In this uplifting and practical episode of Blossoming Beyond, Beccy Freeman explores why so many women unintentionally make their wellness routines harder than they need to be — and how to finally create habits that feel simple, sustainable, and actually enjoyable.

If you’ve ever tried to commit to the “perfect” morning routine, only to feel overwhelmed and defeated before you’ve even begun, this episode is for you. Beccy breaks down the myth of perfect wellness, explains why overcomplication backfires, and shares how to create habits that fit into your real life — not the other way around.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why all-or-nothing thinking sabotages your wellness goals
• The surprising power of small, consistent actions
• How habit stacking makes wellness effortless
• The neuroscience behind habit-building (and why smaller is better)
• Ways to celebrate your “incidental wins” so you stay motivated

Practical takeaways:

• Focus on progress, not perfection
• Build habits into your existing rhythms for less resistance
• Choose actions you can do anywhere, anytime — no fancy equipment or extra hours required
• Give yourself light-hearted grace when life gets in the way

Special Invitation:

If you’re ready to feel calmer and more in control of your day, join Beccy for Everyday Calm — a live, 60-minute Zoom workshop on Wednesday 20 August for just $22.

You’ll learn three simple tools to calm your nervous system so you can start feeling more like yourself again — without overhauling your entire routine.

🎟️ Reserve your spot here: breatheandblossom.com.au/calm

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this compassionate and timely solo episode of Blossoming Beyond, Beccy Freeman dives into a feeling many women in midlife know all too well — overwhelm.

If you’ve been feeling scattered, on edge, stretched too thin, or simply not yourself lately, this episode is your soft landing. We explore why so many women are feeling emotionally and physically exhausted right now — and more importantly, what you can do to begin shifting that.

This isn’t about pushing harder or fixing yourself. It’s about understanding what’s happening in your body and nervous system, naming the pressure you’ve been under, and gently choosing a new way forward.

✨ In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why overwhelm isn’t just a “to-do list” problem
•  How mental load, hormonal shifts, and global stress contribute to nervous system burnout
• What perimenopause and oestrogen decline have to do with stress and reactivity
• The link between emotional regulation and your biology
• 3 gentle, real-life practices to calm your system and reconnect with yourself

You’ll also hear:

• Why naming what you feel is healing in itself
• How to re-evaluate pressure and release unrealistic expectations
• What “creating a pocket of calm” can do for your emotional resilience

💫 Feeling called to go deeper?

Join me for my nourishing workshop Everyday Calm — a gentle, practical introduction to nervous system support for midlife women. You’ll learn sustainable tools to reduce overwhelm, regulate your energy, and move through life transitions with steadiness and grace.

Join the Workshop Here

🌸 If this resonated...

Please share this episode with a friend who’s also navigating stress or burnout. Let’s remind each other: You are not broken. You are not behind. You are doing your best — and it’s more than enough.

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this short but soul-stirring solo episode of Blossoming Beyond, Beccy Freeman shares three powerful coaching questions to help you pause, reflect, and begin living with intention — instead of just coping on autopilot.

This episode is for the woman who’s been holding it all together, checking the boxes, and wondering: “Is this all there is?” If you’ve been craving more alignment, more ease, and a deeper connection to your own truth — this conversation will meet you right where you are.

Drawn straight from Beccy’s high-touch 1:1 coaching experience Radiant, these questions offer a gentle yet profound entry point into designing a life that feels deeply nourishing, not just productive.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• How to check in with your whole self — physically, emotionally, spiritually, and more
• What survival mode really looks like — and how to know if you’re living there
• Why meaning matters — and how to reconnect with what makes you feel truly alive
• Simple self-reflection practices to come home to yourself again

Whether you’re in a season of change or simply longing for clarity, this episode offers space to breathe and realign — one brave question at a time.

Ready to go deeper?

• Join Beccy at her next Leo New Moon Women’s Circle in the Goulburn Valley — a sacred space to reflect, connect, and renew

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this deeply relatable RECAST episode, Beccy Freeman invites you to pause and gently name the invisible weight so many women carry every single day — the hidden stress, emotional labour, mental load, and the quiet caregiving that often goes unseen and unspoken.

