(Dipl.) IB, (BA Hons) IB, (ACE) Pre & Postnatal Fitness Specialist,
(FISAF, FITREC) Certified Personal Trainer
When my first daughter was born, I fell apart in a way I never expected.
I was a successful, independent woman. I defined myself by my career, my drive, my ability to stay in control. And then suddenly I was at home, in a feeding schedule, in the same clothes for the third day — feeling like I’d lost the version of myself I’d spent years building.
Then, completely by accident, I walked into a mums’ group fitness class. Afterwards, we had coffee. And for the first time since my daughter was born, I heard other women say out loud the things I’d only thought in the dark. I wasn’t alone. I never had been. Movement and community quite literally saved my mental health.
This time I knew I needed to stay fit — for my body and to protect my mental health. But every gym I walked into gave me the same story: blank looks, vague advice, and trainers telling me to “take it easy” or “just do some yoga.”
So I found a specialist. I started structured strength training at 31 weeks pregnant — for the first time in my life. And I was so fascinated by how my body was feeling and what I was learning, and so frustrated that this knowledge wasn’t more widely available, that I decided to get certified myself.
I qualified as a Pre & Postnatal Fitness Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer during my maternity leave — and used my own postpartum body as my first case study.
While I truly enjoyed my secon postpartum mentally, my then 40 year old body did not. More weight gained. A serious abdominal separation and a hernian that is likely here to stay. Pelvic floor weakness I didn’t experience before. A mummy tummy that wasn’t going anywhere on its own.
I started training a small group of mums I’d met at a baby group. Then outdoor classes. Then online. Now I help mums across the world do what I did — stay strong through pregnancy, rebuild properly postpartum, and come back to themselves feeling more powerful than before – all with the approach that became the Core-Floor-Strength Method.
Not because I read about it in a textbook. Because I lived it.
If you’re pregnant and terrified of losing yourself — I see you.
If you’re postpartum and wondering if you’ll ever feel like you again — I promise you will.
I’ll show you exactly how.
