You already have the power. This teaches you when to release it. Hi Reader I want to tell you something that took me a long time to actually believe about myself, and that I now see in nearly every woman who walks into my studio. You already have the power. That was never the question. What changes isn't your capability. It's your capacity, day to day, sometimes hour to hour. Sleep, cycle phase, cognitive load, how much you've been holding for other people. None of that is fixed, and none of...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
My Fitbit congratulated me on a good night's sleep. It was lying.. Hi Reader The moment I overslept by two hours last night. Restless night, no obvious reason on the surface; so I did what most of us do now and blamed my hormones. Then I opened my wearable app. Ten hours sleep. High quality. Congratulations!!!. I wanted to throw it across the room. The gap nobody talks about Most wearables infer sleep and recovery from movement and heart rate variability. Stillness reads as rest. But your...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Strength. Power. Energy. Hi Reader I want to try something different in this email, because of a conversation I keep having with myself about how women actually want to be spoken to. Nobody wants to be told they're tired, stressed, and in need of rest. You already know that about yourself. Being told again just makes you want to prove it wrong by pushing harder. I do it too. So instead, I want to start with what Active Shakti actually means. Not the vibe of the name. The translation....
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
My body wasn't failing. It was adapting to too much at once. Hi Reader A few weeks ago my stomach changed shape within days. Softer, fuller, sitting differently. My first thought wasn't curiosity. It was alarm. Something has gone wrong. I have let something slip. That reaction surprised me, because I know better than most what is actually happening underneath. But knowing the theory and living inside the body doing it are two different things. Here is what I had to remind myself. Rapid...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
The Two-Hour Shift Hi Reader I am writing this later than I meant to. Bags packed for the beach, headache behind my eyes, ear defenders in on the train because everything feels too loud today. Last night I was at a garden party. Music, dancing, football chanting, a big open space full of strangers and friends of strangers. I watched the usual crowd of 40 and 50 year olds getting properly high and drunk around me. I don't do that anymore. But I was happy there. I stayed later than I normally...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
You don't have a discipline problem. You have a starting problem. Hi Reader I was standing in my kitchen this week, dishes half done, laptop open on the counter, phone buzzing with three things I'd said yes to and now had to actually do. I know how to train. I know how to eat well. None of that was the issue. The issue was that I couldn't find the on switch. This is the part almost nobody talks about with ADHD, and it's the part I hear constantly from the women I coach, diagnosed or not. It...
2 months ago • 1 min read
The Data Told Her Nothing Was Wrong Hi Reader A few weeks ago a client showed me her ring. Sleep score, recovery score, readiness score, all green. She felt terrible. Wired, foggy, like her body was running a marathon while she sat at her desk. She kept asking me what was wrong with the numbers. Nothing was wrong with the numbers. They were just measuring the wrong thing. This is something I talked about properly on the podcast this week (link below) — what I've started calling the wearable...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Leading with intention Hi Reader Early in my practice, I had a session that taught me something I have never forgotten. A woman arrived and she was wired. Stressed was the word she used, the only word she had for what she was carrying. Work, ambition, her family's needs, everyone else's expectations stacked on top of her own. She did not yet have language for what was actually happening in her body. Neither, at that point, did I have the framework I do now. So we trained the way most sessions...
3 months ago • 1 min read
I want to tell you about Monday Hi Reader I presented at the Women's Sport and Wellbeing Summit at Northumbria University. A research conference. Physiologists, sport scientists, academics, practitioners. The kind of room I have been working toward for a long time. My poster was titled: The Missing Variables in Strength Training for the Highly Stressed Woman. The argument was simple. The case for training women differently from men is established. Hormonal health, cycle phases, life stage —...
3 months ago • 1 min read
