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I help you reclaim your authentic self & resolve emotional + physical blocks to live a fulfilling life•Mind Body Soul Medicine Woman Co-Founder@assistpersonaltraining•
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24/02/2026

Depression often arises when parts of us feel out of alignment — when our daily choices, relationships or habits don’t reflect who we truly are. It can leave us feeling stuck, heavy or disconnected.

I experienced depression firsthand throughout my 20s. I felt like a failure and useless, but at the root of my depresseion, my body and mind were alerting me that I needed safety before clarity could arrive.

For me, that safety didn’t exist because of religious indoctrination that had me living in fear and feeling worthless, unable to find joy in the life I was supposed to be living.

But I got there and every part of my life turned around for the better.

So today, I took what I’ve learned about the contributing factors to depression, what it feels like to be in that space, and how emotions and beliefs shape our body and mind, and created a healing session addressing depression somatically called “From Darkness to Presence.”

It’s now part of the Alchemyze library, and it’s designed to help you:
✨ Release stored heaviness and stuck emotional patterns
✨ Restore flow through your root, solar plexus & heart
✨ Reconnect with your inner vitality
✨ Create space for clarity, self-trust and grounded presence

Throughout the session, we move through four different somatic practices combined with guided processes to support emotional release, restore energetic balance and reprogram negative beliefs, creating a safe space for gentle transformation.

You can catch the replay now, plus gain access to over 150+ transformative sessions and practices inside Alchemyze to support your mind, body and soul every day.

DM me if you’d like joining information or a 1:1 session.

18/02/2026

When my youngest started school 2 weeks ago, I didn’t expect to feel what I felt. I spent the first week shocked

He’s been with me every step of the way for the past 6 years. Born during lockdown, growing up loving his own company, comfortable at home and no kinder. I had cleared my work schedule that week for what I thought would be long, emotional mornings.

But 30 minutes into his first day, when it was time to leave, he high fived us goodbye. I got up from the floor and walked out, stood outside the classroom with Matt completely stunned, then realised I’d left my handbag in the classroom and had to duck back in, and still, he was happy there with the lego, so off we went.

Not even 2 minutes down the road, Matt asked, “What would you like to do today?” and I felt the tears surfacing. I was used to having my little sidekick with me and my days revolving around him, and suddenly, this next chapter felt so official.

So I spent the first week enjoying the space and lots of gratitude for all the moments that I recalled over the past 9 years where I never missed a special moment of these early years with them. These years at home were full, exhausting at times, with sleep deprivation and juggling all the hats life demanded.

But the transition has been so special.

Prior to having children I did a lot of personal development and identity work. Becoming a Mum took me by surprise. I had plans to be the working Mumma and Matt to be the stay at home Dad but once those pregnancy hormones kicked in, I was a changed woman.

During those early years of motherhood, my identity shifted in ways I hadn’t expected. Before children, health, fitness and personal growth were strong anchors for me, but motherhood asked me to soften my expectations and honour the season I was in.

There were times balance felt hard to find and instead of striving for who I used to be, I learned to meet myself where I was, doing what I could, with what I had, while still staying connected to growth in new and evolving ways.

In those years, life didn’t slow down like I initially thought it would. Instead, it expanded me.

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06/02/2026

Sometimes what feels like lack of motivation or desire is actually something much deeper.

A client recently booked in a session feeling
🚨 stuck and stagnant
🚨 disconnected from drive and excitement
🚨 unsure how to move forward in business
🚨 not overly lit up by the things that he once enjoyed
🚨 anxious about money and provision
🚨 heavy in the body, especially through the solar plexus

It presented as
🚩 “I can’t be bothered.”
🚩 “I don’t know what to do.”
🚩 “I’m just existing.”

But the body was telling a very different story.

Through a Retrieval Recode session, it became clear that his nervous system was protecting him.

During this session he regressed to a past life where moving forward was linked to survival. It meant fear, danger and abandonment.

So the astral body, (the layer that carries feeling, attachment, fear, longing, pleasure and unfinished emotional charge) learned to pause, conserve energy and stay small. And for this client, it wasn't just in work, but across all areas of life.

In this session, we cleared the programming created from that life time and reprogrammed it with safety and truth, and then retrieved and integrated a fragmented part of the soul that fled from carrying abandonment and survival fear.

Immediately after the session this client felt activated and excited about life. He had clarity on his business and next steps, because his soul revealed it to him.

This session wasn’t just about business or money.

It was about reconnecting to life itself, creativity, enjoyment, curiosity and forward momentum.

