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Boutique lifestyle wellness retreat nestled on The Woronora Valley 45 minutes from the CBD

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Mentoring ambitious women for success with spaciousness

Sometimes we mistake intensity for love.The fireworks.The chemistry.The incredible highs.The uncertainty.The adrenaline....
04/10/2026

Sometimes we mistake intensity for love.

The fireworks.
The chemistry.
The incredible highs.
The uncertainty.
The adrenaline.
The feeling of, “Oh my God, I’ve finally met someone.”

And then the waiting.

Why haven’t they texted?
Where do I stand?
Are they pulling away?

Your nervous system is constantly moving between euphoria and anxiety.

And what I’ve realised is that these patterns don’t always stay in our relationships.

They can show up everywhere.

Feast and famine in business.
Huge bursts of motivation followed by exhaustion.
Feeling incredibly confident one day and anxious the next.

Because everything is connected.

As I’ve learned to come home to myself, regulate my nervous system and create more steadiness within my own life, I’ve realised that what feels attractive begins to change too.

Peace starts to feel attractive.

Consistency becomes attractive.

A person who is real, loving, open, emotionally available and secure becomes attractive.

Someone you can actually exhale around.

There may not be the same chaotic fireworks because your nervous system isn’t being thrown into uncertainty.

Instead, it feels natural.

Safe.

Whole.

Peaceful.

Nourishing.

And I’m learning that this kind of love can actually be incredibly powerful.

Not because someone keeps you guessing, but because they meet you.

They become a safe space in your life while still allowing you to be fully yourself.

And I believe the same shift can happen in business.

You stop needing the enormous highs and fearing the lows.

You become steadier.

You trust yourself more.

You enjoy your life more.

And from that grounded place, you become magnetic in a completely different way.

This has been such a huge theme in my own life.

Learning that peace doesn’t mean there’s no passion.

Stability doesn’t mean there’s no chemistry.

And love doesn’t have to dysregulate you to be powerful.

Sometimes the deepest love feels like finally being able to exhale.

Can you relate to this?

Love Alexis x

What would change if you finally decided…I am number one in my own life.Not your children.Not your partner.Not your clie...
23/09/2026

What would change if you finally decided…

I am number one in my own life.

Not your children.
Not your partner.
Not your clients.
Not your business.
Not everyone else’s needs, emotions and expectations.

You. First. 🌹

This was one of the big conversations that came up at our women’s retreat on Saturday.

So many of us as women have been conditioned to be the good girl.

The people pleaser.
The overgiver.
The helper.
The fixer.
The woman who holds everything together.

Until you’re tired, resentful, snapping at people you love, doubting yourself, losing your confidence and wondering why you feel like you’re constantly on a hamster wheel.

And somewhere along the way you start thinking…

Where did I go?

I was there most of my life…

Something we spoke about on Saturday was changing the mindset of

“I’ll look after myself when everything else is done”

to

“I put my oxygen mask on first.”

And it doesn’t mean you need to disappear to Bali for a month 😂🌴

It can be really simple.

Book the retreat.

Go for the walk.

Say no when you actually mean no.

Take 5 minutes to breathe (do long deep breaths) when you go to the bathroom or do the washing if that’s literally the only 5 minutes you have to yourself that day 😂

Notice when you’re pushing and hustling in your business and your body is telling you it’s had enough.

Move. Breathe. Dance. Rest. Create pleasure.

Circulate your Shakti, your life force, creative energy and feminine power instead of constantly trying to push through exhaustion.

Because we don’t have to burn ourselves out anymore trying to be everything to everyone.

We don’t have to be martyrs to be good mothers, partners, daughters, friends or leaders.

We don’t have to prove our worth by how much we can carry.

And we don’t have to wait until our body is screaming at us before we finally listen.

I actually think it’s such an exciting time to be a woman because we get to start questioning all this stuff we’ve been taught.

Is this actually what I want?

Is this my truth?

Or is this just how I learned to be loved, accepted and needed?

A lot of the time it’s not about completely changing your life either.

It’s about changing the little patterns that have been running your life without you even realising it.

And choosing yourself again. ❤️

Saturday was such a beautiful reminder of what happens when women actually step away from everything for a moment and have the space to hear themselves again.

If something in this post lit something up inside of you, don’t ignore it.

There’s probably a reason you’re still reading 🌹

Drop MAGNETIC below and I’ll send you my free Magnetic guide ✨

P.S. I have one space open in my private coaching and transformation program for a woman who knows she’s ready to really shift things and move into her next chapter whether that’s expanding your business, life or relationships.

If you’d love to explore it with me, drop CALL below and I’ll send you the details for a complimentary clarity call ❤️

Just this week, the complete breakthroughs I have witnessed with certain clients have been so eye opening.I do not norma...
16/09/2026

Just this week, the complete breakthroughs I have witnessed with certain clients have been so eye opening.

I do not normally share the ins and outs of my sessions, and of course I am keeping these women completely anonymous, but I have had so much feedback from women relating to these types of blocks that I felt called to share this.

One woman deeply wants to expand her career, make bold changes in her life, experience more abundance and drop the Good Girl.

