I launched myself into journalism with a determination to bust harmful myths after atrocious health advice threatened to derail my life. Working with pioneering experts, I secured regular commissions and front page stories in The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Mirror and range of glossy magazines like Red and Top Sante.

I also wrote content for Bounty, Families Online, Emma’s Diary and a range of specialist health titles. 

Being a successful freelance journalist means pitching stories that editors notice and consumers choose to read, and I soon expanded into a vast range of fascinating health subjects from healthy gamers to a tanorexia time bomb.

While I enjoyed the cut and thrust of pitching ideas and writing strong stories, my goal was always helping people to stay healthy. So, I loved it when health charities said calls to their Helpline peaked when my articles came out because it showed my stories were really changing lives.

Other key health projects included promotional materials for the Global Health network, an annual report for Cochrane and content for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

As a freelance writer, different commissions took me into a diverse mixture of sectors - from writing a grants strategy for Comic Relief and creating campaigns and content for the National Trust, right through to case studies for Ernst & Young, executive summaries for Oxford Policy Management and magazine articles for GlaxoSmithKline.