My Favourite Books 2020
This year I read over 100 books. The vast majority I loved and have listed some of my favourite books below. I love reading about other peoples favourites, so I hope you enjoy mine! I loved The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight books). A contemporary...
Working from Home Selfcare Tracker
For many of us working from home, rather than in an office sounds fab, but can be quite a challenge to keep boundaries between the two. The distinction between on and offline gets blurred. Taking the time to work out how to stay active and keep healthy can be a...
3 Ways to Improve Ankle Mobility
Your ankles and feet are often the most neglected part of the body when it comes to exercising. When they are tight, they can have a big impact on your range of movement. Limited ankle mobility can cause you to plateau on exercises such as squats or chair pose in...
Quitting for Success
Quitting is often thought to be a bad thing. But it gives you some fabulous information and insights to help you do it differently and be successful next time around. There are 7 billion people on the planet and therefore 7 billion ways to be healthy. We mistakenly...
3 Ways to Improve Your Push Ups
3 Ways to Improve Your Push Ups Love them or hate them, push-ups are a consistent part of any gym routine. Therefore improving your push ups is a constant part of your gym routine. For 3 ways to improve your push ups I am assuming that you currently exercise. You are...
Exercising at Home & Staying Active
We all know how important it is to exercise and stay active. We now have an opportunity to try a new way of exercising and keeping active at home during lockdown or social distancing. Things to think about over the next few weeks: Doing something is better than...
Menopause: Are You Ready?
Are you ready? It’s coming. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But it’s coming. Are you going to wait until it whacks you over the head or are you going to patiently wait and invite her in when she arrives? A Letter to My Menopause Hello Welcome. I’ve been...
Tips for Exercising at Home
Exercising at home is a great option during the menopause. I have nine top tips for you to get the most out of your workout sessions. 1. Be organised Ideally you would want to treat your workouts at home in the same way as you would treat going to a class or a session...
Rediscover YOU in the menopause
Rediscover YOU in the menopause The menopause is not just physical changes, it can change how we feel about ourselves too. I have some practical tips to feel like your old self again! Click to watch the video below which is 35 mins...
How Journaling Can Improve Menopause Symptoms
How a Journal Can Improve Menopause Symptoms It’s easy just to concentrate on the physical aspects of the menopause, but we ‘feel a lot of feeling’ during the menopause which we often stuff down rather than process. Personally I think its how the physical...
Prepare for the Menopause
Preparing for the Menopause How do you prepare for the menopause? We have gone from having very little information about the menopause to information overload. While it’s great to have so much information, it’s hard to sift through it to find out the...
Healthy Eating Challenge
There are 5 challenges in this year’s healthy eating week from British Nutrition Foundation. What I love about them, is that there is nothing new or exotic about them. There is nothing extra to buy for you to buy and you will have heard off all of them before! Because...
Natural Ways to Reduce Menopause Symptoms
Natural Ways to Reduce Menopause Symptoms We are often so busy looking after other people, running our homes, working long hours that taking care of ourselves is at the bottom of the list. The menopause can appear like an uninvited guest when you don’t have the...
Menogise: Minimising Menopause Malarkey
Looking around at the fitness classes that are available to me approaching 50, there appears to be a big jump from standard classes to silver surfer classes with not much in between. So, I have created a class that I would like to attend! Menogise is a class for women...
Becoming 50
This year (2019) I will be fifty. Half a century. Whichever way you look at it, it’s a big birthday. I choose to see it as a halfway point, I plan to live into my hundreds! Personally I don’t think it’s by accident that such a big birthday happens...
Yoga and Menopause
Yoga and Menopause I love yoga, but there are also many things that I don’t like about yoga. Like many people I took my first yoga class at my gym over a decade ago to stretch and to increase my flexibility. In 2017 I completed my yoga teacher training which I have...
Exercise Goals That Are Not Weight Loss or Running
Exercise goals not weight loss or running Goals are a great way to keep exercise interesting and to keep you motivated. Running or losing weight seem to be the most common goals. During the menopause, you may find you have to find a different way of exercising as you...
How To Exercise When You Have No Energy
This week saw another study which confirmed exercise is good for your health. Inactivity and sitting in particular causes a raft of diseases. We all know the benefits of exercise but when you are approaching the menopause your energy levels can plummet due to hormonal...
Starting To Exercise Again? Find or Make Time?
Starting to exercise again is not just about how you are going to exercise. It is also about finding the time and creating an exercise habit. I think there are two approaches to exercising, it’s either flexibility or fixed. Finding or Making Time Neither is better...
Stages Of The Menopause
Every woman knows she will be menopausal. However, it always happens when we are way to young to be menopausal and at not a very convenient time. As with many things in life that we do not choose, the only thing left is to choose our attitude towards the menopause and...
Starting To Exercise Again?
The menopause can shake up your exercise routine and not always in a good way. The quotes you used to find motivational don’t make much sense to you now. ‘No pain, no gain’ no thanks ‘Go hard or go home’ yes please I’d rather go home ‘Your workout today will soon be...
My Favourite Books
My “go to” book when clients are stuck. Lot’s of aha moments when reading it. If you don’t know where to start with mantra’s there are plenty of examples here! The best introduction and explanation of Law of Attraction in a novel. Fallen...
Holidays and the Menopause
Preparing for holidays Getting ready for holidays can feel like a mammoth task in itself. A never ending to-do list with more adding in that being taken off, or so it feels like. Sometimes it’s work related, but many of the tasks are nice to haves. It’s a good time to...
Why is Pilates Good For You?
What is Pilates good for? Pilates is a core strengthening exercise programme. However, there is more to Pilates than just abs exercises. Your core is a group of muscles that wrap around your torso like an old-style corset. However it is often better to think of your...
3 ways to improve your Downward Dog
Downward Dog is one of my favorite poses in yoga. Mainly because it is so versatile. It is a deep stretch up the backline of the body and can also be used to strengthen to your upper body. It can be performed during the warmup part of your yoga practice as well as a...
Is it time to take your menopause seriously?
The menopause is a phase, and that phase has many phases within. Some you will breeze through barely noticing and others will feel like walking thru mud with wellies on. The truth is we are all busy women, and we often don’t have a lot of time for looking after...
Why is it so hard to lose weight over 40?
Once upon a time, you were able to skip lunch for a few days and easily fit into your Friday night dress. Why is it so hard now? Well, a lot has probably changed since then. You may have more responsibilities now. If you think back then, it was probably quite a...
3 Ways to Improve Low Back Stiffness
Low back stiffness can occur for many reasons, but it is often because we spend so much time sitting. If you are a desk junkie, here are three ways to improve stiffness in your lower back. These movements can be performed a couple of times throughout the day, perhaps...
