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I help women to harness their strength; working with you to improve fitness doing exercise you enjoy

16/02/2026

One of my fave meals of the day (it’s definitely in my top 3 🙃)

Lots of my clients struggle with breakfast ideas and how to get a nice dose of protein first thing (something I highly recommend to set you up well for the day). Here are a few of my breakfasts from last week:

1) porridge (made with soy milk if you’re vegan or don’t do well with dairy as it’s higher in protein) and topped with a bit of greek yog or kefir, berries and nut butter
2) bagel with scrambled egg, avo and optional spinach and sauerkraut for extra goodness
3) overnight oats made with greek yog, chia seeds and flaxseeds, topped with blueberries & sunflower seeds
4) yoghurt bowl (this was a mix of skyr and kefir) with banana, oats, almonds & berries

No super processed foods and not trying to “cut calories” - just focussing on nutrient dense, whole foods as much as possible. Happy breakfasting!!

06/02/2026

We’re often told to add more for our health… more supplements, more workouts, more hacks 🫠
But sometimes feeling better is about reducing, not adding (but i’m not talking about calories!)

- Less stress (easier said than done, I know).
- Less screen time (your eyes and brain will thank you).
- Less ultra-processed food (progress > perfection here).

We really don’t need extremes, guilt or shaming.  Just small (hopefully collective) shifts that add up over time.

Save this for later + tell me — which one would you start with?

31/01/2026

Some January joy (cause it wasn’t all rain and Blue Mondays)
1) special times with ✨
2) gals 🧡
3) an epic marble run
4) over 100 days of meditation & feeling mighty zen
5) the classic tale of the lion & the parakeet
6) sleepover club
7) boys 🧡
8) the hottest of dates

26/01/2026

I became a PT for aaaall the wrong reasons

I wasn’t someone that always knew what they wanted to do. I did a degree in English mostly because uni was something people did and I was quite good at the subject, but I didn’t feel particularly passionate about what my future career would or could be.

I trained to be a personal trainer at 21, not long after finishing that degree. At the time I was still (though in total denial about it) deeply disordered in my eating and exercise behaviours. My diet was extremely calorie controlled, and thoughts around food, exercise and the size of my body took up a depressingly large proportion of my thoughts. I wasn’t feeling fulfilled in the job that I was in, but I enjoyed going to the gym every day and figured - why not make that my job? In retrospect, quite problematic to choose a career that further solidified fitness, exercise, food, “wellness” making up my entire existence when my relationship with it was still as dysfunctional as it was.

It seems it’s possible to make the right decisions for the wrong reasons, though. Seeing other women put themselves down, restricting and punishing themselves with exercise and diets and being part of their healing journey, ended up helping me to heal too.

I’m SO grateful I took this path and discovered a “passion to train women to tap into their strength - in a calm and empathetic way” (tysm for the beautiful words Abi!!)

So there’s my life story (or a few years of it) that no one asked for….and a big bunch of gratitude for you for being here and for all the women that put their trust in me and allow me to keep making a living out of doing this really bloody great job x

20/01/2026

A big🖕🏻to diet culture & anything that tells us that our weight dictates our worth.

I think my relationship with food and body image will always be a little bit of a work in progress (a decade of disordered eating is tricky to totally unpack) but BOY have I come a long way. Here a few of the realisations I’ve made over the years that mean I’ll never go down that slippery slope again;

- Restricting food didn’t help me progress, it only kept me stuck. You cannot thrive or move forward physically, mentally or emotionally, when you feel like garbage 24/7 because you aren’t eating enough
- You don’t need to use exercise as a tool to “earn your calories”. You need to use food as a tool to fuel all the cool stuff you want to do with your life, whether that be in or out of the gym
- Not tracking my intake and eating more didn’t make me any of the things my brain told me it would (from greedy, out of control, lazy all the way to full blown unloveable). It made me stronger, more energised and resilient

09/01/2026

I don’t have any fitness goals for 2026 — here’s why.

As a women’s coach, it’s important to me to lead by example. Early in my career, I believed that meant being the fittest person in the room: the strongest, the fastest, the most disciplined. I thought my credibility lived in how hard I could push my body.

Experience has taught me otherwise.

What you and I need isn’t an example of relentless optimisation — it’s an example of how fitness can serve your life, just as it is. For those of us with jobs, families, hobbies — anyone who isn’t a professional athlete — fitness doesn’t need to be the centre of everything to be meaningful or effective.

The gym exists to serve us, not the other way around. We don’t need to be slaves to gruelling regimes to be fit and well. In fact, more often than not, chasing “more, harder, better” pulls us further away from feeling healthy, grounded, and energised.

That doesn’t mean avoiding challenge. We do need moments of effort, discomfort, and growth — those things help us thrive. But we’re not meant to live at max capacity all the time.

So the goal isn’t more discipline or higher standards anymore.
It’s balance.
Sustainability.
And a relationship with fitness that supports a full, happy life, strong, long life — will you join me? ✨

05/01/2026

It’s been a wonderful break ✨🎄🌊

15/12/2025

LADIES WHO WANT TO START STRENGTH TRAINING! 🚨 I’ve got just the thing for you…

Introducing Starting Strength, my beginner’s strength online programme. I’ve designed this programme for any woman who wants to start strength training, but isn’t sure where to begin. The programme is available to purchase now (link in my bio!) - our founding members will be starting strong all together on January 5th. If you’re one of the founding members you’ll also get it at the lowest price it will ever be available - just £50.

You can expect:
✨ 3 workouts a week (approx 45 mins per session) targeting your strength, power and cardio in a way that best suits our female physiology
✨ Technique guidance, as well as informational videos from myself on topics such as “how to train with your menstrual cycle”
✨ A scalable, adaptable and progressive plan
✨ A community group to connect with your fellow strong women and myself

There is also a ‘Starting Strength At Home’ version of the programme if you don’t have a gym accessible to you.

If prioritising your strength, fitness and health is your goal for 2026 (and forever after) this is the perfect place to start.

Join via the link in my bio!! Can’t wait to have you on board x

09/12/2025

Fitness industry icks 😮‍💨

Call it unconventional that I don’t get my clients to take progress pictures or use myfitnesspal to track their food intake if you will - but I’m in the market of helping women build a positive relationship with their bodies, with food and exercise. Those those things AIN’T IT.

When it comes to creating meaningful, lasting and positive change, our industry needs to change the script and do better. ✨

06/11/2025

Life lately ✨

03/11/2025

Settle in - this post will likely be a massive waste of your time 😆

A massive word dump because it’s helped me to clarify how I’ve been feeling about sharing on here lately. Too much pressure on what and when and how I post, too much doom scrolling and self comparison, not enough just showing up as I am rather than how I think I *should* be

Thanks for being here on the ride, hope you’ll stick with me (but it’s all love if you don’t, because Instagram followers are surely the very least of our problems) 💋 ✨

19/10/2025

weekly round-up (the Bluestone edition 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)
the lushest week discovering Bluestone with our wonderful pals. Core mems made with + crew 🧡

1) spooky girl gang
2) mini skywalkers
3) silent disco with the gals
4) living her zip line dream
5) living her fairy hunting dream
6) a sweet little pumpkin
7) terrorising the Park Ranger as per
8) first bike ride 🥹
9) hangin’ out
10) Tenby adventurers
11) water bbes
12) 🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃

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