The area you've been managing around Hi Reader There is a part of the body that most active women have learned to manage around rather than through. The pelvic floor. Not ignored exactly — but not listened to either. Adjusted for, accommodated, quietly negotiated with every time they head to the gym or the track or the studio. I spoke recently with Vicki Causer, a women's health coach who specialises in pelvic health and movement. What struck me most in our conversation was not the clinical...
21 days ago • 1 min read
TThe Door I Kept Closing Hi Reader There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not show up in your training data. Not the kind that comes from a hard session or a short night. The kind that lives underneath everything. The kind that makes you wonder why you are doing all the right things and still feel like you are operating at about seventy percent. I know that feeling from the inside. And I see it in almost every woman who walks through my studio door. She is already doing a lot. She...
27 days ago • 1 min read
The exhaustion you think is evidence Hi Reader There is a moment at the end of a training session that a lot of the women I work with are quietly waiting for. The one where they feel completely spent. And if it does not come, something feels off — like the session did not count. This is not a training problem. It is a relationship with effort problem. I have been having a lot of honest conversations lately about the difference between building capacity and spending it. Many of us — and I...
28 days ago • 1 min read
The body you stopped trusting Hi Reader There's a moment in this week's podcast episode that I keep coming back to. Jessica lives with ADHD, fibromyalgia, inflammatory arthritis, ulcerative colitis, chronic blood cancer, and chronic migraines — described what it feels like to lose trust in your body. Not as a metaphor. As a lived reality. When you've spent years with a body that sends unpredictable signals. When pain is your baseline. When something as serious as sepsis can arrive quietly...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Consistency isn’t Sameness Hi Reader Consistency comes up in almost every coaching conversation. Usually it’s said with frustration. “I just need to be more consistent.”“I start strong and then I fall off.”“Why can’t I just stick to it?” For women with ADHD, though, the issue is rarely motivation. It’s regulation. I used to believe consistency meant repetition. Same routine. Same time. Same structure. No deviation. But my brain doesn’t work like that. Some days I wake up electric. Clear....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Maybe Your Recovery Is the Project Hi Reader After my daughter was born, something shifted. On the outside, I looked calm. Capable. High functioning. Getting things done. Inside, everything was vibrating. My nervous system felt raw. Like static under the skin. I’ve always moved fast. My brain runs quickly. Ideas stack on top of each other. Words come at speed. Productivity has never been my problem. But my body had been whispering for years. And postpartum, that whisper turned into a shout....
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
You’re Not Failing at Training. The Model Is Wrong. Hi Reader Most women assume the problem is consistency. They tell themselves they just need more discipline, more grit, more tolerance for discomfort. If they could just train the same way every day, everything would settle. But the model itself is flawed. When I spoke with Adele, a women’s health practitioner who specialises in hormones and ADHD, we came back to one core issue: almost everything we are taught about training is based on male...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Strong, Soft, and Still High Performing Hi Reader Some women are built for momentum.They have a big engine, a big capacity, and a strong work ethic that does not switch off. Caroline Mason is one of those women. She grew up in the countryside, farming runs through her DNA, and so does drive. She was surrounded by entrepreneurial energy, strong women, hard work, and ambition. And she carried that into a life that has always involved movement. Netball, hockey, athletics, dance, rugby at...
2 months ago • 2 min read
The Quiet Cost of “Just Training Harder” Hi Reader Most women I work with are not trying to become elite athletes. They are trying to feel strong, steady, and capable in their own bodies. But there is a pattern I see again and again. Training volume goes up. Life stays full. Food becomes something you “fit in” rather than something you plan for. Sleep gets negotiated. Stress becomes normal. Then the body starts to change in ways that feel confusing. Energy drops. Mood flattens. Performance...
2 months ago • 2 min read