How to restore your pelvic floor, in less than 3 minutes a day

One of the things that new mums tell me almost more than than anything else, is that they wish they had fully understood how important pelvic floor health was, and they wish they had taken the time to focus on it a bit before baby came - as let's face it, once baby is out …

The bounce back – postnatal fitness and health

This week I got together with an amazing group of women to have a very special meeting, with Baroness Cumberlege who is the Independent Chair of the Better Births Maternity Review, working to ensure women receive the treatment that they deserve when having their babies. We wanted her advice about how we could action taking …

Model Method Online: Less Pretty More Sweaty

Fitting it in – How do you make time for for fitness around your kids? Fitness postnatally has been the hardest thing for me to find space for, and also the most challenging change to accept post-children that it's no longer is a number one priority. I think my loss of fitness has had a …

HIIT me baby one more time – Model Method Online #2

JOY - so what did you used to do for "exercise" when you were little? Do you remember what you did to "keep fit" when you were a kid? I'd imagine that instead of "keeping fit" you just "were normally active", you used to run, climb, jump, skip, play space rockets just for the helluvit? …

Be Strong, Be Happy, Be Healthy: the Model Method Online #1

If you're anything like me, you're constantly looking for ways that you can supercharge/begin a "fitness routine" around an already chockablock timetable involving juggling children, life, home, work. Since having Freddie, I've really struggled to get back into the fitness groove: I did the London Triathlon when he was 6 months old – I had …

Model Method Online: Week 1

Week 1 of the Model Method Online - tick! It's amazing how even just a week of upping your exercise routine can start to make you feel like you're changing and energising. This week I have worked out 5 times rather than the 6 I was assigned – I skipped two evenings because I was …

DOMS – help! My muscles are trying to kill me!

Have you ever started a new exercise regime full of enthusiasm, perhaps a running programme or a new dynamic yoga class, only to be floored in the days after by feeling crippled by muscles that you didn't even know existed aching every time you breathe. Two days into my Model Method Online programme and my …

Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 13 – Nicky Clinch

Balance. Wholeness. Purpose. These are the three overarching themes which greet you when you visit Nicky Clinch's website. Comforting words in themselves, which reflect her mission as a Transformational Life Coach, Macrobiotic Nutritionist and Chef. Her Instagram feed is full of inspiration and deliciousness for heart, body and mind. She shares her wellness journey and tools …

Keeping mum mighty – the importance of self care

There are some wonderful things going on on social media to champion the cause of self-care, encouraging us all to take a bit of ownership of our lives and not let ourselves be buried underneath piles of laundry and self-imposed internal negative stress. I've been an avid listener to the Supermum Podcast, Mindset Tips for …

Series: What’s in Your Toolkit? 10 – Eminé Rushton

I met the lovely Eminé last night at a Psychologies event at the Neom store on the Kings Road  – a place I would gladly while away many hours, its array of scents and general atmosphere of space and serenity are good for the soul. Eminé has an ethereal beauty about her, and a calm wisdom about …