Why I Created The School of Growth

Most of us aren't stuck because we don't know what to do.

We know we should set boundaries, rest more, stop comparing ourselves to others, build better habits.

The knowing was never the hard part. The doing is.

For years, I found myself returning to the same question.

Why is change so difficult, even when we know what we should do?

That question eventually became the foundation of The School of Growth. But long before I studied Applied Psychology, I was trying to understand it through my own life.

Growing up, I struggled within the traditional education system — sitting still, concentrating, learning the way school expected never came naturally. I have ADHD, which explains a lot of that.

When I was nineteen, I was involved in a car accident that became a turning point in my life. It forced me to slow down and gave me the space to reflect on the direction my life was taking and the kind of future I wanted to create.

That reflection eventually led me to become a personal trainer. After going through my own physical transformation and losing a significant amount of weight, I wanted to help others improve their health and wellbeing too.

Working with clients taught me something I hadn't expected.

Most of them already knew exactly what they "should" do. The problem was never information — it was that knowing and doing run through completely different systems in the brain.

That's what pulled me toward Applied Psychology, and later, mental health work.

Our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours rarely happen by chance.

They're the result of conditioning — patterns built up through repetition, reinforced by what worked for us before, often long before we were old enough to choose them consciously.

A habit you can't seem to break, a reaction you can't seem to control — these usually aren't flaws. They're old strategies that made sense once, running on autopilot now.

That's the shift this school is built on: change gets easier once you understand the mechanism behind the pattern, not just the pattern itself.

That's why I created The School of Growth — a place to make psychology practical, accessible, and something you actually use.