Meet Lou
Women's Holistic Health & Wellbeing Coach
Personal Trainer
Bachelor Of Nursing, Cert 3 and 4 in Fitness
From Self-Sabotage to Self-Trust
For years, I lived in the cycle so many women know too well.
I'd start strong, feel motivated, make promises to myself… and somehow end up right back where I started.
As a Nurse and Personal Trainer, I knew what I should be doing. But I still struggled with emotional eating, inconsistency, anxiety, self-criticism, poor patterns of coping, emotional dysregulation and feeling like I was constantly letting myself down. More than anything, I felt deeply disconnected—from myself, from the people around me, and from life itself.
I was constantly trying to emotionally numb and distract myself from a life I wasn't enjoying - spending 10 years taking antidepressants and using alcohol to barely survive.
Every day ended with the same thought.
Tomorrow will be different.
Tomorrow became weeks.
Weeks became years.
For a long time, I believed I needed more discipline, more motivation and more willpower.
I needed other people and things outside of me to change.
But I eventually realised I wasn't fighting a lack of knowledge.
I was fighting patterns.
Patterns shaped by trauma, addiction, low self-worth, perfectionism, coping mechanisms and years of surviving rather than truly living.
Everything changed when I stopped trying to force different behaviours and started understanding what was driving them.
Through learning and applying the foundations of behaviour change, nervous system regulation and habit formation — with the support of a dedicated mentor — I learned to regulate my stress, challenge the beliefs keeping me stuck and rebuild trust with myself. I learned to understand exactly what triggered cravings and how to navigate them. It allowed me to completely rebuild my life the exact way I wanted it.
That journey completely changed the way I viewed health and transformation.
I realised lasting health isn't created through another diet or another burst of motivation.
It's created by building a way of living that supports you.
Learning how to nourish your body without restriction.
Moving in ways you genuinely enjoy.
Creating routines that fit your life instead of constantly starting over.
Because there is no one-size-fits-all approach to health.
The healthiest life is the one you can actually sustain.
Today, my life looks completely different.
I'm sober.
I move because I enjoy it.
I nourish my body because I respect it.
I spend time outdoors, strength train, run, sail, walk my dog Ollie, and prioritise the habits that help me stay physically and emotionally well - breathwork, meditation and other wellness modalities. I no longer turn to alcohol the minute life feels difficult.
Not because I have more motivation than anyone else.
Because I've built a life that supports the woman I want to be - instead of constantly suppressing distressing emotions.
One of the greatest lessons I've learned is this:
Lasting health isn't about fixing yourself.
It's about understanding yourself.
It's about learning how to emotionally regulate so impulsivity based on acute stress is no longer driving your life.
Because when you understand your thoughts, emotions and patterns, you stop fighting yourself.
Healthy choices become easier.
Consistency becomes possible.
And you slowly become someone who trusts herself to follow through.
That's the work I now help other women do.
As a Nurse, Personal Trainer, and Women's Health, Strength & Behaviour Change Coach, I help women move from self-sabotage to self-trust.
Many of the women I work with feel trapped in the same cycle I once lived.
They know what they should be doing.
They desperately want to change.
But they can't seem to follow through consistently.
Together, we bridge the gap between wanting change and creating it.
Using evidence-based nutrition, strength training, nervous system regulation and behaviour change coaching, we uncover the emotional patterns driving your behaviours and build sustainable habits that support your health—and your life.
Not through restriction.
Not through perfection.
Not through more rules.
But through understanding, self-trust and sustainable change.
Because the result isn't just better health.
It's freedom.
Freedom from constantly starting over.
Freedom from food guilt.
Freedom from believing you'll never change.
When a woman learns to trust herself again, that transformation extends far beyond food or exercise.
It changes how she shows up in every area of her life.
If my story has taught me anything, it's this:
You are not broken.
You are not a bad person.
You don't need another diet.
You don't need more willpower.
You need to understand the patterns that have been shaping your life.
Because when you change your patterns, you change your habits.
Your habits shape your health.
And your health shapes your life.
I know that's possible.
Because I've lived it.
And now I have the privilege of helping other women do the same.
