Hey, I’m Nikki
I created Growth & Guidance to be the space I wish I had when I felt completely lost in who I was.
This is a space for people who are tired of just coping with life and ready to actually change the way they see themselves. It’s for those of us who’ve been through it, who’ve felt broken, lost, not good enough and are ready to stop carrying that story.
Here, you’ll find honest tools, deep mindset shifts, and support that doesn’t talk down to you or sugarcoat the work.
Because healing doesn’t happen by pretending everything’s fine. It happens when you finally stop feeling like you’re the problem and start rebuilding from the inside out.
Thanks for being here. I’m so glad you found your way to this space 🤍
Meet The Founder
HOW MY STORY BEGAN
My journey hasn’t been easy. I grew up in a home where I felt like I had to tiptoe around other people’s pain. I became hyper-aware of everyone else’s emotions and needs and completely disconnected from my own.
By the time I was 14, I was living out of home, out of school, and paying my own bills. Then, I became a young mum — full of love for my child, but overwhelmed by self-doubt, low self-worth, and the weight of everything I hadn’t healed.
I spent years struggling in silence with depression, anxiety, disordered eating, addiction, and the constant feeling that I was never enough, no matter how hard I tried. But something in me knew: this couldn’t be it. I couldn’t spend my life stuck in this version of myself.
So I began to rebuild slowly, imperfectly, and from the inside out.
I got my degree in Psychology, completed my Honours in Psychology, and became a certified Life Coach.
But more than that, I spent years deep in the work most people never see.
Reading, learning, researching, unlearning, journaling, healing, relapsing, coming back again and again. I’ve been doing this work — my own work for decades.
That’s where Growth & Guidance was born not as a business, but as a mission.
