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Well-being Coach 🌿 | Reflexologist 👣 | Empowering you to thrive! https://linktr.ee/AnnaStandingWellbeingCoach

27/03/2026

Before you decide you’ve “failed” at wellness again this year, I want you to know something: YOU are not the problem.

The women I support are capable, thoughtful, high-responsibility women. They are juggling work, family, relationships, hormones, caring for others, all while quietly wondering when it gets to feel a little lighter again.

Add on the constant wellness noise: the hacks, the shoulds, the subtle messages that you’d be “better” if you just tried a bit harder, and it’s no wonder you feel more exhausted and less like yourself, even when you’re doing “all the right things”.

I created Becoming the Woman Within Collective as a FREE private online community for women like you who are ready to turn down the noise and come back to their own knowing.

Inside, you’ll find calm, grounded coaching from me, realistic body–mind tools, and honest sisterhood. No performance, no gold stars for doing more.

✨ We launch next Wednesday 1st April.
If you’re reading this and thinking, “This is exactly what I’ve been needing”, I’d love you to join us.

👉 Tap the link in my bio to join Becoming the Woman Within Collective (it’s completely free), or comment “COLLECTIVE” below and I’ll DM you the link.

P.S. If you’ve already joined, comment “I’m in” so other women know they won’t be the only new one walking in.

25/03/2026

What if the support you’ve been looking for was already here?

A free online space where you can ask honest questions, get coaching, and stop carrying it all alone. A space to step away from the doom scrolling, the pressure, and the endless search for the next fix.

Becoming the Woman Within Collective is a private community for women who want real support, sisterhood wisdom, and sustainable self-care that works in real life.

Launching 1st April on Telegram.

If this feels like the space you’ve been craving, join us via the link in my bio.

23/03/2026

I cannot believe I'm offering this for FREE 🔥

Are you looking for a space that lightens your load instead of adding to it?

A space where you can finally...

👉 Stop chasing the next "fix yourself" hack
👉 Voice the messiness that no one talks about (and realise you're not the only one)
👉 Get calm coaching + sisterhood support, without performing or pretending you're fine

Becoming The Woman Within (BTWW) Collective launches 1st April — my FREE private Telegram community for busy, capable, women who are done with the pressure/perfection cycle.

No fluff. No hustle. Just tools that fit real life.

👉 Join the BTWW Collective (30 seconds): [link in bio]

See you inside 1st April

19/03/2026

The clients who get the most from reflexology aren’t the ones who wait until they’re burnt out, they’re the ones who don’t wait.

We plan our lives around commitments and responsibilities, yet when it comes to our well-being, we leave it until something feels wrong.

By the time most people book, their nervous system is already overwhelmed: exhausted, not sleeping, running on empty.

This is where it needs to shift - when your next session is already in the diary, you’re no longer reacting, you’re staying regulated instead of constantly recovering.

The way you care for yourself sets the standard for everything else. Maybe it’s time to check your diary.

Booking link is in my bio

16/03/2026

Lately my body has felt like a full-time job.

Peri-menopause has dialled everything up – hormones all over the place, headaches, bone-deep fatigue – while life with a stoma brings its own daily surprises: digestive discomfort, hernia scares, sore skin, wondering what my body is actually absorbing.

None of this is glamorous. It’s messy, inconvenient, and some days are really disheartening. Even as someone who works in well-being, I’m not immune to the “why is this so hard?” days.

This season is asking me to practice what I teach: to notice the story I’m telling myself, to lean on my NLP reframes and nervous system tools, and to choose the most supportive meaning I can find.

A line from my coach keeps echoing in my mind:
Life is what you focus on, what you make it mean, and what you do (or don’t do) about it.

So I’m focusing on compassion for a body that has been through a lot, making this mean I’m being invited to slow down and listen more deeply, and doing what I can – not what I “should” – to support myself each day.

If you’re also navigating peri-menopause, chronic health symptoms, or life with a stoma, I see you. You’re not behind and you’re not failing – you’re moving through something genuinely hard, one small step at a time.

If you’d like a calm, grounded space to explore your own season and find tools that actually support you (rather than push you to “try harder”), you’re welcome to reach out about working together 1:1. We can gently untangle what’s going on for you and find ways forward that honour your body and your life. Link to book a call is in my bio.

13/03/2026

I realised something about wellness that I can’t ignore anymore. It’s this: the wellness world is meant to be about calm, healing, and space. Yet so much of it feels like the opposite. More noise. More pressure. More “do this, be this, fix yourself” advice.

I didn’t come into this work because I had all the answers. I came into it after burning out as a teacher, craving a world that honoured space, quiet and healing.

After almost nine years inside this sphere, I’ve seen how loud it can become. The advice is everywhere. Often confusing, sometimes contradictory. And instead of feeling lighter, women can end up more overwhelmed, more stressed, and further away from themselves.

That’s why I care so deeply about creating space away from that noise – a place where you don’t have to arrive with the answers, a place where nothing needs fixing immediately, just space to reconnect with who you already are.

That’s what I offer through my coaching and reflexology. A pause from the wellness noise. A gentle return to the parts of you that have been quiet for too long. Because sometimes the most powerful thing we can offer ourselves is less pressure, and a little more room to breathe.

If you’ve been craving quiet space like this, you’re very welcome here.

