Wiser & Well

Wiser & Well 1:1 Health & Wellness Coaching specialising in helping 40+ women through diet & lifestyle improvement Embrace the change, own it, love it!

I promise to put you firmly back in control of your own health and wellbeing by de-mistifying what going "healthy" really means, giving you the knowledge to make your own informed choices, providing OPTIONS from which to build a delicious and nutritious repertoire of dishes that will not only satisfy but wow and breaking it all down into manageable, easy to understand and action steps! I don’t bel

ieve in self denial or limitation as a viable path to optimal health and wellness. My philosophy is based on the premise that gaining control over your own health and wellbeing is about understanding what needs to change, having the knowledge to make the changes, and then embracing that change, owning it and loving it! I am not fad seeker or trend setter, I advocate delicious, nutritious, real life food, made with care by real people and designed to be enjoyed and shared by real people. I believe in giving people the freedom to explore different ways of nourishing and feeding themselves and their families for optimal health.

The goal is not to become lighter.It is to protect (and ideally build more) muscle, limit visceral fat accumulation and ...
26/08/2026

The goal is not to become lighter.

It is to protect (and ideally build more) muscle, limit visceral fat accumulation and maintain metabolic capacity through training, protein, diet quality and sleep.

All those things require a level of education on how to manage each one in a way that improves your overall health.

Most women have enormous amounts of health information that they’re sitting on but don’t know what to do with. The scarcity is becoming more about having good judgment.

We’re so distracted by so much information that we’ve lost our way.

Let me be clear, midlife is a 12-15 year preventive-health opportunity. The focus now needs to move to protect and build during those 12-15 years so you enter later life stronger, metabolically healthier and cognitively more resilient. That is our goal.

Not being skinny.

Prioritise:

progressive resistance training
sufficient daily protein
sufficient energy
recovery and sleep
supplements as an adjunct

That is a much more effective position than the current wellness tendency to start at number five. There’s no magic bullet.

The key is having the right information, implementing it consistently, adjusting when needed and having a routine that is sustainable through all the challenges of life.

What women need help with is deciding what matters and turning it into action. That’s the work I do in my coaching programme. We test, identify the priority areas, look at the lifestyle patterns that may be driving them, then make a plan that produces the most meaningful progress and make it happen. Every week.

Midlife is not the time to be thinking “I’ll get to that later”. The time is now.

My 1:1 coaching programme “The Midlife Reset” is in full swing and clients who have been through it say it’s “life changing”.

You do not need more choices. You need one programme that tells you what to do this week. Link in bio or DM me to start a conversation.

26/08/2026

What is at stake if you don’t take action regarding your health?

Take it from me, having been in that position, it’s everything.

The key is to start small and build. I used to want everything to happen overnight, and when it didn’t, I’d stop, but now I know, it takes time, patience, compassion and consistently. You just gotta keep showing up.

Before my stage IV diagnosis, I thought I was making healthy choices, but I was pretty inconsistent. I just didn’t know what I know now. I didn’t have the education. That made it stick for me.

Now I know better, I do better. And what you focus on grows. I want that for you too.

So here’s some places to start:

1. Get to bed. Exhausted people make exhausted choices -> less or no exercise, staying up late because you can’t be bothered to move off the couch (the cycle continues), cravings for food you know aren’t going to help, less inclination to want to do anything at all that’s helpful. Getting 7-9hrs every night brings more energy to your days - you simply want to do more that’s helpful and positive. Tired people make unhelpful choices.

2. Walk - getting outside, moving, getting your heart rate up increases your energy, improves your focus and if you can do it with a friend and solve the troubles of the world, even better. Bonus points for first thing in the morning outdoor walks.

3. Cut the alcohol - there’s no need to be drinking during the week. No it’s not helping you sleep. Reduce it or avoid it. It’s not helping your health goals. Save it for special occasions not to numb your mind.

4. Focus on lean protein at every meal. It’s surprising how much of a difference it makes. You feel fuller, your blood sugar stabilises and your focus becomes more steady instead of a roller coaster. Shoot for around 1.6g per kg of ideal body weight. Try it for a week.

5. Focus on fibre. Ideally we want around 5 cups of veg, 2 pieces of fruit plus legumes, seeds and nuts. If you’re nowhere near that, start with 1 extra cup and build from there.

Now, what about you? What’s 1 small thing you can do this week?

Your stomach knew before your brain did.Ever felt that knot before a hard conversation? The appetite that disappears whe...
25/08/2026

Your stomach knew before your brain did.

Ever felt that knot before a hard conversation? The appetite that disappears when you’re stressed to the eyeballs? The nervous wee?

That’s not “in your head.” It got to your head from your gut.

Enter the vagus nerve. Most people think it carries commands down from the brain to the body. It mostly does the opposite and about 80% of its fibres run the other way, body to brain. Your gut, heart and lungs are talking to your brain constantly. The brain is often just listening.

It runs from your brainstem to your gut, and it’s why stress and digestion aren’t always separate problems. One wiring system, not two.

