About Me
Hi I’m Julie, I’m a health coach who loves to help women deal with the health and fitness overwhelm that can stop them living the life they want. Focusing on a healthy relationship with food and introducing physical activity, I provide strategies that lead to realistic and maintainable results so they can finally feel like themselves.
It sounds so easy……
Being told to “eat less, move more…” just doesn’t cut it at midlife. I find it heart-breaking to hear of women who struggle towards and through midlife, feeling like a stranger, someone they don’t even recognise anymore, struggling with a body they can no longer control, with issues such as:
Low mood, Sleeplessness, Anxiety, Hot flushes, Brain fog, Weight gain.
I know how hard it can be to regain your body confidence especially if you’ve had children and are peri/menopausal, I have first hand experience of heading into the menopause and know how some of the symptoms can leave you feeling anxious and overwhelmed.
I want to encourage you to see how changing your mindset can make a positive impact on how you feel and for you to gain an understanding of how body and mind work together, so you can really appreciate what you are capable of regardless of your age, size or shape.
Why I do what I do
I have always been fascinated about how much, and what, we eat, and don’t eat. And whether women exercise, how much, and why they do it. It struck me from a young age that food, and body size is in control of so many women, yet what they desire is to be the one in control. This can seem so strangely and frustratingly elusive.
I have had my own struggles with food, eating, and body image. A lot of conflict. My 1st diet was age 18, I was a fashion model and I knew I needed to stay ‘thin’, it was also impressed upon us that work would dry up if we were to gain weight. It has had a huge impact on my body image and eating habits for the rest of my life. It’s only more recently that I recognise this.
It meant that I grew up through my 20’s/30’s/40’s always feeling like I should eat less, yet battling the fact that I love food. I have been an undereater and an overeater, an exercise fanatic and non-mover, never truly happy with the body I had.
Having been in the menopause for quite a few years, along with a health scare, feeling good in myself is about so much more than food. It’s about how well I nourish myself in all ways, eating is only one part of the story. What is important to me now is feeling at peace with myself in both body and mind, everyday my journey continues and builds. Peace with my body, my movement, my eating, and a calmer mind are now my main aims.
