About me

 It's such a pleasure to welcome you to my space and thank you for your interest. I'm Paul McNeill, 55 years young, married to Lois for 31 years and blessed with two beautiful kids, Lynsey, who is 26 and Meg, who is 23. We live in a small peaceful village in Midlothian, south of Edinburgh in Bonnie Scotland. Our home is also shared with our adorable black labrador Luca, and two cats, Gus & Noah.

After a very loving upbringing and a relatively successful education, I left school at 16 to join the Financial Services Industry and worked my way over the years into a number of senior management positions with various large financial companies. I got married in my early 20's, moved to Aberdeen for work, blessed with 2 kids, and moved back down to the Edinburgh area in 2003. I was football mad, playing from a very young age right up until my early 30's semi-professionally before hanging up the boots due to injury. However, I found I could maintain a reasonable level of fitness running half marathons and walking most days in our beautiful countryside with Luca. Other passions include walking in nature, reading, eating nice food, practicing mindfulness and learning new skills in order to continue helping and healing as many people as I can.

Up until the summer of 2020, I thought I was content enough with a fulfilling life, after all, I had it all and was very blessed, but it was becoming apparent that something was missing or not feeling comfortable, a gut feeling deep inside. Something had been slowly eating away at me for some time, but I didn't realise until I broke down that summer. Here was I, one of the luckiest guys in the world, and broken. It didn't make sense. I can't really put into words why or what reasons, perhaps an accumulation of small things, but I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. I was off my work for 2 months, prescribed medication and was experiencing the lowest point in my life. I had suicidal thoughts, wanted to be on my own more and more, cried frequently, felt useless to everyone and didn't know why. We all have mental health and as time progressed, I was becoming more aware of the challenges with this illness. Everyone has their breaking point. I don't know where I would be now without the support of my wife, family and my closest pals through the darkness. This is when by chance, or I now believe there are no coincidences in this life, I came across a life coach on social media that got me intrigued by her passion, her words, her direction, her humility and vulnerability. Within days we had chatted, I joined a life coaching group and was starting to get introduced to mindfulness, meditation, self-help exercises, talking openly without fear of judgement and spirituality, a ripple effect began taking place. As I started to get acquainted with other amazing souls, who spoke this new language I was starting to understand. I was waking up, spiritually. I was healing from the inside out. This new journey, which was exciting yet scary at the same time, was pulling me on to a new life path and I was beginning to enjoy the ride. I was finding joy again.
I continued to invest in my self-development, attending more courses enhancing my skills as a Mental Health First Aider & Facilitator, reading many books, getting into more exploration of self, human behaviours, the soul and spirituality. So I decided to enrol on an amazing course to study to become a life coach. After much deliberation, I left my corporate job after 34 years in the industry in 2021 to take a career break to evaluate my life direction and had the quality time to become a fully accredited Life Coach for which I graduated in July 2021. I was also now a qualified Reiki Practitioner, a Pellowah Practitioner and continued investing in spiritual work. Quite a transformation.

Today (start of 2026), as I write, updating this page, one thing that I now know was a significant factor throughout my adult life in contributing to my behaviours, the up and down moods, the depression was my relationship with alcohol. It had a control of me rather than the other way around. After a two week Retreat to Peru, following very deep spiritual work, a number of visions led to realisations and further change and courage was needed. I finally was listening after years and years of ignoring the signs. I am now 9 months A/F, I decided in April 25 to stop completely and stop kidding myself on. I feel stronger for this and not only is my body grateful, my family are and my spiritual connection is stronger too.

I have just been made redundant from my part time corporate job after a very successful 4 years or so, allowing me time to reflect on my next steps with my own wellbeing business. The universe, the divine have my back completely. I continue to grow my skills as a wellbeing practitioner, currently in the final stages to becoming a Reiki Master, a Soul Midwife End of Life Companion and a Grief Counsellor. 

You really can change your life by listening to your body, embracing change and showing courage to step into fear when its in your path, by not always staying safe and taking the more comfortable path. True magic is always in front of you, when you really open your eyes and your heart. I am so blessed and very grateful.

Sending you Blessings, with love & light
Paul x🙏