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Wellness coach for busy women, taking you from exhausted & overwhelmed to energised & living with joy

Kia ora, I'm Erin: daughter, wife, mother, nutritionist, personal trainer, Pilates teacher, yoga teacher, and lover of life. Life can get crazy sometimes, and you often find yourself giving to everyone else with nothing left for yourself. I’m here to help you prioritise your wellbeing: physical, mental, and spiritual. As a coach I can help you bring clarity to your personal goals and aspirations as you navigate your journey, so that you can be energised, calm, and full of joy.

24/02/2026

I’ve been working on a blog (it’s been sitting in my drafts for nearly a year 🫣), but it’s finally done!!

I’ve for a long time felt like I didn’t fit in any of the boxes this world tries to put us in. I mean, I have this, but I also have that. I want to do this, and that and that and that. And this idea that your career is a complete reflection of who you are seemed so wrong to me. It is a very small part of who I am and what makes me up.

To read more, reply blog and i’ll send you the link

📷taken on the Heaphy track. Stunning part of the country!

23/02/2026

I taught a yoga class the other day, working towards a peak pose that i knew some people wouldn’t be excited about, so i shared a story…

About a year and a half ago we went on our first real caravan trip. Our destination was Invercargill, to check in on my dads wife since he had passed away a couple of months earlier, and to visit my mum. However, like i shared in my yoga class, the trip wasn’t all about the destination, it was the journey. On our journey we stopped at a bunch of places, including freedom camping right beside the beach where we woke up to the sunrise over the sea, and a place which was my first time visiting and has potentially become one of my top 10 spots in New Zealand, Tunnel Beach just out of Dunedin. We got there a little after sunrise, and had the beach to ourselves for a little bit. Love love the stunning cliffs soaring up above the beach.

Sometimes in life we focus on the destination without appreciating the beauty of the journey. Im as guilty as anyone, but working on enjoying the journey, taking in the beauty of each day, and the glimmers within each day.

So, whats a moment of beauty you’ve noticed recently?

07/02/2026

Social media, and the world in general, is feeling heavy at the moment. My feed the last few days has been filled with horrible things performed by horrible people, that are yet to receive any punishment despite plenty of proof. And it makes me angry.

Seeing so many images over the last few years coming out of the Middle East, i never said anything, but honestly i felt helpless. And i felt like i didn’t have capacity to carry it, so rightly or wrongly i tuned it out. And i recognise that is an absolute privilege to be able to do that.

I don’t know whether my capacity is greater now, or whether it just feels closer to home with my husband and son being citizens of the USA, but this is hitting harder. Men in power abusing that power, and the victims, mostly women, having to deal with the fallout of someone else’s actions.

Im still not sure if there is anything I can do, especially on that global scale, but one thing i have been absolutely committed to for many years, is trying to make a difference in my world. And maybe that’s your mission too, whatever that world is to you. So Ive been thinking about some actions we could take.

1. If you need to, protect your peace. Take a break from social media, get out in nature, do things that bring you light and joy. We all need that to counteract the darkness.
2. Check in on yourself and your friends. This situation can be triggering for a lot of people. Go for a walk together, have a cup of tea in the sun. Vent or rage of talk about the good things you do have in your life. Cry, scream, laugh, share memes and stories to bond over. Whatever it is for you. You don’t have to do this alone.
3. Raise your boys to respect women. To show love and care. To understand consent and that no is a full sentence. And prioritise emotional regulation

Im sure there are plenty more. Feel free to share your suggestions. Or just enjoy this picture of a new zealand robin. I swear they like posing for the camera!

04/02/2026

I’ve been trying our hormone replacement therapy/menopause hormone therapy, and let’s just say it’s been a wild ride. And it ended up sending me down my latest hyperfocus rabbit hole. I feel like this will have to be a blog thing and more than i can share in these little squares, but id love to know if you’ve tried it and if so what your experience was? And if you want to share your story (good or bad), wanna message me? It has opened my eyes to a whole other area of wellness and why things may or may not work for us.

Btw how incredible is this spot! Im finishing up the editing of our trip away and have hundreds more to share 🫣

02/02/2026

Feeling overwhelmed by feeding yourself or your family?
This is for you.

I’m trialling a monthly, hands-on meal prep session where we come together to actually make food, not watch a demo or listen to a talk.

We’ll work side by side to prepare around 5 meals / meal bases / preserves you can take home and use straight away.
Real food, made from scratch, designed to make the rest of the week (or month) easier.

