Your Wellbeing Because You Matter Too

You are the heart of your home

your business, your family — and that heart deserves care

In the busy seasons of raising children, running a household, and growing your livelihood, your own wellbeing can fall to the bottom of the list. But here, we bring it right back to the top.

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Your wellbeing is essential. Not just physical health, but mental clarity, emotional resilience, and self-worth. This space was created to help you reconnect with yourself, and to support you as you work through the pressures — including the ones we put on ourselves, like the lifelong focus on weight, perfection, or never slowing down.

I wrote a book and developed tools to help you shift your mindset, find balance, and build a daily rhythm that supports your needs as much as everyone else’s.

Because you can’t pour from an empty cup — and you don’t have to.

Your kitchen garden resources

Blog Posts

November in the Kitchen Garden

November has raced up out of the blur that has been 2025 and now here it is. The roses will be out this month, the bearded irises are bursting forth, the perennials are preparing to go off – and the weeds are clamoring to make their presence known as well. This time last year I was talking about how to avoid overwhelm in the garden. I have to remind myself every year as, like many of you, I am busy at work and don’t always get out into the garden and the weeds can get away on me.

The Tortoise Diet Lite 4 Week Challenge

A big thankyou to all of you who have bought the Tortoise Diet Method book! I know it’s easy to buy books like this and although you might read them, they then go back on the shelf and become Shelf-help books rather than Self-help. Well I am interested in not just helping myself but helping all of you to reach your goals. I would love to see you create a firm foundation for a lifetime of health and success.

I have a series of courses coming up soon but the first one off the ranks I am calling Tortoise Diet Lite. It is designed to take some of the key practises of the book and getting you to apply them for the 4 weeks of the challenge and see what happens.

October in the late spring family vegetable garden.

October is probably one of the busiest months of the year for the garden especially towards the end of the month with Labour weekend being the great traditional NZ planting weekend. If you are into sowing seeds then most things can be sown this month provided you have a warm place to start off the more tender ones such as tomatoes etc. As you sow your first lot of seeds, kick off your succession planting cycle by purchasing some punnets of well grown plants from your local garden centre or store and get them into the ground.

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