Meet Lou
Women's Health, Strength & Behaviour Change Coach
Personal Trainer
Bachelor Of Nursing, Cert 3 and 4 in Fitness
Trauma Informed
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 then somehow find myself right back where I started.
I wasn't lacking knowledge.
As a Nurse and Personal Trainer, I knew how to eat well. I knew how to exercise. I knew how to build muscle. I knew what I "should" be doing.
Yet I still struggled with inconsistency, emotional eating, low self-worth, anxiety, and self-sabotaging behaviours that kept me stuck.
For much of my adult life, I experienced anxiety and depression, relied on alcohol to numb difficult emotions, and spent more than a decade taking antidepressants.
Underneath it all was a constant feeling that something about me needed fixing.
I believed I needed more discipline.
More motivation.
More willpower.
But over time I realised the problem wasn't a lack of knowledge or effort.
The problem was the patterns driving my behaviour.
Patterns shaped by my trauma, experiences, my beliefs about myself, my coping mechanisms, my fears, and the ways I'd learned to navigate life.
The more I explored human behaviour, nervous system regulation, emotional health, and habit change, the more I began to understand that lasting transformation doesn't come from fighting yourself.
It comes from understanding yourself.
Everything changed when I stopped trying to control my behaviour through force and, with the help of a dedicated mentor, started addressing what was happening beneath the surface.
I learned how to conquer my addictions.
I learned how to work with my stress response instead of against it.
I learned how to challenge the beliefs that were keeping me stuck rather than blaming other people and things.
I learned how to build habits that supported the life I wanted rather than relying on motivation and other resources or people to carry me there.
Most importantly, I learned how to trust myself again.
One of the most life-changing lessons I learned was that lasting health wasn't about fixing myself.
It was about accepting myself, moving from self-destruction to self-respect, and eventually to self-love, through the small daily habits that helped me become the person I wanted to be.
Today, that's the work I help women do.
As a Nurse, Personal Trainer, and Women's Health & Behaviour Change Coach, I help women break free from the patterns that keep them stuck in cycles of emotional eating, exercise inconsistency, self-sabotage, shame, addiction and frustration.
Many of the women I work with are navigating midlife, perimenopause, or menopause. Others simply feel disconnected from themselves, exhausted by years of starting over or the shame of their crippling addictions.
Regardless of where they are in life, the challenge is often the same:
They know what to do.
They just can't seem to do it consistently.
Together, we bridge the gap between knowing and doing.
Using evidence-based nutrition, strength training, nervous system regulation, and behaviour change coaching, I help women build a healthier relationship with themselves, their bodies, and their habits.
Not through restriction.
Not through perfection.
Not through another set of rules.
But through understanding, self-awareness, and sustainable change.
Because health isn't just about losing weight, eating better, or exercising more.
It's about becoming the kind of woman who trusts herself, honours her worth, and follows through on the promises she makes to herself.
The result is more than better health.
It's more confidence.
More freedom.
More peace around food.
More energy.
More self-respect.
And a life that feels aligned with who you truly want to be.
Because when you stop fighting yourself, everything changes.
My own journey included childhood and adult trauma, unhealthy coping strategies including addiction, struggles with self-worth, body image challenges, and years of feeling disconnected from myself. For years I tried the DIY approach - but this work couldn't be done alone - and that's why I see so many women continuing to struggle with everyday life. Those experiences shaped the work I do today and fuel my passion for helping women create lasting change from the inside out. YOU are truly worth it