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26/01/2026

In the words of George Bernard Shaw …
🔑 “LIFE ISN'T ABOUT FINDING YOURSELF. LIFE IS ABOUT CREATING YOURSELF” 🔑

✨ (The photo attached is my Consult Room office desk. The pic on the left was given to me by a wonderful Mentor in 2019) ✨

Back in March 2020 I decided to do something that everyone told me I was crazy for. I made a gut-wrenching decision to leave (what felt like to me), my Kaizen Institute family … a group of special people that I had known and studied with for many years (Dave, I had been learning from since 2001)

Some of the Kaizen people were (and still are), wonderful friends, but at the same time, my “Little Voice” kept bugging me to make a change, so I trusted it … and I left the AHC (Advanced Health Coach) Programme

Was I throwing away 35 years of hard work, study, and 10’s of thousands of dollars everyone asked? 🤷‍♀️ No. I was still carrying on with the work I had learned over the years … I was just adding to it

So, what exactly was I adding to it? In October 2019, my Little Voice told me to pull up my big girl britches and board a plane (on my own) to Melbourne to meet Dr Stewart Gillespie. I really had no idea what I was going to, but I knew it was something I didn’t want to miss out on without having a good look at what he was teaching, and that week profoundly altered my life both personally, and professionally. It was time for change ⏰

Learning about Functional Health Solutions (as it was back then) blew my mind so I trusted my gut and signed up and am still studying with Stewart today. People asked me if I was “Pivoting “by adding those studies to my desk? No … I was Progressing 🤷‍♀️

In 2022, I added Aromatherapy studies (to my already busy list of things to do). I wanted to use it in a trained Functional Medicine way, and that same year, I accidentally ended up with a house full of animals … so sick they were struggling to survive. It was serious … and very scary. I took an educated gamble and began using Essential Oils and Functional Medicine to help them make it through and they did … all of them. I was not only grateful, but I was also very, very interested in how those two modalities might have real power when helping animals 🩺🩺🩺

Roll on to 2024 and I had continued with my FM studies and chose to revisit the Essential Oils studies. The universe must have been observing because my reignited interest led me straight into a course with Dr Janet Roark DVM … a Ted speaker, Veterinarian, teacher of Veterinarians, and an Animal Essential Oils Specialist
She has a registered Certification Course called Animal Essential Oils Specialist, and I am now almost through the Level 2 training and work (with some Case Study numbers to complete) 🦮🐩🐕‍🦺

Through Dr Roarks classes, we were introduced to Dr Judy Morgan … a TCVM Veterinarian (Traditional Chinese Veterinarian Medicine) and learning from her has been so interesting and so rewarding. I now realise that TCVM is an excellent way to help animals’ health with the perfect (for them) diet and her teachings are superb

Then in 2025 after chugging away slowly, I finally finished my Animal Naturopath Certification. That information showed me that so many of the little “bits and pieces” courses and my human studies, were all relevant when it came to working with animals

Without it being obvious, all of these studies have now built a very robust “Toolbox” for me that will enable my work with animals to grow, and progress in a heartwarming and safe way. I'm loving it!!!

Of note … once again, people are asking me … am I “Pivoting”? No … I am Progressing even further. And I'm still not leaving behind (what is now) 40 years in my world. I am simply adding another lane to my practice and I have to say … I am now finally leaning into what truly feels like my ideal life 💖

My brain is happily active, my heart is full of joy, and I give thanks every day to be this blessed because …how lucky am I to be doing two “jobs” so very special that they make my heart sing, and right now, it feels like 2026 is going to be a year where so much hard work, and a lot of thought and planning will finally come together beautifully 🙏🥰

01/01/2026

DO YOU HAVE A NEW YEAR RITUAL?

