Lifeshaper Blog
My Story
With a hole in my head, constant black outs, violent sickness and a scar on my face, that left me feeling insecure, paranoid and self-conscious, I suddenly felt an overwhelming surge of emotions from my past that I had buried deep. Feelings that had affected me for a...
Women Under Pressure: Stress Awareness Month
Why are work-related stress levels among women 45% higher than men? More importantly, how can we address this? At Lifeshaper we recognise that stress, in a range of different forms, often disproportionately targets women. This can often be attributed to the ‘double...
Give to Gain: Celebrating International Women’s Day
As founder of Lifeshaper, I am very proud of all of my roles, where I support and empower other women. To me this is a non negotiable, I am never in competition, I am never fake or false, authenticity is at my core and I will forever be a cheerleader of other women. ...
January Reset: Your Fresh Start for a Positive Year
January often comes with pressures like ‘new year, new you’, endless resolutions and media hype that can very often be discouraging, because it’s overcomplicated, over expensive and unrealistic for most people. For many women, it can feel overwhelming, even...
December Chaos or calm?
Somewhere between the Christmas parties, panic shopping, and endless commitments, we often allow our mental wellbeing to take a back seat in December. For many women, the mental weight and stress of the festive season can often be overlooked, as they carry the...
Six Years of Being A Mum
This is going to be long and a very vulnerable blog for me, I am finally talking about things I have hidden, but I feel are very relevant to the coach I am today and how I am able to help other women like myself. You see, it’s not until you’re completely honest,...
45 Lessons from 45 Years
So, yesterday, I turned 45. Now, the younger me dreaded turning 30, but honestly 45 is a delight. Why, I hear you ask? Because I truly believe as I have got older, I have become a better person. I have learnt so many valuable lessons, many of which from mistakes I...
Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is a killer isn’t it? And I’m sure you’re here because you either feel this way right now, or have done many times. That feeling of comparing yourself to others and just not feeling good enough. That feeling that no matter what you do, everyone will...
Monday Morning Madness
It's Monday morning, you hit 'snooze' 3 times before getting up, feeling rubbish. You're so tired you could go back to bed, but you have a busy day of meetings ahead of you. You get downstairs, realise there is no milk, bread or anything for breakfast, the kids come...
Men Matter Too
Men Matter Too This week has been pretty full on, with International Women’s Day in regards to female empowerment, supporting women and the beginning of the week, releasing my own personal story on my struggle with postnatal depression and going from success to...
The worn out mum
Over the past 5 years, I have come to realise that us women put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be the best mum possible, hold down a successful career and try to stay fit and healthy too. For many women this can literally be like spinning plates and just waiting...
My TED Talk
My TEDx Talk Me, My stress and I When I was offered the opportunity to do a TED talk, I bet you think, I jumped at the chance and got super excited, right? WRONG! Yes, I was excited, but I immediately went into negative thinking and imposter syndrome came and reared...
Creating positive Change
Creating Positive Change There are times in our lives when we may feel stuck. We may be in a situation that is making us unhappy, however we are lacking the confidence, motivation or extra push we need to help us create positive change in our lives. Sometimes we are...
