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04/06/2026

It's Lipedema Awareness Month, and over the past year I've learned so much about this condition, its comorbidities, and how many of the symptoms I thought were unrelated were actually connected to it.

One of the biggest differences I've noticed, now 7 weeks post-op, is that stairs, hills, and lunges no longer hurt.

Seriously... is this how people live? Pain-free?

I feel incredibly lucky that I never stopped moving completely, but do people have any idea how much pain many women with lipedema push through while exercising? It's not always bad, but when it is, it is BAD. And unfortunately, very few coaches truly understand it because they've never experienced it themselves.

Being pain-free feels surreal. I genuinely hope it stays this way forever, and I'm doing everything I can on my side with my conservative treatments and self-care.

I will be forever grateful to the Lipemedical Team for making my surgery possible and giving me the chance to experience movement without pain again. ♡

Spreading awareness is so important. My page won't become a lipedema-only page, but I definitely won't be staying quiet about it either. ♡

17/05/2026

After almost 13 years working specifically with women, one thing has become very clear to me.

Not every woman needs the same kind of coach.

A lot of the women who come to me are intelligent, capable, and strong… but have never felt comfortable in traditional fitness environments.

They are convinced strength training is “not for them”.

Those women don’t need less challenge.

They need the right entry point.

They need someone who listens first, understands the fear, and then slowly shows them what they are capable of.

This has been my approach for a while...

Because watching a woman who once said
“I could never do this”
walk confidently into a gym and lift a barbell will never stop being magical to me.

P.S. The message shown in this reel comes from a friendly and respectful conversation with another coach that I admire and appreciate a lot.
The screenshot is taken out of context because it made me reflect on how I communicate my philosophy.
Please don’t direct criticism toward this great coach and person.

15/05/2026

Today I did my first full body workout 1 month after lipedema surgery and it felt... weird.

I'm at that stage where I'm capable of moving again but I get tired insanely fast. Everything feels heavier than it should. I don't fully recognise my body yet. I feel weak in many ways but also incredibly grateful because I know a lot of people wouldn't even be able to do half of what I'm able to do right now only 1 month post surgery.

And honestly... this experience has reinforced something I've believed for years:

Strength training saves people in ways that go far beyond aesthetics.

Being strong helps you through LIFE.

Through pain.
Through surgery.
Through recovery.
Through fear.
Through uncertainty.

This has been the hardest thing I've ever done and the whole time I kept thinking:

"If my recovery is considered insanely good by doctors, how do people who never moved their bodies before go through this?"

How do they get out of bed?
How do they rebuild?
How do they cope physically and mentally?

And this is exactly why I will never stop talking about strength training, especially for people living with pain, chronic illness, fatigue, lipedema, endometriosis, hypermobility, absolute beginners, people of a certain age or bodies constantly labelled as "fragile."

I'm so tired of the narrative that strength training is dangerous, inflammatory, "too hard on the body" and that women with chronic conditions should only do Yoga, Pilates or walking.

We finally have scientific data showing that properly dosed strength training is one of the most beneficial things we can do for long term health, pain management, function, metabolism, bone density, recovery and quality of life.

The problem was never strength training itself.

The problem is that people think it has to be extreme.
Hardcore or nothing.
Destroy yourself or it doesn't count.

And that's simply not true.

Your body adapts.
You start where you are.
You learn.
You progress.
You adjust.
And over time you become more resilient than you ever thought possible.

DM me. I can help ♡

04/05/2026

This was a message I received today from one of my clients…
and you can’t imagine how happy this makes me.

And it made me think about a conversation I had with my physio this week.

She asked me how I know so much about the body.

I told her that before choosing dance, I had also thought about physiotherapy.
I’ve always been curious about how the body works.

My background was dance, gymnastics, Pilates, barre… movement was always part of my life.

But then my body changed.

Chronic pain. Chronic conditions.
And suddenly, everything I knew didn’t quite work the same anymore.

Strength training was the thing that actually worked for me.

And that’s also what led me here.
I started studying strength training and chose to work specifically with women…

because I know how hard it is to trust it.
How intimidating it can feel.
How often women are told to avoid it instead of being guided through it.

And I truly believe that the reason I can handle what I handle today… is because I’m strong.

She then told me something that stayed with me:

“More than half of the people who come for physio with me, wouldn’t need to be here if they were doing proper strength training.”

That stayed with me .

We need to stop seeing strength training as something that’s only for some people.

It’s not just about aesthetics, not just for athletes either...

It’s one of the most supportive things you can do for your body.

And it doesn’t have to be complicated to work ♡

02/05/2026

Just before surgery, while my surgeon was marking my legs, he told me my fat was very fibrotic… really hard.

He said that’s exactly why it hurts so much.
And that the surgery might take longer because of it.

That felt SO VALIDATING. ♡

I’m really curious… what kind of movement triggers your pain the most?

For me it’s always been:
squat pulses
lunges
long holds
and stairs… stairs were a nightmare.

Which is ironic, because I was teaching Pilates and Barre at the time and aiaiaiaiaiai...
Smiling through it, like many of us learn to do.

We’re all different.
But strength training ended up being the one thing I could adapt to support my body and it's usually the one thing that is demonised which annoys the sh*t out of me because it's SO helpful.

Not at the beginning… it flared me too.

But learning how to breathe, understanding RIR, adjusting reps, taking notes of the flare ups, etc.. it finally started to make sense.

20 days post surgery and doing these with zero pain still feels unreal. ♡

If you feel a bit lost and alone with all of this, if you want to start strength training and don't know how comment "start" and I'll help you ♡

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