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Chaotically Calm MJ Hi! I am Dr MJ, Exercise Scientist, Reiki Practitioner & Meditation Teacher and program creator of Start Exercising for Women.

Mum of a teen, tween and preschooler. I am an award winning pregnancy & postpartum exercise & nutrition coach. I am most passionate about helping outnumbered, working mums who struggle with maintaining the healthy lifestyle habits they know they need to do and help them feel confident of their bodies and become authentic role models of healthy living to their children.

This is why I do created Start Exercising. To support women who have different relationships with exercise. If you’ve be...
03/09/2026

This is why I do created Start Exercising. To support women who have different relationships with exercise. If you’ve been on the fence, let this be your sign. Next round starts 15 September at Nurturing Women Through Every Stage of Motherhood

Comment “START” and I’ll send you the details of the program!

Six weeks Nurturing Women Through Every Stage of Motherhood. Two sessions a week with me. Weekly online education. A fre...
01/09/2026

Six weeks Nurturing Women Through Every Stage of Motherhood. Two sessions a week with me. Weekly online education. A free consultation to start, and a community around you the whole way through.

This is what the Start Exercising Program actually is. ✨

Delivered by an award winning accredited exercise scientist and a FHEA University Lecturer 👩‍🏫

Comment “START” and I’ll send you the details.

📸 credit : Perth Makeup Artist & Content Creator

Thank you for following my story journey… and I am excited to share the final piece of the story, what I am looking to b...
01/09/2026

Thank you for following my story journey… and I am excited to share the final piece of the story, what I am looking to build in my years to come…..introducing Grounded Strength Collective ✨

Grounded Strength Collective is the name, but it took me a while to fully understand what I meant by it myself.
Grounded is about becoming grounded as a person, through meditation and Reiki, yes, but also literally, because our feet are where our strength and correct muscle activations begins.

Strength isn’t only the physical strength we need as women to age well and keep living the lives we want. It’s also the mental strength to regulate ourselves when life gets hard and stressful. And just as much, it’s the strength to let ourselves rest, and take that rest without guilt.

Collective is the part I care about most. This has always been about building a community, not running a program in isolation. Moving forward, Grounded Strength Collective is where women come together around a gentle, slower, consistent way of being active and strong — women who know we’re juggling a lot more than a fitness routine. We’re juggling entire lives, and trying to be the best versions of ourselves inside the chaos.

If that’s the kind of community you’re looking for, this is it, follow me if you need support to weave exercise and stress management into your life.

This is the start of my new community and if you at a point in your womanhood need support based in science with a dash of woo, I am your person.

📍West Perth Nurturing Women Through Every Stage of Motherhood

Home stretch of my healing journey. In 2023, I rebranded as Health Before Hustle and went back to working with mothers, ...
01/09/2026

Home stretch of my healing journey. In 2023, I rebranded as Health Before Hustle and went back to working with mothers, running my six-week program through local councils and I was teaching at Uni as a sessional academic. By that point, I’d already done a lot of healing. I genuinely thought I’d done the work.

Then in 2024, a call came from Singapore and with a major health crisis at home, and I had to fly back to Singapore to support my parents and siblings. I split my family in two, bringing my youngest with me.

For an about half a year, I actually lived back in my childhood home. And saw a therapist for the first time.

One thing I learnt: healing isn’t linear. It’s a spiral. Being back in that house, I felt myself slipping into old patterns I thought I’d already worked through and for a while it felt like I was regressing, falling backwards into who I used to be. But that’s not actually what was happening. I could still get triggered, but I had more tools now, more skill at noticing what was happening and finding my way back to a regulated state. You’re never actually back at square one, even when it feels exactly like you are.

Being in that space also helped me understand something else about myself and my roots. I had already been going through the process with my own kids, working out whether they needed a diagnosis for possible neurodivergence. Sitting in my childhood home, I started recognising things I read about. That deeper understanding of my own possible neurodiversity is where I actually found peace, and a real sense of groundedness in who I am.

Fast forward to today, I am more grounded and calm, inside and out, I still thank all the hard things for happening because it grows you. I embed all of these learnings into my active living program, and I take time to understand where women are in their life because what’s in your life affects how movement and exercise can fit into your life. And that is why my approach is different to other EPs. Science with a dash of woo. Thank you for following my story so far :)

2018 The Hospital Bed & first Reiki HealingWhile I was in that hospital bed, my cousin who was going through health prob...
27/08/2026

2018 The Hospital Bed & first Reiki Healing

While I was in that hospital bed, my cousin who was going through health problems arranged for a Reiki practitioner to come and see me.

I want to be honest, at the start, I didn’t feel much for the thirty minutes. I remember thinking, quietly, that this was a bit strange and nothing was really happening. But then my breathing started to change, and I felt the need to breathe deeper but it just felt stuck. Then she placed her hands on my shoulder and whispered “let go”. And something did. I started crying, this huge wave of something I didn’t even know was sitting in me. My breathing, shallow for years, finally opened up.

