Devonshire shepherdess, farming mum & Neurocoach helping overwhelmed women reset their lives with brain-based tools.
Reclaim your time, boost energy & thrive with clarity, confidence & calm. Real coaching, real results — rooted in real life. A Devonshire Shepherdess was founded by Leanne Barriball after she spent over 10 years trying to workout how to be in the best health possible, to be present for her daughter whilst home educating, and do all the things she wanted to do like having parties, sing in a choir,
and have fun! As well as keep her house clean and run a thriving farming business, that worked for her rather than against her. She has been on a journey of self discovery and has been able to transform her energy levels, and ability to be clear on what steps needed to be taken to become healthier, happier and create a dream life. She now desires to help mums who are exhausted of trying to be the best mum possible but find life is too stressful and they just don't have the time or the energy to do the basics, and they barely ever have time for themselves. Do you feel trapped like you have no idea how get off the roller coaster that is life? You just long to be a good mum and support your kids in the best way possible, you just have no idea where to start? This was where Leanne was when her daughter was little, and I she has spent over 10 years and over £50k working out how to make things work, the primary focus being her health. When she came across brain based transformations and Neuro-coaching, by Dr Shannon Irvine, with the ability to rewire our thoughts and brain, she knew this was the missing piece to her puzzle, to creating the life she dreamed of for her and all of her family. Our mission is to help restore, regenerate, rebalance and reignite those who may have lost their way a little, in the busyness of life, so we can thrive not just survive. We do this by offering personalised coaching programmes using the latest neuroscience techniques, to help create change in the brain and neural (thought) pathways, to help you create and reach a life you have only dreamed of in the past.
16/08/2025
I think the noisy rebels in the back want to come and sit around the camp fire 🔥
Or rather their saying “hey can we get some more fresh grass please not this old dry stuff in the feeder”
It’s safe to say our very dry farm is very dry!
However there is more green plants around than there normally is, and our well didn’t run dry until July so we gained an extra month.
Focusing on soil health and how we can use plants to sequester more carbon and keep water in the ground will help to stop the desertification process in the future!
This is my hope anyway 😊
16/08/2025
Why Farmers daughters are just as important as farmers sons-
What happens when God chooses a girl to be the oldest child in a farming family.
Last night when I was inspired to write this blog I hadn't realised today is the 18th anniversary of the day my grandad passed away suddenly, which I mention was a defining moment.
That day it felt like our world fell apart, and since then we have seen lots of changes in our farming family life thankfully most for the better.
What happens when God chooses a girl to be the oldest child in a farming family. Long has it been known that many farming families in the western world hope for a son to come along to take on and run the family business. If that son happens to be the oldest and they want to stay and far
15/08/2025
Expectant mumma waiting on her little piggies to come along!
I think I looked like that at full term, 😂 it’s just a shame it’s summer we didn’t think about that bit when we put her to pig! 🥵
Next time we will.
How many do you reckon is in there?
14/08/2025
They enjoy playing with each other this pair 😻🐶
11/08/2025
Let’s play spot the goat 😂
They do this to purposely upset my dad
I think he has given up trying to stop them!
10/08/2025
Why did I become a Neurocoach?
I don’t think I’ve shared this on here for a while and here is the short answer.
Neuroscience has now shown us that any thoughts we have which are negatively driven, and therefore causing negative results in our life can actually be changed.
In fact our whole belief system can be changed, particularly if our belief systems have been crafted by any kind of trauma we may have experienced as children, including before birth.
I grew up in a time where the belief was that the brain did most of its developing as children, and teens and then it stopped and started to decline after 18.
This isn’t true because now with the knowledge we have of how the brain or more importantly the sub conscious part of the brain creates a belief, and that then results in some kind of action, no matter what age we are we can change something we don’t like about ourselves, or things that happen in our lives.
Take habits for example most bad habits end in a not good result towards our health, but habits are hard to stop if you don’t catch the thoughts or beliefs causing them.
Let’s take time management for example, a few years ago I was terrible at over booking myself my diary was to full and then I would always leave the house late and be rushing everywhere all the time.
🤯 The physical response of this was stress in my body being caused by my brain over booking myself. The belief was “there is not enough time” “I am so busy” I was therefore choosing to make myself busy not in a good way affecting my stress levels.
Now however my diary is very relaxed, with minimal amounts of appointments play dates ect… but I now manage to get way more done with Hayley my health and even our businesses. I have more than enough time now which is good 😊 and more relaxing.
Biblically- science has now caught up with the Bible when it says we are to renew our minds, which are our thoughts our will and emotions. Suggesting that our thoughts are driving the show down here on Earth, so if we want to change something we must first look at how we think. 🤔
The way I help clients do this is I listen to the words they use about themselves or their situation and I then I repeat it back to them, and most of the time they have no idea what they just said because it’s sub conscious, when they hear it again though in their exact words.