I do … and I’d love to share it with you 😃
It sounds a bit quirky but for some reason … it’s now something I look forward to, and the outcome has always been quite interesting over the years 🤔

My Ritual … I pull out my special little glitter box (named by my granddaughter) full of named stones, ruffle them all around, close my eyes and pause, and then let my senses tell me which one to choose. (My reason for the stones is an interesting story … will share it with you one day)

This year’s word was the word ABUNDANCE

Now … most people associate the word abundance with money because … well … that’s what the online people tell you they can help you achieve isn’t it? That’s how they sell you their product?! So, ABUNDANCE is now always associated with HUGE wealth, riches, etc etc 🎊👑

But, the true meaning of abundance has not always been that and is not necessarily that at all. To some people (including me), abundance actually means things like having love, and joy, and family in my life. Having peace … the kind of peace that allows my heart to glow quietly while my spirit rests 💖

That kind of peace … and having the absolute joy of walking in the paddocks amongst Mother Gaia with my fur babies … now that represents true abundance to me. But, we will see what kind of Abundance the Universe has in store for me this year wont we?

On New Years Day 2025, the stone I pulled was CREATE. I was not in the mood for riddles and my brain immediately asked … What does Create mean? What am I supposed to do with that? Seriously!!!🤔🫩🫣

The funny thing was though … of course I had no idea what was coming, and in fact, CREATE was the most perfect word for 2025 for me

Why? I had spent the whole of 2024 researching and deep diving into the subjects of Histamine Intolerance, MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome), and Autoimmune Skin conditions that stem from those two dysfunctions. 2025 I decided I wouldn’t go any further … I had enough information (I had what I wanted to know), and then strangely, different dogs that came across my path had those same dysfunctions … causing skin conditions

Then I understood the stone!!! So, towards the end of last year I began to create a Mum’s and Dads course that would help them understand the cause of many of their pet’s skin conditions, and how they can help look after their babies themselves … with natural suggestions.

The Stones knew what was coming after all … 😉🙃
But tell me … do you have a New Years Day ritual? 😎

31/12/2025

🌟✨🌟 As we roll towards the end of 2025 and enter a new year, I have been struggling to write a witty, clever, “moderne” type of post and it has had me going around in circles for days

Modern Gurus and marketing strategists tell us we have to concentrate on our “Why”, sell our “Why’, explain our WHY, and wrap it up with marketing bells and whistles … especially if you’re making a change within your business or changing its direction … but you know what? Im really not that kind of person

My “Little voice” keeps bugging me and telling me to “Tell it from the heart”. “That’s who you really are”. “That’s what you do best”!! And it’s right. That is who I am, so if you’re looking for something glitzy and glammy or “deep” … keep scrolling because Im going to be honest and straight from the heart here, and tell you (not about my WHY), but about … my “BECAUSE” …

So, here we go (bear with me as I try to put everything into focus) …

I think back to what a rocky start this year was, and what an emotional ending 2024 was for me personally 🤔

I had had a year of battling the hospital system to try and get my smashed (on 02.012024) wrist reconstructed and was getting nowhere. It had impacted on my business, my ability to fully fulfil services for some of my people, and as my hand stopped working and the pain grew to mind blowing proportions at times … it impacted my daily life in every way

I was still totally in pieces after losing the battle to save the little rescue puppy we had named Libby. Something very deep happened inside of me as she took her last breath in my arms that morning, and as her beautiful little eyes dimmed before she saw the sun come up again. Pieces of me shattered that I didn’t even know existed, and the pain of that experience was still raw as we stepped into 2025 … and has not left me even now

BECAUSE of that experience, I was so angry at the waste of her beautiful little life, I resolved to honour the short time Libby was here and find a way of using my education to help animals more. After using essential oils for our Maisie for so long, I began by re-visiting an Essential Oil course that I had completed in 2022. It was with one of the women in our Functional Medicine Practitioner group who is not only a pharmacist; she is also an Essential Oil scientist 🧪

Strangely, as I was working my way through the Course, the opportunity to study Essential Oils with an American Essential Oil Vet called Dr Janet Roark appeared and BECAUSE of the success I’d had with Maisie, I was IN!!! I started on my journey as an Animal Aromatherapy Specialist in October 2024 and am now halfway through Level 2 … and loving it immensely. Essential Oils also play a big part in the health of two of our other doggies … our special needs little girl called Molly, and our PTSD girl called Hartley 🐕🦮🐕‍🦺

