Anna Standing Wellbeing Coach

03/01/2026

January often arrives with a lot of pressure.
New goals. Big energy. A sense that we should be doing more already.

But here’s the truth: New Year’s resolutions can be powerful when they’re approached gently and intentionally. When we take time to reflect on what’s really been happening — the patterns, habits and beliefs we keep carrying forward — we give ourselves a much better chance of creating change that actually lasts.

So many resolutions fade not because we lack willpower, but because we skip the reflection and try to leap into a version of ourselves we haven’t yet become.

I’ve shared my thoughts on how to set intentions that feel supportive rather than overwhelming, and how to build small, sustainable habits that help you play the long game — in my latest blog.

✨ Read the full post here ✨
https://www.annastanding.com/post/new-year-new-intentions-not-pressure

If this resonates, I’d love to know — does January feel energising or heavy for you this year?

02/01/2026

Welcome to 2026 🤍 If the turn of a new year brings excitement and anxiety, you’re not alone. Not everyone feels ready to leap forward, set big goals or reinvent themselves in January.

We are in a wintering season — a time for gentleness, quiet, healing and listening. Winter isn’t about pushing. It’s about pausing, reflecting and tending to what truly matters.

And that doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Change and movement still exist here, they just look different. More inward. More intentional. More honest.

When we try to force spring energy in winter, we meet resistance. And that’s often why resolutions don’t last, not because you lack discipline, but because your body and nervous system weren’t ready for that kind of action.

So instead of asking “What should I do this year?”
Try asking:
✨ What does my body need right now?
✨ What wants to be shaped gently before it’s acted on?

If you’d like support exploring what your 2026 could look like — in a way that honours your energy, your season and your wellbeing — send me a message. I’d love to share how my coaching programme can support you in making it a reality 🤍

19/12/2025

Today is my last working day until 5th January, and I’m really looking forward to slowing down.

To say this year has been unexpectedly challenging would be an understatement.

At the start of 2025, I rebranded my business, excited to expand the ways I could support women. Little did I know that all the mindset and identity work I was developing to share with others would soon be tested in my own life.

In May, I was shocked to be diagnosed with bowel cancer. What followed was a tough summer of surgery, recovery, and adjusting to life with a permanent stoma. At the time, you don’t stop to process it — you just keep going.

Only in recent months have I truly begun to absorb the enormity of it all.

This Christmas feels different. Calmer. More grounded. I’m focusing on what I can control, living in the moment, not sweating the small stuff, and reminding myself that my best is enough.

I wouldn’t have chosen this journey — but the lessons it’s taught me, and the person I’ve become, will now shape the way I support others with far greater depth and compassion.

Wishing you a peaceful Christmas and space to slow down, just as you are. 🤍

17/12/2025

This time of year has a way of pulling us outward — towards plans, people, traditions, and expectations.

As I finish up for Christmas and take a pause until 5th January, I’m intentionally doing things that are just for me.

Nothing to prove.
Nothing to improve.
Nothing to explain.

For me, that happens to look like sitting quietly, focused on something simple, absorbing and familiar - jigsaw puzzles -letting my nervous system settle.

Choosing moments like this matters.
Especially at this time of year, when old expectations and familiar patterns can surface without us even noticing.

You don’t need to fill every space.
You don’t need to be available to everyone.
You don’t need to abandon yourself to keep things comfortable.

What matters is that you choose what supports you.
What does that look like for you?

09/12/2025

💝 Struggling to find a Christmas gift that actually makes someone feel better… not just adds to the clutter?

Give them the gift every exhausted, overwhelmed person secretly wants: deep rest, nervous system calm, and one blissful hour where someone looks after them.

Give them REFLEXOLOGY 👣

Reflexology isn’t just a pamper session (though it feels like heaven). It helps release stress, supports better sleep, boosts circulation, and brings the whole body back into balance. It’s grounding, restorative and the perfect reset during the busiest, most emotional time of the year.

That’s why a reflexology gift voucher makes such an incredibly thoughtful Christmas present.

🎁 Gift Options
Choose what suits your loved one best:
• Initial consultation + treatment – £72 (new clients)
• Foot & facial reflexology combination – £85
• Follow-up treatment (for returning clients) – £62
• Course of 3 treatments – £171
• Course of 6 treatments – £310

✨ To purchase your gift voucher, simply click the link below or in my bio
https://bit.ly/buyreflexologygiftcard

If you’d like a beautiful hard-copy voucher to pop under the tree, just send me a DM once you’ve purchased online and I’ll post one out to you (postal deadline 19th December) 💌

Give the gift of calm, balance and genuine wellbeing this Christmas. They’ll thank you for it long after the decorations come down. ✨

Supporting women to find balance, purpose, and well-being through personalised coaching and restorative reflexology treatments

07/12/2025

Confession: I used to spend December exhausted, overwhelmed and running on fumes.

Too much giving, not enough breathing.
Too much doing, not enough being.

This year, I’m doing it differently and I’m sharing some of the tools that have helped me feel more grounded in today’s video.

If you’d love more support, I’ve written a deeper guide with my Top 10 Tips to stay calm in the Christmas chaos, including the tiny things that make a BIG difference.

💛 Read the full blog and subscribe if you’d love these monthly calm-in-your-inbox moments. The link is on my bio and in the comments.

