Gemma Kelly Wellness

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I trained as a PT. Then a nutrition coach. Then pre and postnatal. Then Pilates. Then I did over a thousand hours in bre...
08/09/2026

I trained as a PT. Then a nutrition coach. Then pre and postnatal. Then Pilates. Then I did over a thousand hours in breathwork.

Every one of those was me trying to find the missing piece.

And every time, I got a bit closer, but something was still missing.

Here’s what I eventually understood.

You can give a woman the right plan, the right food, the right everything, and if her nervous system is depleted, none of it holds.

It’s not that she’s not trying. It’s that there’s nothing left to take it on with.

That’s the whole reason The Capacity Reset exists. Not another plan. A different starting point.

More on this over the next couple of weeks.

You know the feeling.Doing all the things you’re meant to be doing, you’re ticking along. Grateful, even you tell yourse...
06/09/2026

You know the feeling.

Doing all the things you’re meant to be doing, you’re ticking along.

Grateful, even you tell yourself you should be, and you probably are.

But there’s something underneath it you don’t say out loud.

A quiet sense it’s not quite enough. That you’re doing fine, but you don’t feel fine.

So you stay busy. Busy is easier than sitting still with it. Busy keeps the thinking quiet.

Movement’s somewhere on the list too, you know it should be happening, you know what it’s costing you that it isn’t, but there’s never quite the time, or the energy left to give it. And when it does happen the body feels tight, sore and achy.

You might not even have a name for any of it. You just know it’s there.

That’s not ingratitude. And it’s not a personality flaw.

It’s a body and a nervous system that have been running on empty for so long, they’ve stopped being able to tell you what’s actually going on.

Your mind says you’re fine.

Your body knows you’re not.

If any of that landed, you’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone in it.

05/09/2026

As a wellbeing specialist, I notice how people adjust themselves around me.

They see me training, or meal prepping, or getting into the ice bath, and they make an assumption. That I’m doing everything right. That I’m trying really hard.

What’s more real is, that I’m doing the things that make me feel good, and the things I’ve researched that work for me and that I actually enjoy. Every single time I’ve tried to do something from a place of “I should”, I haven’t been able to stick with it. Not for a lengthy amount of time anyway.

I started with a new client this week and one of the first things she said was that she’d been logging some meals in the app, which we use for a bit of data feedback at the start of our coaching journey. And then she started explaining herself. That it was a day out in town, that it wasn’t how she normally eats, that she was on the go and buying prepackaged food.

She was justifying her lunch decisions to me. Before I’d said a word.

Here’s the thing though. I have never once judged a soul for how they eat. I have spent years judging my own. I used to hide sweet wrappers and crisp packets.

So when someone braces for judgement from me, I recognise it. I’m just not the one giving it. They brought it with them, the same way I did.

None of us are going to eat perfectly all of the time. None of us are going to train consistently all of the time.

That was never the goal.

What I hate is what the industry has done here. It’s become this polished, glossy pearl of a thing on Instagram, driven by consumerism underneath, and it’s women who carry the cost of it.

The apologising. The pre-emptive explaining. The quiet assumption that you’re behind.

So if you recognise your own shame in this, notice it. And know that nothing lasting ever comes from there. You can’t heal a body you hate. And you can’t shame yourself well.

Take what serves you. Leave the rest and if you need some support with that, you know where I am x

04/09/2026

Six things that were supposed to work. Because they worked for someone else. Or because they used to work for you.

That’s the trap.

You do what you think you should be doing, what worked for your friend, what’s works for whatshername on Instagram, what worked five years ago, what the plan says, and when it doesn’t land the same way, you assume it’s you.

It’s not you.

Your life isn’t the same as hers. And your body isn’t the same as it was five years ago either, perimenopause changes the rules without ever sending a note!

What are you still doing because it once worked, even though part of you knows it’s doesn’t anymore?

03/09/2026

⚙️The gear shift catches me every time.⚙️

Kids dropped off, a load of washing in, breakfast cleared away, tea and coffee and water lined up on the desk, and then I’m supposed to sit down and think clearly?? My body is still going at morning chaos speed while my head is trying to start work.

We did alternate nostril breathing in Breathe for Balance last night, and this is exactly when I use it. Fingers resting between the eyebrows on the yintang point, thumb closing one nostril, breathe in. Close it off at the top of the inhale, breathe out down the other side. Four or five rounds and the chatter drops.

What I’m really after in that moment is the gap. The bit of space between reacting and responding. So much of how a day goes gets decided right there.

That gap is what the I’m working on with my clients, and what I’m going to share some of with you lovely followers.

And Breathe for Balance is free, Wednesdays at 8pm, recording sent after if you can’t make it live. Just ask and I’ll send you the link.

01/09/2026

New here? Or been quietly watching for a while?

I’m Gemma. I work with women in midlife who are holding everything together and running on empty underneath it.

September always feels like a line in the sand. Everything starts up again, and for the first time in a while there’s a bit of space to think about yourself.