So, BECAUSE of all of them, my 2025 study has now encompassed completing an Animal Naturopath Certificate, an Introduction to TCVM (Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine), and I continued on with another year of Functional Medicine study with Dr Gillespie … BECAUSE … they all cross over and complement each other beautifully. It’s amazing just how much they can be co-combined for such significant change 🩺🔬🧪

My year this year took a truly heartbreaking turn when we lost our Maisie on 29th of July. The same day, I was hit by a speeding car as I crossed a side street in the Hutt. I was thrown off the bonnet and through the air onto the road behind me and as I landed, knew that for some reason, an intervention of some kind had just happened. I was not seriously hurt, and I know it sounds corny but, lying there on the road looking under that car was a pivotal moment for me. I made a promise to the Universe to do something significant. Why? BECAUSE … me surviving that car’s hit really was more than a miracle 🙏🌟

My wrist surgery (that had finally been scheduled for the following morning) was cancelled, and I spent the day in and out of two hospitals. I was beyond distraught, but it was put off for the right reasons. I was very sore, needed X-Rays and medical assessment, and was in no fit emotional state to heal after a major surgery

I have to say … isn’t it surprising at times how total strangers can be so amazing when you’re in the depths of despair? I was blown away and at times, overwhelmed by everyone’s kindness and compassion. The amount of truly lovely people who helped me through those two days were just so many, and they absolutely restored my faith in humanity … especially as they put up with my torrents of tears with amazing patience, and endless grace 😭😭

The surgery was re-scheduled early (thanks to a cancellation), and my wrist is now recovering better than expected. I am so grateful and even though I still have another 6 months to let it recover completely … there really aren’t words to express how much I appreciate having my hand and wrist operational again after waiting almost 2 years. My accident injuries have all pretty much been put to rest, and I now step into 2026 feeling more like myself … stronger … and much more functionally capable

My last BECAUSE is partly down to my new business and spiritual coach/mentor. We interestingly think much the same, and my journey going into 2026 … although on a different path … is following a similar place in its trajectory to hers. She takes no prisoners which … being someone who hates sticking their head above the parapet … (in other words … I’m a big baby if I have to do that), is exactly what I need

BECAUSE of her, I am following my heart in 2026 to continue working with animals and also teach mum’s and dad’s pet owners how they can look after their pets and family members themselves. I have so much to look forward to thanks to her guidance and encouragement, and am excited to be stepping onto that road 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♀️

My final word on 2025 is to acknowledge my “40 years in business Anniversary”. In a world where many only survive 3 years, it is significant, and I attribute it to my amazing friends/mentors/coaches/teachers and my very patient husband. They have inspired, supported, reinforced, and up-skilled not only me, but also themselves to everyone’s benefit. Im beyond grateful for them all over these years, and would not (and could not) have become the Coach, Specialist, or Practitioner that I am today without them 🙏

I also want to acknowledge my beautiful and amazing people who come to Fitness Plus and who inspire me every time they come here. They have been so patient with me this year, and so supportive of my multiple times off … Im beyond grateful to their lovely hearts and continued support of both my business and me. “Bless you all … because without you, I don’t get to do what I love so much” 🙏💖🥰

So … goodbye 2025 … and as I step into 2026 …

📍I will use my heartbreak over Libby and Maisie to fuel my new future, and to help others going forward

📍I give thanks to my Fitness Plus people for supporting me and my business for another year and look forward with excitement to seeing them all progress further

📍I truly give thanks to all who have supported, guided, mentored, and encouraged me this year … helping me on the journey towards my new destination with an expended vision now

📍And I give thanks from the bottom of my heart to the Universe because I am still here … and in one piece 🙏

Happy New Year everyone and I wish for you all a year full of joy, laughter, wonder and great health. See you in 2026 🤩🎊🎉🥳

17/12/2025

Because Im now looking at the end of the year, I’ve realised I have become very “behind” with some of my studies and that doesnt sit well with me. Its been a busy last few months

So … it’s been a real power surge to get through some of my Exams and catch up … and at last have almost got there. These are a couple of the modules from my Animal Aromatherapy Specialist Qualifications … my study with Dr Janet Roark DVM … and Im loving it … it crosses over beautifully with my Functional Medicine study 😃

