Diabetes, Endocrinology & GIM
I took two maternity leaves during training. I've also navigated grief, and the kind of slow-burning stress that doesn't announce itself — it just quietly takes things from you. Each time I came back to clinic, I would sit there checking and re-checking things I was certain I used to know, feeling as though the entire map of endocrinology had somehow gone blank.
It hadn't. I just needed a safe place to remember.
We talk about "career gaps" in medicine as though they are empty spaces — voids in a CV that need explaining away. But my own journey through motherhood, through loss, through the high-pressure landscape of London's busy on-calls, has taught me otherwise. Those gaps were never empty. They were where I learned the most about resilience, empathy, and the true art of self-kindness.
I built Endo Unlocked because I know that coming back — whether from parental leave, bereavement, or a season that simply asked too much of you — is an act of courage. And if you are standing on what feels like shaky ground right now, I want you to know: I see you. I have been there. And this space was built so that neither of us has to stand there alone.
You are not behind. You are here — richer for everything you carry — and that is exactly where you need to be.