The Feel Good Studio

08/09/2025

How was sleep in your household last night?
Did you wake up more than once?
Or lie awake, staring at the ceiling, wondering why sleep felt so far away?

Was it kids needing more water, extra cuddles, or just too scared to drift off?
Thank goodness it’s Sunday.

And I hope in your home, that means:

✨ Slow starts
✨ Pyjamas till midday
✨ Cuddles before coffee

Some nights are pure bliss… others feel like a relay race between their wake-ups and your restless thoughts.

My Molly girl didn’t get her run yesterday because of heavy rain, so she was restless all night. Hello, sleep deprivation! But like you, we made it to morning. Tired, yes, but that’s worth celebrating.

Drop me a 🌙 if last night felt endless.
Drop me a ☀️ if you woke up rested.

Either way, I’m here, chai latte in hand, quietly cheering you on for a happy, slow Sunday.

08/06/2025

Habits are powerful, but only when they’re aligned with the future you want, not the one you’ve outgrown.

Every day, we plant something.
A thought. A habit. A choice. A rhythm.
The question is are we planting seeds that grow the life we long for?

Because here’s the thing:
In six months, you’ll be six months older no matter what.
But will you be six months further ahead?

The future isn’t built in breakthroughs.
It’s built in quiet moments of attention.
The gentle tending. The daily watering. The decision to show up again.

One small act today, tomorrow and every day, calls in the you that can't wait to meet you in the future.

Plant it.
Nurture it.
Watch what grows 🌳

❤️ Justine xo

07/29/2025

Has your friendship circle shrunk?
Parenting. Life changes. Careers. Distance?

I see so many parents in my clinic aching for connection because they're at different life stages than old friends.
It’s lonely. Quiet. The loss is real.

But hold on… because magic happens when you least expect it, if you're open to it. No matter what age.

I caught up for breakfast and a walk this morning with the divine Liz in Balmoral.

I met in London last year and i recognised her as having that same twinkle in her eye that I do, and since then:

💬 We’ve walked, dreamed, dined, drank enough tea Queen Elizabeth would be proud of, god rest her soul, laughed till we've almost cried, supported each other, highs, lows and everything in between. We've:

🎤 Shared stages in New York & London.
🧠 Met brilliant minds, from professors at QUT University to Bluey production editors and multimillion $$ startups.
🚕 We've ridden in Ubers, trains, planes, black cabs and yellow taxis together.
😭 Gotten lost, felt like we were being chased by the British secret service, as our cab flew past Buckingham Palace at breakneck speed with my old friend
💡 And next… we’re saving a magnificent tree (but that’s another story 🌳😉) (if we're arrested, send help).

Here’s the wild part:
We worked in the media industry, in Sydney, at the same time.
And never met.
Until London.

💥 Boom...a sliding doors moment.
A meeting of minds and hearts.

So, if your circle has shrunk, please hold on.

New likeminded friends will one day be walking around the same corner as you. Be open. Say hi.

And know.

Your best days are yet to come ✨

❤️ Justine xo

07/13/2025

Jennifer Aniston is dating a hypnotherapist. Can you imagine their dinner conversations?

No, he’s probably not hypnotising her over their stir-fry.

But how lucky is she to have instant access to tools and knowledge that can truly change a life?

Imagine them, chopping garlic and tossing noodles, talking about:

🥢 How thoughts rewire your brain
🥢 How the subconscious holds the keys to calm, confidence & happiness
🥢 How you can let go of old patterns and feel lighter in life
🥢 How using words in a certain way helps you calmly thrive, no matter what life throws your way

Because these are the deep, fascinating, life-shifting conversations we need more of.

✨ Hypnotherapy isn’t about losing control, in fact you gain more control.
✨ It’s about empowering you to flip the coin on those unhelpful feelings, bad habits & instead feel good.
✨ It’s about gentle, evidence-based change that lasts.
✨ It’s about building a mind that feels like a safe, strong, peaceful place to live in.

That’s why so many high performers turn to it quietly:
🌟 Ellen DeGeneres quit smoking with hypnotherapy.
🌟 Catherine, Princess of Wales famously used hypnobirthing to welcome her babies calmly.
🌟 Creatives, parents, leaders, athletes, all using hypnotherapy build resilience, release anxiety, and live feeling happy.

As a multi award-winning clinical hypnotherapist & keynote speaker on this subject, I see this transformation daily helping parents, professionals, and leaders.

✨ I love sharing how the power of the subconscious does change lives.

🥰 Hypnotherapy is an extraordinary tool. Accessible. Gentle & as my clients tell me, life changing.

And you don't have to date a hypnotherapist to access this. You just need to DM for more information.