Im truly loving adding animal work to my people work. Its a beautiful combination, and Im finding that its the missing piece in my life 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

17/12/2025

Phew!!! Our last 2025 Functional Medicine Class/Q&A yesterday. What a cracker of a Session 🙏🏼🌟

Thanks as always to our amazing Dr Gillespie for spending another 2 very valuable hours with us; rounding off another years study 🙏🏼🌟🙏🏼🌟

30/11/2025

Celebrating 40 Years - PART 3 (The Future: Where We’re Heading)

As I reflect on the past 40 years ... doing what I love so much … I cannot say enough how blessed I’ve been, to be able to continue on with my dream of creating, and re-opening Fitness Plus

Also, how grateful I am (and have always been) for the wonderful and inspirational people I’ve had the privilege of working with and guiding towards improved health and wellness over this time

As 2026 approaches, I am looking forward to seeing how much further everyone will go on their journey here with me. My world may be expanding to include an additional focus, but I will not be leaving my amazing people, or my beautiful Centre behind

With all that I learned, and all that Maisie herself taught me this year, it’s clear that the next chapter of my journey is unfolding — one that I feel both humbled and excited to be stepping into

Next year, my study with humans and animals will continue to expand, and I’ll be spending much more time working with animals … not only in the practitioner sense ... but in education, understanding, and support for families. My aim is to help people see their pets in a new way: through a lens of curiosity, compassion, and science-informed, natural care

For those who’ve been following my work, you might already know a little about Emma & her dog Suzy (a Senior Border Collie)

Maisie was of course my real-life Suzy, and her journey has inspired this teaching model more than I can put into words. Her courage, her heart, and her beautiful willingness to trust again taught me lessons that no textbook ever could

So … what will the focus of my next chapter be on?

• Helping families understand their animals’ health and behavior cues
• Supporting everyday wellbeing at home in a natural sense
• Bridging knowledge from science with approachable, story-based learning
• Making improved health, understanding, and care something we can all share, together

This is to be a space where learning is gentle, practical, and heart-led … a place where science and story meet, and where families feel empowered to support the animals they love with natural, and well proven health solutions

This work will not only complement the incredible work of vets and practitioners … it will add something new … it will fill the gap between clinical care, and everyday understanding.

I hope you’ll join me as this unfolds. There’s so much to share, so many stories, and so many little lessons that have shaped this vision

Maisie’s mind-set taught me: courage, patience, faith, and love will always carry you through. The pain of finding her too late, and then losing her so soon, meant Maisie became my final inspiration for this addition to my future journey … and as I walk down that road … her mind-set will always be my guide 💔💖

29/11/2025

40 Years – Taking A Moment to Breathe and Reflect – PART 2 (The Present and Maisie Mae … My Warrior Mumma)

This past year has been one of the hardest, and most beautiful chapters of my life. It was the year of losing our Maisie — my Warrior Mumma — the beautiful Border Collie rescue dog with the enormous heart who in the end completely cemented in me, the changed direction of my study and my work

When Maisie came to us, she carried ten years of… well… we’ll never really know what. But you could see the unspoken story, the history … carried in her body … in her fears … in her anxieties. And yet somehow, beneath all of it, there she was - so brave, gentle, curious, and still willing to forgive enough to love and trust again, and despite the heartbreak of losing her … I am eternally grateful for everything she brought to our world

Part of that was an unknown pregnancy, and just weeks after arriving, she unexpectedly gave us six puppies

It was a battle … a real battle. We nearly lost her, and we nearly lost three of the babies. Those first weeks were an around-the-clock fight to pull them through, but she fought, and I fought alongside her, and somehow… they all made it 🙏

Three of her puppies went to wonderful homes, and three are still with us, along with our special needs little heading dog Molly … our beautiful girl with her own challenges, her own story, and her own need for courage which is somehow stitched right through her

Our Maisie learned to love in real-time
She learned to trust us even when she had no reason to
And she smiled … truly smiled … every single day because despite her story … she was determined to be happy