So what do you actually do with that? The strongest evidence points to one thing: extend your exhale. Across studies, from healthy athletes to people managing panic disorders and long COVID, a longer exhale than inhale (around 6 breaths a minute) raises heart rate variability (HRV), a marker of vagal activity, more than steady paced breathing does. The mechanism’s simple: exhaling is a parasympathetic act, so the longer it is, the stronger the signal.

In for 5. Hold for 5. Out for 5. Hold for 5. A few minutes of that before the moment that rattles you.

Tell me, when stress hits, does it land in your gut first? Or somewhere else? Tell me below.

21/08/2026

If you really want to have more energy and be fitter/stronger/leaner, you need to get scheduled. No more wafty plans and I’m going to’s with zero follow through. Start small, make a scheduled time, work out all the details (when will you do it, what will you do when get there, how long will it take, what do I need to bring, what contingency plans do I have/need).
The more obvious and frictionless you make it, the greater to consistency.
And if all else fails, you sign up to my programme, I show you what you need to know and prioritise, and I get you off and away.
I think most of my clients would agree that making health part of their lives has become automatic. They know why they’re doing it so it makes it easier to make good decisions. (Would you agree ladies?).
I know it’s hard at the start. But that’s where a good coach is priceless because they set you up with healthy habits for life. They hold you while you’ve got your training wheels on them you’re off and away.
DM for more details or link in bio.

20/08/2026

Training hard and eating well doesn’t guarantee you’re covered. Omega-3 status isn’t on a standard blood panel and most women have never had it checked. I test it for every 1:1 client I work with.
Ask your GP for it by name.
Link in bio to work with me.

It’s called the “chimp” brain (amygdala-driven, fast, emotional) coined by Professor Steve Peters who wrote the book The...
18/08/2026

It’s called the “chimp” brain (amygdala-driven, fast, emotional) coined by Professor Steve Peters who wrote the book The Chimp Paradox. Chimp Management®️ | Prof Steve Peters

And you’ll notice your chimp takes over at night when you can’t sleep, when you’re tired, underfed, someone cuts you off or triggers you in some way. The chimp fires up and takes over all logic and reasoning.

The key is to acknowledge it. Don’t try to ignore that chimp, it just gets louder and more powerful.

Under chronic stress the HPA axis keeps cortisol elevated. Rising cortisol + core body temperature is also what naturally wakes us so an stress-flooded system surfaces you at 3-4am with a racing mind.

The skill is recognising the chimp is driving and engaging the slower rational brain (breath, labelling).

Next time your chimp takes over: in for 5, hold for 5, out for 5, hold for 5, through your nose, for a few minutes.

It won’t stop your brain instantly, but it moves you out of the chimp brain fast enough to stop the spiral. And sometimes that just what we need at 4am.

The Midlife Reset is my 6 month signature, high level and high touch programme. We cover everything you need to elevate your health and performance. Link in bio.

Life can feel relentless.Work. Family. Ageing parents. Finances. Training. Health. The never-ending list of things that ...
15/08/2026

Life can feel relentless.

Work. Family. Ageing parents. Finances. Training. Health. The never-ending list of things that need you.

And when life gets busy, recovery is often the first thing to go.

But saving recovery for when everything is done is like draining your bank account and putting everything on credit.

Eventually, you pay it back. With interest.

Sleep. Good food. Less alcohol. Movement. Time to switch off. These can feel like more things to do when you’re already stretched.

But they’re the things that give you the capacity to keep showing up with energy, strength and clarity.

Recovery isn’t what you do when the work is done. It’s what allows you to keep doing the work.

This is a big part of how I coach women in midlife: working out what matters most for your body, then making it achievable in your actual life.

Because midlife is a time to raise the bar, not lower it.

1:1 coaching via the link in my bio, or message me directly.

So much noise and over complication of what women should and shouldn’t be doing at various hormonal stages. Let’s bring ...
13/08/2026

So much noise and over complication of what women should and shouldn’t be doing at various hormonal stages.

Let’s bring back some simplicity here ladies.

There’s no evidence to say we should be training any differently at different hormonal stages.

We’ve just got to make sure that being active is part of your life.

It comes back down to consistency and ensuring you’re progressively increasing the weight (over time).

That’s it.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your health. Why is it that as women, we will prioritise everyo...
12/08/2026

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your health.

Why is it that as women, we will prioritise everyone else’s health and leave ourselves off the list? Another supplement you don’t know you need or know if it’s actually doing anything, may not be the answer.

Start with testing. Understand if any deficiencies exist, plug the holes, then build your health on top of a strong base. Thats where we start, not with another supplement.

When I start working with a client on a GLP-1 it always starts with asking about her support plan. Does she have one?A 2...
08/08/2026

When I start working with a client on a GLP-1 it always starts with asking about her support plan. Does she have one?

A 2026 systematic review of RCTs on GLP-1 and SGLT2 medications found lean mass made up roughly a quarter to a third of the weight lost on average. Nobody sets out to lose muscle. It just isn’t the thing anyone’s necessarily watching for because the scale can’t show what you’re actually losing.

That’s the gap I work in. Not managing the medication (that’s your doctor’s job). Building the plan around it: adequate protein and fibre, what kind of exercise, what to actually track so you set some guardrails around maintaining what you have.

If you’re on a GLP-1 or thinking about starting one, it’s the tracking question specifically that’s worth asking.

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