❤️ Justine

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07/09/2025

We spend a lot of time caught up in our mind and in our thoughts, replying past events, which we cannot change. Broken down friendships, relationships, guilt, anxiety, causing us to worry about the future, which we cannot predict and hasn't happened yet.

If you’re not careful, your mind can lead you down a path where what you think becomes your reality.

I invite you to challenge your negative thoughts and ask yourself... is what I am thinking correct?

If you’re worrying and playing out a scenario that may or may happen in your mind.

Remember it’s just that. A fantasy. You don’t know how it’s going to unfold.

Don’t allow negative thoughts to control you. Don’t allow them to distract you from enjoying what is happening in your life now. Draining your energy, and creating unnecessary anxiety.

Know that these emotions are temporary, they will pass.

The only thing you can control is what is happening right now.

❤ Justine xo

07/07/2025

What do you get when you mix a famous person, a car alarm, and a chicken in distress? Chaos. ✨

We live at the end of a quiet street, hugged by rainforest-like bush with glimpses of the blue ocean. Serenity, you’d think.

Wrong.

Today, one of Stews' (my lovely other half) famous clients was coming over rather than going to the recording studio. And I thought, “perfect excuse to wash the sofa covers."

Then, as the washing machine hummed, I heard it.

🐓 A chicken. Screaming.
Not a polite cluck. A distressed, relentless scream from deep in the bush that gave me chills.

It kept going, louder, more desperate. Then, I saw our neighbour bolting down her driveway, calling her dog’s name. I put 2 + 2 together immediately & I called Stew & Tom (my son) to come help.

Right then, as the chicken screamed, a car alarm started blaring. When it paused for a moment, a second car alarm down the street started up, triggered by the first. WTH 🤦‍♀️

Chaos is catching.

Now we had a screaming chicken and duelling car alarms echoing through our ‘quiet’ street, drawing out 'all,' the WFH neighbours.

Stew, Tom & neighbour John found the chicken, but getting to it was complicated; bush, brambles & steep terrain. My son went door-knocking to find the 🐓 owner while the others, box in hand, clambered through the wet undergrowth.

Meanwhile, the alarms kept going, the chicken kept screaming, and the laundry kept tumbling.

✨ 2.5 hours later, peace was mostly restored.
✨ One chicken still missing.
✨ One sadly, passed away chicken 😭☠️
✨ The car alarms finally fell silent ( yes, they blared for over 2 hours).

And those cushion covers? Getting the inserts back in turned into an Olympic event & every bloody zipper broke 🤯

Just before Stews' client arrived, the chaos seemed over. Until...

Cluck. Cluck. Cluck. 🐔🐔🐔

You wouldn’t believe it. There, in my front garden, was the missing 🐓

Neighbours gathering again, coordinating like a tactical unit & with two minutes to spare before Stews' special client arrived, she was back in her owners relieved arms. At least one survived.

Honestly, this is the gift of community. In a world where we often feel isolated, people will rally with love & support. But what a f$&kery!

07/01/2025

✨ Soul tribes. Do you believe in them? I do. And moments like this are the proof.

You know those people you can be your whole, unfiltered, messy, magical self with? The ones who see you, hold you, and remind you who you are, especially on the days you forget?

I’m so blessed to have what my beautiful fairy goddaughter (my chosen daughter if I could have had a daughter) calls 'my people.'

The other night, .jayne and her dad, one of my dearest friends scooped me up for an adventure and treated me to Michael Jackson (see it if you haven't OMG amazeballs), the best seats in the house, dumplings + hours of laughing so hard our stomach muscles hurt. Like doubled over, please make it stop laughing. I think I released a years worth of dopamine in one night.

I accidentally told Stew to meet us after the show at The Crown instead of The Star 😂 and that set off a domino effect of insane laughter, stuff ups, losing Stew again and again, and Marty (our other friend), drinks being stolen, imaginations running wild and worm holes that could only happen to this 'special,' group 😂 of friends. Or I should say soul tribe.

That’s the thing about your soul tribe. They don’t just show up. They wrap you in love. They sprinkle magic on your ordinary days until they become the days you remember forever.

We’ve travelled lifetimes together, because this kind of love, this kind of connection, is too big to fit into just one lifetime. And I am here for all of it. The good, the outrageous, the sad, the bad and everything in between. We've been through it all together.

💫 Here’s to 'my people'
❤️ Here's to your people
💫 Here’s to soul tribes
❤️ Here’s to the magic we get to sprinkle on each other’s lives.

If you’ve found your people, cherish them. Tell them. Hug them tighter today. And if you’re still calling them in, keep your heart open. They’re a comin'
jayne I love and adore you so much, you are so thoughtful, brilliant, funnnnn and you are so cherished/adored/loved, not just for your good looks, pool shark tendencies 🎱 or insane humour 😂 😂 🤣 love you both for 'all the reasons.'

