21 Minutes that SAVED MY LIFE…

When my life feels like it’s falling apart and I’m dropping all the balls, I have a system I use to get back on track.

It helps me feel happy, healthy, fit, strong and confident to tackle the day. It doesn’t fix all of life’s problems but it helps them seem a lot more surmountable.

Lockdown is an extremely hard time for many mums, with the added pressure of home schooling, and juggling the extra balls. My 21 Minute system is a game changer in not just surviving lockdown, but coming out feeling fit, healthy, strong and in control of my day and life.

A few weeks back I was a bit of a crying mess. Lots of personal life and business stuff going on that have taken my stress levels to the “next level”. I’ve also got hit with the flu twice In a month and I’d just lost my Julie sparkle.

So, I knew it was time to start my “system”, to reset myself and pull my life back together.

I have developed this system over the last 6 years and it has carried me through some pretty “heavy” shitty times in my life.

It takes me 21 minutes a day, and I do it for 21 days.

It tackles my mindset, my exercise, and my eating. And then something magical happens... I have formed new habits and the problems that were consuming me, seem to resolve or just not effect me the same way they were effecting me.

My attitude takes a massive shift, my Julie sparkle returns and it has a positive effect that ripples to my whole family and business.

I first had to develop the system as a survival strategy years ago when I moved in a women’s shelter with my two kids, after an abuser brought my life to a screaming holt.

Now at the time I was a confident, strong business women and no-one knew from the outside what was going on at home. I put on a brave face, kept showing up to work, and just did everything I could to keep me and my babies safe and a roof over our head.

Emotional abuse is this insidious form of abuse that eats you at the core and their voice echos in your head even years later and makes you question yourself and all you do.

It erodes your self confidence and slowly drains you of life. Somehow I held it all together, well on the outside anyway, but on the inside I was a crumpled mess, and I was scrambling to keep everything afloat, me, the kids, my business, my staff. That’s what the abuser relies on, that you will crumple, then they have their ultimate form of control.

The first 8 weeks the kids and I scrambled to find temporary accomodation. We bounced from hotel to hotel or cabin or Airbnb, trying to hide and be safe, but also trying to still run my business as that was my only form of income.

Soon any savings I had were used up and my counsellor helped get us a spot in a women’s shelter. I still remember the feeling in my body as the children and I first walked into the shelter. It was a nice homely place, it was nurturing and it was safe, but I remember being so scared and also overwhelmed with gratitude that a place like this existed.

I also remember feeling incredibly sad that my life had come to this. I was a strong, successful, financially independent women, yet somehow a man had taken away everything I worked hard for and my home and threatened mine and my children’s safety and my business.

This stuff didn’t happen to women like me. I don’t belong in a place like this, I remember thinking. But... abusers don’t discriminate. There are some very seemingly “successful, strong” women, that are living unspeakable lives behind closed doors. I was eternally grateful for that shelter and the support and love they gave us. Incredibly grateful that we got out and were safe.

My kids were only young at the time and I knew I had to be “strong” for them. I had to find a way to not just survive, but to get back to feeling healthy, strong, fit, confident and energised, so I could tackle this situation with all I had. I had to make a new life for the children and I. But I felt so broken and drained...

I knew that in order for me to “keep on swimming” and show my babies that all would be ok, I had to start by filling up my own cup.

But how could I do that? I had two young kids on my own and I needed to keep them in my sight at all times and keep them safe, I had a business to run with 6 staff... how the f-ck was I going to pull myself back together.

So here is what I did.. each morning before the kids woke up, I would take a towel and go and sit outside our room on the grass under the window so I could still hear them and keep my eyes on them. Each morning I had approximately 21 minutes to myself and I needed the most effective way to work on myself.

And so my 21 minute system was born. I had 21 minutes to overhaul my mindset, do some exercise to get the endorphins flowing and become the healthiest, fittest, strongest version of myself. So that is what I did.

I did for myself what I do for my clients and I did it in the most express format I could, so it was fast, effective and simple in those 21 minutes.

• Those 21 minutes became my saving grace.

• Those 21 minutes became my way to a new life for me and my children.

• Those 21 minutes helped me transform the way I thought and the way I felt.

• Those 21 minutes helped me find a way to be able to get a new home for the kids and I and rebuild our life.

I still take those 21 minutes today, all these years on. My little system became so powerful, it has helped me climb some pretty big mountains.

People always ask “Julie how do you do it all, whilst being a single mum and running a business” (they don’t even know this story of what we went through)

People ask “Julie how do you have so much energy?”

People ask “Julie how do you still look 10 years younger than you are?”

People ask “Julie how are you so positive?”

The answer lies in my 21 minute system.

I’m doing a 21 day reset on myself at the moment. Because I could feel my wheels were falling off. Life was throwing some pretty big stuff at me, and I wasn’t coping. So I’ve started the 21 day reset.

21 minutes today and I feel freakin awesome to tackle my day.

If you are a busy mum and you feel like you need a reset, my 21 Day Reset is the answer.

The next live round of my 21 Day Reset Challenge starts 4th November 2022. You need 21 minutes a day, for 21 days and you do it all at home, with me coaching you. It’s my simple strategy and it will transform your body, mind and attitude.