About Me
Hi, I’m Christine — Founder of The Happy Life Formula, a women’s wellness coach, clinical hypnotherapist and grief guide based in beautiful North Yorkshire, where I live with my husband and our elderly rescue dog, Dorry. I’ve recently turned 60, and like many women in midlife, I’ve lived through chapters filled with joy and heartbreak, healing and growth. In fact, I’m currently mourning the recent loss of our beautiful Bengal cat, ‘Bengally’.
Loss has shaped my life — not just through bereavement, but through the many hidden and often unspoken griefs of midlife. I’ve experienced the devastating deaths of both my parents – for 4 years I cared for my Mam with a rare cancer and watched the slow decline of my Dad with Alzheimer’s and his sudden death abroad from a brain haemorrhage. I’ve also lived through the emotional upheaval of empty nest syndrome, menopause, identity loss, difficult family dynamics, long-distance relocations, friendship breakups and the heartache of watching a child struggle with addiction, mental health difficulties and a suicide attempt.
These experiences didn’t break me — they reshaped me. They deepened my compassion and gave me an understanding of how grief shows up in so many ways throughout a woman’s life.
My professional path reflects this:
- Remedial Therapy - Lead Therapist at The Guttman Centre, Aylesbury, supporting both able-bodied clients and those living with physical or mental disabilities.
- Clinical Hypnotherapy - Trained with The London College of Clinical Hypnosis (LCCH), helping clients transform thoughts, feelings, and behaviours for greater personal fulfilment.
- Women’s Wellness Coaching - Focusing on holistic health, emotional resilience and supporting mind-body-spirit alignment in midlife.
- Bereavement Support - Volunteer coach with Willen Hospice, Milton Keynes, supporting young people pre- and post-bereavement.
Throughout my career, I’ve continued to invest in my professional development and clinical supervision as well as personal healing and my own grief support following my Mam’s passing in 2021. As this alone wasn’t enough, we moved North after 33 years in Bedfordshire and said goodbye to my Northern family home, my beginning, after 75 years in our family.
At The Happy Life Formula, I bring together decades of lived and professional experience to support midlife women who are ready to repurpose their lives after loss. If you’re navigating one of life’s turning points — whether through grief, change, or rediscovery — I’m here to walk beside you.
