Core, Cheadle Hulme (2026)

24/12/2025

Christmas rest has a habit of inviting thoughts that don’t usually get airtime. The ones that pop up just as you finally stop.

I call them Uncle Daves.
Unhelpful, loud and quite frankly inappropriate.

The 3 ANDs are a simple confidence tool I use with clients to help those thoughts loosen their grip.

Not by fighting them but by making room for more than one truth at a time.

You can rest and be capable.
You can pause and still have plans.
You can enjoy the sofa and trust yourself to deal with things later.

No inner arguments required. Just a bit more space to actually enjoy Christmas.

If this lands, save it for when an Uncle Dave shows up 🍪✨

20/12/2025

As 2025 comes to a close, I’m feeling grateful for a year of real connection and growth.

It ain’t been easy, with a house move and various personal challenges BUT what I am taking with me are the real highs:

• My support for individuals and teams in corporate spaces to step beyond constant doing, work strategically from their strengths and trust their judgement.
• My continued 1:1 coaching and group sessions to help people advocate for themselves with their own sense of comfortable confidence.
• My meaningful work with young people in and outside of educational spaces to help build self-trust and future focus.

Looking ahead to 2026, I’m excited to launch a new weekly confidence class (The Confidence Class ) a space to connect, practice and keep momentum going in a way that feels comfortable and real.

It’s going to be a busy 2026 and yet, I am hyper-aware of the need to prioritise my wellbeing and sacred rest amongst that. (Thank you 2025 for that lesson)!

Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this journey! Here’s to more growth, trust and oodles of comfortable confidence in the year ahead.

Over and out 🙏

📸 - thank you for your wonder, energy and fabulous camera skills 😘

19/12/2025

The Confidence Class
Starting January 15th | Wednesdays 6.30–8pm |

Confidence isn’t just for a certain type of person. It’s for all of us. Men and women, at different stages of life, wanting to feel more comfortable, capable and grounded in who they are.

This weekly confidence class is a space to build confidence gradually and honestly. Meeting each week means you build trust, connection and momentum. You start to notice the shifts as they happen. Week by week, confidence feels more familiar, more available and more yours.

Each session is led by accredited coach Gemma Cousins and follows a supportive, practical rhythm.

You’ll be guided through a confidence exercise or tool, have the opportunity to share your confidence challenges, and experience the insight and reassurance that comes from group coaching. We finish each session with a grounding, calming meditation or focus to help you leave feeling settled and supported.

This is confidence you can explore, nurture and develop in real time, with others walking alongside you.

I’d love to see you there.

18/12/2025

My relationship with rest is a tough one.

Rest equals guilt.
Busy equals value.

I value rest.
I endorse rest.
I just don’t regularly prescribe it to myself.

Going slow brings guilt.
The word lazy pops into my head.
And once that label lands, the restorative power of rest disappears.

So instead, I busy myself into forced rest.
Exhaustion. Illness. Burnout.

That kind of stopping feels acceptable.
Guilt free.
But it’s recovery, not restoration.

As the Christmas break approaches, I can feel myself naturally slowing down and with it, that familiar guilt starts to creep in.

And yet…

When I stop.
When I lie down, sit, stand still… there are rewards.

The busy thoughts land.
I can see them, sort them, make sense of them.
My aches soften and the tension eases. My body remembers how to be gentle.

So I’m experimenting.

Observing my relationship with rest and noticing where physical comfort turns into mental discomfort and staying there a little longer just to gently expand my capacity to rest without punishment.

This feels like important work.

What’s your relationship with rest like?

17/12/2025

Confidence isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about getting clear on what you want and learning how to move towards it with trust in yourself.

The Confidence Class starts Jan 15th .

A weekly space to pause, reflect, build self-trust and take intentional action.

If you’re feeling a quiet nudge that there’s more you want from next year, this is where you begin.

Weekly. Supportive. Practical.

A place to come back to yourself and move forward with clarity.

Led by accredited confidence coach, Gemma Cousins ACC

Link in bio to join or visit core-you.com/the-confidence-class

16/12/2025

A gentle Christmas reminder.

Before the diary fills up and the expectations creep in, pause and ask yourself:

“what do I actually want this Christmas?”

Make a list of five things that would genuinely nourish you.

Big or small. Quiet or joyful.

Then schedule them in.

Not as a reward for getting everything else done, but because they matter too.

So many people arrive back at work in January feeling depleted, wondering where the break went.

Filling your own cup over Christmas isn’t indulgent.
It’s how you move through the season with more ease, energy and self-trust.

What’s one thing you’d put on your list?

15/12/2025

This time of year has a way of pulling us outward.
More giving. More doing. More expectations, spoken and unspoken.

Confidence isn’t just about pushing through or holding it all together, it’s also the choice to pause, to check in and to decide what you actually have the capacity for.

Boundaries aren’t selfish. They’re how you stay well enough to enjoy what really matters.

You cannot be everything to everyone.

12/12/2025

This morning I said to my husband, “Kate Winslet is amazing. She advocates being the best you and living with integrity every day. I wish I’d heard that message as a child.”

He looked at me and said, “My love, you’re giving that message to our children.”

And honestly… it stopped me.

How had I missed that?
How was I looking everywhere else for the qualities I admire, without recognising that I live them too?

So here’s your reminder today:
Before you look outwards for someone to admire, pause and look at your own reflection. You’ll find more strength, integrity and goodness there than you realise.

You’re allowed to admire you.

10/12/2025

A reminder: confidence isn’t something you build. It’s intrinsic.

It’s trust in your confidence that’s built.
Through the small actions you follow through on. 🧱
Through the moments you show yourself you can rely on you. 🫵
That’s where steady, comfortable confidence grows and it’s the proof that you’ve got this. Because you have 💪

09/12/2025

The Confidence Class starts on 15 January 2026 at Luna Wholebeing.

Think of it like a weekly class for your confidence.
You’ll learn simple tools, try them out in a supportive group and slowly build confidence that feels natural for you.

If you’re tired of second guessing yourself, overthinking or shrinking back when you want to step forward, this space is for you.

📍 In-person
🗓 Weekly from 15 Jan 2026
💬 Guided confidence exercises, gentle group coaching and time to reflect

Want to join us?
Comment “INFO” or head to the link in my bio to grab your spot.

08/12/2025

A friend asked me today: “What do you need?”
And it stopped me in my tracks.

How often do we actually pause and ask ourselves that?

Not what should I do or what’s next or who needs me…
but what do I need?

It pulls you straight into yourself.
It shows you what’s missing, what’s waning, what’s asking for attention.

I’m grateful to my friend for being curious enough to ask.

So… I’m asking you…

What do you need today? 🤔

06/12/2025

I’ve been trying to get really clear on why I do this work… and it comes down to three things.

1. I want to help people make sense of the world and their place in it.

2. I want people to feel confident and comfortable being themselves; every flavour, every version.

And 3. I genuinely give a massive s**t about people and their potential.

That’s it.
That’s the core of what I do.
Because this work matters.
Skilled helpers matter.
Real change makers matter.

And I’m looking forward to the day when coaching is seen as naturally and as importantly as therapy. Because it is. And it should be.

Core

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