She wants to sink into what you could call her dark feminine or Bad Girl. Not because she wants to become a bad person, but because she wants to access the powerful, unapologetic and rebellious parts of herself that she has kept hidden for so long.

She knew there were blocks stopping her from living boldly, taking risks and doing what she truly wanted to do, instead of continuing with work and situations that felt soul draining and not fully alive or aligned for her.

When we went deeper, these were some of the beliefs underneath it all:

Abundance is not easy to find.

I am not worthy of abundance.

There is something wrong with me.

You do not get much back, so there is no point in trying.

What I want is out of reach.

These beliefs were connected to childhood and watching her parents struggle financially. As a little girl, she made those experiences mean something about herself, abundance and what was possible for her.

Do you relate? I certainly do 🙂

Another woman had been feeling very reactive, triggered, frustrated, angry and honestly just pi**ed off with things happening in her life.

She wants to feel more radiant and alive. She wants to enjoy regular, amazing date nights with her husband and create a life filled with more abundance, joy and aliveness.

We discovered that some of what was blocking her came from an incident when she was seven years old.

The beliefs created from that experience included:

My life is over.

I have no control over what happens around me.

I do not have a say.

I cannot lead my own life.

Things are out of control.

Without realising it, she had been living as a bystander in her own life. Then feeling angry and frustrated because a deeper part of her knew she was meant for more.

She had forgotten that she actually has agency over her life.

Do you relate to any of this? I also relate this this too and have done work to clear it also 🙂

That feeling that life is just happening around you and you do not have any real control or say?

That abundance is for those people over there, but not for you?

That you cannot truly have the business, relationship or life your highest self is yearning for?

That you have dreams, visions, yearnings and desires, but something inside you keeps telling you they are out of reach?

So many of these blocks and beliefs are created when we are little girls, often between birth and seven years old.

In these sessions, we used NLP, which is Neuro Linguistic Programming, to begin clearing the blocks and beliefs. We also used the right psychotherapeutic techniques to allow these women to be with the parts of themselves that still feel scared, fearful or blocked, rather than abandoning those parts.

Then we brought in coaching to look at the actions that now need to happen to actually move the needle forward.

I wanted to share this because I know so many women have visions, dreams and desires, but feel like they do not have it in them. They feel blocked, they doubt themselves and eventually convince themselves that the life they want is not available to them.

Everyone has blocks, but with the right tools, we can begin clearing them.

This work is something I am deeply passionate about because I was once petrified to even speak in front of people. I could not lead a yoga class during my yoga teacher training. I was completely fearful, shut down, deeply insecure and living with so much fear and disconnection.

I have witnessed so much growth and transformation within myself, so I know that every woman is capable of transforming too.

I currently have one place open in my one on one coaching and mentoring program for a woman who is ready to be seen and paid what she is worth.

A woman who wants to get to the root of what is stopping her from fully blossoming and living the radiant, juicy, magnetic and prosperous life and business she knows her highest self is here to live.

If you relate sis, drop MAGNETIC in the comments and I will send you the details.

I was just walking in my neighbourhood and bumped into an old childhood friend. She told me that she had separated from ...
14/09/2026

I was just walking in my neighbourhood and bumped into an old childhood friend. She told me that she had separated from her husband, and it really got me thinking about how many women I am seeing leave their marriages and relationships.

Around 70% of divorces are initiated by women, and we have to ask ourselves why.

There was a time when women often had to stay in their marriages because they could not support themselves financially. Women did not have the same freedom to work, earn their own money, have their own bank account or even vote.

But now women have more options, and we are starting to speak up at unprecedented levels.

The Good Girl is crumbling.

Our voices are becoming more activated than ever before.

I see this in my own life, in the lives of the women I have coached over the past decade, and just generally throughout our society and on social media.

For me personally, I had to realise how often I was not speaking up. I was fawning, freezing, people pleasing, putting on a smile and trying to keep the peace.

But I was keeping the peace at the expense of my own peace.

Can you relate?

That feeling of being “bad” and upsetting people kept me in a cage!

And it was not only affecting my confidence, mental health and energy. I could feel it affecting my physical health too. I was experiencing headaches and migraines, and my nervous system was constantly under stress.

When we are living in environments where we do not feel safe, heard, loved or supported, our bodies can remain braced. We can become completely exhausted, and prolonged stress can deeply affect both our physical and emotional wellbeing.

Women need to feel safe.

We need harmonious, loving and supportive environments in order to truly bloom.

So I want to ask you, where are you still people pleasing?

Where are you still being the Good Girl?

Where is the Good Girl completely fu***ng up your life?

You do not have to keep entertaining this.

You can start with baby steps.

Speak one need.

Hold one boundary.

Tell someone how you actually feel.

Stop saying yes when your whole body is saying no.

And begin stepping away from people and situations that repeatedly refuse to honour your needs, your boundaries and your truth.

Then watch what starts to rise.

Your health.

Your energy.

Your happiness.

Your confidence.

Your optimism.

Your bank account.

Your business.

Your magnetism.

