For over twenty years, Jacqueline lived with chronic illness, persistent pain, and a body that was constantly in survival mode.

Her lived experience includes fibromyalgia, endometriosis, mental and emotional challenges, addiction, physical disability, and chronic, debilitating pain. Over the course of her journey, she underwent fourteen surgical procedures, including a full hysterectomy at the age of 36.

For many years, Jacqueline followed the guidance of the NHS and medical professionals. At one point, she was prescribed up to 120 tablets a week, alongside morphine syrup and fentanyl patches, in an attempt to manage her symptoms and maintain daily functioning. Despite every effort, her health continued to decline.

What became clear over time was that her body was not failing her. It was communicating.

Born in South West Wales in the 1980s, Jacqueline is the eldest of her siblings and remembers a childhood filled with warmth and connection. As adulthood unfolded and her health deteriorated, she began to recognise that beneath the physical symptoms lived unprocessed experiences, emotions, and trauma that her body had been carrying for many years.

What followed was not a decision made through logic or willpower. It arose from within her, from a quiet but undeniable inner dialogue that felt greater than her own thinking mind.

For a long time, Jacqueline had felt like a victim of her health conditions, living inside a body that dictated her limits and choices. She had not yet been truly caring for her inner house. Then something shifted. Not through force, but through surrender.

It felt as though nature itself took over within her. A deeper intelligence began to move, guiding her inward, calling her to listen, to attend, and to take responsibility for her inner world in a way she never had before. Jacqueline recognises this now not as coincidence, but as God moving through her, inviting her back into relationship with her body rather than opposition to it.

Rather than continuing to fight her body, she began to listen to it. She started to explore how emotions, thoughts, lived experiences, and the nervous system are held within the physical body, especially when they have never been fully processed or expressed.

Through deep inner work, self inquiry, and embodied awareness, she discovered that as stored emotions and trauma were gently acknowledged and released, her mental, emotional, and physical health began to change. The more she processed internally, the more her symptoms softened. Her sensory perception heightened, her pain reduced, and her sense of balance slowly returned.

Against all medical expectations, Jacqueline was discharged from all consultants in 2019.

In her final appointment with a chronic pain specialist, she was described as a walking medical miracle. Jacqueline responded simply that she was not a miracle, but someone who had learned how to listen to her body. The consultant wished her well and hoped never to see her again in a clinical setting. She has remained pain free and discharged ever since.

Today, Jacqueline is the founder and guiding force behind The Holistic Body Shop.

Her work is grounded in lived experience, not theory. She supports people who are navigating chronic illness, pain, emotional overwhelm, trauma, and deep disconnection from their bodies. Many of her clients arrive having walked similar paths, carrying familiar diagnoses, histories, or patterns. They recognise themselves in her story because she has been where they are.

Through The Holistic Body Shop, Jacqueline creates a compassionate, trauma aware, and non judgemental space where clients feel safe to explore their inner world. She offers intuitive treatments, embodied practices, guidance, and tools that support healing across mental, emotional, energetic, physical, and spiritual levels.

Jacqueline does not believe the body is broken. She believes it is deeply wise.

Her work is about helping people reconnect with that wisdom, restore balance, and come home to themselves, not by forcing change, but by listening, honouring, and integrating the whole of who they are.