Gifty Enright

If you have read my book you will know how I ended up at Harley Street with 14 symptoms and doubting my sanity. It has been a long hard slog of trial and error to get me to where I am today. I have walked the talk and carry my battle scars as a badge of honour.

My book Octopus on a Treadmill is based on my lifelong experience across diverse cultures, research and science. It is about how to maintain balance and not lose yourself, while spinning all the plates as a woman and particularly as a working mother.

I was born in Kumasi, the ancient capital of the Ashanti people in Ghana, I have lived for the past thirty years in Hertfordshire in the UK. I am married with two children and two labradors.

Alongside my work as an author, I provide consulting services to multinational companies on major transformation programmes. I am also the Managing Director of a sports events company. If you are looking for the stereotypical busy, stressed out working mother spinning her wheels, that should be me, I am my own target market. I lived this stereotype and have now written about my hard earned wisdom.

I have travelled extensively throughout Europe, the Americas and across Asia and have spent the last twenty years studying the hectic life of the busy working mother and the effects it has on women and their health (physical, emotional and spiritual).

I marry the science of the West, Eastern philosophy and the wisdom of Africa; like you, dear reader, I am a female explorer and I am forever intrigued by wisdom from any tradition that enhances women. I hope you will enjoy this new adventure.