Hi, I’m Mon! 🧡
Women’s health coach & clinical nutritionist
My Story
I am deeply passionate about helping the neurodivergent woman reach her health goals with confidence and self-trust. Through nutrition, healthy habits, self-development and deeper connection to self, I help you learn to work with your unique brain and body, creating a healthy life that supports your goals and feels authentically you!
MY PROFILE
Taurus ☀️
Sagittarius 🌙
Sagittarius 🌅
My Big 3:
Human Design:
Manifesting Generator (1/3)
Ayurvedic type:
Pitta vata
Bachelor of Health Science (Clinical Nutrition)
Diploma of Health Science
Personal Trainer
Life Coach
Inner Child Healing practitioner
Formal qualifications:
Health has always been a huge part of my life.
I was the kid who would take fruit to birthday parties because I didn't want the lollies - so perhaps it isn't all that surprising that I have built a career around health and wellness!
But my own relationship with health has been anything but straightforward.
Growing up, I struggled with severe anxiety and self-belief. Over the years, I also navigated depression, alopecia areata (auto-immune), chronic IBS, body dysmorphia, a complicated relationship with food involving binge eating, restriction and orthorexia, and eventually chronic fatigue that brought my life to a grinding halt.
At 17, I moved interstate to study veterinary science, determined to make everything work. I was balancing study, a long-distance relationship and my newfound love of exercise, pushing myself to keep going until eventually my body said no.
My anxiety became debilitating, my digestive health deteriorated, and I developed chronic fatigue.
Before the year was over, I had left university, stopped working and moved home.
At the time, it felt like a failure.
Looking back, it was an initiation into what would become a deeply intimate relationship between me and my body - and the beginning of learning to listen to my body’s whispers rather than waiting for it to scream.
Learning to listen to my body
Recovering over the next few years changed the direction of my life.
I became fascinated by nutrition and the connection between the food we eat and the way our bodies respond. I learnt to rest, changed the way I approached exercise and began prioritising recovery.
That journey eventually led me into the health and fitness industry, beginning a career that has now spanned 10 years and evolved from personal training into women’s health coaching and clinical nutrition.
But there were still so many layers of my health - and myself - that I was yet to understand.
Years later, an abusive relationship, an incredibly stressful work environment and a traumatic experience with poorly managed antidepressant medication took a devastating toll on my mental and physical health.
My digestive health deteriorated until I could barely tolerate food. I experienced chronic inflammation, brain fog, nutrient deficiencies and significant changes in my body. Despite everything I had learnt about caring for myself, I was still pushing through while my body was screaming at me to change direction.
Eventually, I ended up in hospital. My health forced me to leave my job, I lost almost all of my friends and, once again, I moved home to rebuild my health - and my life - from scratch. I was later diagnosed with PTSD.
It was another layer of learning to listen.
I began to understand that caring for myself wasn’t only about food, exercise, and physical symptoms. I needed to look at my emotions, environment, relationships, societal expectations, and all the ways I was over-riding myself in order to keep going and ‘show up well’.
Learning to trust myself
The years that followed became as much about understanding myself as they were about physical health - and my healing was anything but linear.
While navigating PTSD, I entered an unconventional chapter of working that was both incredibly liberating and, in ways I wouldn't understand until much later, the source of further complex trauma.
I began DBT and therapy, learning about emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness and communication. At the same time, I started seeing a naturopath and became fascinated by gut health, food quality, supplementation, hormones and the relationship between stress and the body. I started studying naturopathy, which would eventually evolve into my degree in clinical nutrition.
My spirituality deepened, too. I was learning more and more about who I was underneath all the expectations of who I thought I should be.
But knowing yourself and actually living in alignment with that person are two very different things.
I still found myself in relationships and behaviours that didn't reflect the life I wanted. Eventually, another relationship ended and I reached one of the darkest periods of my life. I couldn't see how to get from where I was to the future I desperately wanted. I experienced suicidality, and ended up in hospital again.
I stopped studying, had no permanent home and found myself rebuilding from almost nothing.