While Beccy takes a well-deserved pause to rest and replenish (practising exactly what she teaches!), we’re bringing back this powerful solo episode — because its wisdom is timeless and its message matters more than ever.

In this conversation, you’ll hear Beccy break down:

• What the “mental load” really is — and why it’s so exhausting
• How decision fatigue silently drains your energy
• The impact of anticipating everyone else’s needs, all the time
• The invisible burden of emotional labour in families and relationships
• Why perimenopause, parenting teens, and caring for aging parents can feel like the “perfect storm” for midlife burnout
• How to gently reconnect with your own needs and sense of self again

Beccy also shares why so many women feel disconnected from themselves in midlife — and how to begin reclaiming your energy, time, and passions without guilt.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re carrying everyone’s everything — this episode is your warm reminder that you don’t have to do it all alone, and you are absolutely allowed to rest, receive, and be supported too.

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this soulful solo episode of Blossoming Beyond, Beccy Freeman invites you to pause, breathe, and remember: you are not behind — you are simply in a season.

With the Winter Solstice just passed and the soft, nurturing energy of the Cancer New Moon arriving, Beccy shares a heartfelt reminder that slowness isn’t laziness — it’s wisdom.

Through personal reflection, seasonal insight, and gentle prompts, she explores how midyear doesn’t have to be a deadline. Instead, it can be a doorway into deeper listening, emotional stillness, and powerful self-reconnection.

If you’ve been feeling tired, unmotivated, or questioning your rhythm, this episode is your permission slip to soften, slow down, and come home to yourself.

Key Takeaways:

• Why Winter invites deep rest and stillness, not hustle
• Reframing the pressure of “Half the year’s gone” messaging
• How to reconnect with your inner voice and honour your energy
• The power of gentle boundaries and seasonal living
• Reflection prompts to align with your inner rhythm

🌙 Cancer New Moon Women’s Circle — You’re Invited!

Join Beccy on Sunday 29th June at the Numurkah Community Learning Centre for a soul-nourishing in-person circle. Reflect, journal, and connect with like-hearted women.

✨ Investment: $35 | Spaces are limited — book via breatheandblossom.com.au

🎧 Next week: A powerful conversation with Em Chadbourne on death, dying, and living fully — subscribe so you don’t miss it!

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this soulful solo episode of Blossoming Beyond, I explore one of the most tender and often unspoken parts of personal transformation — the quiet, inner identity shifts that arise during life’s transitions.

Whether you’re navigating an empty nest, relationship changes, career pivots, or simply sensing a shift within, this episode is here to remind you: you’re not alone. I gently unpack the grief that comes with letting go of former roles and offers compassion-filled insights for reconnecting with who you’re becoming.

You’ll also hear a personal story about rewriting old narratives and discovering unexpected joy in solitude, plus practical tools for honouring your evolving values and embracing the fertile void of change.

Key Takeaways:

• Why identity grief is a normal, sacred part of transitions
• How cultural roles can disconnect us from our evolving self
• What it means to welcome the "void" and soften into uncertainty
• How to identify outdated stories and reconnect with your true values
• Three gentle practices to ground yourself during the “in-between”

✨ Want to go deeper?

Explore personal transformation in my Radiant 1:1 coaching experience — a 12-week journey to help you reconnect with your values, your voice, and your next chapter. Book a free discovery call here.

Past Episodes to Revisit:

🎧 Episode 21 – Why Does Change Feel So Hard?

🎧 Episode 25 – Change is Hard: Here Are 5 Things I Double Down On

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this heartfelt solo episode of Blossoming Beyond, Beccy Freeman explores the liberating power of duality — the “both/and” nature of womanhood, especially during midlife and moments of transformation.

Beccy invites you to soften into the tension of opposites: joy and grief, freedom and fear, certainty and doubt. You’ll learn how embracing emotional complexity can become a powerful act of self-compassion and clarity — especially when the world pressures you to pick just one truth.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in the “in between,” this episode offers a warm reminder that you’re not broken — you’re blossoming.

Key Takeaways:

• Why midlife is the season of “both/and,” not “either/or”
• How binary thinking limits women’s emotional and personal freedom
• Practices for softening into complexity and reclaiming inner harmony
• Real-life examples of how cultural messaging can block our full potential
• A personal invitation to the Luminous New Moon Women’s Circle in Numurkah

✨ Ready to honour your both/and?

