Women’s Health, Behaviour & Strength Coach
From Self Sabotage to Self Trust
Helping you understand the emotional patterns driving your health behaviours, so you can stop fighting yourself and create lasting change
Because when you understand what's driving your behaviour, healthy choices stop feeling like a battle
Less restriction.
More self-trust.
Lasting change.
Every woman is worth the effort.
The Patterns Beneath The Behaviour
Many of the women I work with are strong, capable women who genuinely want to look after themselves - but emotional overwhelm keeps pulling them back into the same patterns.
They know how to eat well.
They know they should exercise.
They know they need to prioritise themselves.
Yet they still find themselves:
• Starting and stopping
• Emotional eating
• Constantly thinking about food
• Losing weight, then regaining it
• Falling off track when life gets busy
•Struggling to follow through on their intentions
• Feeling frustrated, ashamed or disappointed in themselves
For many women, emotional overwhelm is quietly driving the behaviours they judge themselves for.
Because in health and fitness, you don't rise to the level of your goals.
You fall to the level of your deepest habits, beliefs, emotional patterns and nervous system responses.
The problem isn't a lack of knowledge.
The problem is the patterns running underneath the behaviour.
That's where I help.
How We Create Lasting Change
I help women understand the emotional patterns driving the behaviours that keep them stuck.
Together, we'll uncover what's beneath cycles of:
- Emotional eating and food noise
- All-or-nothing thinking
- Starting and stopping
- Exercise inconsistency
- Perfectionism and burnout
- Self-criticism
- Low self-trust
Using evidence-based nutrition, strength training, nervous system regulation, and behaviour change coaching, we'll create habits that support your health - and a relationship with yourself that makes those habits easier to maintain.
No extremes.
No restriction.
No relying on motivation.
Just practical, sustainable change built on self-understanding, self-trust, and behaviours that fit real life.
Midlife Changes Matter — But They're Not The Whole Story
For many women, perimenopause and menopause don't create new problems - they magnify existing ones.
Weight gain becomes easier.
Recovery slows.
Sleep changes.
Energy fluctuates.
Stress feels harder to manage.
Insulin resistance increases, making it feel as though your body is no longer responding the way it once did.
These changes are real and deserve to be understood and supported.
But they're rarely the whole story.
Hormonal changes often shine a light on emotional patterns, habits and beliefs that have been quietly shaping your health for years.
Together, we'll support your changing body while gently addressing the deeper patterns that make lasting change feel so difficult.
What Changes When We Work Together
Better health isn't created by another burst of motivation.
It's created by becoming the woman who no longer has to keep starting over.
Together we'll work on:
Building a Strong, Healthy Body
Through strength training, movement, nutrition and sustainable habits that support your health for the long term.
Create a Peaceful Relationship with Food
Without restriction, perfectionism, food guilt, or obsession.
Break the Patterns Keeping You Stuck
Understanding and changing the emotional patterns behind self-sabotage, inconsistency and overwhelm.
Regulating Stress & Emotional Overwhelm
Learning how your nervous system influences your choices, habits, and health.
Rebuilding Self-Trust
Following through on the promises you make to yourself.
Feel Stronger, Calmer & More Confident
Creating a healthier relationship with yourself and the life you're building.
The Goal Isn’t Just Weight Loss - It's FREEDOM
Freedom from food guilt.
Freedom from all-or-nothing thinking.
Freedom from constantly feeling like you're failing.
Freedom from the shame that comes from repeatedly breaking promises to yourself.
Imagine:
• Trusting yourself around food
• Exercising consistently without forcing yourself
• Feeling strong and capable in your body
• Having more energy for the people and things you love
• Feeling calmer and more emotionally resilient
• Following through on commitments to yourself
• Feeling genuinely proud of how you're living
• ENJOYING LIFE AGAIN
Because lasting health isn't about perfection.
It's about becoming the kind of woman who understands herself, honours her worth and trusts herself to care for her health -consistently.
From that place, everything else becomes easier.
Life is only as good as it feels -physically, mentally and emotionally
Master The Fundamentals
Start with my Free Protein Cheat Sheet. Learn the simple satiety science behind building meals that keep you full and fuelled without the excess calories to help facilitate health and weight loss.
Ready to design your own version of thriving?
My 12-Week Mindset & Metabolic Reset is a personally curated mentoring experience designed to help you rewire your habits with ease and enjoyment to reclaim your health and vitality for good.
Maybe Community Is Where You THRIVE...
Join a like-minded community of women ready to set goals, take aligned action, support one another, and create real, lasting change in their health, mindset, and lives.
"When you understand the emotional patterns beneath your behaviours, healthy choices stop feeling like a battle."
Hey, I’m Lou!
Cert 3 and 4 Fitness
Bachelor Of Nursing
15+ Years Industry Experience
I’m a Nurse, Personal Trainer, and Women’s Health, Strength & Behaviour Change Coach
I help women build a healthier relationship with food, exercise and themselves when they’re tired of feeling stuck, starting over, and trying to figure it out alone.
Many of the women I work with are caught in cycles of emotional eating, inconsistent exercise, low self-confidence, and feeling frustrated with their health.While my work often supports women navigating midlife, perimenopause and menopause, the deeper focus is always the same—understanding the emotional patterns that drive behaviour so real, lasting change becomes possible.
My approach is shaped by both professional training and lived experience.
I know what it feels like to struggle with self-worth, body image, perfectionism, and coping patterns that keep you stuck even when you know what you “should” be doing.
That experience taught me this:
Lasting change doesn’t come from more discipline or stricter rules.
It comes from understanding yourself, working with your nervous system, and building habits that support the version of you you’re becoming.
Through evidence-based nutrition, strength training, nervous system regulation, and behaviour change coaching, I help women create sustainable change that feels calm, grounded and realistic.
Because when women stop abandoning themselves and start trusting themselves, everything changes - far beyond food, exercise, or their body.
It changes their entire life.
"I help women become an active participant in their own health and transformation so they can overcome their patterns to build a life they feel proud of - that's the type of energy that radiates into every other aspect of their life."
You can learn more about my personal journey below
"When you change the patterns at the root, you stop repeating the same cycles and start living with more self-trust and ease."
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