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1. Know Your Body
Know what is happening in your body, mind and nervous system and why.
My Story
Meet Micaela
I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO STOP RECOGNISING YOURSELF
I’m Micaela Parker, a health and wellness life coach, a wife and a mum in a blended family with three boys.
I Know What It Feels Like to Stop Recognising Yourself
About seven years ago, my first husband passed away from cancer, which was life changing and incredibly hard. I was a working mum with two young boys, carrying deep grief while trying to hold everything together.
Not long afterwards, I met my now husband, Alex, and his son. Blending our families was special, but there was also a lot happening beneath the surface. I was grieving, navigating a new relationship, raising my boys and working. Then COVID arrived.
It honestly felt like a bit of a car crash.
Around the age of 38, I began experiencing symptoms that I now recognise as early perimenopause. I went from feeling highly functional, calm and capable to feeling like someone I didn’t recognise.
My moods were unpredictable, my brain felt foggy and the anger was one of the hardest parts.
I felt anxious and overwhelmed for no obvious reason. I experienced relentless itching, allergies, digestive problems, bloating, adult acne, dizzy spells, hot flushes and night sweats.
At the same time, I was gaining weight despite exercising five days a week. I wasn’t sleeping properly, and some afternoons I was so fatigued and sensory overloaded that I struggled to concentrate or hold a conversation at work.
I remember thinking:
“What is happening to me? This isn’t who I am.”
But the harder I pushed, the more it felt as though my body was fighting back.
- Nobody was talking to me about perimenopause, so I did what so many women do I kept pushing through.
- I thought I should be able to cope and that it would eventually pass.
- Eventually, I realised something had to change.
- My body wasn't broken. It was trying to tell me that the way I had been living and caring for myself was no longer enough for what it needed.
- I began educating myself, experimenting and making small changes. HRT became part of my own support, but I also learned there wasn't one single solution. My hormones, nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, mindset, nervous system and daily habits were all connected.
- Gradually, things began to shift.
- My body composition changed, my lean muscle increased, my energy improved and my cravings stopped.
- I began sleeping better, feeling calmer and recognising when I was becoming overwhelmed instead of automatically pushing through.
- But there was another, deeper part of my health that I still needed to understand.
I stopped focusing on eating less and exercising more and started learning what my body actually needed.
The Patterns Beneath the Burnout
Even as I made progress physically, I kept finding myself burnt out.
I hadn’t yet worked through the impact of past trauma or recognised the old safety systems I had created to help me cope. Patterns such as rushing, perfectionism, self-criticism and constantly pushing myself had become so familiar that I thought they were simply part of who I was.
I also began recognising beliefs I had formed when I was younger, beliefs I had carried as though they were true, even though they never were.
These beliefs and safety patterns showed up in my life as self-sabotage, a constant rushing mentality, perfectionism, harsh self-criticism and repeated cycles of burnout. They may once have helped me feel safe, capable or in control, but they were no longer serving the woman I was becoming.
Rather than criticising myself for these patterns, I began approaching them with curiosity and compassion. I started learning how to identify what was happening beneath my behaviour, support my nervous system and create a greater sense of safety within myself.
And slowly, I started feeling like the new version of myself.
I introduced methods to rewire my identity, beliefs and habits. I also began reconnecting with my inner spirit and intuition, using that connection to help ground myself and create a greater sense of inner peace.
This is still a journey for me. I don’t believe we reach a point where we are completely finished or never experience stress again. But I have made incredible progress from where I started.
I understand myself more deeply. I recognise my patterns sooner. I’m learning to slow down, listen to my body and respond to myself with greater compassion instead of automatically pushing harder.
Why I Created
Be Well Live Well
My experiences inspired me to build on more than 20 years of supporting people through Human Resources, Health and Safety and workplace wellbeing.
I became a qualified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, PSYCH-K® & Usui Reiki Practitioner, and Holistic Perimenopause and Menopause Coach so I could help other women understand their bodies, uncover the patterns keeping them stuck and create meaningful, sustainable change.
- Integrative Nutrition Health Coach
- PSYCH-K® & Usui Reiki Practitioner
- Holistic Perimenopause & Menopause Coach
THE BE WELL LIVE WELL APPROACH
My journey became the foundation of the Know. Reset. Rewire. Method
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2. Reset Your Body
Reset how you nourish, move, rest and support yourself, beginning with the foundations of health and personalising them around what you need.
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3. Rewire Your Habits
Rewire the identity, beliefs and habits shaping your health.
The Habit Builder Guide
Let’s identify what your body and mind needs, choose the right place to begin and create an approach that supports the healthier, stronger, happier and calmer woman you’re becoming.
Today, I combine evidence-informed health and behaviour-change coaching with intuitive, spiritually grounded support to help women understand themselves more deeply.
Together, we look beyond individual symptoms to explore the connections between hormonal changes, nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, nervous-system health, relationships, beliefs and protective patterns such as rushing, perfectionism and people-pleasing.
Where it feels aligned, spiritual intuition can also support deeper self-awareness and change. Optional Reiki sessions will be introduced soon.
Your body isn't broken. You may simply need to start working with it differently.
Because perimenopause, menopause, burnout or a difficult season of life doesn’t have to mean losing yourself.
Sometimes, it can become the point where you finally learn to care for, trust and reconnect with the woman you’re becoming.