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Mom | Prenatal & Postnatal | Yoga & Fitness
DIY Baby Massage Course | Online Fitness Coach since 2015

28/10/2026

I’ve never wanted to build clients who are only “good” when I’m watching.

Of course I care about strength. Progress. Consistency. Body composition if that’s your goal. I care about the measurable stuff too.

But some of my favourite coaching wins are much quieter.

It’s when a woman tells me she enjoyed a meal without immediately worrying about what it did to her weight.

When she notices her own posture before I point it out.

When a holiday throws her routine off, she feels bad about it for a while… and then catches herself and asks, “Okay, what CAN I do from here?”

When she starts recognising which side is stronger, where she compensates, when she needs to modify and when she can push a little more.

When missing three days no longer becomes missing three weeks.

Because there are 365 days in a year.

If you take care of yourself for 250 of them, I’m really not interested in making you feel guilty about the other 115.

Life will take some days.

Your children will take some.
Travel will.
Celebrations will.
Exhaustion will.
Sometimes you’ll simply choose something else.

What matters to me is whether you know your way back.

I don’t want you dependent on a coach forever to tell you whether you’ve been “good” today.

I want you to understand your body, your habits and yourself well enough to make the next useful decision.

“That’s one of my biggest parameters for successful coaching.”

Not perfection.

Not obedience.

Competence. Awareness. And knowing how to come back.

women’s fitness, prenatal fitness, postpartum fitness, strength coaching, sustainable fitness

26/10/2026

Sometimes the difference between “I don’t get this movement” and “OH… that’s what you mean” is simply giving the body better feedback.

And this matters even more to me when I’m coaching pregnancy and postpartum.

Your body is changing. Your centre of mass changes. The way you manage load and pressure can change. And postpartum, we’re often rebuilding confidence in movements that are part of everyday life.

So I don’t just want you to hinge because someone said, “Do 12 reps.”

I want you to understand what you’re doing.

**Here’s what changes with the band setup:**

When the **anchor point is BEHIND me**, the band around my hips pulls my pelvis **back toward the anchor**. I can use that pull as feedback to help me find the backward hip shift of the hinge.

Then I turn around.

Now the **anchor point is IN FRONT of me**, so the band pulls my hips **forward toward the anchor**. As I hinge back, I’m moving against that pull, and then using my hips to return to standing with resistance.

So even though the movement looks similar, **the direction of the band changes what I’m asking my body to respond to.**

Neither setup is automatically better.

The question is:

**What am I trying to teach or train with it?**

Because exercises are just tools.

Good coaching is knowing **why, when and for whom** you’re using them.

And especially during pregnancy and postpartum, that matters far more to me than collecting another 50 “safe exercises” from Instagram. 😉

postpartum fitness, hip hinge, strength training for women, pregnancy exercise

18/10/2026

13/10/2026

A crying baby can be uncomfortable.
I don’t think we need to pretend otherwise.
You may be tired. You may have paid for a quiet dinner. You may be trapped on a flight for the next six hours thinking, oh God, please stop crying. 😭
You’re allowed to feel that.

But what we do with that discomfort matters.
Because if the mother is already holding, rocking, feeding, walking, soothing and trying to understand what her baby needs… the looks, sighs and judgement aren’t going to make that baby regulate any faster.

They’ll just give the mother one more person to manage.
And mums — I think we’ve become so accustomed to this that we automatically start apologising.
“Sorry… she’s tired.”
“I’m so sorry, he normally doesn’t do this.”

You don’t have to apologise for every developmentally normal moment your child has in somebody else’s presence.

Of course, there’s a distinction.
A child repeatedly kicking someone’s seat while the parent ignores it is different from a parent actively parenting a child who is still struggling.
Children need boundaries.
Parents need to parent.

And sometimes the rest of us need to recognise that good parenting doesn’t mean a child immediately stops crying, moving, melting down or being inconvenient.

motherhood, parenting, crying baby, child development, emotional regulation
Sometimes everyone in that room is practising regulation.

Including us. ❤️

06/10/2026

Two inches. Almost two years.

And yes, sometimes that has been frustrating.

Especially because I’m a coach.

I’ve watched clients make changes in 3, 4 or 6 months that took me considerably longer to figure out in my own body.

But there’s a reason for that.

They don’t have to make all the mistakes I made first.

I had to learn through my own body.

How I was breathing.
How I was managing pressure.
How I was standing and moving throughout the day.
How I was approaching my core training.
What I was compensating with.
What needed strengthening rather than simply “pulling my stomach in.”

And then I had to repeat those things for long enough for them to matter.

My clients get the version of that knowledge that has already been questioned, practised, adjusted and simplified.

And still, bodies have their own timelines.

Some women notice significant changes within months.
Some take longer.
Progress isn’t always linear, and diastasis isn’t something I judge only by how a stomach looks or by the width of a gap.

Function matters. Pressure management matters. Strength matters. How you feel in your body matters.

And yes — sometimes it’s strange being the coach whose own progress is slower than her clients’.

But maybe that’s also part of why I don’t give up on women when their bodies don’t change on somebody else’s timeline.

Mine didn’t either. And it still changed.

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