This is me, Emer Shirazy, on a beach, in Northern Ireland. Yes, we have to wear coats and jeans and jumpers, even when the sun is shining - but that never stopped me from having a good time and enjoying it!
I live here with husband and pooches. We’re expecting our first baby together in February and all i’ll say is marriage and pregnancy have been the most wild adventures, bring on motherhood!
These are my two dogs, Buster and Rosie, doing what they do best: Lie on the sofa in really strange positions that I can’t imagine how they’re comfortable…but i’ll not yuck their yum! If this works for them, i’m all for it!
You won’t find any photos here of sultry, partially dressed women standing in waterfalls surrounded by candles*, that’s just not my vibe
*If that’s your thing, let me know, I have many wonderful colleagues who do and I’d be delighted to put you in touch!
My mission is to help women thrive in life, love, relationships, and socks. You should read the home page to learn more about socks.
I am a coach for women, specialised in socks, love, and relationships. You might be wondering why someone would get into something like that, and it’s because of my own journey. Naturally.
I met my husband when I was 38, we got married a year later at 39, and now at 40, i’m expecting our first child.
I was single for a looooooooonnnnnggggg time. After almost 15 years in the corporate sector with a highly successful career, and several side hustles along the way (some more successful than others), I realised that no matter how much I succeeded professionally, I was just not functioning romantically - and applying my work ethic to my love life was not the answer.
Psychology, neurobiology, and the human condition have been passion subjects of mine since my late teens: Understanding other people and myself; how and why we behave and think and feel the way we do; how does our lifestyle interact with and impact on our internal world. So I started investigating the romantic angle. And through this angle of study and self-development I also realised that I was progressing and performing in my work life in a way that I had been trying to achieve for years!
As I worked on the things that were holding me back in my love life, so it turned it out that these were also holding me back in my professional life!
And so I started to see the big picture and how they’re all connected. Because if you’re not happy in one, you’ll struggle to be happy in the other; but getting into the things that hold us back in our love lives, in our ability to be intimate with another human being, to be intimate with ourselves, is so much more challenging, and honestly, not addressed nearly enough. Because that’s where our deepest vulnerabilities lie; and that’s where our greatest transformation lies! When we can be intimate with ourselves and others.
There is so much shame, guilt, confusion, and honestly just sad resignation when it comes to matter of socks, love, and relationships for so many women. I was one of them.
The I trained as an SLR coach specifically. And it’s now my mission to help women thrive in life, love, relationships, and socks ;)