REP Coaching

25/12/2025

🎄 Nadolig Llawen / Merry Christmas 🎄

This time of year can feel like a strange mix, warmth and connection sitting alongside reflection and loss.

Last Christmas, I lost my dad. A year on, this season still holds both love and sadness. It’s taught me, personally and through the women I work with, that it’s okay to hold more than one feeling at once. Joy and grief. Strength and vulnerability. None of them cancel each other out.

As the year comes to a close and the light slowly begins to return, many of us feel pulled between needing space and wanting connection. We look back, we look forward, and we quietly carry everything in between.

You don’t have to be “fine.”
You’re allowed to rest.
You’re allowed to feel.

As we move towards a new year, I hope you hold yourself with the same compassion you so freely give to others.

Nadolig Llawen 🤍

22/12/2025

The kids fly the nest and the pets clock in for full-time emotional support duty. 🐶🐾

Empty nest? No. Just a different species. 🐾🐶🐾❤️❤️❤️❤️

19/12/2025

Christmas is meant to be cosy,
but for many it’s actually highly stimulating. 🎄

Noise. Rushing. Expectations. Emotion.

If your nervous system feels jittery or unsettled right now,
nothing is wrong with you.

This season doesn’t have to be about doing more.

Maybe it’s about resting more.

Less performance.
More presence.

Enough is enough ❤️

18/12/2025

This is what safety looks like for me today.
Small. Ordinary. Powerful. 🤍

safe

13/12/2025

Life is loud at the moment.
Sometimes grounding is just stopping long enough to breathe.

If today feels a lot, you’re not alone 💛

12/12/2025

One week on from my viva and I’m finally letting it land.

Sitting here with my tea, the tree lights on, and a whole mix of emotions.

If you’d told 16-year-old me where I’d be at 47, she wouldn’t have believed you.

There’s pride, real, grounded pride, in what I’ve achieved.
And there’s grief too, for the losses along the way and the versions of me that had to survive before they could ever dream.

This moment isn’t loud.
It’s quiet, reflective, and deeply felt. 🤍

08/12/2025

Normally getting a call off my kids just as I’m settling down to sleep that isn’t an emergency would annoy me. 😂😂😂

But when your son can’t speak for laughing because he’s joined his nan’s jam on Spotify and basically put on a play list of gangsta rap and cardi B WAP, you can’t help but laugh!! 😂😂😂😂

Mum was fast asleep so didn’t appreciate it fully, but I’m sure her subconscious didn’t know what had hit it! 😂😂😂😂

Never a dull moment here!

What funny pranks have your kids pulled that you should be annoyed with but can because it just too damn funny??

07/12/2025

✨ Two days post-viva reality check… ✨

This morning I woke up with a head that felt like a ball of knotted wool — the kind of mental tangle you get after big emotions, big milestones, and not enough breathing space in between.
Passing my viva was huge… but my nervous system clearly didn’t get the memo.

So I grabbed my coffee, got in the car, and drove five minutes down the road to the Menai Straits to decompress.
Just me, the cold morning air, the sea, and a bit of stillness.

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is step outside, sit in the quiet, and let our bodies catch up with what our brains have been through.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed today, knotted up, or a bit “post-everything”… it’s okay to pause.
It’s okay to sit on a rock by the water.
It’s okay to breathe.

Big things take time to process — even the wonderful things. 💛

06/12/2025

Looks like doggies are getting a bath later today, for now they can sleep after a very early morning trip to the zoomie zone.

05/12/2025

So I did it, I passed my Viva! I have a few amendments to make but that’s fine. I spoke coherently whilst quaking inside to begin with. I stayed calm and carried on.

I’m now back home, after a celebratory lunch with my supervisors, with comfy clothes on letting it sink in!

I did it!!

I bloody did it!!

From teen mum to PhD!!

05/12/2025

04/12/2025

PH nearly Done!!
# Phdstudentlife