CHARLOTTE TUCKERMAN

Nominee for what Award/s

Wellness With Heart Award

Wellness With Heart Award


What inspired you to champion wellness and healing?

Like so many of us, I was born into a family that was falling apart. I grew up in the environment of ‘falling OUT of love’. I knew I was loved, but I also knew chaos intimately. I knew my parents were good people, and I also saw them both at their absolute WORST.

With the unravelling of my parents relationship, I experienced a childhood where their divorce was so BIG and took up so much space, that there was no room for my needs, my emotions, my expression, or my voice. My mother also left the family home when I was 7 years old.

This all began as I navigated my own healing journey. Born from my own mess and my own pain.

I became obsessed with love and relationships, with people's behaviour and psychology. I obsessedly learned why I was the way I was, why my relationships turned out the same way, destructive and painful, even though there was always love. I learned how to heal, how to release the past, and how to create something wonderful!

After a treacherous early dating history, I recreated my childhood family dynamic in my first marriage, I eventually became aware of the destructive patterns that had silently shaped my life. I made the choice to stop the unhealthy and painful cycles in LOVE. I chose emotional intelligence over emotional reactivity. I chose healing over hiding. And I chose to stop my pain from becoming my children’s inheritance.

I now live with emotional freedom. I mother with consciousness and love (as well as compassion and realness). I relate from a place of safety and compassion. And I lead by example — not because I’m perfect, but because I’m awake, and I’m HONEST with myself.

And now I’m on this train for life. I see so clearly when others are still trapped in their cycles. Still in pain. Still stuck in generational wounding. I know there’s a path to freedom — because I’ve walked it. And I am here to be a living, breathing example of what’s possible when we choose to heal.

I champion wellness because I want women to experience the same emotional freedom. The same deeply loving, conscious relationships. The same whole-hearted mothering. The same liberation. When we heal women, we heal relationships. And when we heal relationships, we heal children. That’s how we raise the quality of love on this planet. That’s what I’m here to do — heal the broken hearts and be a guide to stop the cycles being passed down to our kiddos. Heart first, always.

Tell us about a breakthrough moment in helping others feel whole.

One of my beautiful clients is a high-achieving woman. Like many of us; a mother, a partner, a leader, a giver. She was at that point in her life where she had been pushing and pushing through using her resilience and will power to do ‘all the things’. When she met me, she was at the point of falling apart. Emotionally, mentally… she was imploding on herself. She’d been living in a cycle of over-functioning, people-pleasing, and chronic self-sacrifice. She was burning herself out trying to be everything to everyone.

In one powerful session, we unpacked her nervous system responses. She realized that her Fight response — the one she’d been ashamed of because it looked “too much” or “too aggressive”, was simply another form of survival. She had learned to hide her fear and hurt with getting big and scary. She had shamed herself for this for many years, and wanted to turn it around. Her husband's nervous system stress response was freeze, and is more ‘socially acceptable’, so naturally SHE was seen as THE PROBLEM. But I helped her understand, none is better or worse, some just go under the radar. I helped her understand that when she reaches the point of feeling the stress response, there is an unmet need, she is scared of losing control, and in this exact moment, is the time to jump into the portal of the ‘trigger’ for healing. Just like freeze, flight, or fawn, her response was her body trying to protect her, and we needed to honour that.

That was her breakthrough. She finally saw that she wasn’t broken, and there was nothing WRONG with her!; she was wired this way for survival, and she’d been doing a great job. And that insight gave her compassion for herself. She let go of shame. She softened. And she began to reparent herself differently, with kindness, compassion and appreciation.

That moment was profound. She stopped seeing her reactions as flaws and began to understand them as wisdom, as a boundary, and as a time to go inward. That’s what healing looks like. It’s not always loud, but it’s always life-changing.

What philosophy drives your approach to wellbeing?

My philosophy bridges the scientific and the spiritual. It’s both grounded and sacred.