💭They have their ah ha moment, and realise that’s what I am thinking and it’s causing this action and therefore that result. We get to the root cause of the situation.
This is the same process I’ve been through myself with my coaches, and when I studied to be a Neurocoach it got even more exciting because it means I can help others change things to create different lives for themselves in what ever area they choose.
Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Ephesians 4: 20-24
That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
09/08/2025
This morning a read a post on here that said, that putting on weight wearing stretchy clothes instead of jeans with buttons etc is all because your body has become undisciplined and we have essentially let this happen. And that by wearing leggings instead of jeans we are in denial about the fact that we are getting bigger and the stretchy clothes covers that.
It’s bothered me…. Because as a women who is classed as obese according to the medical elite I know I never wanted to get to this point. EVER!
Posts like the one I read though doesn’t take into account that 5 years ago I had to face up to a reality that I really wish wasn’t the case but I did it.
That was when we decided to take Hayley out of school and home educate! And my goodness the first 3 years were rough. And all I can say is that the size of my body was not at the forefront of my issues, my mentally and emotionally unstable child however was.
Largely because I knew that deep down it was my broken mental and emotional health in those first few years of her life had caused 80% of the problem. The other 20% came when we lost my beautiful mum in love and grief hit Hayley hard 💕 bringing to the surface the separation anxiety between her and I which had always been there 😢.
I went into survival mode, I took her screaming shouting and upset and I held the blows of the guilt shame and general “I have no idea what I am doing right now”into my body.
I was holding on tight for dear life hoping and praying 🙏 that she would come through it and have some peace in her heart and mind and be able to function without screaming at me.
Many many many prayers have been answered for Hayley’s life. Resulting in us last year turning the corner and all of a sudden she could do things without me, she would go to groups and things and I didn’t need to sit in the car park anymore.
This resulted in a need for my mind to let go, it took a while because she had literally been stuck to me for 3 years we slept together, we spent everyday together and we went through some tough situations together, when she was faced with new challenges.
The result for me;
my body did what it could to keep up with the emotional energy demand. It shut down my ability to feel any kind of pain emotional and physical. It chose to store and store and store energy far more than it needs, in case a disaster happened.
It got bigger and bigger so the easy fitting clothes were the best option because I didn’t have the time to sort me out, I had to hold space for our kiddo. I knew in my heart of hearts things would change but I didn’t know when.
So I ploughed on I kept fighting, 💪 that takes discipline and my body just did what it needed to do.
Now my body is doing what it needs to do to reverse the situation. If you have been reading my posts you will know some of the story.
A piece to the puzzle I learnt this week is now my body feels safe, it is making very loud noises so I will do something about it. It’s slowed me down ( can’t move my arms and legs as well) so that my organs, my immune system, lymphatic system, digestive system and probably every other system, can all rest and heal because it was all shut down from normal function whilst I was surviving.
I was looking at myself in the mirror this morning and there is sadly still a bit of me that goes “this is never going to change, why did I let it get to this point”
but then there is a bigger bit of me that says “look at how far you have come, look at what you have learnt about the power of the human body, the soul the mind and of course the spirit.
The bit inside I can not see is healing I know that because my symptoms are reducing. Therefore the response of my body releasing weight, moving again and becoming “more disciplined” or more organised will happen at some point in the future.
Learning to love myself as I am now is another key, being kind to myself 💕
It’s going to take time and right now that’s ok, because 80 year old me is going to thank me for this time.
Even though 37 year old me wants to just crack on with it. 😄
If your struggling with the way your body looks and feels at the moment. Take a deep breath and step out of the current into the bigger picture. Your body didn’t do this on purpose, you did not ask to be here, but it is 100% within your power to do something about it.
To have a vision, to make a plan and take the steps to a healthier 2.0 version of you 💕
07/08/2025
Our loyal and faithful friend Gem has gone over the rainbow bridge today 🌈
At 13 years old I bought her as my little project after we got married, and she is named after the rental car number plate we had in New Zealand on our honey moon.
With the help of an expert sheep dog trainer who trained me and her I was able to get her to work with sheep pretty well, she knew her left and rights. 🙂
When I was not capable of being outside and helping anymore she became my dad’s loyal best friend and she will be missed.
She worked until the end like they always do and loved her quad bike rides.
05/08/2025
Today I am grateful for my cleaner, I’ve always been really honest on here about my struggles with keeping the house organised, I know there are many out there the same.
It was hard to give into having a cleaner even just twice a month, (it’s now every week)because somewhere in the back of your mind you feel like you’re failing.
However this is the way I looked at it, it takes 2 hours for my lovely cleaner to blast through my house when it would not get done right now because it’s not on the list of energy priorities for my body. The untidiness would cause me more stress and then my poor mum would end up doing it.
