Debbie Clement-Large

There is often a point in our journey through life where we become face to face with the question of who am I, and why life is showing up the way it is? This can happen at any stage of life, although a lot of people experience this during a time known as the ‘mid-life crisis.’

For Debbie, this moment appeared in her life, in a big way, just after her fifteenth birthday. Although the moment seemed like a crisis, it was actually a catalyst for a huge opportunity for spiritual growth.

Three weeks to the day, after her fifteenth birthday, Debbie’s dad passed, the result of an unexpected heart attack. Debbie found herself facing a change like no other. Her confidence and self-esteem shot to pieces; she struggled to find her way through this dark time.

Then, at nineteen, she chanced across some personal development books. At first, she resisted the call to read them, but they kept showing up in her life until eventually she opened one and started turning the pages. She became a closet personal development reader, her confidence and self-esteem slowly started to grow; leading her to ‘tread the boards’ on numerous theatre stages, where she met her husband.

The call to follow a career in psychology was strong at this time, yet still she turned her back on the call to adventure. Instead, she took up a career offered to her by her employer, to become a Chartered Management Accountant. Ignoring her intuition, Debbie embarked on a six-year journey of learning, eventually qualifying in 2003.

She worked as a Senior Accountant for many years, managing multi-million-pound budgets, and holistically coaching her staff. All the while she knew it was the wrong career.

An opportunity to transition into a new career as a Business Analyst came along; and after another two years of training, she qualified. Working on small and multi-million-pound transformation and change programmes; she found that both the project team, and those facing change were not supported emotionally through the change process.

Becoming a corporate coach, she undertook Advanced Life Coach training, Stress Management training, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy training, Assertiveness Coach training, Mindfulness training and Meditation training. Debbie became a Licensed Heal your Life teacher based on the philosophy of Louise Hay.

The most in-depth training, and the one she says has been the most influential and rewarding, was her four-year study of Spiritual Psychology. Undertaking all this training, felt like coming home.

Debbie founded her international and award-winning coaching practice, Why Follow the Herd, in 2015. Since then she has coached internationally across the UK, the US, Canada, and France. She blends her mix of traditional coaching practices with spiritual psychology to really help people to know themselves on a deeper level, and to learn the tools to empower lasting change.

The individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses she works with, are empowered to live and work in a whole-hearted way through one to one coaching, workshops, and online audio and video coaching programmes.

Additionally, she is the Business Lead for Health and Wellbeing, for The Federation of Small Businesses in the UK.

Debbie lives by the mantra; it is never too late to change your life. If she can, you can too.

For more information you can contact Debbie directly at debbie@whyfollowtheherd.com

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