And strangely, amongst all of that uncertainty, I realised something incredibly important:
I didn't have the relationship, home, career or business I thought I was supposed to have. But I had myself. I was carrying myself through yet another horrible rock bottom and, for perhaps the first time, learning that my own relationship with myself could be somewhere safe to land.
I could trust myself. Deeply. To get through anything.
The light, the darkness, and everything in between
My self-discovery continued to deepen.
I immersed myself in spirituality and personal development, working with therapists and coaches and exploring breathwork, family constellations, somatic practices and inner-child work - eventually becoming an accredited inner child healer.
I worked through deep-rooted anger and anxiety, explored familial patterns and trauma, connected with my femininity and developed a deeper relationship with myself, nature and spirituality.
Eventually, I returned to university, changed my major to clinical nutrition and continued rebuilding.
But my growth and progress still wasn’t linear..
I entered another painful period of relationships and choices that weren't aligned with my values. I was learning to set boundaries and honour myself while simultaneously confronting behaviours that made me question who I was and why I was doing the things I was doing.
For so long, I had been trying to live entirely in the ‘light’ - to heal, grow, become my highest self and leave behind the parts of myself I didn't want to identify with (which was ironic given some of the choices I was making with my life).
I eventually realised that truly knowing myself, and true integration, couldn't mean loving only the parts I liked.
I had to become acquainted with my darkness, too - not to live from it, but to understand it, take responsibility for it, and integrate it.
I had come to realise that knowing and honouring myself has been less like reaching a destination and more like peeling back layers; Every layer has brought new complexities, new lessons, and a deeper understanding of who I am.
Another piece of the puzzle
Then, seemingly suddenly all at once and within a relatively short period, I completed my clinical nutrition degree and finally walked away from both a relationship and a work environment that no longer aligned with me.
And after years of fighting so hard to create the life I thought I needed and seemingly getting nowhere, something within me shifted.
I surrendered.
I made peace with the possibility that my life might never unfold the way I had imagined.
And seemingly overnight, I met my now-partner - and my life changed for the BETTER.
For the first time in my life, I experienced a level of safety in a relationship that allowed parts of me that I had protected my entire life, to soften. I was also able to start dealing with trauma I had buried so deep I didn't know it existed. Being met with kindness and love - even within some of the darkest and most complicated parts of my story - has taught me another dimension of trust.
And then, at around the same time as meeting my partner, came another enormous piece of the puzzle:
Being diagnosed with ADHD and Autism
Suddenly, so much of my life had context, and questions I had wondered for the longest time were answered:
How could I know so much about health and personal development, yet struggle to consistently implement what I knew?
How could I want something SO badly for myself, yet struggle to show up consistently in the ways that aligned with that?
How could I thrive in one environment and completely shut down in another?
Why had I spent so much of my life seemingly pushing myself uphill until eventually everything seemed to fall apart... again and again and again?
My diagnoses haven’t explain everything, but they have helped me understand that my brain and body process and respond to the world differently - and that my needs are uniquely mine.
More than anything, these diagnoses have given me permission to stop trying to become somebody else's version of functional and start asking:
What do I need? And how do I make things work for me?
Why I do what I do
Today, all of those layers have come together into a much deeper, more integrated understanding of who I am.
I am working with my neurodivergent brain rather than constantly compensating for it.
I am continuing to deepen my relationship with my body, my spirituality and myself.
I am continuing to trust deeply.
As a clinical nutritionist, I work with the physical foundations of health through individualised clinical nutrition care. As a women's health coach, I look at the broader picture - your habits, lifestyle, mindset, self-understanding and the patterns that influence how you care for yourself every day.
Because after everything I've experienced and learnt, I don't believe health is simply about knowing what to eat or what you're ‘supposed’ to do.
It's about understanding how you work.
Your brain. Your body. Your environment. Your patterns. Your needs.
And I no longer believe becoming your ‘highest self’ means eliminating every messy, complicated or darker part of who you are.
For me personally, it has meant learning to know all of myself - the light and the darkness - and choosing how I want to live from that place.
And that is what I hope to help other neurodivergent women discover, too: a way of caring for yourself that works with who you are, builds confidence and self-trust, and allows you to understand and honour all of who you are - the lightness, the darkness, and everything in between - while creating a healthy life that feels authentically yours.