Afterwards I felt physically lighter and calmer than I had in years. A nurse checked on me because my face had gone red, she thought more rashes had surfaced but nothing was wrong. In fact, it was the first time I had felt that good in a long, long time.

Just after I was discharged, I continued on high dose oral steroid medication until I was discharged by a physician here in Perth after 12 months of monitoring my immune system.

A single event can change everything. That hospital stay is where I started questioning whether pushing my self and my body harder was actually the answer, or whether it was part of the problem. I didn’t see the impact stress had on my supposed “healthy” body until I was chained up to a hospital dip that sustained me. This is where the version of me who meditates and practices Reiki, and who now looks at training completely differently, actually began. Reiki is a big part of my life, in fact it is taught to practitioners AS a way of life. It is not as woo-woo as people think, and backed by research!

I still lift my weights now and train my heart and lungs but I no longer push myself to do the high intensity training I use to do in my younger days because my capacity has changed so my exercise and daily practices needed to change too.

This is why I created my Start Exercising Program. There needs to be an exercise offering that supports women to get strong in a gentler, less intimidating way.

This post wasn’t something I planned to share but after a very special gathering at Nurturing Women Through Every Stage ...
25/08/2026

This post wasn’t something I planned to share but after a very special gathering at Nurturing Women Through Every Stage of Motherhood and meeting Maggie Dent in the flesh and getting alittle teary when she shared her wisdom, I felt this is an important part of my journey towards deep health to share with you.

I do hope you do not judge my past actions, but if you do, it is okay as well. I am grounded enough to take your opinion.

2018 is the year my whole healing journey started. The year my body made me stop, whether I was ready or not.It started ...
22/08/2026

2018 is the year my whole healing journey started. The year my body made me stop, whether I was ready or not.

It started with my eldest son. He was diagnosed with HSP, and for weeks he had unexplained pain and rashes before anyone could tell us what it was. We got him through it. Not long after he recovered, I developed the adult version myself, IgA vasculitis. Bleeding in my gut, rashes spreading across my limbs, and eight days in hospital where I couldn’t eat because of the bleeding. It was the first time in my life I had ever been separated from my kids. My husband had to manage everything at home on his own while I lay in a hospital bed in another country.

That hospital bed is where I finally admitted something I’d been avoiding for years: I was not okay. Not just physically.
Years of suppressing my own needs, never learning how to voice or hold a boundary, the weight of my childhood and cultural programming, still sitting in me. Back then, no body talks enough about matrescence, the actual transition into motherhood. Giving women the space to move through it properly wasn’t common. Add financial pressure and the everyday friction of communication with a partner or his family. It is a kind of invisible stress most women are carrying.

A woman who’s supported and understood by the people around her can flourish under that weight. A woman without a village just keeps working under the pressure, because there’s no one to hand any of it to. That was me. Hyper l-independence was programmed into me since childhood, kept me looking for the next solution and pushing forward. It felt like momentum but what was actually happening, underneath, was years of stress I had never once dealt with, catching up with me all at once, with nowhere left to run. This was when I had to slow down, get selfish and work on myself.

This lived experience is what my Start Exercising Program is actually built from, as the thing I needed myself and didn’t have. A program that recognise every woman has different capacity and knowledge on exercise and movement. A program designed to educate and empower women.

I finished my PhD in 2016. Four-year-old, six-month-old, doctorate in hand. I submitted my final thesis draft one day an...
20/08/2026

I finished my PhD in 2016. Four-year-old, six-month-old, doctorate in hand. I submitted my final thesis draft one day and went into labour with my second child soon after — which is either terrible timing or perfect timing, depending on how you look at it. With two young children and no immediate plan to go into a job because I was determined to give my kids a different kind of childhood to my own. Not knowing what running a business truly entailed, I started building something new using the one thing I actually knew well: pregnancy, postpartum and exercise. I had no idea what I was doing from a business standpoint. I called myself the “baby-wearing health coach” at first, because that’s genuinely what I was doing to survive those early years myself.

What I didn’t expect was how quickly it stopped being about me. Other mums started showing up — tired, isolated, some of them without a village of their own — and what grew wasn’t really a client list. It was a community.

Women who understood exactly what the others were going through because they were living it too. That community eventually took the name Active Mama Tribe. It took about three years to properly find its feet. My branding was a mess in those early days, if I’m honest. But the thing underneath it, the actual community, was solid.

To this day, it is what I miss the most, seeing the beautiful women and the kids, everyone coming together because they wanted to do something for themselves. And the community provided the haven for that.

I gave and gave until my body said no. Why I gave so hard, I now realise it was the childhood programming and experiences I had.

2018 came, a pivotal moment for my wellbeing shook me and my deepest beliefs about health and my sense of self took a turn, forever….

Swipe to find out what’s happening at The Village...From educational workshops to yoga classes, mothers circles, movemen...
15/05/2026

Swipe to find out what’s happening at The Village...

From educational workshops to yoga classes, mothers circles, movement sessions and everything in between - we’ve got something for you no matter your season.

Whether you’re growing a baby, raising little ones, finding your way postpartum or simply wanting to reconnect with yourself again, our little Village is here for it all.

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