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Hi! I am Dr MJ, Meditation Teacher & Health Coach and mum of a teen, tween and preschooler.

I am an award winning pregnancy & postpartum exercise & nutrition coach. I am most passionate about helping outnumbered, working mums who struggle with maintaining the healthy lifestyle habits they know they need to do and help them feel confident of their bodies and become authentic role models of healthy living to their children.

11/11/2025

Headache for the last few days and got to keep going right? because mums have to keep going. Working responsibilities, parenting responsibilities, partner responsibilities. Everyone needs are immediate. Mum can wait? 😏 what a day, I experienced all the emotions like how Melbourne has four seasons in a day today. From panicky to forgetful to joyful to raging. I haven’t felt this all over the place in a long time. Is this perimenopause?

The rage I felt when I got shook woken from a nap I needed badly all because someone cannot find his boat. And his little person big feelings lead to everyone asking me where the boat is. I was napping, do I know where the boat is? No. Then I look around, everyone is on their devices and chilling out because they are EXHAUSTED from school. Their joyful, relaxed faces in slow motion, smiling. I turn to the kitchen and I see the 3 pots still waiting, the lunchboxes stacked up. I felt a tightening of my chest and heat grew in my chest.

What did I do? I went to rage cook dinner cos they still need to eat right? I can’t just storm out of the house because my Asian self-sacrificing woman roots run deep, even thought I have been meticulously working on chopping those roots off over the years to put myself on equal importance. After rage cooking, there was the rage washing. Amidst this, little people are asking me for things. There is 3 other big people in the house but of course they ask the one that is busying. And I know what you are thinking, “Girl, you need to ask for help…” I did, but help was delayed because help had an important game to finish.

Raging self sacrificing woman got it done, storm out of the house and got my body moving. Because that is healthy outlet, move the rage out of the body. After 20 mins of interval running, the sweat is pouring, and the rage has moved. I starting counting dates and realise I am mid-cycle and Oestrogen has living plummeted in my body which kinda explains my Melburnian weather-like mood swings today. If this is perimenopause, please send help. Or wine 🍷 should work too? 😂

Meditation Teachers rage too.

09/11/2025

The busy season at work is over and it’s time to restore the house so that it’s fit for human life 😂. So I got up and got changed, on a mission to fully overhaul and clean up the house. I put on my team shirt from the 35k coastrek because this shirt reminds me I can do anything even though I am bloody tired and sore, thanks to my 4x6reps of 45kg squats.

My 4yo asked me so lovingly, “oh mum, where are you going?” It tickled me and also felt me confused, what does that question mean? Am I overdressed for cleaning? Or did I look really terrible when I woke up? 🤣🤣

Are you like me, letting the home go when work is hectic, doing the bare minimum for the house.. and only restoring it when work lightens? In a society where women work and need to maintain a household, who can actually keep both areas of life, in a good standard?

Asking for a friend……😂

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A mum helping other mums

Hi, I am Dr MJ, your go-to health & fitness coach if you are pregnant or have bubs/kids. I have trained many pregnant mums over the years and exercised through both my pregnancies. Putting research into practice, I create opportunities for mums to exercise while keeping kids close by. When I am not training mums, I write & publish information such as the exercise & pregnancy guidelines for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) alongside other researchers.

As a mum of two young children, I have first-hand experience on the challenges we face on a daily basis and I understand how hard it is for us to be active, feel good and lose weight. Over the years, I have come to realise that mums need a different type of approach to health & fitness. An approach that is simple and DOABLE around our crazy busy schedules. I am a big advocate of being active around and with the kids because including the kids on our health & fitness journey helps them to learn how to look after themselves in future and also motivates us as mums to keep on being healthy.

Why do I feel so strongly about helping mums be fit and active in pregnancy & motherhood? Because I know about all the great benefits for you and your family and I just want to share it with as many mums as I can. But on a more personal note, my mum had breast cancer when I was a child and no child should have to watch their mother go through the cancer treatment. I am lucky though, my mum is still around to nag at me and I love it. I am not saying that if you are fit and active, you can avoid all the big scary disease out there and live to 100. But being fit and active can certainly reduce the risk of any diseases so that you can have one less thing to worry about. Being fit & active is as much about reducing your risk of health problems as it is about feeling confidence and happy with your self & your body. So, how do you know you will get excellent care from me? I am an accredited exercise scientist with a PhD in the area of pregnancy & exercise, and over 4 years of experience providing exercise training to pregnant women. I have been in the fitness industry for over 5 years as a Personal Trainer and group fitness leader prior to my PhD. Credentials aside, its simply because I care.