Mandy Manners
Mandy Manners is a habit change and wellbeing specialist. Working as a professional coach, expert trainer and speaker her work focuses on breaking down stigma and raising awareness of the intersection between mental health, recovery, trauma and identity and helping people live well and thrive.
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Biography
Mandy Manners is a habit change and wellbeing specialist. Working as a trauma informed ICF accredited professional coach, expert trainer and speaker, her work focuses on breaking down stigma and raising awareness of the intersection between mental health, addiction, trauma to support sustainable recovery helping people to live well and thrive.
Mandy has a BA Hons in Humanities from Brighton and a CELTA from Cambridge. After graduation she worked in the arts for a London theatre producer, working on Matthew Bourne’s ballets and for a not-for-profit arts marketing agency in event management.
Bilingual, she now lives in France with her husband and two children and worked as a university professor of Business English for a decade before moving into coaching. She has trained with the IAPRC for an ICF accredited dual programme as a certified professional life coach and recovery coach, IRSI as a trauma informed recovery coach, Jolene Park in grey area drinking and has certificates in Holistic Coaching, DISC profiling and Neuroscience for Coaching.
She is the Trusted Advisor for Education and Pedagogy for She Recovers and a Designated Coach for them, She Recovers has a worldwide community of +250K. Mandy is also a lead trainer on the Life Coaching Diploma at The Coaching Academy.
Books
Mandy's first co-authored book LOVE YOURSELF SOBER was released in 2020. The follow-up LOVE YOUR SOBER YEAR was released in September 2022.
Priase for LOVE YOURSELF SOBER:
‘Upbeat, wise and empathetic...a best sober buddy in your pocket.’
- Clare Pooley, author of The Sober Diaries.
Praise for LOVE YOUR SOBER YEAR:
‘Mandy and Kate have done it again . . . Dive in you won’t be disappointed.’
- Veronica Valli sober coach and author of Soberful.
‘A beautiful sober guidebook rooted in nature for reflection and comfort’
- Millie Gooch, author of The Sober Girl Society Handbook
