JoËlle - COach

“As a young person, sports were my safe space and my joy. But as I got older and my influences changed I lost a lot of my drive for the sports I loved and I started training at the gym to achieve an aesthetic that I was told would make me happy. Spoiler alert, it didn’t. Striving for an unattainable goal (to please someone else), no longer doing the activities I loved and not having the right support around me led to disordered eating and a downward spiral in my already fragile mental health.

| finally made the decision to make changes in my life for my own betterment; I got out of an unhealthy relationship, started therapy and reevaluated my goals. I rediscovered my love of movement for my mind and started the journey to accepting my body for what it is, not what I think it “should” be. I then decided I wanted to become an instructor because I kept finding this story related to so many other women who simultaneously felt intimidated by the fitness world and the unattainable aesthetic it is oversaturated with. 

Finding mental and physical strength is at the core of everything I do and teach. Drawing from my own experience with depression and trauma, I strive to create a supportive, safe and fun space so you leave my sessions feeling proud, strong and confident. Ownership over our own minds and bodies is something we often forget to protect and I strive to remind women that we are strong enough to protect that which is 100% ours.”

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Joëlle has completed a CPD in ‘Taking A Trauma Informed Approach To Exercise Provision’ provided by TheMovement Charity.