Why I decided to become a personal trainer

Now more than ever the world is calling for health, wellness and fitness professionals to step up , spread their message and shine their light amidst a health pandemic in which we are collectively realising that being healthy is becoming much more of a necessity than a luxury to live a long and happy life.

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REVIEW: The Wellness Box by Bellabox

I was recently gifted a beauty subscription box from Bellabox. In this blog post I share my experience with a review of the Wellness box by Bellabox.

Bellabox is one of Australia’s first beauty subscription box services started by a group of young women who loved buying beauty products and looking good, but were sick of the hassle of going to department stores every time they wanted to try new beauty products.   They were sick of paying for expensive beauty products that did not live up to their standards and always feeling like they were six months behind the latest trends. From their frustrations, these gals made it their mission to find a better way and this is when Bellabox was born. 

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Update your activewear featuring rebel

Brought to you in partnership with rebel.

Winter is the perfect time to reignite those health goals you set at the beginning of the year.  During those darker and slightly cooler early morning workout sessions we start reaching out for those winter warmers and it’s the perfect time to update your winter activewear!  

And what better motivation is there than to work out?  

This season I am loving the pink, deep reds, and florals mixed with my favourite neutrals. 

When shopping for activewear, I always consider the following…

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What's in my suitcase?

Our family is off for a short, and much needed, holiday to our favourite place in the world Hamilton Island this weekend.  I can’t wait to get back out to see the Great Barrier Reef and go snorkelling with the family. So what’s in my suitcase for this trip? In this post I share my favourite products to stay healthy and feel great while on holidays with all my travelling essentials!

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Back to School: My hit list for healthy, store bought, but no need to feel guilty, lunch box fillers

Here is a list of my all time favourite, and healthy, store bought snacks for school lunches when you are on the fly. No preservatives, no numbers, or anything artificial, you can actually be proud to put these products in your kids lunch and not feel guilty about it!

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Workouts to try with a friend featuring Aura Eve Booty Bands

After all the years I have spent training weights at a gym I always wondered why my glutes and hamstrings would never come to the party and always be the weakest part of my body. This was frustrating because at times this would stop me from progressing on some of those heavier lifts particularly in squats and deadlifts! When I started to do pilates I soon learned that to exercise our glutes we must activate them, and we can do this through simple and targeted exercises for this area!

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Empowering birth | From hospital to home birth - My birth story - Part 2 - Hypnobirthing Basics

Hypnobirth gives women the tools she needs to be able to birth naturally, peacefully and calmly using hypnotherapy which is planting positive suggestions into the sub conscious mind. Neuroscience explains the Law of Psycho Physical Response which suggests - what is determined in the mind is experienced in the body. I know the idea of a calm and peaceful birth sounds crazy right? But it is possible and I have experienced this firsthand.

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Why you need to book a girls weekend away!

When was the last time you honoured time for yourself and had a girls weekend away?  I’m not talking about one of those big weekend ordeals that you try to organise with a large group of friends, where it takes months to pick a date due to conflicting schedules, and no one can ever agree on an accommodation location because one friend likes Gucci and the other friend is into backpacking hotels.    I’m talking about embracing a ‘YOLO’ kind of attitude and escaping with a compulsory 'no fuss - just book it and do it' mentality with just ONE or TWO of your nearest and dearest. 

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Empowering birth | From hospital to home birth - My birth story - Part 1

From a 'Hollywood style' hospital kind of birth to a planned hypno homebirth.  Two births. Two completely opposite stories, and the story goes like this. My first daughter Marley was born in 2009 in a Hollywood style hospital birth. My youngest, Sydnee, was born in 2015 in a planned hypno homebirth.  Two births. Two completely opposite stories, so here is my story.

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