I have always loved music and I first learned to play the piano, the violin, and then the flute. From the age of 12, I studied music intensely at a specialist music school and then as a performance university degree.

I remember I composed a couple of songs for voice and piano when I was around 16 years old, and then I didn't write anything for a long time after that.

Many year later when I was in my thirties, I started to compose pieces for solo piano.

This was an amazing way for me to express my emotions from everything I had been through.. and everything I was currently going through.

I had always loved poetry and after some time of composing purely solo piano pieces, I started to write lyrics and chords for songs too.

I had never had a singing lesson in my life, and at first the songs I wrote and sang were for my ears only! I had been criticised in the past for playing just one wrong note in one of my casual piano practices at home.... this made it seem like the rest of the piece I had played was a complete write-off. I have never forgotten about that! People's comments had stayed with me for so long. But I have since learned that there is no such thing as perfection. It just the WONDERFUL feeling you have when playing music and expressing yourself that matters.

When I created my songs it was so amazing to be able to not only write the chords that felt like they accompanied my story, but adding lyrics started to feel really good too!

I could finally sing about my journey. Everything that had happened. All the emotions I'd felt.

My hopes and my dreams. The past and the future.

It was so therapeutic and I loved being able to express myself.

Then I decided that I would share my songs.. because I knew that if I'd endured, survived and then went on to thrive from some of the situations and experiences I'd been through.. then maybe I could help others to see that they could too.

I could show them that there really is a light at the end of what may seem a very dark tunnel.

That no matter what they've been through, they will come out STRONGER.

They will find happiness, freedom, peace and beauty in life.

And most importantly, they will find THEMSELVES again.