Cathy Clarke is a certified life coach and founder of Conscious Ripple, where she supports women and young adults to understand the emotional patterns that shaped them and begin creating a life with more self-confidence, calm, courage, authenticity and flow.

Cathy did not come to this work through ease.

She was the fifth of six children in a home where things could look okay from the outside, while underneath there was tension, addiction, unpredictability and a constant need to stay aware. She learned early how to read the room, sense moods, avoid conflict and adjust herself to what was happening around her.

For a long time, she thought that was her personality.

At seven, Cathy survived a near-fatal car accident. It left scars on her face, but it also shaped something deeper in her nervous system. Back then, no one really spoke about fear, stress or what the body carries after trauma, so she kept going without fully understanding what she was holding inside.

As she grew older, Cathy became capable, responsible and independent. She worked hard, became a mother and built a life. Over time, she began to recognise a pattern in herself. When life felt emotionally overwhelming, she would pull away, shut down or leave, rather than stay with what she was feeling.

Years later, another life-threatening moment made her stop and look honestly at the way she had been living.

She realised she had spent much of her life surviving environments, while rarely asking what she needed to feel calm, safe and true within herself.

That awareness changed the direction of her life.

Conscious Ripple grew from this understanding and from Cathy’s powerful declaration:

It ends with me.

Through her Water → Pebble → Ripple → Return framework, Cathy helps clients explore the emotional water they were raised in, recognise the unconscious patterns still shaping their lives, and take small conscious steps toward self-trust, emotional safety and a different future.

Her work is grounded, compassionate and practical.

Cathy believes you are not broken. You have been shaped. And with awareness, support and small courageous choices, you can begin to create a more authentic life with greater calm, courage and flow.