I am not going to die from having an untidy house, I do however need to wash, walk and feed myself which are energy priorities and this is what my brain allows me to do, or I should say has started allowing me to do because I was needing help for these 3 things up until a couple of weeks ago.
What’s even more exciting this month is I’ve been able to pay for my cleaner with the money I’ve earned with my Tropic business, and I’ve covered some of my private health care sessions as well.
Which is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time to take the pressure off my amazing husband, who never ever moans at how much it’s costing us to get my body straight again.
I hope I will always be grateful for these little things in life when I am fully better.
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04/08/2025
I don't read the Farmers Guardian or the Farmers Weekly very often but when I do I feel a bit sad. Today was one of those days where it was written that they have found that many farmers didn't see a profitable future in the industry due to current pressures mainly Inheritance Tax.
I guess for me I have hope and can see that there is a really important place for us in the UK but it does mean making changes sometimes these can be big but often they are very small.
I hopefully my blogs will start shining some light on that.
here is the first one
UK Farmers- Our Focus Needs to Change
UK Farmers Our Focus Needs to Change
03/08/2025
My mummy made me a blackberry and apple crumble and a roast beef to welcome me home after being brave for 3 nights and camping at Creation fest! It was a really big deal considering my recent body challenges!
And my daughter bought me a present from launceston show that’s called Old Grumpy’s! So I guess I need to try harder for her for next years gift 😂.
It’s a good job if smells like the old soap my gran and grandad used to have so it brought back good memories of them 💕
Now time for 3 days of sleep 😴 to counter act the amount of energy used up.
I am really starting to be able to hear and feel how my nervous system and I guess my immune system”talk” to me or get my attention.
Yesterday it started that I was quite low energy all day so I just sat in my chair by the caravan so soaking in the vibes and chatting to people as they walk past.
My voice however over the course of the day got less and less and is very hoarse and hardly audible at the moment which my husband is probably pleased about.
This morning I woke up and thought it’s time to go home now, so that’s what we did. I’ve now spent the afternoon trying not to go to sleep because I want to sleep well tonight!
I am like a toddler who wants a nap but if I have one I won’t get to sleep. Or I will be over tired and won’t sleep either 😂.
Tonight at tea my temperature dropped which is another way my body says hey there is something wrong we are really tired!
Then I ate my lovely tea and my eyes decided to start ticking, whilst I was staring into space and rocking. 😳
Yep it’s safe to say that now my body has my attention it likes to make sure I am not going to really crash again and it’s showing all its weird and wonderful ways of getting my attention.
How does your body speak to you and regulate itself?
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Hey I am Leanne Barriball, and if your reading this, thank you for taking the time to learn more about me! On this page I share with you my journey of how joining a skin care company called Tropic made me enter into a place I had never been before.
I have been a farmer and lived on the same farm forever, I never knew any different and to say we lady farmers live a sheltered life is an understatement! One thing that many farming women are no good at is taking care of themselves. We can take care of our husbands and kids, we can save lambs and calves from near death experiences and be vets, nurses, beauticians, accountants, secretaries etc..... but one thing that we are no good at is taking care of ourselves!
I learnt this lesson the hard way because when I joined Tropic I was facing one of the hardest challenges I had ever faced. Whilst I was pregnant I managed to injure my poor body resulting in me being on crutches (to walk long distances) for nearly 2 years. All whilst I was trying to look after a little baby and run a home. It is safe to say the only home running I did was cooking, because I could sit down and as for farming that went out the window completely!
I was at the bottom of myself looking up, my emotions, mental health and obviously my physical health were in tatters, but all the time there was a small voice inside telling me I was going to get better. And this is how I am, because by just adding a skin care routine to my day I was making 2 minutes for myself. This 2 minutes gave me time to think, breathe and just be. It also led to me falling with love with everything Tropic so I added more products to my days as well, as many other little routines I do everyday just for me.
Whilst out on my Tropic travels I started to feel so sad by the fact that no women ever had anything nice to say about themselves, they couldn't take a comment nicely and what was worse I could see how it would affect their young daughters as well. Not only that I realised I was one of these very women who never said anything good about themselves, I was unable to love myself at all!
That however has all changed, because I made the choice that I would learn to love myself so that Hayley my little girl could love her self as well. I truly believe its a learnt behaviour, and if your mum or granny don't love themselves then you know that you didn't learn it either!
It is a tough road paving out new thought patterns, now experiences and new ways of looking at life. But it is fulfilling and what drives me more and more is I do not want Hayley feeling about herself as I have felt in the past about myself. Children learn through example, so its time that you made the choice to be a good example whether its to children, grandchildren, nieces or just for yourself.
It truly is a blessed life that way. Good thoughts create good things, bad thoughts create bad things.