Join Beccy in this month’s Luminous New Moon Circle to explore duality through journaling, group reflection, and gentle embodiment.

🌙 Book your spot via the link in the show notes or connect with Beccy on Instagram for details.

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this soul-nourishing episode of Blossoming Beyond, Beccy welcomes holistic kinesiology practitioner, Jade Vigliaturo, for a powerful conversation on navigating hormonal changes with emotional ease and energetic balance.

Jade shares her personal journey into kinesiology, illuminating how this natural therapy supports women through perimenopause and menopause by regulating the nervous system, releasing emotional blockages, and restoring inner vitality. With warmth and wisdom, she offers insight into the mind-body connection and how tuning into the body’s wisdom can transform emotional overwhelm into empowered wellbeing.

If you’ve been craving deeper emotional support, energetic clarity, and grounded tools to carry you through hormonal transitions, this conversation will speak right to your heart.

Key Takeaways:

• What kinesiology is — and how it supports the emotional and energetic body
• How unresolved emotions can impact your hormonal health
• Simple kinesiology-based techniques to manage stress and regulate energy
• Real-life client stories that reveal the healing power of energy work
• Empowering advice for tuning into your body’s signals and honouring your inner wisdom

Resources Mentioned:

• The Secret Language of Your Body by Inna Segal

Connect with Jade Vigliaturo:

• Website: www.holistickinesiology.net.au
• Instagram: @holistickinesiology
• Facebook: Holistic Kinesiology

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this tender and empowering solo episode, Beccy invites you to explore a part of your wellness that might be quietly missing: social wellness. While we often focus on food, movement, or sleep, Beccy gently guides us toward the vital importance of meaningful connection—especially in the second half of life.

Through stories from her clients and insights from her coaching and counselling work, Beccy shines a light on why emotional safety and being deeply seen by others isn’t just “nice to have”—it’s essential. You’ll learn how social wellness impacts your nervous system, hormones, and even your longevity. If you’ve been feeling lonely in a room full of people, or wondering if it’s “too late” to find your people, this episode is here to remind you: you’re not alone, and it’s never too late to belong.

• What social wellness actually means—and why it’s critical for your midlife wellbeing
• Why loneliness impacts your body as much as your heart (yes, even your hormones!)
• How to gently rebuild connection, even if you feel awkward, anxious, or out of practice
• What to do when you feel “invisible in a crowd” and crave more depth in your relationships

💫 Luminous: A Sacred Monthly Women’s Circle

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.

In this deeply validating solo episode, Beccy dives into the emotional rollercoaster of perimenopause—the mood swings, sudden rage, and anxiety that often blindside women in midlife. Through her dual lens as both counsellor and coach, she unpacks the why behind these intense emotional shifts and offers practical, compassionate insights to help you feel more grounded and less alone.

From the neuroscience of estrogen and progesterone to the hidden toll of cortisol and chronic stress, Beccy explains what’s happening under the hood during this transition—and why your emotional reactions are not personal flaws, but powerful signals. You'll walk away not only feeling seen and soothed, but also equipped with a gentle reframe and a doable practice to support your emotional wellbeing this week.

Learn more about Beccy's RADIANT program here.

• Why your brain is not broken—just being rewired by shifting hormones
• How the drop in estrogen and progesterone impacts your mood, sleep, and stress levels
• What cortisol is doing behind the scenes (and why you're so quick to snap)
• How to support yourself emotionally with nervous system care and practical mindset tools

Connect with Beccy Freeman here:

IG - @breathe._and._blossom

www.breatheandblossom.com.au

ABOUT BECCY FREEMAN

Beccy is a Womens’ Health Coach, Counsellor, and Candle Maker.

She has an empathic nature, a genuine curiosity and loves holding space for other women in a supportive and empowering way. 

What lights her up is connecting with women and sharing with them ways to support their health and wellness with all-natural, low tox, joyful options. 

Beccy empowers women with the knowledge that enables them to make positive and informed decisions regarding their own and their family’s health and wellbeing.

At Breathe and Blossom, you are encouraged to nurture and nourish your own soul first and foremost, when you take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow- you cannot pour from an empty cup.