11/03/2026

Anxiety is a time traveller – it drags you back into the past and hurls you into the future, anywhere except the one place you actually have power: right now.

So much fear, overwhelm and worry comes from replaying the past in a harsh, critical voice:
“I should have…”
“I wish I had…”
“It’s my fault.”
That loop keeps your nervous system on edge and your body stuck in stress.

Then there’s the future.
The “what ifs”, the scenarios you play out at 3am, the problems your brain writes before they even exist. That constant predicting and planning can feed anxiety and keep your body in a low‑level fight‑or‑flight state.

We can’t change the past.
We can’t control the future.
But we can shift our attention to the present and that’s where your body starts to feel safer again.

When you come back to the here and now, your threat system (the amygdala) can begin to quieten, your breathing slows, and your whole system gets the message: “I’m safe enough in this moment.”

If your mind is spiralling, try this simple grounding reset:

- First, connect with your breath - slow, gentle inhales and longer exhales.
- Step outside if you can even a short walk in nature can help calm the brain and soften anxiety.
- Count your first 50 steps – this gives your mind something simple and present to focus on.
- Then use the 5–4–3–2–1 senses method: 5 things you can see, 4 you can hear, 3 you can touch, 2 you can smell, 1 you can taste.

This is how you teach your body:
“I’m here. I’m safe. I don’t have to fight my way through this moment.”

If this resonates, tell me in the comments: are you more likely to live in the past or the future – and which of these tools will you try first?

09/03/2026

You’re not failing. You’re overloaded.

If you wake up already bracing for the day, carry an invisible to do list in your head and feel exhausted in a way sleep doesn’t fix… it’s not because you’re “not trying hard enough.” It’s because you’ve been carrying too much, for too long.

I’ve just written a new blog for midlife women who feel like they’re doing all the things and still dropping the ball. It's called:

“What if you’re not the problem: Why trying harder isn’t helping.”

In it, I talk about what overload really feels like, why the noise of advice can make you doubt yourself, and what begins to shift when you finally have space to slow down and listen to what you need.

Tap the link in my bio to read the full blog now. Or visit my website - annastanding.com/blog

Then come back and tell me which part feels most like your life at the moment.

Save this post so you can reread it when you’re tempted to think, “I’ve failed again.”

06/03/2026

Before you decide you’ve “failed” at this year already, I want you to hear this: YOU ARE NOT THE PROBLEM!

The constant wellness noise, the pressure to optimise everything, and the invisible mental load you’re carrying – that’s what’s exhausting you. So many of the women I work with tell me:

“I’m doing the exercise, taking the supplements, listening to the podcasts, doing ALL the things…and I still feel like I’m dropping the ball. There must be something wrong with me.”

If that sounds familiar, my new blog is for you.

It’s called “What if you’re not the problem: Why trying harder isn’t helping” and it’s a gentle, honest read about:

💜 Why you feel so overloaded (and why it’s not in your head)
💜 How constant advice can disconnect you from your own instincts
💜 What begins to shift when you slow down and listen to what you need

Read it here: https://www.annastanding.com/blog
(or tap the link in my bio)

When you’ve read it, I’d truly love to know which part felt most like your life right now? Tell me in the comments or send me a DM.

Save this post to come back to on the days you’re tempted to think, “I’ve failed again.”

02/03/2026

I thought I'd share some of the incredible feedback I have received from some of the women in my coaching programme. These words come from women who arrived believing they should be coping better than they were. Women who had held everything together for so long that they no longer knew where they ended and everyone else’s needs began.

They were not broken. They were exhausted from carrying the invisible load, from second-guessing themselves, from trying to keep up with the noise telling them who they should be and how they should be living.

Inside the work I do, nothing dramatic is imposed. There is just space to pause, to hear your own voice again, to notice what has been quietly waiting underneath all the doing and the striving. From that place, steadiness returns. Decisions feel clearer. Energy begins to come back. And you recognise yourself again...sometimes for the first time in years!

I share these words with deep gratitude and permission from the women in my coaching programme. Perhaps they land as a quiet nudge, inviting you to tune back in to the woman within you who has been waiting beneath the noise.

And if you feel you have lost the ability to hear her, this is the work we do together. My coaching programme exists to help you reconnect with that inner voice and trust what she already knows.

01/03/2026

My dance challenge is complete 💃

Thank you to every single person who supported me over the past month. Your encouragement, messages, donations and cheerleading meant more than I can say.

Because of you, I didn’t just reach my fundraising target — I smashed it. On the days I felt self-conscious or tired, knowing people were behind me kept me showing up.

This challenge was never really about the dancing. It was about doing something that felt uncomfortable, and about raising money for something deeply important to me.

If you have already donated, please know how grateful I am. And if you meant to but life got busy, there is still time to contribute - the link is in my bio.

Thank you for being part of this with me 💛

24/02/2026

Day 24… still dancing

I started this challenge as a way of celebrating this body and this life after a year that changed everything. I didn’t expect to feel so supported along the way 🥹

Your messages, encouragement and donations have meant more than I can say — I’m honestly blown away. Thank you ❤️

Just 4 days to go… so if you’ve been meaning to donate, there’s still time. Let’s finish this challenge with a bang.

And I need strong contenders for the final playlist 💃
What should I dance to next? Let me know in the comments.

Link in bio to donate

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