My Story

As I approached the big 40 and pondered about life, I realised that I have had and continue to have an extra ordinary life.  A life spent Chasing Happiness like the majority of people but my life has not been the average ‘run of the mill’ kind of existence:

Me!

I have had a life packed full of obstacles (born a vicars daughter), challenges (teenage pregnancy), narrowly escaping death (living with a violent alcoholic schizophrenic), scraping by financialy and emotionaly in a strange city (as a single parent and student), meeting the love of my life (becoming a feminine woman), living a luxury lifestyle (having it all – big house, fancy cars, exotic hols) and then giving it all up to travel for a year and move to Ibiza (from 100k a year to 10k)!

My life story is an unbelievable account of courage, risk and achievement, a tale of bizarre and tragic circumstances (my baby daughters abduction).  But a story that is full of inspiration to anyone, young or old.

Getting pregnant at 14 was a search for happiness but it didn’t go down too well with my father who was the vicar of a small English village.

Plotting to kill my daughters father, at the age of 21 was a desperate attempt at happiness.

Studying Law at University to increase my job prospects and provide a better life for my family as a single mum would surely provide me with happiness.

Loosing my dream job, searching for myself, changing careers and husbands at the same time, yes that would deliver the happiness I craved.

Finding myself free of parental responsibilities, time to devote to myself, a happy emptynester?

At last I found happiness, all along it was within not without.

Me and Toby. x

I have found myself a true inspiration to friends and people searching for happiness too, after all don’t we all want happiness?  That’s why I have developed ChasingHappiness.net to share all my knowledge and wisdom about Finding Living and Being happy.