Recreo

02/01/2026

honesty check…
If the workouts and diets you’ve been doing actually worked for midlife bodies, would getting up off the floor or a chair still feel like a full-body event?

Midlife bodies aren’t the same as our 20-year-old bodies. Different hormones, more stress, and new energy needs mean our fitness and nutrition need to change too.

That’s why we created From Frazzled to Fueled: a 21-Day Reset - a gentle, effective, hormone-friendly wellness program designed by women, for women over 40.

If you’ve been looking for workouts, recipes, and brain boosting moves that actually support your midlife body, boost energy, and help you feel strong again… this is your sign. ✨

Check the first comment for more info or comment ME and I'll DM you.

02/01/2026

Hi everyone! My friend and Nutritionist Louise and I have been creating something for us all to start the year! Check it out: https://myrecreohealth.myflodesk.com/21days

21/12/2025

Struggling with seasonal affective disorder, depression or anxiety like I do? Or struggling with midlife hormone changes? The lack of sunlight affects all og us this time of year. Today is a day to be hopeful. To look forward to the light. Happy Solstice 💜💜💜

17/12/2025

If the holidays feel heavier than they used to, you’re not imagining it. I've been hearing this quit a bit this year from friends, clients and community members, and it matters to say it out loud.

This season asks your brain and body to do a lot at once: more socializing, more decision-making, more noise, more stimulation, more emotional labor, often layered on top of already-full lives and less rest. For our aging nervous systems that are also adapting to hormonal shifts, an different stages of healing and regenerating, that extra load can tip stress from manageable to overwhelming pretty quickly.

Here’s something that’s often missing from the conversation: your brain is wired for predictability and safety. The holidays, by nature, disrupt both. Routines get thrown off, sleep changes, meals look different, and long-standing family dynamics tend to resurface whether we want them to or not. Add financial pressure and the quiet expectation to feel joyful, grateful, and “together,” and it makes perfect sense if you feel more reactive, more tired, or more emotionally tender than you used to. Nothing has gone wrong — your system is simply responding to complexity. Your brain doesn't like change and it will resist changes in routine. It thinks that by doing this it is keeping you safe.

This is where I want to gently reframe things with you. Holiday stress isn’t a personal failure or a sign that you’re “not handling things well.” It’s your nervous system responding to overload. And because of that, wellness this season isn’t about doing more self-care, buying the right planner for the new year, or pushing yourself to keep up. It’s about reducing unnecessary strain. It’s about choosing regulation over perfection, permission over pressure, and small moments of steadiness over trying to make the season feel a certain way.

The simple truth to carry with you: you don’t need to fix yourself for the holidays you need to support your nervous system through them. Gentler is not giving up. Gentler is wisdom.

So I encourage you as we head into the last few weeks of the year to connect with yourself, take moments to breath, sit in nature, drink lots of water and step back to experience tiny bits of joy when you can. Give yourself permission to rest, to be quiet and to eat the food that brings you joy!

Happy Holidays everyone 💜

29/11/2025

If your mind feels loud and overloaded, this is for you.
Midlife stress can hit harder this time of year- your brain isn’t imagining it. The holiday season can push your nervous system into survival mode, leaving you overwhelmed, drained, and disconnected from what you actually need.

Instead of buying more stuff, try investing in tools that support your emotional wellbeing. Women in midlife often feel the pressure to make the holidays perfect for everyone else… but your peace matters too.

Here are quick, science-backed ways to reconnect to yourself ⬇️
✨ 90 seconds of quiet in nature: helps reduce cortisol + adrenaline
✨ Give yourself a High 5:  boosts dopamine + serotonin
✨ Laugh (even fake laughter counts!):  your brain registers it as real and floods you with feel-good hormones

These are proven brain training practices that calm your nervous system and ease stress hormones. If you’re feeling holiday overload, mental fatigue, or the weight of expectations, you’re not alone. There is a gentler way through midlife stress.

If you want more science-backed brain fitness tools for midlife wellness, I’ve got something for you.

Comment JOY and I’ll send you my best resource you can use right now.

Full lifetime access to the tiny course video and worksheets that changes lives! 

06/11/2025

We think our ‘work’ is the job we go to or where we get our money from. 

THAT IS NOT YOUR WORK.  

Your work is YOU.💜

The connections and gifts you bring to the world and even if you think you don’t have any… you do! You have many gifts to share. 

Your presence. 

Your peace.  

Your hope.

Your kindness.

How you make people feel. 

What is important is how you heal and become aware of yourSELF so that you can have greater and deeper connections to yourself and the world around you.  That is  your work and that is your gift. 

You deserve to take time to invest in yourself and reconnect with your true feelings.

So, tell us how are you feeling right now? Are you worrying? Are you peaceful?

05/11/2025