If you'd told teenage me I'd end up working in fitness, I probably would have laughed at you. I hated sport in school. In my twenties, I developed generalised anxiety disorder and struggled with it for years. It affected how I ate, where I went and how comfortable I felt socially. I gained a lot of weight, avoided mirrors, and there are whole periods of my life with barely any photographs of me.
So when I started training, there was no great love of fitness behind it.
I wanted to lose weight. That was it.
What I didn't expect was to fall in love with getting stronger.
I loved realising that something I couldn't do a few weeks earlier was suddenly possible. I became fascinated by anatomy and movement, how small changes could transform an exercise, and how strengthening one area could affect another.
That curiosity eventually became a career. I qualified as a personal trainer and later as a Mat Pilates instructor.
Why I Coach
I’ve spent the last number of years coaching people in small-group classes, and one thing becomes obvious pretty quickly: everyone walks into the room carrying something different.
Different goals, worries, experiences and ideas about what they’re capable of. I know what it feels like to think everyone else belongs more than you do. So making sure you know you deserve to take up space matters to me.
Fitness should build you up, not become another baton to beat yourself down with.
Weight loss can absolutely be a goal. It was mine too. But there’s a difference between weight loss being a target and being your reason to move. If the scales are always the finish line, exercise can become something we start when we want to “fix” ourselves and stop when the job feels done.
I want you to find something that keeps you moving after that box is ticked. Strength. A clearer head. Confidence in what your body can do. Or simply movement you actually enjoy.
That’s LIFE In Progress. Bring the goal. We’ll work towards it.
I just want you to leave with something bigger than it.
Pregnancy, Postpartum & Me
I specialised in pre and postnatal exercise before becoming pregnant myself. Then I had Sadie, and suddenly the education was sitting alongside the reality of living it.
What struck me most was how individual everything was. Your body, symptoms and circumstances can change week to week. Pregnancy and postpartum coaching can't simply be a PDF to follow. It needs real support, conversation and the ability to adapt with you.
There are brilliant GPs, women’s health physios and other professionals supporting recovery. But between appointments, you can still be left trying to connect the pieces. Is this normal? Am I ready? What happens next?
That’s the gap I want REBUILD to bridge.
Connecting recovery and clinical support with meaningful exercise, and bringing the advice and rehab you’ve been given into training that considers your whole body, your goals and how you’re actually feeling.
Because recovery and returning to exercise shouldn’t feel like two separate things.
