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Your Own Kind of Strong Your Own Kind of Strong 🌿
A calmer approach to strength & health
For women 45+ who want to feel stronger
Without shame, pressure or gimmicks.

🌿 A new name, a clearer vision.I'm so happy to introduce Your Own Kind of Strong. 💚For a while now, I've been thinking a...
17/10/2026

🌿 A new name, a clearer vision.

I'm so happy to introduce Your Own Kind of Strong. 💚

For a while now, I've been thinking about the kind of space I want to create for women.

A space where we can build strength and care for our health without the body shame, fitness hype or pressure to look a certain way.

Where movement can support our lives rather than become another demand on them.

Where we can respect our bodies, work at our own pace and define strength for ourselves.

Because strength isn't one particular body shape, a number on the scales or how hard you can push yourself.

It's about feeling capable. Feeling healthier. And finding an approach that works for you.

That's the thinking behind Your Own Kind of Strong - a name that feels much closer to the heart of what I want this business to be.

My signature program, Calm Strength, is still here, and the vision behind my work hasn't changed. If anything, this new name brings it all together.

I'm creating a space for women, particularly those of us in midlife, who want a calmer, more respectful approach to strength and wellbeing.

No shame. No pressure. No gimmicks.

Just the freedom to find your own kind of strong. 🌿

Welcome to the next chapter. 💚

Sometimes we make getting fit again harder than it needs to be because we’re secretly trying to recreate an old version ...
04/10/2026

Sometimes we make getting fit again harder than it needs to be because we’re secretly trying to recreate an old version of ourselves.

The old strength.

The old energy.

The old body.

But what if that isn’t the goal?

What if the goal is to become strong in this body?

To understand it.
To work with it.
To give it enough challenge to adapt, and enough care to recover.

There is something very freeing about letting go of the idea that you need to go backwards before you can move forwards.

You don't.

You can begin exactly where you are.

Save this for the days when you need the reminder. 🌿

And if this speaks to something you’ve been feeling, I’ve explored it more deeply in this week’s blog, “My Body Doesn’t Feel Like My Old Body Anymore.”

I think there can be a quiet grief in body change that doesn’t get talked about very much.Not necessarily grief about ap...
29/09/2026

I think there can be a quiet grief in body change that doesn’t get talked about very much.

Not necessarily grief about appearance.

Sometimes it’s simply missing the way your body felt.

The things you could do without thinking.
The energy you had.
The confidence that came from knowing what your body could handle.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and it’s part of what prompted me to write this week’s blog, “My Body Doesn’t Feel Like My Old Body Anymore.”

I don’t have a neat answer.

I’m still figuring it out myself.

But I’m beginning to wonder whether the goal is really to get back to the body we remember.

Or whether there’s something else waiting for us when we stop comparing and start listening.

Maybe strength can look different now.

And maybe different doesn’t mean less. 🫶

There’s a particular kind of frustration that can come when your body no longer responds in the way you remember.You kno...
28/09/2026

There’s a particular kind of frustration that can come when your body no longer responds in the way you remember.

You know what you used to be able to do.

You remember how quickly you recovered.
How much energy you had.
What felt easy.

And then one day, you realise you can’t simply use the same rules anymore.

I think that can make us question ourselves.

But perhaps the answer isn’t to try harder to get your old body back.

Perhaps it’s to become curious about the body you have now.

What does it need?
What can it handle?
Where can you challenge it?
Where does it need more recovery?

That isn’t giving up.

It’s learning.

I wrote more about this in this week’s blog, “My Body Doesn’t Feel Like My Old Body Anymore.”

If you’ve been quietly wondering whether your body has changed too much for strength training to feel good again, you might find something in it that resonates. 🌿

Before movement becomes something we do to ourselves, it can help to pause long enough to notice what we're bringing int...
09/09/2026

Before movement becomes something we do to ourselves, it can help to pause long enough to notice what we're bringing into it.

How is my body feeling?

How is my energy?

Am I tense?

Am I worried?

Am I already expecting myself to push harder than I want to?

There isn't always one correct response.

Sometimes your body is ready for challenge.

Sometimes it needs you to adjust.

The practice is learning not to automatically override yourself.

Take a breath before you begin today.

Notice what is actually here.

Then let that information be part of the conversation.

You don't have to blindly trust every sensation.

And you don't have to ignore them either.

You can learn.

You can adjust.

You can find your way forward. 🌿

I think sometimes we confuse acceptance with resignation.As though accepting where our body is today means we've decided...
08/09/2026

I think sometimes we confuse acceptance with resignation.

As though accepting where our body is today means we've decided it will stay there forever.

But that's not what acceptance means.

Acceptance says:

This is what is true right now.

And from there, we can make decisions.

We can modify.

We can rest.

We can gradually challenge ourselves.

We can build.

Starting smaller doesn't mean thinking small.

It doesn't mean you've lost your goals.

It means you're choosing a starting point your body can actually work from.

And sometimes that's the strongest thing you can do.

Save this for the days when your body isn't where you wish it was.

This is probably the part I've found hardest.I don't necessarily want to start from where I am.I want to start from wher...
07/09/2026

This is probably the part I've found hardest.

I don't necessarily want to start from where I am.

I want to start from where I was.

I remember feeling stronger.

I remember what I could lift.

I remember moving without thinking quite so much about whether something might hurt.

And when you've had an injury or a flare, there can be this strange disconnect.

You know what your body used to do.

But your body isn't necessarily ready to do it again yet.

That can feel like going backwards.

But I'm beginning to see it differently.

Starting from your current capacity isn't an admission that you've failed.

It's simply an honest starting point.

And from an honest starting point, you can build.

I shared more of this experience in my latest blog:

“When Your Body Has Scared You: Can You Trust Exercise Again?”

If you've ever looked at what you used to be able to do and felt frustrated by where you are now, I think you might recognise yourself in it. 🫶

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