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Bend Like Bamboo is a program designed to maximise resilience, adaptability and wellbeing

🎋 Helping Individuals Heal from Stress & Autoimmune Symptoms • The Bend Like Bamboo Method™ |Melbourne's 5⭐ Kinesiologist | Book free discovery call Bendlikebamboo.com

07/11/2025

🧠 “Your mind is your most powerful healing tool. Today, choose thoughts that nourish your recovery and support your dreams. Happy mind, happy life.” Amanda x

22/10/2025

What happens when two resilience coaches who support burnt-out CEOs compare notes? 🌿✨

Even the strongest leaders need support.
You’re navigating constant storms. Leading through uncertainty. Making high-stakes decisions daily. Carrying the weight of your team and business.

But who’s supporting YOU?

The truth: The most successful leaders don’t push through alone. They recognise that thriving through leadership’s storms requires support and nervous system regulation.

How we help time-poor CEOs:
🎋 Stress Reduction - Regulate your nervous system to lead strategically through storms, not just survive them.
🎋 Values Alignment - When leadership aligns with your values, you have resilience to thrive through busy times. Energy flows. Clarity returns.
Together:
✨ Strategic thinking in chaos
✨ Sustainable energy through storms
✨ Thrive through challenges, not just survive

Rich learned this through burnout. I learned it through my recovery and as a former CEO. Now we help CEOs bend like bamboo - flexible enough to weather any storm, strong enough to keep growing.

The storms don’t stop. But with the right support, you can thrive through them.

Read / Watch / Listen to Rich’s full story 🎧https://www.amandacampbell.com.au/blog/rich-ellis-on-energy-management-for-leaders

Grab my Free Resilience Toolkit:https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/signuptoblb-thrive

13/10/2025

What happens when two resilience coaches compare notes? 🌿✨

My conversation with Rich Ellis revealed the formula we BOTH use to help clients achieve their goals:

Reduce stress + Align with your values = Sustainable success

Most people push through stress to reach their goals. But stress and misalignment are actually BLOCKING what you want.

The Two-Part Solution:
🎋 Stress Reduction - When you’re in chronic stress, you’re in survival mode, not creation mode. Your nervous system needs support to achieve goals.
🎋 Values Alignment - When goals align with your core values, the path becomes clear. Energy flows. Success feels sustainable.

Together, these create magic:
✨ Reduced stress = optimal functioning
✨ Values alignment = pursuing what truly matters
✨ Combined = achieve more while feeling energised

Rich learned this through burnout. I learned it through MS. Now we help clients bend like bamboo - flexible, strong, rooted in truth.

Sustainable success isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about reducing stress AND ensuring what you’re reaching for matters to your soul.

Watch Rich’s full story 🎧

https://www.amandacampbell.com.au/blog/rich-ellis-on-energy-management-for-leaders

Grab my Free Resilience Toolkit:
https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/signuptoblb

Ready to try this approach? Comment “ALIGNMENT” 👇

08/10/2025

Rich Ellis just dropped a game-changing concept on the Bend Like Bamboo podcast:

Transform FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) into JOMO (Joy of Missing Out).

For driven leaders constantly worried about missing opportunities, this mindset shift is revolutionary.
JOMO isn’t about becoming complacent or lazy. It’s about becoming strategic with your energy.

It’s the ability to say “No, I can’t come to that event because I’m doing something else” and being genuinely comfortable with that choice.
You’re buying yourself:
✓ Time
✓ Calm
✓ The recognition that you don’t have to do ALL the things

Rich explains: “Instead of fear of missing out, which drives anxiety and stress, JOMO is the joy of missing out. Being able to say no and actually being really comfortable in that.”
This is what resilience looks like in practice—knowing when to bend and when to stand firm.

Leaders who embrace JOMO aren’t missing out, they’re conserving their energy for what truly matters.

Ready to shift from FOMO to JOMO?

