by Stephanie de Niese | Feb 14, 2026
The Right Thing Is Not Always the Easiest Thing to Do This time two years ago, I made a big decision in my life: to give up teaching regular group fitness classes. To some, this might not sound like a big deal, but for me it was a huge decision. Teaching group fitness...
by Stephanie de Niese | Sep 6, 2025
The truth about transformation is that it’s not pretty. One of the first things my clients will tell you about me is that I’m honest and transparent. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that going on your healing journey with me will be a breeze. It won’t always...
by Stephanie de Niese | May 20, 2025
We All Have a Default We all have ways we respond when conflict or emotional needs show up in our relationships. Most of the time, we don’t even realise we’re doing it. We just default to these automatic, learned behaviours—what we call coping styles in therapy....
by Stephanie de Niese | Jul 27, 2022
Something I’ve been learning – am still learning – is how to be unapologetically me. A hard task for a people-pleaser! Something you may or may not know about me is that I am a devout Catholic. If you follow me on my personal Instagram it’s...
by Stephanie de Niese | Jan 29, 2021
Self-talk is one of the things that we all do. We talk to ourselves more often than we talk to anyone else in our lives. Sometimes we talk to ourselves in our heads and sometimes we talk to ourselves out loud. Sometimes we aren’t even aware we are speaking to...
by Stephanie de Niese | Oct 23, 2020
Expectations are something we all have of ourselves, of others, and of the world. I’ve been wanting to unpack this topic for some time because I think that understanding where our expectations come from and their role in our lives, we can come to a deeper...
