Fiona Murphy - Fed Up to Fabulous

07/12/2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…..wreath workshop - thank you Jess I had a lovely time and I love my wreath 🥰

08/11/2025

A year since you were reunited 🥰 miss you both and love you always xx

20/08/2025

13/09/2024

Had a lovely lunch on Thursday - all the food including the Spanish tortilla was amazing 🤩

18/08/2024

Anyone else been struck down with the most recent bug/Covid going around?🤔

I have pretty much been in bed since Friday with it and still feel rubbish. 🤧

Does anyone test for Covid anymore? 🤔

Does anyone care? 🤷‍♀️

Most importantly does anyone have any top tips of what to do/take to make it better? 🤔

*I have been taking paracetamol and drinking loads

15/08/2024

Yesterday I spoke to Sarah. 😊

Sarah is a client that first came to see me during lockdown.

I haven’t spoken about Sarah before - I’m not sure why 🤔

Sarah, as a woman in menopause who can’t take HRT, was confused, frustrated, annoyed, anxious, stressed, demotivated to name a few of the ever changing feelings she was experiencing. 😬

Sarah had been to see her doctors - for various good medical reasons HRT was not option for her. 😕

Sarah asked what else she could do to help support her through any symptoms she was experiencing and other ways manage her health and wellbeing in the future. 🤷‍♀️

Sarah was told there wasn’t anything she could do other than make some generic lifestyle changes. 😕

Sarah started to do her own research and got more confused and overwhelmed with the many conflicting opinions she was reading and was no nearer finding anyway of helping herself. 😬

Sarah was talking about this to someone else that had been a client of mine and she suggested that Sarah should have a chat with me.

During our first conversation we covered familiar subjects - the symptoms she was experiencing, the misleading & conflicting information that she had heard/seen/read, I heard the frustration and desperation she was feeling.

I also heard how she felt abandoned, not listened to and dismissed by healthcare professionals who were offering her no alternatives or support.

I also heard how she was prepared to help herself and make the changes and do the work she needed to help herself feel ‘normal’ again, so her thoughts and days weren’t being consumed with feeling deflated, invisible and ignored.

It’s a familiar conversation that I have with every client I speak to.

When HRT isn’t an option and they don’t fit the tick box of options that their healthcare professionals have they are left with no options.

That’s where I was a few years ago.

I worked through the different issues and researched the options - it changed everything for me. 😊

That’s how I put together the process that I talked through with Sarah.

Sarah’s journey is individual to her and she needed an individual solution.

That is what we worked through together and it changed everything for her. 😊

Sarah had a very successful career and had her own business but was feeling like it was slipping away - instead she is still very successful and living her best life.

Why was I talking to her? 🤔

Sarah was referring another of her friends to me 😊

If you would like to talk to me about how I can help you message me. 😊

12/08/2024

What time do you get up? ⏰

I get up at 7am - even at weekends.

I would never have said that I’m a morning person as a student I loved a lie in! 😁

By then I had spent years getting up a 5am to be in the swimming pool training at 5.30am as I was a competitive synchronised swimmer.

Then after university when I started work I got my first dog - which meant early morning walks before work.

Then I moved to the countryside and got my horses as well as dogs which meant back to 6am starts to be ready for work.

So now after years of early mornings 7am seems like a lie in! 😁

I still have a dog so I still have a routine - first thing is a dog walk - in all weathers! - and while I’m walking I plan my day and get ready mentally for the day ahead.

Once I’m home it’s time to get ready for work and the long commute to my desk - armed with a large mug of coffee. ☕️

That’s it - that’s how I start my morning and get ready for my day.

How about you?

How does your day start?

*photo of the squirrel hunter…..😁

07/08/2024

Three times this week….🤩

Three times I have been contacted by journalists to contribute towards articles about menopause. 🙌

They are all about menopause BUT they know I only talk about going through menopause without using HRT/hormones.

It’s great to be asked for input - the default setting in menopause articles is all about taking HRT and very little information or suggestions if you are one of the approximately 80% of women who can’t or don’t want to take it.

I have been chipping away and talking about other options for those women and some people are listening! 👏👏👏

Obviously there is a way to go before these articles are published but being contacted to talk about other options is a milestone. 😁

I was also quoted in another article that was published this week - so another milestone that needs celebrating.

It feels good to see progress. 😁

06/08/2024

Every day is a school day….

My clients are women in menopause who can’t/don’t take HRT (that’s around 80% of them!) but are looking to help themselves with the physical, mental and emotional challenges so they can love their lives again. 😍

I do love what I do - that’s not just seeing the huge changes and transformations that my clients experience it’s also the ‘behind the scenes’ stuff.

I spend huge amounts of time researching, reading up to date information, attending masterclasses and ongoing education in the different areas and techniques that I use.

Right now I am putting together resources and support for my clients to help them physically, emotionally and mentally through the differents areas of menopause.

I am really excited for it all to be ready and available for my clients so that they can have access to it 24/7 so the have the support and even the answers when they want it/need it.

Of course it won’t replace the 1:1 or group sessions rather it is there to fill any gaps.

It won’t be complete when it is launched as it will keep being added to - with new information, updates as and when they happen as well as videos of master classes & webinars in specific subjects and the guest expert sessions.

I’ll be launching next month - September - and there will be a special introductory offer - so make sure that you comment below to get the details.