10/09/2026
Today’s Women’s Health Week theme is TO BREATHE 💗 — a focus on mental wellbeing. And today is also R U OK? Day, our reminder to check in with the people around us.
So today I’m going to do exactly what the day is asking:
How are you, actually?
Not the automatic answer we give when someone asks in passing. The honest one.
Life can become so full that our own mental wellbeing ends up being the thing we check in with last — if at all.
For many women, there are a lot of roles to hold and people to care for. You can appear to be managing everything around you while underneath it all, you’re struggling. Both of those things can be true at the same time.
And looking after our health isn’t only about how we fuel ourselves, how much we move or how strong our bodies are. Our mental wellbeing and nervous system need care and support too.
If your honest answer today is that you’re not doing so well, please treat that as something worth paying attention to rather than something you need to push down and keep carrying.
Reach out to someone you trust — a partner, friend, family member, your GP or another health professional who can support you.
You’re allowed to be the person who needs the check-in, not only the person doing the checking. 💗
And if you’re doing okay today, perhaps this is your nudge to ask someone else:
R U OK?
And then give them the space to answer.
There’s something else I really like about today’s Women’s Health Week theme: To Breathe.
Sometimes looking after ourselves starts with creating just a little space — to breathe, to notice how we’re actually feeling, and to recognise what we might need.
Perhaps that’s today’s version of Do It Anyway. 💗
10/09/2026
Well, this feels rather appropriate… 💗
It’s Thursday, and I’m only just getting to Tuesday’s Women’s Health Week post.
Life and work got busy, the posts didn’t happen when I planned — and perhaps there couldn’t be a better week to DO IT ANYWAY.
Tuesday’s theme was movement, and I love the reminder behind this one: movement doesn’t have to be perfect, lengthy or all-or-nothing to count.
Some days you might have time for your planned strength training. Other days it might be ten minutes of movement, a walk, some mobility, taking the stairs, or simply finding opportunities to move more throughout your day.
And sometimes life really does get in the way.
The important part isn’t doing everything perfectly. It’s finding ways to return to movement and make it a regular part of your life — in a way that supports your body and the season of life you’re in.
For me, that’s one of my favourite things about this year’s Women’s Health Week message:
Do it anyway — and let it be imperfect. 💗
And on that note, I’ll be doing exactly that and catching up on the Women’s Health Week posts I haven’t managed to share yet!
07/09/2026
It’s Women’s Health Week 💕
This year’s theme is three simple words I think are worth holding onto:
DO IT ANYWAY.
Not in a push-through-at-all-costs kind of way — but as a reminder that looking after our health doesn’t have to be perfect, or happen under perfect circumstances.
It can be the walk you almost talked yourself out of.
The glass of water.
The ten minutes of movement you didn’t think were worth it.
You do it anyway — and those small things add up.
Today’s focus for Women’s Health Week is fuel.
When life is busy and you’re looking after everyone and everything else, it can be surprisingly easy to reach the end of the day having given very little thought to what you need.
But nourishing yourself matters too. Your body needs food and energy to support you through everything you ask of it — including your movement, your strength and simply getting through a full day.
Throughout the week, I’ll be following the Women’s Health Week themes of fuel, movement, rest, mental wellbeing and connection — all things that can support our health in ways that don’t need to be all-or-nothing.
Sometimes, the small thing you can do today really is enough.
Do it anyway. 💗
