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It Takes a Team - Introducing My Coach For The MOVE Challenge!
Update time… 🎉 As you may know by now, I’m gearing up for my biggest challenge yet — 900 miles, 10 days, and 3 disciplines — all to celebrate MOVE Against Cancer’s 10th anniversary. It’s a long old journey from Edinburgh to London, of course not a direct route, connecting major teenage and young adult cancer treatment centres entirely through swimming, cycling, and running. It’s not about pace, podiums or breaking records — it’s empowerment through movement and raising aware
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6 days ago2 min read
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Coach in Training, My Charity Challenge Journey 🩵
I have wanted to bring back the blog for SO long - life just takes over, as you well know, so I'm super happy to be back and what better time, because this is the start of something BIG and I want to take you along with me. Some of you may know that I have been working in cancer rehabilitation for quite a long time now, with a little break where I worked in primary care overseas for a couple of years. When we came back I had the most wonderful opportunity to join a charity th
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Oct 303 min read
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Should I be taking weight loss medication?
Something has surprised me in my most recent health and wellbeing coaching venture, here in a medical centre in the south of New Zealand,...
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Dec 23, 20244 min read
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DIETS DON'T WORK - I know it's hard to hear but please read this as we head into the new year.
When you are promised quick or even lasting results from a diet this new year, for both your physical and mental health, I need you to...
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Dec 20, 20245 min read
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Looking after YOU as a busy Mum
Something I talk about with many of you gorgeous Mum’s out there is prioritising your self-care, for many, I understand, the beginning of...
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Dec 4, 20244 min read
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Creatine and Cancer - Is It Safe?
It seems that my creatine post was quite a hit with you ladies with many of you telling me about your experiences with creatine, asking...
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Sep 5, 20243 min read
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Hunger raging when your period strikes? You are not alone! Let me help you.
It’s just as well going every month experiencing ravaging hunger and accepting it as ‘hormonal’ but there comes a time where we might...
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Sep 4, 20244 min read
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Lost your period or menstrual cycle irregular? Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Explained!
Initially for personal reasons but the research that I do now is for my own professional development with clients; I developed an...
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Aug 29, 20246 min read
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Ladies, the one supplement I think we should all be taking.
Okay, okay, perhaps we should all be knocking back a vitamin D as well but that’s a conversation for another day.  Today we are talking...
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Aug 28, 20245 min read
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Raynaud's - can your nutrition impact the condition?
A little something I have been reading the research on recently is the impact of gluten intake on Raynaud’s. For background, I live,...
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Jul 31, 20242 min read
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Mid-afternoon slump wreaking havoc with your productivity? Energy levels just not how they used to be?Â
I know the feeling…all the coffee in the world still leaving you feeling like you need to nap at your desk when 2pm rolls around. Trouble...
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May 29, 20244 min read
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Lion's Mane Mushrooms - worth the hype? Do they work?
There is an increasing amount of research around Lion’s mane mushrooms and their potential health benefits for us so today I wanted to...
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May 13, 20244 min read
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Muscle building for women - want to get strong? These are the things you are missing!
The rise in women training to get strong over doing hours of cardio which we were led to believe once upon a time was the way, is nothing...
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May 8, 20246 min read
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Best exercises during menopause?
I read somewhere last week, a coach explaining their thoughts on the fact that a bigger problem than things like unprocessed foods and...
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Apr 30, 20244 min read
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Been diagnosed with high blood pressure? Perhaps you’re eating too much salt.
More and more people are going to their GP with a complaint totally unrelated and coming away with a high blood pressure diagnosis. In...
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Apr 25, 20244 min read
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Never diet again? Here's how!
Okay so we’re making this the final blog on healthy and sustainable lifestyle change without hating yourself and the process, BUT this...
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Apr 18, 20243 min read
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No more miserable diets – some tools for you to achieve your goals and still enjoy life!
Okay, so up to now we have spoken at length about how our relationships with food have been damaged by cultural messaging. Today I want...
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Apr 10, 20245 min read
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Diets don’t work – why you need to stop dieting for good.
Okay, so here goes – I want to make a difference to YOU! I want to be different to all of the other health and fitness coaches that you...
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Apr 7, 20245 min read
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Preoccupation with food? Always thinking about where your next meal or snack might come from? Restricting after a weekend ‘binge’?
Feel that you should or shouldn’t eat specific things? Have ‘fear’ foods that you have to stay away from so you try and try and try until...
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Apr 4, 20245 min read
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Menopause brain? Forgetting what you went up the stairs for? Can’t concentrate for more than 30 seconds?
Now today I hope, very much that we aren’t going to cover any crazy new ground. We are, of course, going to talk a little about brain fog...
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Mar 26, 20246 min read
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