This is the work I'm here for, helping you find the answers you need.

If you’ve been feeling stuck across one or multiple areas of your life, it might not be a mindset issue.

It might be your body waiting for safety to return at a soul level.

Retrieval Recode sessions are held online via zoom and come with a detailed report of your experience to help you integrate.

DM for availability.

04/02/2026

The theme for February is all about moving forward with clarity, letting go of mental or emotional baggage and trusting your journey.

✨ Coming Up in February Inside Alchemyze ✨

This is a month to align your thoughts with your next steps, instead of getting stuck in overthinking or confusion.

I’ll be hosting two live group sessions this month:

🗓 Live Session 1:
Saturday, 7th February | The Somatic Path to Forgiveness and Acceptance
Focus: Emotion – Resentment

🗓 Live Session 2:
Tuesday, 24th February | From Darkness to Presence – Healing Depression Somatically
Focus: Emotion – Depression

If you’re ready for February to be a month of forward momentum, where you:

• Move out of confusion or challenges

• Leave behind overthinking or situations that have been holding you back

• Step toward clarity, insight or resolution

…then reach out to discover how to access all of this and more inside Alchemyze.

Even if things feel uncertain, taking these next steps can help you align more fully with your goals, your truth and your inner peace.

Let February be the month where a new perspective helps you resolve conflicts, make more empowering choices and create momentum in your life.

📩 Message me to see how you can be part of Alchemyze this month.

25/01/2026

Our latest session is now live inside Alchemyze. This one isn’t about creating empowerment. That work began in the previous session on disempowerment.

In this session we prepared the astral body and anchored it in, so that what you’ve already started doesn’t fade when life gets busy or old patterns get triggered.

Because empowerment only lasts when the body can hold it, not just when the mind understands it.

We focused on:
• clearing the imprint left by long-term disempowerment
• releasing what no longer belongs
• reprogramming the astral field
• stabilising the empowered state in the nervous system
• restoring internal authority and a sense of wholeness

This is how the shifts you’ve already made don’t disappear… they settle, where insight becomes embodied change.

If you’re a member, you’ll find the replay inside Alchemyze now.

If you're not a member but would like information on Alchemyze to make 2026 a transformative year for your mind, body and soul, reach out x

23/01/2026

I started my day with a client in Bali.

Her life has completely turned around. Everything is falling into place. Today’s session was about healing past identities, and showing those old versions of ourselves that life gets to be beautiful.

When I was 19, I was holding an object in my hands, ready to end it all.

I didn’t. I dropped it. And I broke down on the floor.

I had no hope. No vision of a future. No feeling that I mattered.

I was exhausted from pretending I was okay when I wasn’t. The mask was becoming heavier than the pain and it was steering me down a rocky road.

If you’re in that place right now, hear this: The part of you that thinks nothing will change is lying.

Time changes things. Choice changes things. One decision not to quit changes everything.

Following my heart didn’t ruin my life. No longer caring how I'd be judged gave me space to find myself. And choosing myself didn’t make me selfish, it saved me.

To some, I survived.
To me, I arrived.

And now I get to work with people while they remember who they are… and see them build lives they once couldn’t imagine surviving to see.

If you’re here, there is a reason. Even if you can’t see it yet.

DM me or comment below for a free Soul strategy call and I'll share with you, the next step.

21/01/2026

Disempowerment doesn’t often slap you in the face.

It looks like putting things off. Going back and forth on decisions.

Waiting to feel more ready, clear or motivated before you move.

It’s the gap between what you know and what you actually do.

A lot of people assume that gap means they lack discipline or the right mindset.

But in our latest live session inside Alchemyze, we explored Disempowerment as a nervous system state.

When the body doesn’t feel safe to lead, thinking harder doesn’t help. Planning more doesn’t help. Positive self-talk doesn’t help.

Because real momentum starts in the body. In rebuilding a sense of steadiness, choice and internal authority.

That’s what our Power Retrieval session was designed for.

Not to push you into action, but to help you return to self-led movement in a way your nervous system can actually sustain.

If you recognise the pattern of wanting to move forward, but feeling internally stuck or hesitant, this session is for you.

The replay is now available inside Alchemyze.

Comment below or DM me if you’d like to know what Alchemyze is about and if it might be just what you need in 2026.

20/01/2026

This is what happens when you stop trying to push forward…

…and instead remove what’s been weighing you down.

Most people don’t lack motivation. They lack regulation, safety and emotional space.

