Hi, I'm Rachel.
I'm a mum, a coach, and someone balancing a career and family life myself.
I work with career mums who are tired of starting over - and want fat loss and confidence that actually lasts.
Not perfection.
Not extremes.
Habits that work for this season of life. And set you up for the next one.
Why I do this work
If I'm honest, the struggle was there before kids. The cycle of trying, slipping, starting again. Waiting for the next big trend. Comparison with those whose job it is to stay in shape all year round. Typical Millenial!
So becoming a mum didn't create the problem. It just made it feel impossible to solve.
There was less headspace. Less time to do anything. Way less energy.
Less structure.
But a load more pressure - to bounce back, to "get it right", to hold everything together, to do everything. And the strategies that sort of worked before stopped working entirely.
And I see the same pattern in so many of the women I work with:
Doing all the right things.
Then life gets busy. The chaos kicks in. Chaos and perfection doesn’t mix!
Then starting again.
And the longer it goes on, the more you start to think the problem is you.
It isn't.
My approach
I'm not here to tell you what you should eat or how you should train.
I'm here to look at what's actually happening in your week - the back-to-back meetings, the lunch you skipped, the evenings where there's nothing left - and help you build habits that work around that.
Not habits that require a calm week to function.
I don't believe in rigid meal plans, restriction, or quick fixes. I believe in small, repeatable habits. Behaviour change over intensity. Flexibility that doesn't collapse when real life shows up.
For many of the women I work with, fat loss is part of the goal.
But the deeper shift is this:
Food takes up less headspace. Progress doesn't disappear when life gets chaotic. And they trust themselves again. Whilst feeling unbelievably confident in their body again.
My background
I’m a qualified actuary. It's a field that trains you to look at complex problems, find the patterns, and figure out what's actually driving them - not just the surface symptoms.
That's exactly how I approach coaching.
Alongside that, I'm a qualified nutrition coach and personal trainer with a strong interest in evidence-based, practical nutrition. I've also lived the thing I coach - balancing a career, motherhood, and the pressure of trying to hold it all together at once.
I don't coach through intensity or perfection. I coach through steady, repeatable habits that hold even when life feels full.
Ready to start?
Take the quiz. It takes 2 minutes and I'll come back to you personally.
Not ready yet? hello@nourishandmum.co.uk