3 things to know about me

Hi 👋🏻 I’m Luke, founder of LV Life. I run the LV Life Wellbeing Centre Fareham and I host the Fareham Positive Living Group.

Here are a few things you may like to know about me…

1. I’m always in the bath 🛁 Self-care is SO important to me. It’s the absolute essence of everything I stand for. Too many of us go through life stressed to the eyeballs and putting ourselves at the bottom of the to-do list. I, like many, learned the hard way. I had a breakdown in 2011 and it totally course-corrected my life. I knew from this point that I was chasing the wrong dream. I had the complete wrong vision of what I thought life ‘should’ be. And this realisation changed everything. Not instantly. But over time, I learned to realise the significance of this event. I learned to realised why it happened FOR me. In 2018 I finally took the leap to go self employed. It hasn’t been easy, and there have been many bumps and bruises along the way, but I’ve never looked back. And as long as I prioritise simple self-care routines, I can mostly keep my head above water! I am so much happier doing something that fulfils me each day, something that actually contributes good to the world. My corporate life simply wasn’t worth the money, time or stress. It wasn’t fulfilling my needs or purpose on any level. So I created my own world, filled with good people, good intentions and good work. And I LOVE it!

2. My husband and I have been together 11 years this year, we have two gorgeous adopted children, and life is pretty sweet. Don’t get me wrong, sweet doesn’t equal perfect. Our children are nuts! And we spend most of our down time doing laundry, crowd-controlling the kids and breaking up nonsensical sibling arguments! But we love our children dearly and try our best to be good dads. We’re also total realists. We know how difficult parenting can be, and we’re not afraid to be open about our struggles. Some days it’s just a shit show! Especially when you have children with early life trauma. Our worlds, minds and hearts have been totally opened up by welcoming our girls into our lives. There’s so much we never knew about parenting and could never have comprehended before having kids. We’re sorry to any parent we’ve ever judged before we had kids 🙈

3. Talking of judgement…while we’re not perfect, we (particularly me) are big advocates of compassion, inclusivity and general human-to-human kindness. I have very strong morals and value nothing more than honesty, integrity and decency. I’m often deeply affected by collective ignorance and political agendas. I’ve recently had great fun blocking transphobes from my accounts! Look…you’re entitled to your opinion. But you’re not entitled to be an aggressive bigot. And you’re not entitled to come onto my social media posts and spout your hatred and misogyny. I will not tolerate this kind of behaviour, no matter who you are. You might be thinking “Here he goes again on his high horse” - yes, this is who I am. And I will use my high horse to trample on morons! 😂  If you don’t like what you see, just scroll on or unfollow me. Simples.

Now you know a bit about me, tell me about you…

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