29/11/2025

Some much needed RnR today with my pal Jill learning how to create Kintsugi pottery. Such a beautiful art and I'm so pleased with the result 😁🫶

19/11/2025

✨ Last week I shared snippets from my NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) training… and this week I’m already seeing the impact.

One of my clients messaged me after our session and said:

“Thank you Anna, I found the session really thought-provoking. You reflecting back and challenging some of my limiting beliefs helped me see just how ridiculous those thoughts were. They are not serving me.”

This is the power of learning how the mind works.
And this is the power of reframing the stories we’ve carried—often for decades.

When we understand the language of the mind, everything starts to shift.
Old narratives loosen their grip.
Limiting beliefs lose their authority.
And we suddenly realise: we get to choose a kinder, more empowering way of thinking.

The best part?
Once the breakthrough happens, we can continue building on it, replacing those outdated beliefs with ones that support who we’re becoming.

If you’re ready to shed the weight of years of self-limiting beliefs…
If you want to let go of stories that are no longer serving you…
If you’re craving a more empowering, compassionate and positive inner dialogue…

✨ Then it’s time to book a discovery call (link in bio)
This is exactly what we do inside my Becoming the Woman Within 1:1 coaching programme.

Are you ready to unleash the woman within—the one who is perfectly imperfect, and more than enough… just as she is?

16/11/2025

This week in my NLP training I’ve had moment after moment where something finally clicked.

It’s like someone handed me the manual for how the mind really works — why we react the way we do, why we get stuck, and more importantly… how we can shift it.

I’ve learned tools that help you change the way you think, feel, and show up in your life at the deepest level — not by forcing, but by understanding. Not by “trying harder,” but by rewiring the patterns underneath.

And honestly… it’s changing me first. My awareness. My confidence. The way I speak to myself. And the way I hold space for my clients.

This is going to create a HUGE upgrade in my coaching and in my Becoming the Woman Within programme — because now I have 10x'd my tools to help you shift the beliefs, blocks, and patterns that have been running the show… often without you realising.

Big things are coming 🎉✨

Are you ready for the version of you that doesn’t just cope… but transforms?

Want to know how these AMAZING techniques can help you finally release those limiting beliefs that have been weighing you down for DECADES?

Then DM me and let's start a conversation.

15/11/2025

✨ DAY 4 OF MY NLP TRAINING… and it feels like I’ve unlocked a secret code! ✨

Today we dived into eye patterns — and honestly, it feels like discovering a hidden language that was right in front of me this whole time.

👀 I’ve shared a short video showing my eyes moving:
🔼 Up (Visual) – when we access pictures
⬅️ Left (Auditory) – when we’re replaying sounds
🔽 Down (Kinesthetic) – when we access feelings or internal sensations.

What blew my mind is this:

➡️ These subtle eye movements give us a gateway into how someone is processing information.
➡️ When we understand that, we can communicate in a way that lands deeply, clearly, and compassionately.
➡️ It allows us to meet someone exactly where they are, rather than guessing.

As a coach, this is GOLD.
It means I can connect with my clients on an even deeper level… matching how their mind works, not how I assume it works.

And in everyday life?
This is one of those tools that makes you think, “How did I ever function without knowing this?!”
Conversations suddenly make more sense. Miscommunications become easier to dissolve. People feel more understood.

I’m genuinely blown away by how powerful — and surprisingly simple — this is.

💬 Have you ever noticed your own eye movements when thinking? Or someone else’s?

Let me know in the comments… it’s such a fascinating rabbit hole.

14/11/2025

✨ NLP Training – Day 3 Reflections ✨

Today was MEGA.
We went deep into beliefs—and it blew my mind.

Beliefs aren’t facts.
They’re simply mental constructs… stories you’ve repeated so often that you end up organising your entire behaviour around them.

If you believe something to be true, then it is true—for you.

One quote hit differently today:
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

And to prove how instantly this can happen… here’s my own hilarious (but extremely effective) example:

👉 Today I turned Giant Dairy Milk Chocolate Buttons into… Bogies.

Yes. Bogies.

I took something I liked, something I would automatically choose, and reframed it into something so revolting that my brain instantly rejected it.

In seconds, my desire for it disappeared.
That’s the power of belief shifting:
Change the meaning → change the behaviour.

The room today was full of these kinds of transformations.
Women letting go of stories that no longer served them and replacing them with new, empowering beliefs that will carry them forward.

Imagine how much lighter you will feel when you stop believing the stories like:
“I’m not enough.”
“I’m not worthy.”
“I don’t deserve success/love/happiness.”
(…insert your own here.)

Beliefs can keep us small, or they can set us free.
And I cannot wait to bring this into my coaching practice and help the women I work with rewrite their reality from the inside out.

When you shift the lens… your entire world shifts with it. 💫

12/11/2025

✨ Powerful NLP Insight: The map is not the territory.

This one stopped me in my tracks.
Because it means that none of us see life as it is — we see it through our own unique map, shaped by our beliefs, past experiences, and emotions.

When you truly understand that, it changes everything.
You stop taking things so personally.
You start listening with curiosity instead of judgment.
And you realise — it’s not the situation itself that causes stress or frustration… it’s the meaning we attach to it.

Change the meaning, and you change how you feel.
Change how you feel, and you change how you show up.

🪞 Reflection:
Where in your life might you be reacting to your map rather than the actual territory? What would shift if you saw it through a different lens?

Check back here tomorrow for the next powerful reflection