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

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.

21/03/2025

I understand the impact of toxic comparison and how it can lead to issues like body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one’s life when constantly measuring it against others.

Working in Pilates, I’ve noticed that a certain aesthetic has emerged. It’s marketed as a place where you have sleek back buns, matching workout gear, ridiculously expensive grippy socks, and you *must* strive to show up with a Stanley water bottle, iced coffee, or a matcha latte.

While there’s nothing wrong with that, it can create a misleading image. You can absolutely show up with messy hair, no makeup, a plastic water bottle, and go barefoot! You could even wear workout gear from different brands. 😱

What I’m saying is, there’s no judgment here. If you like the Pilates aesthetic, go for it! But if it doesn’t resonate with you, that doesn’t mean Pilates isn’t for you. We can appreciate others without comparing ourselves to them—there is nothing wrong with you!

Really hear me when I say, “There is nothing wrong with you!” Yes, YOU! Just the way you are.

All I ask from anyone attending my classes is to show up authentically as themselves and to avoid comparing themselves to others in the room. In Pilates, we’re focusing on caring for our bodies so that we can move better through life. Let’s extend that same kindness to our minds as well.

15/03/2025

Long covid awareness day.

I never saw it coming. One moment, I was at the peak of physical fitness, thriving in my career, with boundless energy. The next moment, I was paralyzed, spending two years in a constant cycle of anxiety and panic attacks, worried about how I would survive in this new body that simply didn’t work the way I had trained it to, the way I wanted it to.

Working in the fitness industry added another layer of complexity to the hardships this condition brought into my life.

I remember telling my therapist that if long covid didn’t improve, I simply didn’t want to continue living like this. It sent me to some dark places.

However, I will say that this experience taught me the value of rest. I learned that I needed to find other outlets for my depression besides exercise, and I discovered the importance of slowing down and just breathing.

I can’t deny that I’ve been grieving for the person I used to be for the past two years, and it’s been a living hell. The sad fact is that no amount of positive thinking will change my symptoms. But I can continue to adapt to this new version of myself, building a life that is different yet just as valuable as my old one.

Whenever I catch myself focusing on the things I can’t do, I try to sit still, breathe, and be thankful for the opportunity to discover all the things I still can do and will do in the future.

10/03/2025

Over the past two years, I’ve forgotten what happiness feels like.

I know it sounds dramatic, but when your life and future hinge on a single fact—like your health and energy—that you believe won’t change for a long time, and then it’s suddenly taken from you, you start to question what else might be taken away.

It’s daunting to accept that happiness doesn’t come with a time limit or terms and conditions. I’ve also come to understand that it’s not always a simple emotion; it can be complicated and might exist alongside feelings such as fear and anxiety.

Claiming I haven’t been happy in two years is extreme, and it isn’t entirely accurate. At this point, its more that I don’t know what it feels like to experience happiness and hope without also feeling fear.

However, I want to embark on this journey, no matter how scary or uncomfortable it might be.

Especially as I plan to go to Costa Rica soon to participate in an intensive training program with . I’m making a significant investment in myself. After my body has let me down and my mental health has been an unreliable rollercoaster, while I’ve navigated grief in so many different ways, I still have to believe that I can embrace the opportunity for happiness despite that element of fear.

As I’ve learned there is never a ‘right’ time; there is only now. The real question is: are you willing to take the risk?

And at least for me the answer is, yes.

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