Lizzy
The time had come to leave the Army. I started my business, Release Your Potential to support female leaders in finding the confidence, resilience and empowerment that is already within them.
I became the Editor of a BMJ Military Health Journal. From this, I went on to support nurses who had never published before to publish in an international journal and to speak at international conferences.
In 2004, I started my PhD part time in Psychological Wellbeing focussing on the Impact of military life on the family during deployment. This was awarded to me in 2011.
I joined the Army at 31-years old to develop my career and travel the world. My 1st post was to Germany where I met my husband. I was posted to Cyprus, Balkans, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and I presented all over the world.
Working in London where poverty, murder, knife attack, drug addiction, teenage pregnancy and safeguarding issues were commonplace. Before mobile phones and co -working, I escaped a carving knife attack after being chased for wanting to check the health of a newborn baby.
Whilst trekking in Nepal, we were caught in an avalanche and 30 people were caught under the falling rocks. After the guide didn’t know how to handle the situation, I took the lead. I organised everyone, got everyone to safety, got medical help and thankfully, everyone survived.
I was born at 28 weeks with just a 5% chance of survival. There were no baby clothes small enough to fit, and on my first weigh in, I was 2lbs at 10 days old!
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