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Trauma-Informed Coaching + Yoga Hi, Im Frances

I'm the Yoga teacher for people who think that they can't do yoga. The come and chat to me!

Have you been intimidated by a regular Yoga class? Do you feel like you have a barrier or challenge which prevents you from doing Yoga, even though you want to? I have helped a number of clients with all sorts of challenges to access the benefits of Yoga. To feel the benefits of practicing
gentle movement
breathing techniques
relaxation
meditation

To feel less stiff
To feel more positive
To manage stress

Come over and join my Facebook community https://www.facebook.com/groups/happyhealthyyoga

17/08/2026

I loved a drink 🍷
But I got sick of how alcohol made me feel and behave.

I knew the pattern. I knew it wasn’t making me happy. So why was it so hard to change?

I thought I needed more willpower.
What I eventually realised was that I needed to understand what alcohol was doing for me.

What was I looking for when I reached for that glass of wine?

What was I trying not to feel?

What did drinking allow me to feel that I struggled to access without it?

Because for me, drinking wasn’t just about drinking. It was part of a much bigger cycle.

But not anymore…it’s been over 5 years since I last had a drink 🎉

And one of the things I absolutely LOVE is that I can take my kids to see live music and enjoy the whole thing completely alcohol free.

I can dance with them (even if they cringe)
Laugh with them.
Stay up late.
Be silly.

And be completely present for all of it.

I don’t feel like I’m missing out.
I don’t feel deprived.
I’m not spending the evening thinking about when I can have a drink.
I’m free to actually be there.

And I don’t think the old me would ever have believed that was possible.

That’s what breaking a cycle has given me.

Lasting change is not simply about knowing that something isn’t good for us and trying harder to stop.

Sometimes we need to understand why we keep going back to it in the first place.

But there is a difference between understanding something in your head and understanding the pattern in your body.

That’s where we can start to do something differently.

That’s the idea behind the Break the Cycle sessions I’ve opened up 🌀

It doesn’t have to be alcohol.
It might be overworking.
People pleasing.
Never allowing yourself to rest.
A relationship pattern.
Overthinking everything.
Constantly needing to be in control.
Or something else you keep doing even though you KNOW it isn’t helping.

Bring me the pattern.
We’ll get curious about it together.

DM me to book your spot ❤️

15/08/2026

Trauma-informed Somatic Coaching can be transformative 🌿. I see it with my clients time and time again, as well as having experienced it myself. Working with the body and the nervous system, in the present moment for lasting change.

Drop me a message if you would like to find out how I can support you with issues such as anxiety, chronic stress, overwhelm, people pleasing and imposter syndrome….

Come home to you ❤️

13/08/2026

Perhaps you pride yourself on being able to get sh*t done. You have a stressful job that you are really good at.

Maybe you have noticed that it is hard to switch off from that state? It is easier, once you have finished work, to keep on doing until you are exhausted and you collapse with a glass of wine on the sofa. Or maybe you just keep working? The lines are so blurred now between work and home we can easily be answering emails until we go to bed.

And in some ways all this serves you very well - you juggle family and friends and work. You are reliable and consistent and you don’t let anyone down. Except……. Yourself, right? Being reliable and consistent and turning up for yourself isn’t on the agenda. There just isn’t enough space for that with all the other stuff going on.

You know exactly what you should be doing. You even do all the research into it - you read articles, follow all the right accounts on social media. You soak up snippets of advice from instagram and Facebook. You buy books that you don’t have time to read on how to look after yourself. You are well aware of the newest fix that everyone is talking about.

So why do you still feel uncomfortable in your body and unsettled in your mind?

Because you find it unbearable to take the time to stop doing for others. It is way outside of your comfort zone now. You are much more comfortable working, or fixing, helping and improving.

So it is going to feel really uncomfortable to stop. To take time for yourself. You are going to meet with resistance from your mind every time you try.

There will always be something else you could be doing.
There will NEVER not be something else you could be doing right now.

The to-do list never comes to an end. There is always more.

You will have to break the cycle. You wont stop and take time to look after yourself after everything else is done because it will never happen. You have to start looking after yourself right now. Because no-one else is going to do it for you.

DM me to book my one-off Break The Cycle 🌀coaching session - you don’t have to do this on your own ❤️

11/08/2026

I know that you already know a lot about feeling better.

You’ve read the books. You listen to the podcasts. You follow the right people. You know you should slow down, set boundaries, rest more and stop putting so much pressure on yourself.