When those return, movement becomes natural. Decisions become clearer. The next step stops feeling heavy.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, foggy or disconnected from yourself, it’s a signal.

And it can change.

Reach out if you'd like a session ❤️

19/01/2026

If things feel blocked, slow or restricted, read this.

There are times when life creates a strange tension.

Wanting progress but meeting delays. Wanting clarity but feeling paused. Wanting momentum but hitting invisible walls.

This can feel frustrating or heavy but you've got to trust the sacred pause.

Not all growth comes from movement.

Some of the deepest change comes from being reshaped while nothing seems to be happening.

This is the kind of energy that quietly says “Not yet. Sit here. Let me reorganise you.”

You might notice:
• plans stalling
• motivation dipping
• melancholy or low mood
• irritation at limitations
• a desire to control everything (or give up completely)
• questioning your direction

This means something new is forming BUT it requires a different structure than the old one.

Growth is not always loud. Sometimes it’s architectural.

It happens in the quiet recalibration.

In the space between actions.

In the uncomfortable pause.

If you try to force your way through this phase, it often shows up as burnout, anger, rigid control, chaos or abandoning things that actually matter.

The wiser path?

Acceptance.

Not giving up, but standing steady in trust.

Working with reality instead of fighting it.

Building better foundations instead of demanding faster results.

Letting life show you what is sustainable.

Some doors only open when the room is rebuilt and sometimes limitation isn’t punishment. It’s protection while something stronger is being made.

13/01/2026

Here I am, almost 30 years ago, at Offshore Festival in Torquay.

Here's what I admire about her.

She walked away from all relationships that were conditional.

She gave zero f***s about what anyone thought of her.

Here's what I wished she knew.

That there were people she could have spoken to.

That she was beautiful.

That God wasn't a man in the sky and that she turned her back on a man-made organisation, not "the truth" as she was programmed to believe.

Here’s why its all perfect.

I understand first hand trauma based programming and how to heal from it.

I've experienced first hand how misalignment shows up in the body and in our behaviours.

I understand I came here to experience abandonment so I could learn how to live authentically and that this soul contract is now complete.

I learnt first hand that NOTHING is withheld from us when we allow ourselves to become an energetic match to it.

That fearless, misunderstood girl wasn't lost. She was preparing me for this life.

04/01/2026

You can’t read the meaning of a story while you’re still inside the chapter.

Meaning only becomes clear once the chapter closes.

This is something I’ve had to learn, and it’s been deeply regulating to understand.

When you’re inside a situation, a relationship, a friendship, a dynamic, your nervous system isn’t analysing for “signs.”

It’s doing what it’s designed to do: maintain connection, coherence and safety.

So behaviours don’t register as red flags yet.

They register as context.

As stress.

As misunderstanding.

As “maybe I’m reading too much into this.”

Envy doesn’t look like envy while it’s forming.

Control doesn’t look like control while it’s subtle.

Withdrawal doesn’t look like withdrawal while there’s still contact.

They only become signs once the pattern has completed.

Only after the dynamic ends does your system have enough distance to organise the events into a sequence and go “Oh, that comment wasn’t random.”, “That concern wasn’t care.”, “That distancing wasn’t circumstantial.”

This isn’t denial.

It isn’t naivete.

It isn’t a lack of intuition.

It’s how the human nervous system works.

Meaning is constructed after outcome, not during uncertainty.

And this matters because so many people turn hindsight into self blame.

“I should have seen it sooner.”

“I ignored the signs.”

“I didn’t trust myself.”

But the truth is:

There were no signs yet, only behaviours that hadn’t revealed their pattern.

You responded appropriately with the information you had at the time.

Understanding this is what allows the body to finally relax.

To stop replaying.

To stop monitoring.

To restore self trust.

The chapter didn’t make sense while you were living it.

It was never meant to.

Clarity comes with closure.

And that doesn’t mean you failed, it means the story finally finished telling you what it was.

01/01/2026

This new year’s day feels different.

In the past, my new years have been opportunities to align deeper into my desires, what I’m choosing to partner with or devote energy toward.

But this year there’s a settled feeling in my body that doesn’t need direction.

There's a sense that life and I have been in deep conversation. That whatever wants to align will do so through me living life in my truest and purest form.

I’ve been trusting curiosity, gently peeling back beliefs and allowing what’s true to keep revealing itself.

And what I do know is, this year feels like something I keep inhabiting...my energy and frequency.

And for the first time, that feels more than enough.

48 laps around the sun and I can see I'm in a beautiful dance with life.

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