In July, we lost her
And it broke something in me … it truly did 😔

But it also ignited something … and cemented something quiet and stubborn and certain
Her journey with us over the past three and a half years pulled me deeper into the work I’ve been studying for humans for years. It made everything I’ve learned about functional medicine, trauma biology, immune terrain, and integrative care suddenly feel… not just meaningful … but essential and in so many ways … completely appropriate for animals. It made sense

Maisie is the final reason I’m leaning more fully into my animal work now.
Her courage, her gentleness, her willingness to heal (even after everything), has become my new compass … and my driving force

She didn’t just change my life when we rescued her three and a half years ago … our Amazing Maisie helped change my perspective about my direction … she added an extra lane on the road to my future 🥰

27/11/2025

🌿 40 Years – Taking A Moment to Breathe and Reflect – Wairarapa Women in Business
I decided to join our Region's Women In Business Hand book this year to mark my special Milestone of 40years and thought I would share it with you all ...

26/11/2025

*** FITNESS PLUS HEALTH CENTRE ***

*** Let me introduce you to the beautiful Emma ***

Emma is one of three special “Support Dogs” who come with their humans at appointment time, and what a treasure they all are

Emma was a rescue dog … terrified, skittery, non-social … all of the traits that go with an abused dog, and she has (to my trained eye), neurological issues with her walking etc (I’m guessing cerebellum). 🤔

I love all of them, and look forward to seeing each and every one of them but Emma … Emma has such a special place in my heart. It’s taken many months for her to be comfortable here but now … she shines and thrives here 🌟🌟🌟

After my recent wrist reconstruction, at the moment I’m not in the Pool for Hydrotherapy sessions and instead, I supervise from the sideline

Of course … that frees me up for extra snuggles and schmooches time with Emma 🙄😉😆

These dogs bring such a wonderful energy to our sessions and Emma is a real darling, and a truly wonderful support dog. I love having them all here 🙏🏼🥰🙏🏼

26/11/2025

🌿 40 Years – Taking A Moment to Breathe and Reflect – PART 1 (The Past) 🙏
Well … this year marks an epic milestone for me … one I never imagined I would reach, and it honestly feels crazy to be writing this:
I'm celebrating 40 years in the world of health, wellness, movement, rehabilitation, behavior, this year and more recently … supporting families and their beloved animals
It’s strange really because in many ways, I still feel like the same curious and eager learner I was at the beginning, and still carry the same enthusiasm for what I do
Along the way, every chapter has taught me something new.
And every person (and every animal) has shaped the practitioner I’ve become 🙏
Over these past four decades, my work has woven through:
• Functional movement and biomechanics
• Corrective exercise
• Rehabilitation
• Human health and behavior
• Injury prevention
• Chronic wellbeing
• Functional Health Medicine
• and eventually, integration of animals into that journey
During this time there’s one important thing I’ve learned and it’s this:
Our bodies - and our animals’ bodies - are always trying to communicate with us. We just need to understand the language,
and there’s always more to learn if we’re willing to listen.🤓
Looking back, I’m deeply grateful for the mentors, coaches, peers, clients, and creatures who guided and trusted me along the way ❤️
Some chapters were beautiful; some were incredibly challenging - but all of them shaped the path that has led me to today, and as someone who very rarely posts or shares my life, I decided I would do that now in celebration, and do a little exposé on my world (and also … later on in PART 3, share my excitement about my upcoming journey)
Thank you so much to everyone who has walked any part of this journey with me 🙏
You’ve each gifted me something very special that has become part of my work, my learning, and my heart, and I can never say thank you enough 💖
After 40 years, I feel more grounded, more purposeful, and more inspired than ever so ... here’s to the next chapter — wherever it leads

24/04/2025

🌺🌺🌺 FLANDERS FIELDS 🌺🌺🌺
Oh! You who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep Sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw,
And holding high, we keep the Faith,
With all who died.
We cherish too, the Poppy Red,
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies,
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red,
Of the flower that blooms above the Dead,
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red,
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that we have died for nought:
we'll teach the lesson that ye wrought,
In Flanders Fields.
By ... Moina Michael, 1918 🌺🌺🌺

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