GYUP Member & Community Mentor
A Familiar Face, A Long Commitment
A resident of Great Yarmouth for 62 years, Jax Southam has spent decades quietly supporting the women of this town. From running her own complementary therapy practice locally, to working with Great Yarmouth's GP surgeries as both a Health Trainer and Social Prescriber, helping patients navigate life's challenges ~ her roots here run deep.
What Jax Offers Through GYup
Jax contributes to GYUP in three ways, entirely separately from her business:
As Chair of GYup's weekly meetings, she brings the calm, structured presence that comes from a lifetime of holding space for others. Check out Jax story.
Through donated royalties from her novel Time to Shine (a cosy romance) she contributes directly to GYup's community fund ~ because she believes Great Yarmouth's women deserve investment, not just good intentions.
Through the Great Yarmouth Scholarship, Jax offers local women experiencing significant life change the opportunity to access online guided support completely free of charge. The scholarship is her personal contribution to women in the Great Yarmouth community and is offered without charge. If you'd like to know more or think it might be right for you, contact Jax at
A Little Background
Jax's path to this work was far from straightforward. Long Covid brought early retirement, fatigue, mental fog, and the loss of a career she loved. In the quiet that followed, she turned inward ~ and found her way back through an unexpected source: the characters she had been creating in her fantasy novels. Looking back at her protagonists and supporting characters, she realised each of them had their own unique strengths and had been showing her the way forward before she'd consciously even started looking.
That experience convinced her that transformation doesn't always arrive through direct confrontation. Sometimes it comes sideways ~ through story, through reflection, through the quiet company of others who understand.
Separately: Awakened Realm
Jax is also the author of the Moons & Runes Private Investigator series and The POISE Archives trilogy, (paranormal and cosy fantasies), as well as being the founder of Awakened Realm ~ a limited company with a social mission, helping women rediscover purpose and confidence following life-changing events. This is entirely separate from her GYup involvement. Awakened Realm offers its own online membership and transformational journey programmes, and Great Yarmouth women are welcome to explore those independently at www.awakenedrealm.co.uk.