Motivation, Joy & Wellness
When perimenopause stops you in your tracks, where do you go from here?
Coaching, EFT tapping and practical wellbeing support for women navigating midlife, overwhelm and changing responsibilities. Together, we’ll explore what you need now and take manageable steps towards a life that feels more like your own.
I help you understand what's happening, make sense of how anxiety and nervous-system responses may be showing up, and develop practical ways to work with them — so you can begin trusting yourself again and making positive changes that fit the life you have now.
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®
I help women understand what may be happening beneath anxiety and overwhelm, work with nervous-system responses and create positive change that feels genuinely their own.
My approach brings together coaching, EFT Tapping and The Motivating Elements of Being ME® — helping you understand what may be getting in the way, work with it gently and support your emotional, physical and everyday wellbeing as a whole.
Perhaps this is where you are...
You may feel anxious, overwhelmed or less like yourself. Your energy and capacity have changed, yet everyone still needs you.
Perhaps you know something needs to change, but you’re not sure where to begin.
You don’t need to have it all figured out before we talk.
If you've found yourself thinking something similar, you're in the right place to begin making sense of it.
And somewhere within you, perhaps there's still a little hope for what could come next.
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 supports you now.
Give yourself permission to want, too
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.
No wonder this feels like a lot. It is.
And somewhere amongst changing hormones, health, responsibilities and everyone else's needs, there is still you.
You don't have to stop loving, caring or showing up for the people who matter to you.
Perhaps it's time to include yourself in that care, too.
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.
Choose how you'd like to be supported
The same 12-month journey
Two different ways to experience it
Choose private one-to-one support or a small group of six women.
Both offer personalised support, practical tools and space to make changes at your pace.
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.
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.
How we work together
This isn't about deciding who you should become.
We begin with what’s happening for you now and what you would like to be different.
Through coaching and EFT tapping, we explore emotions, experiences and patterns that may be making change difficult.
Practical support around nutrition, movement, rest and everyday life can form part of our work too.
Together, we’ll find manageable steps that fit your needs, energy and responsibilities.
Everything else grows from there.
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 clearer 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 year together...
The journey is bespoke
The support beneath it is consistent
By the end of our year, 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 our year 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—from emotions and energy to identity, relationships and joy. Exploring any anxiety, overwhelm, identity, adjusting to a body that may feel different to you.
We draw on what is useful to you as your needs and circumstances change so you can develop new ways of responding that can become part of everyday life.
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 no longer seemed to fit.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
Because meaningful change isn't something we squeeze into a few sessions.
It has time to be understood, practised and lived.
You might be ready for this kind of support if...
You’d like support to understand yourself, feel less overwhelmed and make changes that matter to you.
You don’t need a clear plan before we talk. We can explore whether this support feels right for you in a free, no-pressure call.
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.