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I help clients create sustainable behavioural, emotional, and neurological shifts, so they can reclaim energy, confidence, independence, and quality of life.

Resilience Coach for People with Autoimmune Conditions or Chronic Illness | AS Warrior | Podcast Host | #1 Bestselling Amazon Author | NDIS | 1:1 Coaching / Empowered Pathways Program I’m Sharon, founder of SJ Resilience Coach, and a recognised leader in resilience coaching, chronic illness support, and behavioural change for people navigating autoimmune conditions, disability, and long-term pain. As someone living with Ankylosing Spondylitis, chronic pain, spinal fusion surgery, and a spinal cord stimulator, I bring what most practitioners can’t, the combination of deep lived experience, trauma-informed care, and neuroscience-driven coaching designed for complex health needs. My work blends pain science, mental wellness, nervous system regulation, behavioural psychology, and evidence-based resilience strategies to help clients stabilise symptoms, reduce overwhelm, rebuild identity, and thrive beyond their diagnosis. This is not only “mindset coaching.”
This is strategic, practical resilience work for real people with real health challenges.

💡 Professional Background & Expertise
• Lived experience with chronic illness & disability
• Specialist training in behavioural change, pain education & nervous system regulation
• Extensive background in aged care, dementia support, trauma-informed practice & mental health
• Strong expertise in the NDIS system, psychosocial support, advocacy & participant navigation
• A holistic, person-centred coaching approach grounded in neuroplasticity, pacing science & resilience psychology

💚 My Mission
To redefine support for people with chronic illness and disability by bridging the gap between clinical treatment and real-life living. If you’re seeking an expert who understands the science and the lived reality of chronic illness, I’d love to connect.

🌐 www.sjresiliencecoach.com

🌐 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SharonJonesCoaching

26/10/2026

You’ve become good at adapting.

Adjusting plans. Managing symptoms. Working around fatigue. Finding ways to keep everything going.

But being good at coping doesn’t mean the way you’re living is sustainable.

And when so much of your energy goes towards getting through everyday responsibilities, what’s left for the life you actually want to enjoy?

Recognising these patterns is important.

But understanding what needs to change and knowing how to make those changes work in your life are two different things.

👉🏻 Inside EMPOWERED PATHWAYS™, we work together to turn that understanding into practical routines, greater confidence and more sustainable ways of living.

Not another list of things you should be doing.

Support to help you make changes that fit your capacity and circumstances.

You can keep managing everything yourself. But you don’t have to keep doing it the same way. 💚

Explore what a more sustainable way forward could look like.

EMPOWERED PATHWAYS™ discovery call link in my bio.🔗

21/10/2026

You see a grocery list. She sees 20 decisions before she’s even worked out what to cook for dinner.

When you live with autoimmune disease or chronic illness, buying groceries can involve an invisible layer of mental work.

Checking ingredients.

Thinking about possible symptoms.

Calculating how much energy cooking will require.

Finding alternatives when familiar products aren’t available.

Planning around how you might feel tomorrow.

And making sure there’s something manageable to eat on the days when your capacity is limited.

Every item can carry another calculation.

This is part of what I call **Symptom Negotiation™** — the constant mental process of filtering everyday decisions through symptoms, energy, uncertainty and possible consequences.

It’s one reason an ordinary shopping trip can feel far more demanding than it looks.

And it’s why telling someone to *“just plan your meals better”* doesn’t always help.

Sometimes more planning simply adds to the workload she’s already carrying.

The first step isn’t necessarily finding another system.

It’s recognising how much invisible work is already happening.

What looks like a simple grocery list to someone else may represent dozens of decisions for you.

Save this for the next time an ordinary task leaves you unexpectedly drained.

And share it with someone who may not realise how much thinking happens behind the scenes.

16/10/2026

Not every difficult day needs the same kind of support.

Sometimes you need preparation.
Sometimes you need more structure.
Sometimes you need something gentle.

And sometimes you just want help understanding why life feels so demanding.

That’s why I’m building a library of resources you can come back to at different times, depending on what you need.

And there’s something new coming soon:
The Energy Audit. 🔋✨

A simple resource to help you start noticing where your capacity is actually going.

More on that soon.

For now, you can explore my free resources and Etsy tools through the link in my bio. 🌸

15/10/2026

One thing I often see with chronic illness:
Even helpful resources can start to feel like one more thing to sort through when your head is already full.

So instead of asking:
“What else should I be doing?”

Try:
“What would support me most today?”

📝 Appointment coming up? Start with the checklist.

🎧 Need help making sense of what you’re experiencing? Listen to the podcast.

🌿 Deep pain day? Try the 5 Practices.

You don’t have to do everything at once.
Start with the support that fits where you are today.

🌸 Free Resources → link in bio

15/10/2026

“I know what I should be doing. I just can’t keep all of it in my head.”

Sometimes the problem isn’t knowing what to do.

It’s trying to remember, organise and manage too much at once.

Meals. Appointments. Symptoms. Habits. Plans that keep changing.

When you live with chronic illness, the mental load can become just as exhausting as the task itself.

A useful resource should help take some of that load out of your head.

Sometimes you don’t need more information.
You need a simpler way to organise what you’re already managing.

That’s why I created my EVERYDAY TOOLS FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS. Practical digital resources for planning, meals, habits and reflection. 📗

Less to hold in your head. More clarity for everyday life.

✳️ Explore the collection in my Etsy shop.
→ Links in bio | Free Resources

14/10/2026

You can know a lot about your health and still feel stuck.

Rest more.
Eat well.
Move.
Manage stress.
Keep appointments.
Track symptoms.

It all matters.

But when you’re trying to hold all of it at once, even helpful advice can start to feel like pressure.

Sometimes you don’t need another answer.
You need a clearer way to see what matters now.

Save this if that feels familiar. ✨

14/10/2026

Nothing changes if your needs always come last.

One of the things Michelle and I talked about in this conversation is how much guilt can come with caring for yourself when other people genuinely need you.

So this is not about putting yourself above everyone else.
It is about noticing what happens when you are always the one who gets moved to the bottom of the list.

When your needs are always postponed, you may keep functioning for a while.

You keep helping.
You keep managing.
You keep holding everything together.

But the pattern stays the same.

And if the pattern stays the same, your baseline usually stays the same too.

That is often the hard part.

You may be incredibly capable.
But if your needs are always the last thing considered, life does not become more sustainable.

It simply becomes more familiar to keep coping this way.

Inside EMPOWERED PATHWAYS™, I help women living with chronic illness understand the hidden patterns keeping them stuck and begin creating healthier, more sustainable ways of living with more structure, more clarity, and support that fits real life.

You don’t have to wait for your needs to become urgent before something changes.

If you’re ready to start creating a way of living that includes your needs too, EMPOWERED PATHWAYS™ offers structured support to help you do that.

Start a conversation about what needs to change.
Link in bio | EMPOWERED PATHWAYS™

Address

Brisbane, QLD

Telephone

+61418996868

Website

https://www.sjresiliencecoach.com/, https://sharonjonescoaching.as.me/, https://linktr.ee/SharonJonesCoaching

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