I’ve got a few things to say over the next couple of weeks. Stick around. 🤍

I’ve seen this little “hills I will absolutely die on” trend doing the rounds on Instagram…And whilst I’m not usually on...
30/08/2026

I’ve seen this little “hills I will absolutely die on” trend doing the rounds on Instagram…

And whilst I’m not usually one to jump on a trend, I’m not going to avoid one just for the sake of it either 😂

I’ve had quite a few new followers recently, so it feels like a good time to introduce you to the current or ever-evolving version of me.
Because I am constantly exploring, learning and doing the work on myself.

And honestly? That process can be absolutely exhausting.
It’s messy. It’s uncomfortable. It’s real.

Sometimes it looks glossy and happy on Instagram. Sometimes it looks like the massive, complicated reality of trying to understand yourself while still getting on with your life.

I’m not here to create glossy s**t or pretend I’ve got it all figured out.

I’m not interested in speaking to the masses either.

I’m here for the people who recognise themselves in my words and in my emotional over shares. The people who have spent years coping, carrying, pleasing and pushing through. The ones who have listened to everybody else for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hear themselves.

If my content doesn’t land for you, that’s absolutely fine.

But if it does, welcome, I’m gonna keep showing up here, waving my little lantern in the sea of iPhone torches so you know I’m here.

Here to support you. To walk beside you. Hug you if you need that too and to remind you that you’re not broken, your body isn’t the enemy, and you already carry so much of what you need within you.

Sometimes you just need the space, and the community along side you.

25/08/2026

There’s a particular feeling to this week.

The tan is still there. You’ve slept. You’ve read a book that wasn’t about anything (maybe it was about dragons and faeries 😂 IYKYK).

And you can suddenly see your life from slightly above it, all laid out, and it looks so doable.

Back to routine feels genuinely exciting from here. Fresh diary, fresh start, and you know exactly what you’ve changed.

But here’s the question I’d gently ask. Are you making plans with today’s energy? Because today’s energy is rested.

Today’s energy has capacity. And the woman who has to carry those plants out is the one in late October, on a third cold of the term, in the dark, at 6pm, with a work deadline. She’s the one who needs the plan to work.

And she’s usually not the one it was designed for. That gap is what I’ve been working on for the past year. Not fitness. Something else. More very soon.

Hit the 🩷 if this feels familiar btw…. You won’t be alone x

✨ PILATES NEW TERM IS BACK! ✨We’re back for a brand new term of Pilates at the amazing 🤍Mondays 7pmThursdays 7.15pmSpac...
25/08/2026

✨ PILATES NEW TERM IS BACK! ✨

We’re back for a brand new term of Pilates at the amazing 🤍
Mondays 7pm
Thursdays 7.15pm

Spaces are already very limited because so many of my lovely regulars are returning (thank you, I love you guys too! 🥹).

Right now, I have:

✨4 spaces left on Mondays
✨ Just 1 space left on Thursdays

Term spaces are available to book now, with pay-as-you-go spaces opening next week if there are any spots left.

My classes are welcoming, friendly and suitable for all levels, come to move, strengthen, breathe and give yourself an hour that's just for you.

Comment PILATES below and I’ll send you the booking link, or you can book via the link in my bio or my website.

Can’t wait to get back on the mat with you! 🤍

Quarter to five this morning. Wide awake, everything aching (thanks to a good PT sessions yesterday) researching perimen...
22/08/2026

Quarter to five this morning. Wide awake, everything aching (thanks to a good PT sessions yesterday) researching perimenopause and inflammation like Claude was going to hand me an answer.

You’ll have seen the other photos. The runs, the good lighting, the split times. What you don’t see is this bit, and this bit is most of it…. For me anyway.

Yesterday I trained legs with my PT after 2 weeks holiday, then ran my fastest home loop in years. Today I feel like I was hit by a train, everything hurts.

But that’s not what had me on my phone in the early hours. It was the voice that says it shouldn’t be this hard. That wishes my body felt like it did ten years ago. And underneath it, the quieter one asking, is this just how it is now?

I don’t have a tidy answer for that. I’m not going to pretend I’ve made peace with it either. That is my endless work.

What I do know is what I was really looking for at 4.45am. Not information. A time machine. That I know doesn’t exist.

If this is you too…. Here is what actually helps, and it isn’t glamorous.

The Epsom salt bath, the camomile tea over a glass of wine, the early night, the protein within half an hour of training, the red light, the ice bath, the going to bed instead of squeezing another hour out of the day. That’s not the soft bit that happens after the training. That is THE training, and I couldn’t have done it at 32, because at 32 I didn’t think I was worth the time. I thought the aim was to run on empty. The goal was to look and be busy. I grew up believing that unless I was running, I didn’t matter.

So the photos are real, the bit after is real and the worry is real too.

The hardest part is feeling that you are alone in this, worrying alone, chatting to Ai about your issues alone…. I’m working on something about that. Keep watching. More soon.

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