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How to Conquer Self-Doubt and Boost Your Confidence

Firstly, repeat after me: I AM CAPABLE OF AMAZING THINGS. Don’t allow self-doubt to dim your light. You are capable of amazing things. It’s a sentiment we often hear, but truly believing it can be a challenge. I’ve been there myself, doubting my abilities in various careers, wondering if I’m ...

You Don’t HAVE To Forgive The Person Who Hurt You

Have you ever been told you “have to forgive” to heal? How did you deal with it?  Let’s talk about forgiveness. It's a word that often gets thrown around like confetti at a party, symbolising celebration, joy, and letting go. However, when it comes to healing from a toxic relationship, ...

You Deserve a Life Without Hating Your BODY!

The feeling of disliking your own body is a pervasive struggle, and it's important to acknowledge that. But here's the empowering truth: you have the power to break free from this negativity and live a life filled with self-compassion. Recognising the struggle is the first step towards change. Accept that ...

If It Doesn’t Give You Peace Anymore, It’s Time To Let Go

Have you ever found yourself tethered to something in your life that seems to drag you down, like an anchor in a stormy sea? It might be a job that once ignited your passion but now feels like a burden, or a relationship that has lost its spark and joy. ...

Are You Wasting Time in Wrong Relationships?

Have you ever been caught in a relationship that seemed to be going absolutely nowhere? You know, the kind of relationship where you feel like you're just not getting what you need, you're unhappy, and you're not being treated with the respect you deserve? And deep down, you probably knew ...

10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Your Teen’s Brain

As a parent, understanding your teenager's brain is seriously fascinating and super important for helping them grow and develop. You know, during adolescence, their brain goes through some major changes that affect how they act, feel, and make decisions. It's like their brain has two sides – an impulsive one ...

What Is Myofascial Release and Does It Work?

Helen Uskovic conducting a myofascial release with a client. So What Is Myofascial Release and Does It Work? Let’s start with this question: What is Myofascial Tissue? It's a complex network of tissue that permeates your entire body, connecting your muscles, joints, and bones. It plays a crucial role in ...

9 Health Upgrades From Meditation

Meditation might seem easy, but it actually requires practice and discipline. Some people find it hard because they ‘can’t stop thinking’ or the ‘can’t stay still for that long’ but you know what? I had all of those excuses too. Trust me, it's definitely worth investing your time on. The ...

How to Never be Bloated Again

Almost everyone of us has experienced bloating at some point of our lives. Especially after wolfing down all the good stuff from birthdays, celebrations, and all sorts of special occasions! I’ve been there multiple times and I totally hate the gassy feeling after enjoying awesome food. So how do we ...

What is Sleep Hygiene?

I don’t know about you, but the quality of my sleep can affect the quality of my days, that’s why I take it seriously. Just as we maintain our own personal hygiene, it’s important to maintain our sleep hygiene. WHAT IS SLEEP HYGIENE? ‘Sleep hygiene’ refers to healthy habits, behaviours, ...

3 Ways To Regain Control Of Overwhelming Emotions

Everyone experiences overwhelming emotions from time to time, whether it be from stress, anxiety, or even just a difficult day. It's important to remember that our emotions don't control us, we control our emotions. There are several strategies you can use to regain control when emotions start to become overwhelming. ...

3 Reasons Why You Make Excuses

Excuses, self-sabotage, whatever you want to call it. It's close to my heart because I had always been a victim of excuses and you know, it still stretches me.  Admittedly, even if I am a mindset coach, there are still times when I will fall victim to my excuses to ...

5 Ways To Cultivate Happiness Right Now

How do you define happiness?When was the last time you felt that warm, fuzzy feeling inside of you?Do you remember the most recent moment where you got super excited and really giddy? So, how do we all perceive happiness?Behavioural scientists have spent a lot of time studying what makes us ...

5 Signs of an Unhealthy Gut

Is Your Gut Healthy? Did you know that we humans have around 40 trillion microorganisms (also called microbiota or microbes) in our body? Imagine this, zooming in with a microscope and seeing a huge, busy, bustling country inside of you.  We host thousands of different species that include not only ...

10 Ways To Exercise When You’re Busy

10 Ways To Exercise When You're Busy Movement is a fundamental aspect of life. Movement is more than just 'exercise' and does not necessarily require effort, though it does require action. Movement affects everything, from circulation, to digestion, to metabolism, and immunity. With movement, our bodies regulate hormone activity, detoxify ...

Start Your Day Right.

Start your day right. The reason I have decided to write about this is because I recently I had been feeling out of balance, overwhelmed and like something was off.I went and saw my Ayurvedic doctor because she is amazing at helping me to better my health. I booked in ...

Have You Lost Your Patience? Get Your Patience Back With These Brilliant Hacks

The capacity to accept, tolerate or delay problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. Patience is something that has really helped me with my career. It's something that's helped with my relationships, dealing with my family at times as well as my mental and physical health.  When you lose ...

4 Reasons Why You Should Be Drinking Hot Water

Forget cold water, drinking hot water is such a simple and helpful, healthy hack. Drinking hot water has so many benefits and one thing that I love doing is drinking a hot water when I wake up. What I used to do when I was out the door early was ...

