​​​​​​​​​​​Hi, I'm Rachael.

 

I spent years helping people find themselves while quietly performing a version of me I thought the world would accept.

 

Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start a business: you can be really good at helping other people take their mask off while wearing yours so well you forget it's there.

 

That was me.

 

I built a coaching practice around authenticity. I helped people find themselves, get honest with themselves, reconnect with what actually mattered to them. And I was good at it.

 

But underneath that, quietly, I was shaping myself into what I thought a coach was supposed to look like. The right positioning. The right niche. The right kind of professional.

 

Because the deep fear, the one I didn't say out loud, was this: what if people don't want to work with the real version of me?

 

The real version being: quirky, unconventional, spiritual, creative, less-than-corporate. Not your classic leadership coach from a polished corporate background. Just a person who thinks deeply, feels everything, swears occasionally, and has never quite fit the mould.

 

So I performed the mould instead.

 

When the mask fits too well.

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Everything starts to feel inauthentic. Not in a dramatic way. Just this low hum of incongruence. Like nothing quite fits, even when it looks like it should. Because it's not aligned with you. It's aligned with a version of you that you invented to be acceptable.

 

The longer you live there, the further you get from yourself.

 

The turning point.

 

The thing that cracked it open for me was guided visualisation. Not because it's magic. Because it gets underneath the overthinking - that constant, exhausting narration about what you should do and who you should be and what other people will think. It's the mask's best friend.

 

When I started using guided visualisation as a regular practice, I started hearing something quieter underneath all of that noise. My own voice. What I actually wanted. Who I actually was.

 

And then something else happened that I wasn't fully prepared for: I started getting it. The things I wanted, even when I couldn't quite see the full picture yet, started showing up. Manifestation isn't a word I used to use out loud. But I've lived it enough times now that I can't pretend it isn't real.

 

So I started asking myself a question that changed everything: if guided visualisation is this powerful when I'm applying it to a half-formed, slightly-performing version of myself - how much more powerful would it be if I applied it to what my authentic self actually wants?

 

That question is why Create Yourself exists.

 

Where I am now.

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I'm not going to tell you I've got it all figured out. I haven't. This is a constant work in progress for me - showing up as the real version of me, catching myself when I slip back into performance mode, choosing authenticity even when it's uncomfortable.

 

But I've stopped waiting until I'm fully healed to share the journey. Because the journey is the point. And sharing it, honestly, openly, as it's actually happening, is both the work and the invitation.

 

I'm here to be me. And I'm here to help you be you.

 

Not a better version. Not a more optimised version. Not the version that everyone else needs you to be.

 

Just you. Creating yourself and not someone else.

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That's where the happiness lives. That's where it comes from.

 

ICF certified executive coach. Guided visualisation practitioner. Yoga and breathwork teacher. Writer. Podcast host. And someone who has been doing the actual work long enough to know it's worth it.

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If any of this feels familiar, you're in the right place.

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Start with the podcast. Read an essay. Or drop straight into a guided visualisation. There's no right way to begin - just a beginning.

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