Sarah Wells Coaching

Sarah Wells Coaching Chronic illness, done differently. Bespoke support to live well with long-term conditions. Links: https://welcome.sarahwellslifecoach.com/links I've got you.

I’m not a magician, but I’ve got a trick or two up my sleeve to help you start to live well with chronic illness + prevent and recover from burnout. I’ve had the guilt, the anger, I felt the loss, got the battle scars but one thing I know for sure … having the right people in your corner makes all the difference.

If the strategies aren't sticking, this is probably why.Save this.
30/04/2026

If the strategies aren't sticking, this is probably why.

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She turns sixteen today, and honestly she is one of the reasons this business exists.Before there was a coaching practic...
27/04/2026

She turns sixteen today, and honestly she is one of the reasons this business exists.

Before there was a coaching practice, there was a blog where I started writing about our family's life with chronic illness, the real version.

The hard parts.
The unexpected beauty.
The way it reshapes everything, including the people growing up inside it.

Families started finding that blog. Mostly mums. From all over the world. Asking me if I could help them to navigate it all.

So I went back to school. Combined my biology degree, my skill of teaching others and everything I already understood about how humans work with a deep, stubborn belief that you can live a full life alongside chronic illness.

And as I did that Rubie was at the heart of it all. ❤️

She has watched, lived, and shaped more of this work than she'll ever know. And at 16 she is one of the most quietly remarkable humans I have ever met. Strong in ways that take most people decades to learn. Witty. Brilliant. Completely herself.

She is the reason we choose to live the way we do - fully, honestly, with everything we have.

Happy birthday my beautiful girl.

If you’ve been here a while, you know a little of her story. Drop her a birthday message below or some ❤️❤️❤️ she’ll see it and she'll love it in a way that only 16 year olds do. 😉🎂

She'd describe her week and it sounded... manageable. On paper. Meetings, a few social commitments, some work from home ...
24/04/2026

She'd describe her week and it sounded... manageable. On paper. Meetings, a few social commitments, some work from home days.

But she was drowning.

What looked manageable to everyone else was running her into the ground. And she couldn't understand why - which made the overwhelm worse. Because alongside the exhaustion was the question she kept asking herself: why can't I handle this?

We did the Capacity Audit together.

What it revealed wasn't that she was doing too much. It showed that she had no real picture of what her body was actually spending energy on, the invisible load.

The cognitive management of symptoms.
The emotional labour of appearing fine.
The recovery cost of things that looked simple from the outside.

Once she could see it, she stopped fighting herself.

The overwhelm didn't disappear overnight. But she had a map. And with a map, you can navigate.

This is what the Capacity Audit is designed to do. Not to tell you to do less. To show you what you're actually working with, so your decisions, your commitments, and your expectations of yourself finally make sense.

£27 Comment Audit for the details.

Most advice skips the middle bit. Here's what actually needs to happen between knowing and changing, especially when you...
23/04/2026

Most advice skips the middle bit. Here's what actually needs to happen between knowing and changing, especially when you're navigating chronic illness.

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She'd done the reading. She understood her patterns. She even knew, rationally, what needed to change.But every time lif...
22/04/2026

She'd done the reading. She understood her patterns. She even knew, rationally, what needed to change.

But every time life shifted, a new demand, a difficult conversation, a flare, the overwhelm flooded back. And right behind it: the voice that said you should be handling this better by now.

This is one of the most common things I see.

And that gap, the one between knowing and doing, it isn't a willpower problem. It isn't even a strategy problem. It's a nervous system problem.

When your body has spent years in survival mode, it doesn't update quickly. Even when your mind is ready to do things differently, your nervous system is still scanning for threat. It hasn't learned yet that a new way of operating is safe.

That's why awareness alone doesn't create change. And why so many smart, self-aware women with chronic illness feel stuck, despite doing everything "right."

The work isn't thinking harder. It isn't about reading more. It's helping your nervous system catch up with what you already know.

We start here in the Capacity Audit, not what you should be doing, but what your body is actually ready for right now.

£27. Let’s talk. ↑

Most decisions feel harder with chronic illness. Not because you're worse at deciding. Because you're deciding with inco...
17/04/2026

Most decisions feel harder with chronic illness. Not because you're worse at deciding. Because you're deciding with incomplete information.

Your nervous system is supposed to help you make good decisions. It reads the situation, weighs it up, gives you a felt sense of what's right.

But when it's been running on stress and survival for years, that felt sense gets unreliable. What feels urgent might just be anxiety. What feels impossible might just be exhaustion. What feels like the wrong choice might just be a bad day.