Your Mindset Determines Your Identity

Who are you? We are influenced by the people who raised us and we tend to live our lives and in the mindset of the people that we were surrounded by as we grew up. Self discovery is a great tool and a question that I love pondering is ‘who ...

The Best Hack to Get You More Productive

Productivity is a wonderful thing and it is something I have had to master because I used to procrastinate a lot. I love making sure that my days are productive and effective because at the end of the day I feel accomplished and that does wonders or my mental health ...

How To Conquer Your Inner Voice In 3 Simple Steps

Sometimes that inner voice can talk so loudly and sometimes it can talk so negatively and it just doesn’t go away. Conquering this negative dialogue is one of the best things you can do for your health and that is why I created a 3 Step Process to regain control, ...

How To Get More Quality Time In Your Relationship

Quality time in a relationship is really important, and I’m talking about intentional time that you have put aside to connect with your significant other. I understand that there are a whole range of relationships so I will break the quality time down to:• Living together• Long distance or living ...

Fearlessly Speak Your Truth

I disengage with people that are disrespectful and rarely give it a second thought. However, it wasn’t always this way.  I used to allow people to walk all over me. I used to not know how to speak my truth. I was brought up to stay quiet and not express ...

8 Ways Exercise Makes You Happier

Being on top of my A game is important to me in my line of work because my job is to coach other people to do the same! I do motivational speaking, personal training and massage. If there is ever a day where I am feeling a little less motivated ...

7 Benefits Of Strength Training

Doing life is easier when you’re strong. Not just mentally strong but physically strong as well. Alrighty, let's get straight into it! When it comes to strength, I’m pretty sure it’s safe to say that life is EASIER when you’re strong. Think about things like carrying shopping from the car, in ...

The Let-Down Effect: 2 Ways To Deal With The Aftermath of Stress

"Why do I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus?" Those were my thoughts recently, when it was a struggle to get out of bed. Have you ever had a moment in a particularly stressful situation when you think, ‘how on earth am I ever going to get through this?’ or ...

10 Points To Master Mobility

I’m one of those people that has had pretty much every injury under the sun and I’m so happy I’ve found the answer to my problems. And no, it’s not visit the doctor, take pain killers and rest. In fact it’s the opposite. In this blog I am going to talk ...

10 Ways That Meditation Can Change Your Life

Allow me to introduce you to an ancient practice that has shown tremendous transformations. Meditation. So what is meditation and why is it known to change people’s lives for the better? This is something that has been part of my life for over 2 decades and it has built a ...

Losing Body Fat Is As Simple As 1,2,3!

Losing body fat, in particular belly fat can be a lifetime struggle. But what if I told you that in only 2 months you could make an extraordinary change to your body fat percentage? I did it and so can you! This blog is mainly for those people that are ...

2 Points That Will Keep Your Relationship Healthy

It’s February, the month of love and as Valentine’s Day came along this year I realised that sometimes as a Personal Trainer we don’t put much focus into ‘relationships’. But, as a Holistic Personal Trainer this is an area that I focus on with all of my clients. I have ...

6 Ways To Find More Time for Yourself

Imagine having all the time you need to get everything done. How good would that be? Well, I’m here to tell you that it can be done! Because I did it myself and free’d up so much time and I want you too, to experience the feeling of always having enough ...

Structure Your Workout Week With These Easy Steps

Being a PT people ask me a lot of questions and one of the common ones is: “I don’t know what to do for a workout” I totally understand that people want to get their training routine sorted but without a Personal Trainer to work with, it can be difficult. ...

Christmas is creeping up on us!

One of my favourite things about the Christmas season is the love and kindness that blossoms throughout the holidays. With Christmas fast approaching I decided to sneak in some more love and kindness with a 5 Week Christmas Crunch Program. That way my clients spend the Festive Season celebrating with ...

Why Can't I Lose Weight?!

Countless times I am met by clients and people who are frustrated at their lack of results with their exercise and diet. As a Personal Trainer I was taught that the only way to lose weight is, if energy in (calories in) does not exceed the energy out. Meaning, the ...

How To Let Go Of The Past

5 STEPS TO STOP LETTING PAINFUL MEMORIES CONTROL YOU I decided to write about this topic because past pain and suffering has been a common factor to me, my clients and my friends lately. I’m one of those deep-thinking people and when I find myself on a painful path I ...

Only Do Circuit Training

Circuit training is all the buzz in the fitness world these days. Switching from movement to movement with low rest periods. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE a good F45 class and the feeling of completely smashing myself. Most women: “Heavy weights will make me bulky” Ugh. No. There is ...

You HAVE to Lose Kilos to Look Better

“Lose 5kgs in 10 days!” “I lost 10kgs with this plan!” “Lose kilos, get healthy!” Vomit. I call these Vomit Headlines. This relentless focus on weight loss as your ticket to a healthy, attractive body needs to go. Seriously. I am going to come right out and say it. Ditch ...

Eat More To Burn Fat!

Let’s dive straight in and talk about the common misconception around exercise and nutrition and shift the paradigm that a low-calorie/ low fat diet is the best way to lose fat. I used to restrict my calories, binge, I would diet sometimes, eat good sometimes, starve myself sometimes you name ...