But knowing doesn’t always change how you feel. You can still find yourself slipping into the same patterns: overthinking, pushing harder, reacting more strongly than you want to, numbing, distracting, second-guessing yourself or struggling to properly switch off.

You don’t need another strategy. You need to understand the cycle you’re caught in.

Which is why I am offering a special one off coaching session with me to Break The Cycle.

In our 60 minutes together, we’ll focus on one pattern that keeps showing up in your life.

🌀Get clear on the cycle that’s keeping you stuck.

🌀Explore what’s underneath it and what might be triggering it.

🌀Understand what happens in your thoughts, emotions and body when the pattern begins.

🌀Identify practical ways to interrupt the cycle and respond differently.

Sometimes breaking a cycle isn’t about trying harder to change. It’s about understanding the pattern, recognising what you need and giving yourself permission to do something differently.

Sometimes one session gives us exactly the insight we need to make a change. Sometimes it opens the door to something deeper.

Break the Cycle is also an opportunity to experience the approach I use in Calmer You, my four-month personalised 1:1 coaching programme. If you decide to continue working with me through Calmer You, I’ll refund the full £99 cost of your Break the Cycle session when you enrol.

Are you ready to Break the Cycle 🌀💙

05/08/2026

I am just catching up after an amazing weekend away at Wilderness Festival. It was a much needed reset and was SO nice to spend 3 days in nature, with wonderful friends, laughing and dancing. I also managed to catch a really interesting talk by the author of a book on mental health and trauma (that deserves its own post). As well as attending a brutal combat and mobility workshop and a creative writing session.

As part of the creative writing session we had to write a letter to say thank you to ourselves and I thought that I would share it with you...

Thank you for booking this weekend. I don’t think you realise how much you needed or deserved it. It has been such a long time since you have done something soley for you. Not for work, or for the kids, but just for you. Not for self-development, or learning, but something frivolous and fun. A weekend of dancing under the trees and the stars and the full moon. A chance to swim in the cool green lake and bask on the banks, skin drying in the sun. To move your body in a way that is new and not related to work. To enjoy a massage in the shade of a large oak tree, while music plays in the background. This is a pivotal moment, a returning to a place where toxic patterns played out over and over again. Cycles of excess and punishment. Because that is all that you thought you deserved. But you are doing it differently this time. You are accepting that you deserve to enjoy this. And it feels like coming full circle but at the same time starting anew.

It can be so hard to enjoy yourself when you have experienced extreme stress or trauma. What might look like enjoyment from the outside, can often be just another way to soothe, distract, numb, and survive.

In my experience, moments of enjoyment were fleeting, and followed by self loathing. This weekend was a chance to prove to myself that things have changed.

So I want to introduce you to the process that I went through and that I now share with my clients with a special 1 hour session to Break the Cycle.

AND I will refund anyone who goes on to book my 4 month Calmer You programme which will start next month.

Spaces are limited, message me to book

03/08/2026

Today I'm feeling incredibly proud and I want to celebrate the recent achievements of two of my Happy Healthy Yoga Teacher trainees 🙌🙌☺

Zoe is now teaching a weekly Gentle Chair Yoga class... and she's already filled two classes! Seeing her create an accessible, welcoming space for people who may never have thought yoga was for them is just wonderful. Her classes are in-person and are based in Capel, Folkestone, so if you know anyone who might be interested, let me know and I will connect you.

And while I was away on holiday, Kathy stepped in to cover one of my classes with a beautiful breath-work and meditation session. Knowing my community was in such caring hands meant so much to me.

For me teaching yoga is about so much more than the poses. It's about creating spaces where people feel safe, supported and able to reconnect with themselves.

I'm so proud of both of you and everything you're bringing to your communities. Keep doing what you're doing, the world needs more teachers like you!!

Congratulations, Zoe and Kathy. ❤️

26/07/2026

Do you ever come back from a holiday feeling exhausted?

I spent my holiday sleeping almost 10 hours a night and then lying by the pool or on the beach...how can I be tired!

But the two days after we got back I was barely able to do anything.

Luckily I had the weekend to recover before getting back into work and my counselling assignment - but it was slow going!

I think that the transition is the hard part...like slowly switching gears ⚙️

It sometimes makes you wonder whether the holiday was worth it!

It shows how fast paced our everyday lives are. I noticed it myself this week...

🏃‍♀️The pull towards doing.
🏃‍♀️Ticking things off.
🏃‍♀️Moving onto the next task.

