DESA- Holistic Wellbeing For Women

15/01/2026

🌿 Now collaborating with Better Life Surgery 🌿

I’m proud to collaborate with Better Life Surgery and Dr Mo Atalla, supporting patients through specialist bariatric psychosocial assessments and counselling.

Dr Mo Atalla consults across 4 clinic locations and also offers telehealth appointments, making access to care flexible and convenient.

If you’re currently looking for a surgeon, their website is linked on our website for easy reference.

✨ Specialist bariatric counselling informed by personal experience, supporting patients referred by their surgeon.

If you are considering bariatric surgery and would like support to decide whether you are emotionally and psychologically ready, you can now book a pre-operative psychosocial assessment with me.

Better Life Surgery also offers care for:

• Bariatric surgery

• Hernia repairs

• Tummy tucks (abdominoplasty)

• Endoscopies and related procedures

📋 Consultation & assessment forms available online

💬 Payment via DM otherwise you can do a consultation with Dr Mo Atalla through a GP referral/private and then be referred to me for pre-operative care and then post operative

🧡 I am available Saturdays telehealth and in clinic 10am to 3pm

🌸 Additional support available:

• Quick-intervention Positive Guidance affirmation cards (available to purchase)

• FREE eBooks — subscribe via the website for holistic wellbeing resources

👉 Book now and take the next informed, empowered step in your surgical journey.

11/01/2026

Need a moment of calm, clarity, or reassurance? 🤍

My Positive Guidance Cards were created to support you through overwhelm, healing, and everyday life — offering gentle, empowering messages when you need them most.

✨ Each deck includes:

• Positive affirmations
• Intuitive guidance
• Emotional grounding
• A daily self-care ritual

Perfect for:

🌿 Stress & anxiety support
🌿 Healing & personal growth
🌿 Bariatric & weight-loss journeys
🌿 Morning intention setting
🌿 Women prioritising their wellbeing

💖 Price: $60 per deck

📦 Shipping: $10 Australia-wide

📩 Comment “GUIDANCE” or DM me to order

✨ Limited decks available

A small ritual. A powerful reminder. Support you can hold in your hands.

— Desa

DESA Holistic Wellbeing

04/01/2026

🎊A new year invites us to pause, reset, and ask: What do I want to feel this year?

Through affirmations, manifestation, and aligned goal setting, we gently reprogram the mind, strengthen self-belief, and create sustainable change — especially during profound journeys like bariatric surgery and healing-focused weight loss.

Holistic wellbeing and empowerment coaching remind us that transformation is not just physical — it’s emotional, mental, and spiritual. This year, we lead with self-trust, self-compassion, and intention 🤍

🌸 New Year Offer 🌸

2-for-1 Positive Guidance Affirmation Card Decks

💫 $60 AUD total

Limited stock available — DM to secure yours.

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas everyone. 🎄🌲🤶🎅🧑‍🎄

06/12/2025

✨ What a weekend for the soul and for my career ✨

After travelling to Sydney for my work Christmas party on Friday, today I had the absolute honour of co-hosting an incredible event with my mentor, friend and soul sister, Renee Macdonald, at Wellbeing4me in Wollongong, NSW (just 1 hour from Sydney CBD).

We officially launched my Positive Guidance Affirmation Cards, and together we spoke about the powerful role that therapeutic cards play in counselling, holistic wellbeing sessions, and spiritual practice.

🧠 Why Guidance Cards Work:

Psychological research shows that visual and reflective tools, like therapeutic cards, help clients engage more deeply during sessions. They create instant connection, open dialogue, reduce emotional barriers, and support quick interventions—especially for clients who struggle to find the right words.

They invite meaning, intuition, reflection, and emotional awareness… and I’ve seen firsthand how a single card can shift a session, bring clarity, or offer comfort when it’s needed most. 🌿✨

Sharing this with a room full of open-hearted people today was so special. My cup is full. Overflowing, actually.

After the event, I flew home to Melbourne where my fiancé Petar and my daughter Katia were waiting at the airport with a bouquet of sunflowers 🌻—my favourite. I felt so loved, supported, and grateful.
These last two days were dedicated to me, my career, connection, and growth… and I’m carrying this energy forward. 💗

Thank you again, Renee Macdonald, for co-hosting with me and believing in my work. 🙏✨

If you’d love your own set of Positive Guidance Affirmation Cards or want to learn how to use them in counselling/holistic sessions, head to www.desaholisticwellbeing.com.au to purchase. DM if you’re a business who wants to stock my cards (wholesale pricing applies *min 5 decks*)

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03/12/2025

Its not too late to DM and reserve your spot to come and see Renee and myself this Saturday!!! Look forward to sharing my positive guidance cards with you all, and talking about quick interventions.