Chronic illness puts your nervous system under sustained, constant pressure. Pain. Fatigue. Unpredictability. The effort of managing symptoms while also managing a life. All of it runs through the same system you're trying to make decisions with.

So when a decision feels impossible, it's often not the decision that's the problem. It's the state you're in when you're trying to make it.

Before any of this can shift, you need to know what your nervous system is actually working with. Not what you think it should handle. Your real baseline, right now.

That's what the Capacity Audit is for. You complete it yourself, honestly, at your own pace. I review it and send you a recorded personal video response, a clear picture of where you actually are, so the decisions you make from there come from clarity rather than survival mode.

£27. Comment Audit and I will send you the details over.

Not a framework. Not a list of pros and cons. Just one question.Is this a decision, or is this exhaustion talking?It sou...
16/04/2026

Not a framework. Not a list of pros and cons. Just one question.

Is this a decision, or is this exhaustion talking?

It sounds obvious until you realise how rarely most people with chronic illness actually stop to ask it.

When you're managing pain, fatigue, unpredictability, and the cognitive load of navigating a body that needs more management than most, your nervous system is already working hard by the time a decision lands in front of you. And a depleted nervous system doesn't decide the way a rested one does. It defaults to fear. To the familiar. To whatever feels safest right now, which isn't always the same as what's actually right.

So before you do anything else with a decision that feels stuck or impossible, ask that question. Am I genuinely unclear on this, or am I just exhausted?

If the answer is exhausted, the decision can almost always wait. Not indefinitely. But until you've slept, until the pain has quietened, until you've had a day where you're not running on empty. Decisions made from depletion are rarely your best ones.

If you honestly can't tell which it is, that's useful too. It usually means you don't yet have a clear read on what your nervous system is actually working with day to day.

That's exactly what the Capacity Audit is for. You complete it yourself, honestly, at your own pace. I review it and send you a recorded personal video response, a clear picture of your baseline, so the decisions you make from there come from clarity rather than survival mode.

It's £27. Just comment AUDIT and I can send you the details over.

For years I kept making the same decision.To stay in situations that were costing me more than I could afford. To push t...
15/04/2026

For years I kept making the same decision.

To stay in situations that were costing me more than I could afford.

To push through when everything in me was saying stop.

To keep going in jobs, commitments, seasons of life that my body was clearly telling me weren’t working, and then being surprised when I crashed.

I thought I was being strong.
Responsible.
Not a quitter.

I wasn’t making those decisions consciously. My nervous system was making them for me.

When your nervous system has spent years in survival mode - which mine had, undiagnosed, pushing through, overriding every signal my body sent - it learns that stopping is dangerous. That rest has consequences. That the only safe option is to keep going regardless.

So even when I consciously wanted to make a different choice, something underneath kept pulling me back to the familiar one. The one that looked like resilience but was actually just fear wearing a more acceptable face.

Teaching was the clearest example. I loved it and it was destroying me simultaneously.

Every holiday I’d recover just enough to go back. Every term I’d push through to the next break. My body was telling me consistently and loudly that it couldn’t sustain it. I kept deciding to go back anyway.

I told myself it was commitment. It was my nervous system doing what it had always done, choosing the known thing over the uncertain one, even when the known thing was making me sicker.

The moment I understood that, something changed. Not immediately and not easily. But I stopped blaming myself for the pattern and started getting curious about it instead.

That’s when the decisions started to change.

The Capacity Audit is where I start this work. You complete it yourself- honestly, at your own pace - and I send you a recorded personal video response. A clear read of where you actually are, so that what comes next is built on something real.

£27. Comment AUDIT for the link.

10/04/2026

The next frontier in medicine isn’t another drug.

It’s a radical shift in how we view the body, the brain, and disease itself.

Depression is often rooted in systemic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, trauma, or disrupted circadian rhythms. ADHD may be tied to neuroinflammation, poor blood sugar control, or nutritional gaps like low magnesium, zinc, or omega-3s. And heart disease? It’s largely a food-borne illness, driven by a diet of ultra-processed, inflammatory, nutrient-poor calories.

There is no single root cause. But there are root causes.
And they are almost always connected by lifestyle, environment, and systems-level dysfunction.

Medications have their place… But they were never designed to reverse chronic disease. They manage symptoms, often while the underlying dysfunction worsens.

If we want to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, mental and physical, we need to stop asking what drug treats this and start asking why the body lost balance in the first place.

The answer is in how we eat, move, sleep, connect, and live. It’s in our soil, our food system, our communities, our kitchens.

The next revolution in medicine will come not from the lab but from returning to the root.

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