About | Cynthia — Relational Coach

My Story

I Was a Coaching Client Before I Was a Coach.

I didn't start out wanting to coach anyone. I started because I was sitting across from my own coach, not quite knowing how I'd gotten so far from myself.

On the outside, everything looked fine. I had a career. I had roles. I showed up, delivered, and kept moving. But underneath all of it, there was a hollowness I couldn't shake — a slow drift away from who I actually was. I was performing my life so convincingly that I'd almost convinced myself too.

Coaching cracked something open. It gave me back a thread — the one that leads to the real you, underneath all the roles and expectations and noise. I followed that thread. And it took me some extraordinary places.

What I discovered is this: the only limits I was living inside were the ones I'd built myself. That's the thing I bring into every session — not as a theory, but as something I've lived in my body, on a stage, in a cave, on a mountain, and on a 500-mile road.

The Journey

How I Learned to Break My Own Limits

These aren't metaphors. They're the actual moments that showed me — and still remind me — what we're all capable of.

Make-A-Wish Santa Run · Singapore

01 / The Stage

Thousands of Runners. Two Stages. One Woman Who Almost Said No.

I was invited to emcee the Make-A-Wish Santa Run — an inaugural charity run with over 5,000 runners and two stages to command simultaneously. My first instinct was to talk myself out of it.

I wasn't a performer. I didn't do stages. But the part of me I'd been reclaiming in coaching knew that this exact hesitation was the thing I needed to walk through.

That day, I found a version of myself I hadn't met before. Alive in front of a crowd. Completely in the moment. Not performing — actually present.

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The thing you're about to talk yourself out of might be exactly where you need to go.

Son Doong Cave · Vietnam

02 / The Cave

The World's Largest Cave. A Posterior Annular Tear. I Went Anyway.

Son Doong in Vietnam is the largest cave in the world — so vast it contains its own weather system, its own jungle, and rivers running through the dark. Only a handful of expeditions enter each year.

I went in. Every step, every river crossing, every rock face — fully. And somewhere in that darkness, something shifted in me. Coming out the other side, I carried a posterior annular injury — a spinal consequence I didn't fully understand until after.

Would I have gone in knowing? Yes. Because I had started to understand that the edge of what's possible is almost always further than the edge of what's comfortable.

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"I can't do this" and "I haven't done this yet" are two very different sentences.

Gokyo Valley, Nepal — suspension bridge at 5,000 metres

Gokyo Valley · Nepal · 5,000m+

03 / The Mountain

I Fell Five Storeys in the Himalayas. I Got Back Up.

Trekking through Gokyo Valley in Nepal at over 5,000 metres, I fell — the equivalent of five storeys. The kind of fall that stops time. The kind that makes you reckon with whether you get back up or not.

I got back up.

At altitude, with aching legs and cold air and prayer flags snapping in the wind, something became very clear: the ground doesn't disqualify you. The fall doesn't define you. What defines you is the decision you make right after.

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You don't have to be unbroken to keep going. You just have to decide to.

Cynthia arriving at Santiago de Compostela — end of the Camino

Camino de Santiago · Spain

04 / The Road

119 km on Foot. Swollen. Still Walking.

The Camino de Santiago is a pilgrimage — you walk with your thoughts, through discomfort, one step at a time, with no shortcuts and no one to carry you. I walked 119 km of it, feet swollen, still moving. Not the full route. Enough.

What I arrived at, after all those kilometres, was this: I am worth living and celebrating. The only limits that were ever real were the ones I had created myself.

That realisation didn't make everything easy. But it made everything possible.

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I am worth living and celebrating. That is the most grounding thing I have ever known.

Credentials

Trained, Certified & Committed

Verified Credential

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ICF Accredited Coach — PCC LevelInternational Coaching Federation

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200+ Clients CoachedLife coaching & mentor coaching

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10+ Years ExperienceCoaching since 2015

What I Bring

How I Actually Work

I'm not a formula coach. I go with the flow of where you are — and I use whatever is in my toolbox to get you moving.

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Persistence

"Your persistence will be what pulls you through the many obstacles in life." I believe this to my core — and I bring it into every session.

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No Bullsh*t

If nobody tells you the truth and you pay me, I will tell you. From what I sense, what I see — and sometimes what you're not ready to say yet.

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Challenged and Held

Some sessions will feel uncomfortable. I'll ask the question you've been avoiding. You sit in the discomfort — I create the space for you to examine it. That's the work.

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A Genuinely Safe Space

You can be angry. You can cry. You can say the thing you've never said out loud. I will not judge you. And I'll call out the stuff that's keeping you stuck.

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I Hold Up the Mirror

I help you see yourself more clearly — not to make you feel bad, but because there is so much more to you than your current situation.

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Parts of You, Rediscovered

There are still parts of you waiting to be discovered. When you reconnect to what's core, it ripples into the relationships that matter — and how you show up for the people you love.

I Know What It Feels Like to Lose Yourself.