When perimenopause changes how your life feels- where do you go from here?
Perimenopause is changing how life feels. There is still a next chapter to cherish.
If changing emotions, energy or an unfamiliar body have left you unsettled, here is space to feel heard and consider what you need now.
If you are tired of feeling broken, this is your space to shed the fear and give yourself permission for what comes next.
Perimenopause isn't just about hot flashes and brain fog- it's the emotional rollercoaster that catches so many of us off guard.
If you have been feeling overwhelmed, irritable or secretly grieving the body you thought you knew, you are not alone. And more importantly: your body has not failed you.
When we resist these changes or meet them with self doubt, our nervous system stays stuck in high alert which can actually make our symptoms feel so much worse.
Through coaching, EFT tapping and The Motivating Elements of Being ME®, we’ll explore what’s getting in the way and find practical ways forward so you can trust your choices and make room for motivation, joy and wellness in the life you value.
My work focuses gently on the emotional, somatic, and lifestyle side of this life stage.
Please not that I do not provide hormone support or HRT.
Motivation, Joy & Wellness
Finding Calm In the Chaos
A short series of sessions
A dedicated set of sessions designed to soothe your nervous system, release the the emotions and explore what you need in your lifestyle to support you to help you regain your footing with out a long term commitment
If you need immediate support to work through an emotional surge or body frustration this will give you the space to express and breath.
Choose the support that feels right for you
Rediscovering the Woman Within
Your private experience
A year of private one-to-one support, with time and space to explore what you’re experiencing, understand your needs and make meaningful changes. Each session is shaped around you and using the Motivating Elements of Being ME framework, coaching and EFT
Held Through Change
Small group experience
A year of support alongside six other women navigating midlife change for those who want to take this journey alongside others who understand, while still having the space to explore what is happening for you with room for your own needs and experiences. Supported by the Motivating Elements of Being Me framework, coaching and EFT.
Perhaps this is where you are...
You want this chapter of life to be one you can cherish, yet...
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Your energy and emotions feel less predictable.
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You’ve valued caring for others and are beginning to wonder what you want for yourself too.
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You want to understand what’s happening, rather than assume it’s all hormones.
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You want to embrace who you are rather than see yourself fading or feel failed by your own body.
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You are trying to navigate these changes with or without HRT but still feel like something core is missing.
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You sense there is more to enjoy and explore, but aren’t sure where to begin
You're in the right place so I can help you to begin making sense of it.
Picture this... what if life could begin to feel like this?
Feel less at the mercy of overwhelm
Discover practical ways to respond to anxiety and overwhelm.
Understand what’s happening — and what you need now
Explore what affects your wellbeing and what would support you now.
Give yourself permission to consider your needs
Make room for your needs alongside the people you care about.
Trust yourself to create what comes next
Build confidence to make choices that reflect what matters to you.
Throughout our time together...
The journey is bespoke
The support beneath it is consistent
The intention is that you have:
A greater understanding of yourself
Recognising your needs, strengths, patterns, responses and values, what nourishes or depletes you, and what your body may be communicating — with greater clarity about who you are now.
Practical skills you know how to use and can continue to do so
Ways to meet overwhelm, work with nervous-system responses, use EFT Tapping and support yourself through difficult moments, changing capacity and future change.
Worked with some of what has been keeping you stuck
Space to explore difficult experiences, emotional echoes, protective patterns and beliefs that may still be influencing how you feel, the choices you make or the changes you want to create today.
Greater confidence to shape what comes next
More trust in your own voice and choices, greater permission to redefine what no longer fits and more freedom to make room for what brings meaning, motivation, enjoyment and a sense of wellness that feels like your own.
The aim isn't for you to need me forever.
It's for you to leave knowing yourself more deeply, with skills you can draw upon, greater trust in your ability to respond when life changes, and increasing freedom to choose what supporting yourself and living well look like for you.
Meet your coach
Marcelle Welsh
Lifestyle & Nervous System Wellbeing Specialist
Life coach and EFT accredited practitioner
Founder of Motivation, Joy & Wellness
Creator of The Motivating Elements of Being ME®
You deserve space to say how you feel, hear your own wishes and explore what you want from life now.
I bring over 35 years of experience helping people make sense of their experiences and build confidence to act on what matters to them. With warmth, curiosity and practical guidance, I’ll support you to find your own way forward.
I know what it is to lose sight of yourself
Not from a textbook -From life
There was a time when I no longer recognised myself. After years of lovingly caring for others, navigating life's challenges and moving through my own midlife transition, I reached a point where the way I had always lived seemed out of reach and I felt very confused and exhausted and totally out of sorts.
My body felt different. Things I had once tolerated affected me differently, and I couldn't simply push through in the way I once had with a smile on my face and a bounce in my step.
I wasn't looking to become someone extraordinary but somewhere within me, I just knew there had to be another way to embrace this life in midlife.
That experience changed the way I understood myself — and ultimately shaped the work I offer today. With some compassionate consideration for myself I learned that when we create enough safety, we can begin to catch our breath and understand what is happening rather than simply trying harder to get through it.
We can begin hearing our own voice again. Self-trust can return. Motivation can grow. Joy has room to emerge and behind it wellness returns.
Life didn't suddenly become perfect. Difficult days didn't disappear.
But I began to experience myself differently within them in a way I liked.
I learned to listen to what my body was communicating, understand what I needed, make room for what I wanted and develop new routines that served me.
Gradually, I began creating a life that felt increasingly like my own again.
That's why I created this work — not to fix you or tell you who to become, but to walk alongside you as you understand yourself, discover what matters to you now and decide what comes next. I bring understanding, curiosity and compassion as we explore what matters to you and what you want for yourself.
Your way. At your pace. One thoughtful step at a time.
Woven Through Every Chapter
The 12 Motivating Elements of Being ME®
My framework helps us explore what matters to your wellbeing— each supporting the bigger picture.
12 key areas of support around what matters to you, helping you explore challenges, recognise your needs and make room for possibilities.
Once you are familiar with them you can use them according to what is going on in your life now and from here on in with the tool to break through any blockages that get in your way.
We use what is helpful, when it is helpful tailored to you.
Perhaps you're wondering what it would be like to work with me...
You don’t need to arrive with the right words or everything figured out. Bring what’s happening for you, and we’ll begin there.
I’ll listen, ask questions and help you explore what you need. There’s room for difficult feelings, curiosity, humour and noticing your progress.
You get to come as you are. Free to be me.
My Promise to You
I won't promise to remove every symptom but we can improve how we manage it and the emotions
What I will offer is a compassionate, personalised space to understand what you're experiencing, gently work with what may be contributing to how you feel, develop practical ways to support yourself and create meaningful change at a pace that respects you and your life.
My work doesn't aim to treat or change your hormones. Instead, we can work with the emotional, nervous-system and wider wellbeing experience of midlife — including nourishment, movement and lifestyle where these are relevant to you — whether you cannot use HRT, choose not to, or want this support alongside your medical care.