I work with current patterns, behaviours, cycles and triggers as portals back to a time usually decades ago to a moment of overwhelm and powerlessness where we decided a thing (created a belief), did some things to avoid the recurring pain (numbing agent, destructive behaviours), so that we could protect ourselves from EVER feeling that pain again.

Think spiritual psychology, nervous system work, emotional release, NLP, sub-conscious pattern-belief healing, inner child work, re-parenting, masculine and feminine dynamics, somatic release and sacred ritual all bundled into one big beautiful container… and this is my work.

I work with the three minds:

The conscious mind — the 5% that helps us steer.

The subconscious mind — where our patterns, wounds, and emotional memories live.

The superconscious or soul — our highest self, guiding us toward truth and growth.

To create real transformation, we must use our conscious awareness to steer into the pain — not away from it. We must meet the parts of us that are stuck in old cycles. We must meet our nervous system, not shame it. We must love what we once abandoned.

My LOVE Methodology is the heart of my approach:

L is for Leaning in and Learning the lessons.

O is for Owning your journey and your shadow.

V is for Vulnerability — the courage to get real.

E is for Embodiment and Integration — not just understanding, but becoming the healing.

My approach is trauma-informed, spiritually anchored, and emotionally intelligent. It weaves psychology, nervous system science, and soul work into one deeply transformational practice.

I’ve created and work with Love Archetypes. The Unconscious Archetype are our unhealthy patterns and the Conscious Archetypes are the embodied versions we aspire to be in loving supportive relationships. The transformation I take my clients on is through my E.M.B.R.A.C.E. Empowered Love Codes that are the 7 steps from Heartache to Wholeness.

It is such beautiful work! xx

How have you overcome obstacles in your wellness journey?

The biggest obstacle I’ve faced is navigating my own marriage breakdown, and steering towards my pain, instead of my cycles and patterns that kept me away from it.

This was my breakdown/ spiritual awakening moment. It was actually some time after I had lef the relationship, I was sobbing on the floor of the shower of my ‘new boyfriends’ shower… when I realised, ‘no one is coming to save me, I am here to save myself’. In that moment, my tears stopped, I stood up, turned the shower off and began to face my path of destruction head on.

My old subconscious patterns wanted to avoid, numb, pretend everything was ‘ok’, or over-function. But healing meant choosing differently. I had to use my conscious awareness to go into the storm — to face the uncomfortable emotions, the raw truths, and the wounded parts of myself that I once tried to bypass. The things I had done, the things I had allowed, all of it. I had to own it all.

I’ve had to stop in my tracks when I catch myself falling back into people-pleasing or performing. I’ve had to be brave enough to sit in the fire, to feel what I’ve never wanted to feel, and to stay with myself through it. That’s how healing happens. Not by avoiding the pattern, but by turning to water; softening, flowing, transmuting.

We can’t just heal by understanding and intellectualizing. We have to meet the wound with presence and integrate the learnings into our minds, hearts and lives daily. That’s what I’ve done. And that’s what I teach.

What does true wellbeing mean to you?

True well-being is emotional freedom. It’s authenticity. It’s being all of you, not perfectly, but fully, freely.

It’s knowing you can show up without performing, pleasing, or pretending. It’s giving yourself permission to be loved as you really are. It’s choosing you, even when it’s hard, and even when we’re in our ‘ugly’.

When we stop wearing masks, when we drop the perfectionism and the people-pleasing, we finally make room for real connection — with ourselves and with others. That’s well-being. That’s wholeness.

When nothing is hidden, there’s nothing left blocking love. That’s when we lead from a place of truth. That’s when our nervous system can exhale. That’s when life begins to flow. When we create safety within ourselves and stop craving it from someone else because we’ve never completed our developmental childhood stages, that’s when life is ours for the taking.

For me, well-being isn’t just how I feel — it’s how I live. It’s in my mothering, my relationships, my work, my presence. It’s not a destination. It’s a devotion — to honesty, softness, radical authenticity, alignment, and love.