A BALANCED VIEW Self love 'My emotional world was killing me' Nicky Clinch made the choice to live and self-heal - now she helps others find the power within A s a maturation coach, Nicky Clinch leads people through profound life-changing processes. Her goal is to enable her clients to heal from the root, become free of the negative aspects of their past and come home to who they truly are. Nicky's own path to holistic healing has been deeply personal. Here, she shares the challenges behind her transformative journey and how she helps others reach their full potential to live an abundant, empowered and accomplished life... Q WAS THERE A PIVOTAL MOMENT THAT INSPIRED YOUR JOURNEY INTO HOLISTIC HEALING AND MATURATION COACHING? There were two. The first was my 'rock bottom' moment. Since my early teens I'd become lost in hard drugs (cocaine and sometimes crack) and bulimia. Kicked out of school, I attempted to take my life. One morning, when I was 20, I suddenly felt distraught at the thought of living like this for another 50 years. My external existence - the drugs, the eating disorder - was awful. But the internal landscape of my mental and emotional world was killing me from the inside out. That 34