✨🤍✨

06/22/2025

A Sunday Story for Your Heart 🌸

A dear friend came to me not long ago, her eyes heavy with that kind of tiredness that sleep alone can’t fix.

She sighed and said quietly, “I feel like I’m falling behind. Everyone else seems to be blossoming - new jobs, new homes, big overseas trips, happy relationships. And I’m… stuck. I'm in a holding pattern.”

I gently took her hand and we walked out the back. We stood together beside the old lime tree that my lovely elderly neighbour had planted. Sturdy, twisted, and full of character. Its bright green fruit peeked out from amongst the leaves, not quite ready to pick, but promising.

I told her,
“You see this tree? It’s lived through wild storms and dry spells. There have been seasons when it bore no fruit at all. But it stood tall, patient. And when the time is right, it will give limes so juicy and full of life, you'll wonder how something so exquisite grew from such struggle. You’re no different, my beautiful friend.”

🌿 And as she stood there, I saw her shoulders ease.
✨ She began to realise she wasn’t behind. She was just comparing.
✨ She wasn’t lost. She was quietly growing roots.

So if today you’re feeling weary… if it seems like everyone else is blossoming while you’re waiting, please know this:

🌞 Your season is coming. Your roots run deeper than you realise. And when you blossom, oh, how sweet and full of life it will be.

💛 You are not late. You are right on time.

Happy Sunday, beautiful soul.

❤️ Justine xoxo

06/08/2025

She learned her worth was never gone,
just hidden when she played along.
With every truth she dared to say,
her light grew brighter by the day.
No crown was needed, no applause
just love for self, and her flaws.

❤️🥰 Justine xo

06/02/2025

I walked through a giant maze yesterday.

It was incredible...not just for the fun of it, but for what it stirred in me. It felt like life: twisting paths, uncertain turns, and then… the middle.

The centre of it all where suddenly there are so many directions to choose from, you freeze.
Which way is the right way?
What if I choose wrong?
That spinning, confusing feeling… sound familiar?

Life is like that.
Sometimes we don’t know where to go.
Sometimes we get completely lost after illness, heartbreak, grief.
I’ve been there.

I’ve been rebuilding after a near-death experience, physically, emotionally, spiritually. And honestly? It’s been a maze.

Not the fun kind. The shadowy, disorienting kind.
The one where you search for the old version of yourself… and realise she’s gone.
Grief hits. But then, a new version starts to whisper. She’s unfamiliar, but she gives you hints.
You follow.

I’ve achieved more than I thought possible in this chapter but the pace has been painfully slow. Frustrating. Inward. Transformational.
And still… I’m emerging.
Not the same.
Stronger.
With gifts still being unwrapped (including an intuition so dialled up it’s unreal).

And the people?
Some will peer in and then keep walking by.
Some will cheer from the sidelines.
And some rare ones the gold will step into the maze with you. Not to fix or rescue. Just to walk beside you. Because they love you.

There’s kindness in the corners you didn’t expect.
A quiet strength growing you didn’t know you had.
And you do have it, my friend.

No one knows what’s next. No one knows the “right” path.

But I do know this:
The exit door isnt in the middle of the maze. You may need to sit with the discomfort of being being lost, and it seems, as soon as you do, you'll turn into the next bend and all of a audden, a lightness, a lightbulb moment, a love for the new you arrives like a welcoming hug.

Even if you feel lost and overwhelmed, keep following the path that's right in front of you. Something else, perhaps different and most unexpectedly lovely and important is awaiting. ❤️

You’re amazing. You've got this. You deserve happiness.

05/29/2025

Hi friends,
Here is my radio interview. And a big thanks to Northern Beaches Radio Northern Beaches for having me.
Ellie, you are some gooooood questions 😂

🎙️ HEARTFELT INTERVIEW – COMING SOON! 🎙️

Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or just stuck in the day-to-day grind? You’re not alone — and this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
We’re joined by the amazing Justine Williams, Clinical Hypnotherapist and founder of the award-winning Feel Good Studio, to talk all things wellbeing — from managing stress and anxiety to finding more clarity, calm, and confidence in everyday life.
Justine’s been a trusted voice in mental health and wellbeing here on the Northern Beaches, regularly referred to by local psychologists and GPs. She’s also the creator of HypMeditation® and a passionate advocate for helping people reconnect with their power and peace.
Whether you're a busy parent, a burned-out professional, or just ready for a mindset shift — this is for you. 💬✨
Also, hear about her Royal connection to Sarah, Duchess of York!
📅THURSDAY 29TH MAY at 11AM & SATURDAY 31ST MAY at 8AM
📻 Tune in on rnb.org.au
👉 Tag a friend who needs to hear this!
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