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Rebecca, 34 years old, Level 3 Qualified Fitness Instructor & Personal Trainer. Reformer & Mat Pilates Instuctor.

03/03/2026

As a Pilates instructor, your own practice matters just as much as your teaching.

Staying consistent keeps your movement honest, your cues clear, and your connection to the work strong.

When you continue to train, you don’t just teach it, you truly understand it.

Never stop being a student. 🤍

23/02/2026

“You deserve to find love.” “I hope you find your person one day.”

Beautiful sentiments, but what if we’ve been taught to see love too narrowly?

What if “the one” isn’t out there waiting to be found… but something we build within ourselves?

I am my person. I am the love of my life.

And the most constant, grounding, expansive love I’ve known hasn’t been romantic; it’s been friendship. The people who witness your life as it really is. Who stay through the ordinary and the chaos. Who remind you who you are when you forget.

Maybe the problem isn’t that romantic love isn’t powerful; it’s that we put it on a pedestal and ask it to be everything.

That in itself is hard to live up to; and when the pressure builds, something has to hold us steady, and it’s almost always our friends.

So yes, wish me love. But know this: I already have it, in the lives intertwined with mine.

Maybe the real loves of our lives are the ones who never needed a pedestal to stay.

09/02/2026

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

Read that again.

The world isn’t fair. Life isn’t fair. Control is mostly an illusion.

We exhaust ourselves trying to belong to systems that were never built to hold us. We fall in line hoping obedience will keep us safe, and still pay the price when we don’t.

The masks are slipping now. The stories aren’t holding. What was always broken is simply harder to hide.

Because the truth is nothing unsettles power more than free will. Nothing threatens a system like people who think, choose, and move for themselves.

So maybe the goal isn’t to win at life. Maybe it’s to experience it.

Cry when it hurts. Risk the failure. Make the mistake. Move when staying still costs you more. Don’t settle, or do, but choose it with open eyes.

You can’t control the world. But you can choose how you meet it.
And if your freedom scares them, you might as well use it to make decisions that serve your life, not their comfort.

Because in the end, all you truly leave behind is the courage it took to live on your own terms.

04/02/2026

Insecurity is a rot, spreading through the cracks, infecting and killing what once felt light, what once brought joy.

Left untreated, like poison it seeps into everything: your career, corroding confidence, your body, turning mirrors cruel, your relationships, clouded with doubt, your mind, heavy with quiet war.

To fight it, you must choose to love what you were taught to hate, to hold close what was labeled unlovable, unattractive, unworthy.

You must choose to free yourself from the rot, from the poison that keeps you from standing tall, from claiming: “I love myself.”

It may scare others to see you own your worth, so be brave, be bold, cut out the rot as a radical act of defiance against a world that whispers you’ll never be enough.

Because, darling, you were born enough. They just don’t want you to know it.

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17/11/2025

✨ Mind • Body • Balance ✨

Take a day just for you, to reset, realign, and return to yourself in a space that truly cares.

Held the day before Blue Monday, this nourishing workshop is the perfect way to lift your energy and support your wellbeing. 💜

Join us on 18th January at 2pm at Flow Marlow for a peaceful blend of grounding practices, mindful movement, gentle healing, and heartfelt connection.

Spaces are limited, reserve your spot through the link in bio.

We can’t wait to welcome you. 🌿🕊️

Booking link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mind-body-balance-workshop-tickets-1968194926006?aff=oddtdtcreator

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06/11/2025

✨ Something special is coming… ✨

A day to pause, recharge, and reconnect — Sunday, January 18th. 🌿
You won’t want to miss this.

More details revealed soon 👀💫

04/10/2025

Perhaps the grass is greener because they’re actually watering it over there…🌱

31/07/2025

Expend energy rather than consume it.

What do I mean by this?

We are taught to consume in order to feel better, whether it’s information, food, others’ energy and time, or material possessions like clothes and accessories. Subconsciously, we believe that consuming will make us happy, yet we often still feel emotionally empty or weighed down afterwards.

I believe movement is energy in motion, similar to emotions. Instead of consuming more to suppress or appease our emotions, we need to focus on expending energy to find balance.

During my training as a mental health first aider, I learned that one of the fundamentals is giving back to the community or to others. Often, we gain more from giving than we would if we expected something in return.

The burden of constant consumption can feel heavy to carry.

23/05/2025

I just completed two weeks of Mat Pilates training!

I’m so grateful for the amazing women I’ve met and our wonderful instructor, Paige.

She reminded me that movement is a way to heal, which really resonated with me after feeling stuck for the past two years while overanalyzing the impact of long COVID on my life.

It has truly been healing to reconnect with movement in a community of like-minded people.

I can’t wait to learn even more from in the upcoming month.

Next up: Reformer training!

08/05/2025

I will [insert here] when I [insert here]…

I will be confident when I lose weight.

I will go for that job once I’ve taken on another course.

I will be happy when I’m in a relationship.

These statements are so conditional and limiting and also just false when measured up to reality a lot of the time.

Why not instead use the phrase I can [insert here]

I can do it now.
I can build confidence now.
I can find happiness now.

Maybe you WILL do it once you simply realise you CAN without any self imposed conditions.

09/04/2025

I find it frustrating when people exercise and boast about their aesthetic gains.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but as someone who has exercised primarily for mental health benefits—an experience that has transformed my life—I am passionate about promoting exercise as a form of personal therapy.

While weight loss and muscle definition are positive side effects to celebrate, I believe there is an excessive emphasis on physical appearances, which is often tied to peoples perceived sense of worth.

Since developing long Covid, I have been unable to exercise as much as I would like, significantly impacting my life, my job, my mental health, my ability to manage ADHD, and my mood and hormone regulation. It frustrates me to see the aesthetic benefits of exercise emphasised over the privilege of being able to move.

Movement is medicine; it can be therapeutic, and it is a privilege. Exercise should not be pursued solely for the sake of improving one’s appearance. Promoting exercise this way only reinforces the false notion that a person’s worth is tied to how they look.

24/03/2025

I feel like emotions are similar to colours…

Each emotion is assigned a specific colour, and we often expect to paint our days with clear lines and bold colors that cannot be mistaken for anything else.

However, emotions don’t work that way; they tend to exist in an abstract form. Sometimes, it can be hard to identify the dominant colour because so many have been mixed together.

It’s challenging to know how to feel about this. On some of my worst days, I look at this emotional “painting” and it stirs up a multitude of feelings as I try to interpret what it means”.

It’s not clear-cut; each day becomes a messy blur of colours and emotions, and we try to interpret these paintings into something tangible. Instead of trying to make sense of them, we should just step back, admire the work, and remember that each new day is a fresh canvas.

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