness again. I got a personal trainer and began taking my fitness much more serious. I think the effects of moving to a different country by myself and really putting myself out there, where I could just be completely myself, started to show as I felt like a new person compared to the girl who left the UK the year before. I was so so much happier and confident. Then last summer I started training to become a personal trainer myself and at the end of last year started coaching the classes at my work. Fast forward to today and I am now just about to open my own little gym and start my own personal training and online coaching business. When I reflect on the last few years there has been some pretty tough times but I am grateful for all I have went through as it has got me to where I am today and the person I have become. Sometimes change can feel so hard but it is so needed for growth.