Because our natural bright, radiant and magnetic nature starts to shine again when we stop changing ourselves to please everyone around us.

There is a part of us that might feel like the bad girl, the dark feminine, the naughty one or the rebel.

But maybe she was never bad.

Maybe she was simply free.

She is magnetic because she is not controlled by what everyone around her thinks. She is not attached to constantly receiving approval. She is not becoming a chameleon or changing her truth to make other people comfortable.

She is simply herself.

And there is nothing more magnetic than a woman who is free to be fully herself.

Let me know below where the Good Girl has been keeping you small.

And if you would love support with expanding your magnetism, prosperity, business, health and radiance, I currently have one space opening in my private coaching program.

You can work with me for anywhere from one to six months.

Comment MAGNETIC below and I will personally reach out to you and send some dets x 💓💓💓

After almost 14 years of studying, teaching, coaching, facilitating retreats and working across many different healing m...
13/09/2026

After almost 14 years of studying, teaching, coaching, facilitating retreats and working across many different healing modalities, I feel incredibly passionate about opening a limited number of private healing sessions for the women in my community.

I have created these sessions to offer something I believe so many women deeply need: a safe and nurturing sanctuary where you can put everything down, unravel, receive support and come home to yourself.

These deeply personalised sessions may weave together kinesiology, therapeutic massage, energy healing, cupping, aromatherapy and intention setting, depending on what you need most.

This is a space to support you through anxiety, stress, burnout, overwhelm, hormonal changes, relationship challenges, emotional heaviness, muscular tension, low energy or simply feeling disconnected from yourself.

I want these sessions to offer exceptional value and powerful support at an accessible price. My vision is for this to become more than a treatment you receive once. It can become a regular healing ritual that you place in your calendar every few weeks, allowing you to continually care for your nervous system, body, mind and emotional wellbeing.

The sessions will be offered at The Sanctuary in Loftus, just 45 minutes south of Sydney C*D. It is the perfect mini escape from the demands of everyday life and a beautiful opportunity to slow down, breathe, receive and reset.

As I will also be spending periods based in most likely Asia, I am designating only a handful of appointments each week while I am in Sydney.

Please apply as soon as possible, as I am departing for two months on 13 October and would love to welcome you into the Sanctuary before I leave if availability allows.

If you feel drawn to experiencing this support, please join the waitlist here:

Waitlist link in comments 🙂

Spaces will be very limited. I will share the full experience and treatment options in the comments below. 🌸

✨ 20 beautiful souls. One sold-out Health Alchemy Retreat Day. ✨Saturday was incredibly powerful, but it wasn’t all rain...
07/09/2026

✨ 20 beautiful souls. One sold-out Health Alchemy Retreat Day. ✨

Saturday was incredibly powerful, but it wasn’t all rainbows and lollipops.

One of our assistants didn’t show up, and we also experienced a last-minute cancellation and refund demand for a treatment that had already been organised and paid for which was turning into threats and harassment towards myself.

And I realised, this is life.

We may see someone’s bright, smiling face, their beauty or their wonderful exterior, but we don’t often see the polarity, the darkness, pain, pressure and challenges they may also be carrying.

Life is light and dark.
Life is joy and pain.
Life is expansion and contraction.
Life is up, and life is down.

That polarity exists everywhere on our planet.

It’s the same when we witness anything great, whether it’s a dancer’s performance, an actor in a film, an artist’s painting, a boxer entering the ring or a transformational retreat. We see the beauty, brilliance and final creation, but we don’t always see the sacrifice, discipline, struggle, blood, sweat and tears behind it.

We don’t see the 14 years of showing up on the mat, day after day, to develop the ability required to hold a deep space.

The truth is, to move through life’s inevitable pressures and create anything meaningful, we all need strong support, because life is simply fraught with challenges.

We need coaches, mentors, nourishing communities, beautiful friendships, transformational retreat spaces and educational programs to hold us, just as we were once held as children, so we can feel safe enough to heal, grow and launch forward.

Without the right support, we can remain trapped in old patterns, repeating the past and losing precious years of our lives feeling stuck.

That is why spaces like Health Alchemy matter.

I was able to speak up, stand my ground, and remain calm. I was being faced with threats to ruin my business. This is something I struggled with for so many years being the good girl.

The good girl has left the building. The dark feminine, the queen who doesn’t let others intimidate her has become further embodied.

For so long I felt so bad inside if there was a disagreement. I wasn’t able to hold the tension. But now I can.

The transformation experienced on Saturday cannot even be put into words. I am so proud of myself, Curt and our wonderful assistant Laura for creating such a safe, loving space where people could finally release what had been holding them back for so long.

Thank you to our gorgeous therapists, Tony and Marion, who are also a married couple. How divine is that! And thank you to every beautiful person who showed up courageously, opened their heart and gave themselves fully to the experience.

We love you, and we cannot wait to witness the powerful shifts this work creates in your lives.

So much love,
Alexis x

P.S. Our next and final women’s retreat for the year is on Saturday, 19 September, from 9am to 2pm before I head to Bali. Comment “FEMININE” below and I’ll send you the details. 💕

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