“I always made sure to cook them solid meals with whatever I could find in the kitchen, but I’d live off a piece of toast so that we could get by.Caroline’s nightmare began in 2009, after her mother Linda Hovland, died suddenly, aged 68, from an aneurism.
Deciding to retrain as a therapist, once qualified in 2017 Caroline started setting up a free advice group alongside her paid for counselling work. “I also offer paid for healing and coaching programmes to help people move on from their past and, in the last year alone, my business has turned over £1.3m. I also employ eight people now which is incredible.”
“My children both also see what's possible with the money that I now have, with the people that I help and the charities that I donate to and that makes a really big difference.