✨ No perfection
✨ No pressure
✨ Children welcome
✨ Community over hustle

First session:
Friday 20th February, 10.30am, Christchurch (details shared on booking)

This is about:
– Making real food more accessible
– Reducing reliance on packet foods
– Saving time, energy (and often money)
– Sharing the load so no one has to do it alone

Numbers will be small and this first one is a bit of a pilot. If it feels like something you’ve been craving, I’d love to have you there

Comment FOOD or send me a DM and I’ll share the details.

22/01/2026

Nearly 6 months ago now we headed to Bali for 10 days, and I’ve finally blogged about it.

It wasn’t my favourite trip, so I needed some space to process before sharing about it. It is hard when expectations aren’t met. But i have learned a lot about what i need. And i have stories to share. Especially about that time i got bitten by a monkey! 🙈

Promise i’ll be back to more health & wellness content soon!

19/01/2026

We got home last week after 2 1/2 weeks on the West Coast. It didn’t all go to plan but oh my goodness, so much beauty! I took nearly 4000 photos, so here is a teeny tiny snippet of the trip. There will definitely be more to come!

17/01/2026

2016 - the year of doing random yoga poses at the beach.
It was also our first wedding anniversary, the second year of my nutrition degree, Dave finished up his cancer treatment (10 years cancer free!!), I struggled with the adjustment of becoming a stepmum to 3 tween & teen girls, we went snowboarding and travelled to the Gold Coast, Thailand and Fiji.

It was a year of massive personal growth. It didn’t all happen in this year but i had to learn to let go of things. To speak up when something was bothering me and to let go of what didn’t matter. I learned that sometimes its better to be happy than right, and that i have no control over what others do but I can control my reactions.

I think 2016 me would be so proud of how far Ive come, and happy with the life we have created. And I’m so proud of 2016 me for not shying away from the hard work. For holding strong even when i thought i would break, and for building a life that feels good on the inside, not just looking good on the outside.

01/09/2025

Happy first day of spring!!! 🌸🌷🌻

I’ve been working on my behind the scenes stuff (which probably hasn’t been touched in about 2 years), and got my first newsletter out in a very, very long time. If you’d like to connect via email, comment newsletter and i’ll send you the signup link.

The other weekend one of my gorgeous pregnant friends had a food making party. We all chipped in and prepped some food to go in her freezer that can be chucked into the slow cooker for some easy meals when life is busy. We all thought it was such a brilliant idea, and I’ve decided to make it a reality. If you’re local and interested in some slowcooker food prepping parties, comment slowcooker and I’ll send you the link to join the fb group to get all the details as they drop 🥘🍝🍛🍲

27/08/2025

Have you ever had something in your life change and it takes a while to recalibrate? I’m feeling like that at the moment! For the last few years I’ve been teaching at Ara Tuesday and Thursday mornings, but this semester Ive been changed to Wednesday and Fridays. The upside is that i get to attend a Pilates class at the gym I teach at on Tuesdays and Thursdays (it’s so different doing it for me than doing it for my students!), but I feel like I spend most of the week wondering what day it is 🤨

Im sure i’ll suss it out soon enough, and eventually work out some sort of regularly scheduled program for you all! But for now, know its ok to step away from something that is no longer working for you, its ok to take time to adjust when things change, and its ok to see benefits and downsides in a situation. They can both exist at the same time. 💛

18/08/2025

I’ve shared this thought before but it’s so good it needs to be shared again.

Growing up i had this overwhelming feeling that i wasn’t good enough. That maybe i could earn my worth by working, by achieving, by doing. This isn’t truth, but there are a lot of untruths we hold to.
I’d been working on this untruth for a while before Benny was born, but while he was lying in NICU it really hit me. He was so teeny! He couldn’t breathe for himself, he couldn’t eat, he couldn’t even open his own eyes when he was born, but he was so precious to me!!! He didn’t have to earn my love or approval or acceptance. I just loved him.

And it really hit me that’s how God loves us. Nothing we can do can earn his love, nothing we can do can destroy it. He loves us because we’re his children. We are precious to him, he treasures us.

So my word for you today. You are loved. You are precious. You are a treasure. Not because of what you do. It hasn’t been taken away because of something you’ve done or something that was done to you. You are precious, valuable, worthy.

If this feels hard to believe, i’d love to chat. ❤️

14/08/2025

I'm on a roll clearing off my blogging to-do list. I'll get back to some more educational content soon enough but I do love sharing my photos too! This one is from our Easter trip to Kaiteriteri. Let me know if you want the link to read and check out more photos.

Speaking of educational content, anything you'd like to know more about? I've started one on sensory processing, and another on multipotentialites and need to get them both finished off. One of them interest you? Or something else I've mentioned you want me to dig into more?

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