In 2017, my year 12, I took a ruin to my body trying to “maintain my weight”. After years of being all in or out with restriction and excessive exercise from the age of 10, I fell into the hardest time of my life with my body. There was no ounce of peace in my day with myself, second guessing every eating and exercise choice I made.

I was skiing at Mt Buller June 2017. The last day of the trip I took a high intensity class and spoke to the instructor afterwards about what I was going through. One conversation and she had opened my eyes to what eating more and giving myself some grace could actually do for my body composition. At that point I hated starving myself, I hated running the same block everyday to and from school with my heavy bag, and I hated all the comments around me saying I should be eating more. The next day I distinctively remember looking in the lulu lemon change rooms at my back and suddenly being horrified at how stick thin I had become. It was almost as though the body dysmorphia and the normality I had created around the way I was looking washed away. I downed a heap of those health “bounce balls” that I had in my bag and didn’t look back.

I hired my first online fitness coach soon after who helped me let go of the restrictive measures and start building a stronger body. Then in 2021 I started with an in person coach who taught me how to move better than ever before and introduced me to powerlifting. Since then I have continuously taken on coaches and mentors who have skills, knowledge and experience that I want to adopt for myself and my own coaching practices.

In 2021 I started my business which has evolved throughout the years as I have. It started as fitness and body recoup focused, then turned towards strength and relationship with food focus, and it’s now a collection of services designed to help people build autonomy in their choices and discover what building their bodies capacity without sacrificing their health can look like.

Through all this time my education and experience has been on a continuous build. Through personal training certs, a bachelor of exercise and sports science, and multiple body image and eating psychology courses, it’s all an asset to complement the real life experience that can’t be replaced with education.