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I'm not the coach who has it all figured out.

I'm the one who's figuring it out alongside you.

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My Story

I played a lot of sports growing up. Not the best at any one thing, but movement made me feel good. Food, though — that was complicated from early on. My relationship with my body, my weight, what I ate, how I felt about myself. I didn't have the language for it then. I just knew something felt off.

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At university, I found fitness on social media. And with it, a lot of misinformation. Coaches who gave me a plan. Plans I'd follow for a few weeks before falling off. And every single time, I'd conclude the same thing: I was the problem.

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Then my mum died, suddenly.

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It was only afterwards that I found out how hopeless she'd been feeling about her own body — for longer than I ever realised. I didn't know. I wish I had.

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Within 18 months of losing her, I'd qualified as a personal trainer.

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I didn't do it because I had my life together. I did it because I understood what it felt like to be stuck, to blame yourself, to try and try and still feel like the problem. And I thought — maybe I can help others with that.

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Since then I've trained as an advanced personal trainer, become an MNU certified nutritionist, and qualified as a mental health and wellbeing coach, with specialisms in women's health and neurodiversity.

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I was also, in my late twenties, diagnosed with ADHD and autism. My autism had been read as anxiety for years — something that happens to a lot of women who don't fit the profile. I live with chronic fatigue syndrome. I'm on an ongoing mental health journey.

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None of that is separate from my work. It is my work. I coach from inside this life — the variable energy, the days when everything is hard, the systems that have to flex because I do too. And I'm transforming my mind, body and life right alongside the women I coach.

What I know to be true

You are not the problem

The plans failed. The diets failed. The coaches who gave you the same thing they give everyone — they failed you. You are not broken. You have just been given the wrong tools.

Sustainable beats spectacular, every time

Ten months of real, flexible, liveable change will do more for you than any 12-week transformation. This work takes the time it takes. That's not a flaw in the process — it's the point.

Mind, body and life are not separate things

You can't transform your relationship with food without looking at your mindset. You can't build consistent habits without understanding your life. Everything is connected. The work has to be too.

Your brain is not your enemy

If you're neurodivergent — diagnosed, suspecting, or simply finding that standard advice never seems to fit you — your brain isn't the obstacle. It just needs systems built around how it actually works, not how someone decided it should.

You deserve to feel at home in your own life

Not performing wellness. Not following someone else's version of healthy. Actually knowing what you want, what works for you, and having the tools to build it — and keep it — for yourself.

Qualifications & Training

1 / Advanced Personal Trainer
2 / MNU Certified Nutritionist
3 / Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach
4 / Specialism: Neurodiversity
5 / Specialism: Women's Health
Currently Working Towards: YMCA Awards Approved Centre status
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Where you might want to start

For Women

If you're looking for a mind, body and life transformation that's actually built for you — the coaching, the journal, the courses, and the nutrition community are all here.

For Fitness Professionals

If you're training to become a personal trainer or looking for CPD that actually prepares you for real clients — the YMCA qualifications and CPD courses are here.

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One More Thing... 

I am not a tough-love coach. I don't believe in "no excuses" or "push through it." I believe in patience, in understanding, in working with what we have on the day and knowing that that's enough.

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I will not give you a plan and leave you to it. I will be there — in your corner, in your check-ins, in your voice notes when something comes up mid-week. I'm not building a relationship you'll never outgrow. I'm building one that helps you need me less and yourself more.

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That's the goal. You, knowing exactly who you are and what you need — with or without me.

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