Motivation, Joy & Wellness
When perimenopause changes how life feels, where do you go from here?
Ready to stop battling your body and start feeling calm in your own skin?
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.
With coaching, EFT tapping and The Motivating Elements of Being ME®, we’ll find practical ways forward—so you can trust your choices and welcome more motivation, joy and wellness into the life you value.
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.
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.
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.
Navigating the Midlife Trifecta
Sometimes it isn't just perimenopause.
Midlife rarely happens in isolation.
You may be navigating changing hormones alongside ongoing health challenges, caring responsibilities — or all three.
Perimenopause
Changing hormones can affect your body, sleep, emotions and nervous-system responses — sometimes leaving anxiety, overwhelm or reactions feeling unfamiliar or harder to manage.
Invisible illness
Pain, fatigue or ongoing health challenges may already be asking a lot of your body, energy and capacity.
Caring responsibilities
You're still supporting the people you love while needing more support yourself.
You don't have to stop caring for everyone else.
Perhaps one feels familiar. Perhaps all three have collided at once.
That is where our work begins.
We begin by making sense of what is happening for you.
Together, we explore how anxiety, midlife changes, your nervous system, past experiences and the pressures in your life may be interacting — because what you're feeling rarely exists in isolation.
From there, we draw on what is useful for you — from EFT Tapping and coaching to practical support around nourishment, movement and everyday lifestyle — working with what may be getting in the way and supporting you to create meaningful change.
Catching your breath
Making space for what is happening
When your body, emotions and life seem to be shifting at once, this is a place to slow things down enough to notice what is happening, what may be asking for attention and what you need right now.
Establishing Calm
Finding something you can return to
Calm isn't something you're expected to maintain all the time. We explore practical ways to work with anxiety, overwhelm and nervous-system responses, so you can better understand what you're experiencing and discover what helps you respond when life changes.
Permission
Including yourself in the care
After years of responding to what other people need, this is a place to consider your needs, wants, limits and wellbeing too — including rest, support, what you no longer want to tolerate and what you might be ready to ask for or receive.
Understanding you
Getting to know the woman you are now
Explore what matters to you, what nourishes or depletes you, your strengths, values, needs and patterns, and what may have changed. Developing a clear understanding of who you are now without making the woman you were before wrong.
Compassion
Softening the way you treat yourself
When life is already difficult, self-criticism, guilt and expectations can add another layer. Here, we explore what may sit beneath those responses and develop more compassionate ways of meeting yourself — particularly when things don't go to plan, your capacity changes, or what you can offer today simply needs to be enough.
Creating
Exploring what you want more of — and making room for it
Wanting doesn't mean you have to act straight away. Here, we explore what you want more of — or less of — what brings enjoyment, energy and meaning, and what you may be ready to leave behind. From there, wants can become conscious choices and small experiments in creating a life that feels increasingly like your own.
Becoming
Becoming increasingly free to live as you
This is where what you've discovered begins to feel more like your own. We bring together the understanding, skills and changes you've developed, strengthen trust in your own voice and choices, and notice what brings motivation, enjoyment and a sense of wellness that feels like yours — so you can continue evolving long after our year together ends.
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps you're wondering... why I also offer a year?
Because this isn't something I want you to have to rush.
If you've reached a point in midlife where life has asked you to stop, slow down or live differently, you may have spent a long time simply trying to manage what is happening.
Meaningful change needs enough time to understand, practise and become part of everyday life.
A year gives us time to understand what’s happening, practise new ways of responding and bring changes into everyday life.
We meet for 40 zoom sessions, usually weekly, with 12 quieter integration weeks woven throughout the year for rest, practice and living.
A year allows us to work together through different seasons of your actual life — changing energy and capacity, relationships, responsibilities, celebrations, difficult moments and the ordinary days in between.
Those quieter weeks create space for life, rest and integration — noticing what you're learning, trying things in your own way and discovering what genuinely supports you.
And as the year unfolds, we can return to familiar parts of the work with greater understanding and depth rather than expecting you to have dealt with something once and moved on.
It has time to be understood, practised and lived.
You don't have to know what comes next. A little curiosity is enough to begin.
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.