Seeing Our Blind Spots with Compassion

One of the biggest aspects of my work as a therapist over the past two decades has been supporting clients to see the blind spots that quietly shape their lives.

Not to shame them.
Not to pathologise them.
But to empower them.

Because when we can see ourselves more clearly — gently, compassionately, and with curiosity — we gain the ability to make decisions that genuinely support our wellbeing.

And of course… I’ve used these same strategies in my own life.
We all have blind spots.
The work is learning how to meet them rather than fear them.

That’s why I’m excited to be co-running an event soon with the wonderful Desanka Ogrizovic, using therapeutic cards designed to help you:

✨ see things differently
✨ access insights that feel safe and grounded
✨ open emotional doors you may not have realised were closed
✨ feel supported, empowered, and ready for change

Therapeutic cards are a gentle—but profoundly effective—way to explore your inner world with guidance, structure, and compassion.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, curious, or in need of a fresh perspective… I’d love for you to join us.

Details here. 💛

Desanka Ogrizovic 😁

01/12/2025

✨ 1.5 years after my bariatric surgery — here’s what I’ve learned on the inside. ✨

As both a bariatric patient and a Clinical Counsellor, I’ve realised that:
Your stomach changes in one day… but your mindset takes time to transform.

Over the past 18 months, I’ve learned:
✔️ Emotional eating doesn’t disappear — it needs healing
✔️ Mindset and self-worth determine long-term results
✔️ Guilt, fear, and overwhelm are normal
✔️ Body image doesn’t catch up overnight
✔️ Accountability is everything
✔️ Without inner work → old habits return
✔️ With inner work → transformation becomes permanent

This journey inspired me to create FREE eBooks to support others emotionally, mentally, and spiritually — because too many people feel unprepared for the psychological side of weight loss surgery.

📘 FREE eBooks You Can Download:

🔹 The Empowered Woman’s Guide: 3 Steps to Transform Your Life From Within

🔹 Stronger From Within: The Inner Journey of Weight Loss Surgery

🔹 How Not to Sabotage Your Stomach: The Mental Health & Mindset Guide for Bariatric Success

These guides include:
✨ Practical mindset tools
✨ Emotional wellbeing strategies
✨ Lived-experience insights
✨ Behavioural tips for long-term success

➡️ Subscribe on my website to receive all the FREE eBooks:
https:www.desaholisticwellbeing.com.au

Let’s transform from within — together.
Desanka Ogrizovic
Clinical Counsellor | Bariatric Transformation Coach
DESA Holistic Wellbeing for Women

30/11/2025

🔥 FREE BARIATRIC MINDSET GUIDE 🔥

If you’ve ever wondered why sabotage happens even after weight-loss surgery…
Or why emotional eating returns…

Or why the mental struggle feels even harder than the physical…

This is EXACTLY why I created this guide.

As someone who has personally undergone bariatric surgery AND as a qualified Clinical Counsellor & Bariatric Transformation Coach, I understand this journey from both sides — the emotional side AND the science.

So I created a FREE guide to help you understand:

✨ Why sabotage happens after surgery
✨ Why emotional eating comes back
✨ How to protect your new stomach
✨ Mindset tools for long-term success
✨ How men + women experience recovery differently
✨ What truly keeps the weight off (emotionally + mentally)

If you’d like a copy, COMMENT “GUIDE” below and I’ll send it to you instantly.

You didn’t take the easy way out — you chose the courageous way forward.
I’m here to support you through the mental + emotional part of the journey too. 💗

👉 COMMENT “GUIDE” to receive 🙌

28/11/2025

🖤 BLACK FRIDAY (my version — calm, honest, and meaningful)

You already see enough “HUGE SALE!!!” and flashing ads everywhere…

So here’s something real and simple from me.

For the next couple of days, I’m offering a quiet Black Friday thank-you to everyone who has supported me, messaged me, asked about my cards, or shared my journey.

Positive Guidance Affirmation Card Deck

💗 Usually $60

💗 Black Friday: $45

💗 Or 2 for $80 (beautiful for gifting)

💗 Afterpay available in person (St Albans VIC 3021)

💗 PayPal available

💗 Postage or pickup

No pressure. No hype.

Just something meaningful that might support you (or someone you love) with daily clarity, grounding, confidence, and emotional healing.

If you’ve been thinking about getting a deck “one day”…

Maybe this is your gentle sign. 🤍

👉 DM me “BLACK FRIDAY” to grab yours.
(Only available for a short time.)

27/11/2025

Thankyou Ljubi Photography for this post. Glad you like the cards 😘♥️

If you would love your very own deck DM or purchase online www.desaholisticwellbeing.com.au (PayPal option available)