The Care Factor Coach

18/10/2026

Mornings are for YOU — your way.

You don’t have to wake up at 5 am, meditate for 20 minutes, journal, exercise, and drink a green smoothie before the rest of the world wakes up to be doing life right!
Your morning routine should work for YOU — your body, your lifestyle, your energy, and the season of life you’re in.

Choose YOUR wake-up time. 🕰️ If you’re naturally an early bird, embrace it. If your body needs more sleep, honour that, too. You don’t need to follow someone else’s routine to prove you’re committed to your wellbeing.

Make a little space for yourself. ❤️Meditation can be a beautiful way to begin the day, helping you feel calmer, more grounded, and connected to yourself. But meditation doesn’t have to look a certain way, either. There are many ways:
🧘‍♀️ Sit quietly and focus on your breath.
🧘‍♀️ Listen to a guided meditation. 🧘‍♀️ Repeat a mantra that lifts you up.
🧘‍♀️ Walk and look around you or…
🧘‍♀️ Sit in silence and simply enjoy a quiet cup of coffee/tea/water before the day begins.

Because here’s what I want you to remember…
Mornings are about choosing how you want to be that day❤️

Start your day by paying attention to YOU — in whatever way feels right for you. 👸
Because the best morning routine isn’t the one that looks perfect on Instagram.
It’s the one that helps YOU live your life from a place of joy and peace.

This is the view from our soon-to-be built meditation deck and I love an easy flow in the morning.

🤔 Tell me in the comments: What’s one thing YOU love doing in the morning — or are you still figuring out what works for you?

29/09/2026

Meet my get-up-and-go coach: Izzy. 🐾
My kids thought I bought the dog for them (2 of them anyway, the third was not a fan.)
Truth? I bought her for me. ❤️

After my divorce and working from home, I knew I needed something — or someone — that would get me out of the house regularly.
And Izzy doesn’t believe in the snooze button.
She is relentless - 5:30am.

She knows there are consequences if we don’t get outside… even if “going outside” sometimes means walking approximately two feet so she can do her business. 😂

But here’s my motivation hack:
I don’t get up and go for a walk because I’m particularly motivated to do it for me.
💡 I get up because she needs me to.
And as someone who has always been pretty good at prioritising everyone else’s needs, this works.

Izzy is my little get-up-and-go coach. 🐶
Every morning — and sometimes several times a day — she gets me off the couch, out the door and into the sunshine.

And here’s the thing I’ve learned:
Consistency matters more than intensity when it comes to wellbeing.

You don’t need a perfect workout.
You don’t need the right outfit.
You don’t even need to feel motivated.
Sometimes … you just need a reason to get up and take the first step. ❤️

Today, we’re walking part of the Riverwalk in Brisbane.
It’s a little brisk, I’m not wearing my walking shoes, and I’m definitely not wearing my activewear. 😂
But we’re outside.
The sunshine is hitting my face.
My body is moving.
And those endorphins are coming.

Sometimes your wellbeing coach has four legs and a very persuasive bladder. 🐾❤️
Who — or what — is your get-up-and-go coach?

29/09/2026

Sensitive topic ❤️

Starting over after divorce doesn’t come with one manual - rather it comes with too many on too many different topics. Right?

I wish I’d had one that covered ALL the different aspects of life in one book because things slipped through the cracks.

When I went through my divorce, I rushed through it. I was focused on getting through the next day, making decisions, looking after everyone else and trying to hold everything together. It was only years later that I realised how differently I could have approached those first months — not just for me, but for my kids too to set us up for success.

That experience is why I created Phoenix Women.
A practical rebuilding system for women starting over in Australia. This doesn't replace professional counselling but it does bring together practical information, links, tools and exercises around:
1. Life skills
2. Emotional recovery
3. Parenting and other Relationships
4. Financial confidence
5. Rebuilding your future

Because starting over isn't just about getting through the divorce. It's about rebuilding a life that feels like yours again.

If you're separated, newly divorced, or simply standing at the beginning of a new chapter, Phoenix Women is designed to prompt you to take the next steps with more clarity, confidence and support.

You don't have to have it all figured out. You just need to know where to start.

take care, Shannon 🦋

The Phoenix Woman is a practical roadmap for Australian women navigating life after divorce - mindset, life skills, emotional recovery, coparenting, financial confidence, and future rebuilding.

04/09/2026

Summer nights are for twirling barefoot down the street. 🌙 For letting the music spill into the warm air, the worries fall away, and the moment carry you somewhere beautiful. ✨

Joy doesn’t always arrive with big fireworks or wrapped in a bow. Sometimes, it’s simply the feeling of being free enough to spin without wondering who’s watching.

It’s choosing—just for a little while - to dance through life instead of rushing through it.

Twirl a little longer.  ❤️ 💃

29/08/2026

All that glitters may not be gold … but that doesn’t make it any less magical.
It’s all in your perspective.

Today in Cambrills, I walked along the beach and was fascinated by the shimmering sand.

See the glimmers. 🤩

09/07/2026

The afternoon sun here beckons you to slow down and unwind.

06/06/2026

Who are you before the world starts asking?



https://www.instagram.com/p/DZQqIMkzSH0/?igsh=anJsaHczbDZ5MHU5

20/11/2025

We are living through a period of relentless intensification of parenting.

The list of things we need to tick off in order to judge ourselves as good parents gets longer and more detailed every day.

We are bombarded with more and more noise about how to parent well.

And yet, we are already doing more than mums did in the 1970s.

On top of working (often full time).

At what point are we going to step off this escalator?

It's not doing us - or our children - any good.

Being a good parent is not (and never has been) about doing more and more and more.

It's about tuning in to those moments of connection that build a good relationship with our child.

16/10/2025

Peaking soon - can’t wait!

Perhaps it’s time we stopped treating midlife as a countdown and started recognising it as a peak.
👉 https://theconversation.com/worried-about-turning-60-science-says-thats-when-many-of-us-actually-peak-267215?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook =1760505360

10/10/2025

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