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🌟 Empowering tamariki with tools for healthy habits, digital safety, and lifelong wellness. 🌱 Together, we’re building a brighter, healthier future. 💛

18/11/2025

Today was a really meaningful day for our community and for the future of our young people. We joined B416 at Parliament for the official handover of their petition now backed by an incredible 46,000 signatures calling for stronger protections for rangatahi online.

A huge thank you to Anita, Nikita, and Ali for coming along and showing your support, as you always do. And to everyone else who has supported Wellness Within on this journey you know who you are, I am so grateful.

Change truly becomes possible when we act together, and today was a powerful reminder of that ❤️

02/11/2025

Over the month of October, I was lucky enough to deliver my Resilience and Growing Up Digital workshops to 120 amazing tamariki at Corinna School. They were such an awesome group to work with!

It’s always so encouraging when the students themselves recognise that change is needed around the world of social media and how it impacts young people. It’s a great reminder that we’re working with them, not against them and that they want to be part of the solution.

A massive thank you to the Porirua City Council, this was the final workshop series funded through the Young People’s Grant we were awarded by them. I’m forever grateful for the opportunity to reach more young people in our community, especially when funding can be a barrier for schools and organisations.

Feeling very grateful ❤️

Change is possible when we act together.

27/10/2025

Feeling incredibly grateful to be chosen as one of the speakers for Smart Phone Free Childhood NZ.

It’s an honour to be part of such an important movement supporting the wellbeing of our young people and encouraging healthier relationships with technology.

Thank you for this amazing opportunity, I can’t wait to share, learn, and be part of the change.

Change is possible when we act together ❤️

13/10/2025

Wellness Within Take-Home Books

We love that every young person who joins a Wellness Within workshop gets to take home their very own Wellness Within book.

Each book is packed with tools to help young people care for their wellbeing including:
🧠 Goal setting
📝 Journaling pages
🎨 Colouring and reflection activities
💬 Positive affirmations
📞 Helpline numbers and support contacts

These books are designed to help students continue the conversation at home and put their learning into action, building habits that support a healthy body, mind, and online life.

04/10/2025

A big thank you to Ali and Heather from Glow Pilates for hosting me over the past two weekends to run my Growing Up Digital and Resilience workshops.

The youth took part in a Pilates Reformer class followed by the workshops, and we had such an awesome group to work with, so engaged, open, and thoughtful.

It was awesome to hear that some of the young people went home and shared what they learned with their families, with some even creating their own device rules for the school holidays 👏👏

This is what it’s all about, locals supporting locals ❤️

23/09/2025

School Holiday Special

This school holidays, Wellness Within is teaming up with the awesome Glow Pilates to bring something exciting for teens. Teen Reformer Pilates + Wellness Workshops 💪🧠

➡️ Friday 26th at 2:30pm – Reformer Pilates class + Growing Up Digital Workshop

➡️ Saturday 4th at 11am – Reformer Pilates class + Resilience Workshop

A powerful combo of mind + body tools to support teens.

📍 Hosted at Glow Pilates

21/09/2025

A big thank you to the amazing group of parents and caregivers who came along to my Growing Up Digital workshop last week!

I’m so grateful for the time you gave and the feedback you shared.

Your encouragement means so much and motivates me to keep growing and delivering the very best workshops I can.

09/09/2025

Su***de Prevention Day, Standing Together for Change

Every year in Aotearoa, we lose around 565 people to suspected su***de.
That’s 565 friends, whānau, and loved ones gone too soon.

Su***de is the leading cause of death among young people aged 15–19 in New Zealand. For a country as small as ours, these numbers are heartbreaking.

But it doesn’t have to stay this way.

Together, we can create change. Together, we can stand up for one another. Together, we can lift each other higher.

This Su***de Prevention Day, let’s commit to:
• Checking in on our friends and whānau.
• Being kind, even in small ways.
• Talking openly about mental health.
• Reminding each other that asking for help is a strength, not a weakness.

NZ, it’s time to change these stats. Let’s stand together and lift each other up.

05/09/2025

Yesterday I had the pleasure of working with the Year 4, 5 & 6 students at Porirua East School, running my Growing Up Digital workshop.

It was incredible to see the discussions around changes they could make to device use with their families. The students were so open to new ideas which was awesome to see.

I was especially inspired by how many hands went up when I asked who would like to spend less time on devices and more time doing fun activities with their whānau.

One concerning insight was the number of tamariki who admitted they’d spoken online with someone they had never met in real life, most commonly through Roblox. This really highlights how important these conversations are.

Such an awesome group of tamariki, I hope to work with them again in the future, thank you for having me, Porirua East!

31/08/2025

Random Act of Kindness Day

Today is a reminder that kindness is powerful. It doesn’t need to be big or grand sometimes it’s the smallest gesture that can mean the most.

At Wellness Within, we see every day how kindness can change the way someone feels, thinks, and even how they see themselves. One of the most beautiful things about kindness is not only how it makes the other person feel, but how it fills you up too. Seeing the smile, the relief, or the spark of joy in someone else because of something you did, that’s the real magic.

So today, and every day, let’s spread kindness freely. You never know the ripple effect it could have.

What’s one small act of kindness you can do today?

25/08/2025

Back to where it all began

Plimmerton School was the very first place Wellness Within delivered a workshop. Their principal and head of wellbeing saw “a gap in the system” and believed in my vision right from the start. I’ll be forever grateful for that trust and support.

It was their head of wellbeing who encouraged me to apply for the Porirua Councils Young People’s Grant that we were awarded, a step that changed everything. I truly wouldn’t be where I am today without their belief in me and in Wellness Within’s mission.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you ❤️

Here are some moments with their amazing Year 7 students during our Resilience workshop on Friday, such an inspiring group to work with!

08/08/2025

A Huge Thank You!

I’d like to say a massive thank you to Dean, Jo, Dave, and all the Western Suburbs young people and parents for having me last night to present my Resilience workshop.

A special thank you to Porirua City Council for funding the workshop and making it possible for our community to access these sessions.

I hope you all took something valuable away from the session, and I’m really looking forward to returning this coming Friday for my Growing Up Digital workshop.

Wishing you all a safe and happy weekend!

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