Yoga Life with Ute

I’ve been writing about (peri)menopause brain fog for a while now. I’ve also been answering questions from friends and acquaintances desperate to know which supplement will fix it, whether the miracle cure they read about will work, whether upping their hormones is the answer.

So I built something.

A six-week health coaching programme based on lifestyle medicine principles consisting of three sessions, WhatsApp support in between, and a written protocol at the end that is based on your specific picture, not a generic list of things you should theoretically be doing.

We start with a free discovery call.

Then we get to work.

No pseudoscience.
No supplement lists.
No exaggerated claims.

What you get is honest, science-based answers and sustainable strategies.

Full details in my Substack (link in bio), or just DM me.

£150 beta rate, June only, limited to three women. Let’s beat 😶‍🌫️ together!

“I am discovering my power. And it was always there. I was never helpless. I just didn’t know it.”

I just love what my client said in a recent conversation
She had spent years believing the stories in her head: that she wasn’t good enough, that she didn’t add value, that she should be doing more, being more, achieving more.

We had three sessions together and something shifted.

Not because I gave her anything new. But because she finally got quiet enough to hear what was already there. To remove the layers of expectations and to find what is truly hers.

That’s why I love this work. When I am working with my clients, I am not adding something that is missing, I just help clearing away everything that was covering it up.

I turned 47 a couple of weeks ago.
I still expect a 25-year-old face in the mirror, which is increasingly unrealistic.
There’s a bit in this week’s piece about ageing, bro mums, an amazing chickpea recipe, and a reflection I’ve been sitting with for a while. Link in bio.

If you are the kind of person who holds yourself to high standards in everything you do, be it work, motherhood, relationships, your own health, this kind of guilt probably feels very familiar.

Honestly, you are not doing anything wrong. You have just set the bar impossibly high in every area of your life at once, and I hate to break it to you, there are only 24 hours in one day.

Our first instinct with guilt is to try even harder. I know, because that was my strategy too.

But I think what this guilt is actually trying to tell you is something quite different. Not to do more, but to stop.

I know these thoughts because I had all of them.

Not occasionally, just kind of permanently, somewhere in the background, for longer than I’d like to admit.

Do any of them resonate with you?

“In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

However hard things may get on the outside, the exhaustion, the guilt, the feeling that something needs to change, but you don’t yet know what, there is something inside you that doesn’t break.

If you feel lost, that may be the place to return to.

This is a piece of paper from a coaching session I did more than nine years ago. I found it last week going through old emails and I couldn’t believe I still had it. Brought back some interesting memories..

My coach asked me to write down the pros and cons of taking a break from my career in medicine. I thought it would help me think more clearly.

What I didn’t expect was to look down at the page and see that I had already decided. The leaving column just kept growing. I kept circling things. The pen nearly went through the paper.

And then I went home and told myself I couldn’t possibly leave.

If you are sitting with a decision like this right now, one you keep turning over and over, it might be worth asking yourself what your piece of paper would look like.

I was going through old emails a couple of days ago and found these photos from a coaching session in 2017. I hadn’t thought about them in years.

Looking at them now, I remember sitting in that room thinking I was there to figure out which medical specialty to switch to. I had no idea I was about to question something much bigger than that.

Looking at these now, the answer feels so obvious. It really wasn’t at the time.

If you want to try a similar exercise yourself, I have a free Discover Your Core Values workbook on my website, find the link in bio and give it a go!