If you’re exhausted, can’t think clearly, or feel generally unwell, but your blood tests keep coming back ‘fine’… that isn’t normal.

Maybe you’re getting through the day, but only just.

You wake up tired. You forget words. You’ve gained weight without changing anything. Your patience is non-existent. Your periods, digestion, sleep, mood, weight, or energy have changed, and every time you try to explain it, you feel like you’re either saying too much or not enough.

Then the results come back.

“Normal.”

And somehow, that makes you feel worse.

Because normal results don’t explain why you’re dragging yourself through the day, collapsing in the evening, or wondering when you stopped feeling like yourself.

That’s the gap my work is built for.

A GP often reads your results to check whether you’re ill. I read them to understand whether you’re well. Those aren’t always the same thing, and that space between ‘not sick’ and ‘actually thriving’ is where many women’s answers are hiding.

I know what it feels like to be that exhausted.

There was a time in my life when I was going to bed at half past five every day. I had two children, a full clinical workload, and I was on the sofa before they’d even had their dinner.

My blood tests mostly came back normal.

I gained nearly five stone without changing what I was eating. I was told I was probably depressed. There were mornings when I needed both hands to hold my toothbrush. I kept an ever-growing list of symptoms in my Notes app because I was too tired to explain everything again every time I saw someone new.

The day things changed was the day I left work early because I simply couldn’t cope.

I drove to the GP surgery, found it closed, sat on the ground in the car park, leaned against my car, and sobbed.

That was the day I realised that if I wanted answers, I was going to have to find them myself.

So I retrained in functional medicine, nutrition, and health coaching while still working full time. The more I learned, the more I understood what had been happening in my own body.

And later, when my son was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome and we were told it would likely be at least 18 months before he walked again, the functional medicine principles I’d been studying became even more real to me. He was walking in three months.

That was when I stopped doubting the direction I was going in.

Now, the women I work with are often exactly where I was: exhausted, dismissed, and certain that something important is being overlooked. And very often, they’re right.

Full Disclosure

I’m a fantasy reader, a fair-weather walker, and a big believer in the power of an evening routine. Mine is sauna, shower, reading, satin bonnet, sleep. In that order.

• I have an ADHD-type brain, which means I love a new idea, a good pattern, and anything that helps things finally make sense.
• I’m powered by decaf coffee, spicy food, and good chocolate. I’m coeliac, so a proper treat is gluten-free sourdough toast or a Booja Booja truffle.
• I have what I call Labrador energy. When I’m full of beans, I’m very full of beans. This is one of the things I couldn’t get my head around in my tired years, which is probably why I’m so passionate about helping women understand their energy instead of blaming themselves for not having more of it.

Still not sure where to begin?

Start with the free resources or take the Exhaustion Decoder.

You don’t need to have all the answers yet. You just need a clearer idea of what your body needs, and a next step that doesn’t feel impossible.