We spend all of our time thinking about what’s next instead of what’s happening now.

It made me wonder whether the peace we feel on holiday is even created by the destination?

Of course removing work, and housework helps!

And when we’re away we might spend more time outside. We notice the warmth of the sun, the sound of the sea, the taste of our food 🌅

But at the same time, there might be times when we can’t slow down, relax and be present, even on holiday. Even without the distractions.

It might not feel safe to relax, because you’ve been holding on for so long!

So it’s not necessarily the holiday that brings us peace.

I think that the real magic is in the ability to be present 🪄✨

And that is not something we can necessarily just find.

But it is a skill that can be cultivated (and we work on this every week in the Happy Healthy membership Yoga classes 😉).

The skill of being able to be in the present moment.

And the beautiful thing is that presence doesn’t have to end when the holiday does.

It’s something we can keep returning to, one breath, one moment and one practice at a time.

I wanted to share a gift with you - it is my go-to technique that I share with all of my clients for practicing being more present and in the moment ✨

This is the second video in my 6 session Meditation & Breath-work series Present & Connected.

DM me and I’ll send it over to you ❤️

20/07/2026

How do you catch moments when you are on holiday? Amongst the bickering and the teenage moods? I had prepared myself beforehand not to put too much pressure on this holiday for everything to be perfect. We haven’t had a holiday all together for a good 8 years or so since Huey didn’t want to come with us until now. So I was really looking forward this time together. But at the same time I need to be realistic - my kids are teenagers, with strong ideas of what they want to do, or not. And we have to find compromise which means not everyone is happy all of the time. But I realise that’s ok. Because when they come there are glimmers of connection between us all that are priceless.

Watching my children in the sea, dipping like dolphins in the waves
In a circle facing each other
Together

Spread like a starfish
In the green sea
The cliffs rising up
Orange rocks topped with pines

Chattering around the table
Sipping ludicrous cocktails
Fulfilling a dream to try a
Pina colada in a pineapple

First night dinner
At a cafe on the beach
Seafood platter devoured
Prawn shells and fish bones whole
Sucking the juice off fingers

Tapas in Barcelona
Trying new food
Best tuna steak and red pepper
Perfectly rare and seasoned

Going down the slide at the water park
Screaming through the dark tunnels
Floating along the lazy river together

Playing cards round the table
On the balcony in the thick heat of the evening
Laughing and singing along
With the terrible singer in the bar downstairs

Swimming like a mermaid
From the rocky beach
As the sun sets
And the colours settle on the water like oil
Salt drying on skin as the waves lap against the stones

13/07/2026

I needed this holiday!! Last week I came to the end of my Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. Over 2 years of studying + 100 hours of work placement…coming to the end of this feels really surreal. When I first started it felt like I a mountain of a task and I couldn’t imagine getting to this point, but here it is! And it has been an emotional rollercoaster! Not only have I juggled multiple jobs alongside but adding in 2 years of personal therapy to the mix nearly tipped me over the edge at times. But despite that it has been an amazing experience and profoundly transformative. The course, working with clients, supervision and my own personal therapy have taught me so much about myself and has massively increased my capacity. I feel more able to deal with confrontation, more able to be vulnerable and more able to be with my own emotions, and I am starting to see the impact that this has both personally and professionally.

So how lucky am I now to be able to take this holiday to Spain with the kids!! This is a celebration for us all. The girls have just finished their GCSE’s and Huey has finished year 13. This holiday feels like the start of a new chapter. A chapter I am trying not to fill too quickly. For now my main focus is to chill out 😎. Finish my final assignment and get it in and settle back into yoga classes. The weekly yoga classes are one of the things that have kept me sane over the last 2 years - an anchor when things have felt unsteady ⚓️. I am so grateful to all of the Happy Healthy members who come along to my classes…you guys have really help to keep me going ❤️. I’m grateful to Breath Balance Being Yoga and Serenity Yoga - Sharon Jacob for covering my classes this week…but also will be happy to get back on the mat next week for a good stretch!! For now though, I’m off to lie on the beach and read my book 😘😘

23/06/2026

I had such a good time on our Nurture and Restore day retreat with Art with Ali …so good to see everyone and take time and space for ourselves to explore our intentions and our creativity 🫶. Did you miss it this time? I was so inspired that I signed up straight away for Ali’s course that begins next month 🙌🏻🙌🏻. I can’t wait! If you’d like details drop me a message and I’ll send them over. You deserve it!! ❤️

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