Watch Rich’s full story on the Bend Like Bamboo podcast: https://www.amandacampbell.com.au/blog/rich-ellis-on-energy-management-for-leaders

Grab my Free Resilience Toolkit here: https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/signuptoblb

05/10/2025

Rich Ellis, The Energy Coach, thought he had it all figured out.

Long work days? That’s just business ownership. Multiple coffees to function? Everyone does it. Being irritable and snappy? Comes with the territory.

Until a cortisol test showed his levels at 10% of normal.
“I was burning the candle at both ends, in a good way, but a naive way,” Rich told me.

The reality check? He couldn’t remember what his natural energy felt like without caffeine. That’s when he knew something had to change.

His wake-up call became his biggest lesson: you can’t pour from an empty cup, even if you’re the one teaching others about energy management.

The irony wasn’t lost on him—here was The Energy Coach, completely depleted, he knew something had to change.

His experience taught him that resilience isn’t about pushing through. It’s about recognising the signs before you hit rock bottom and having the courage to change course.

If you’re normalising exhaustion, relying on stimulants to function, or becoming someone you don’t recognise under pressure—this is your sign to pause.

Watch Rich’s full burnout story and what he learned on the Bend Like Bamboo podcast
https://www.amandacampbell.com.au/blog/rich-ellis-on-energy-management-for-leaders
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Grab my Free Resilience Toolkit a gift from me - https://www.bendlikebamboo.com/signuptoblb

25/09/2025

The archetype that reveals when you’re selling yourself short... 💔

In my powerful conversation with Lisa Johnson about The Elements Kit, we explored how archetypes show up in our shadow side - and one really hit home.

The Pr******te Archetype isn’t what you think...

🔍 Shadow side shows up when you:
Accept less than you’re worth for survival
Compromise your values for security
Stay in situations that drain your soul
Trade your authenticity for approval
Sell yourself short in relationships or business

🌟 Light side emerges when you:
Know your true value and demand it
Make empowered choices about your energy
Set boundaries that honour your worth
Choose authenticity over people-pleasing

The brutal truth? We ALL have moments where we sell ourselves short. The power is in recognising it. When you understand your archetypal patterns - both light and shadow - you can consciously choose which aspects to bring forward.

This is how you bend like bamboo... flexible enough to adapt, but rooted in your authentic worth.

Your creative DNA is unique. Your combination of archetypes is yours alone. When you know yourself at this level, you stop betraying yourself and start creating from truth.

Ready to discover your unique archetypal profile?
Read the full blog about my conversation with Lisa Johnson - link in bio!

What archetype do you most identify with? Drop it below 👇

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 7pm
Thursday	9am - 7pm
Friday	9am - 7pm
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Welcome to Bend Like Bamboo, specialising in optimising health and recovery from stress, illness or any setback in life. To bend like bamboo is to bend in change with resilience. In 2009 Amanda Campbell suffered a major MS attack that left her paralysed and was given a 50% chance of ever walking again. Unprepared to accept this as her fate, Amanda learned to focus on what she wanted instead of what she was scared of. With a lot of determination and the help of her doctors and a Kinesiologist, within six weeks, she stunned us all by not only walking, but running.

This prompted her to swap a fast-paced career in the fashion industry to go back to study to enable her to understand how she achieved her recovery.

Having become an accredited Sports Kinesiologist, Amanda founded Bend Like Bamboo www.bendlikebamboo.com her private practice in 2013, where Amanda has dedicated her life helping others rebuild their lives from illness and stress. Bend Like Bamboo specialises in helping people to bend with change with resilience to optimise their health. Amanda sees clients recovering from Autoimmune disease, setbacks and physical symptoms.

Amanda co-founded Nourissh www.nourissh.com with her partner and VinoMofo in 2014, delivering ready-made meals to people across Melbourne, after she discovered the role ethically sourced and nutrient dense food played in her recovery.