feeling
KNACKERED?
YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
Helping midlife women who’d rather lie down
than lean in
Is running your business taking more out of you than it used to?
You started your business for freedom – to do what you love, on your terms.
But somewhere along the way, keeping it all going started taking far more out of you than you’d like. Work follows you around in your head, switching off isn’t as easy as it should be, and things that used to feel manageable somehow require more energy than they used to.
And no – that doesn’t necessarily mean you need a better strategy, more motivation, or another bloody course.
Sometimes it’s the cumulative effect of years spent carrying a lot:
the relentless pressure of keeping everything going
the exhaustion of being the one who holds so much together
a mind and body that have become very used to being busy, braced and switched on
You might be properly exhausted. Or you might simply be more easily frazzled, have less headspace than you used to and be noticing that running your business takes more out of you than it once did.
You’re not alone. I’ve been there too.
One thing I’ve learned, both personally and through my work, is how easy it is to keep pushing through because you’re still technically coping.
But regularly giving yourself somewhere to stop, settle and have less to hold can make a real difference. You may find it easier to switch off, think more clearly and recover from the stressful bits of running a business, with a little more energy and headspace left for yourself and the rest of your life.
That’s exactly why I created The Knackered Businesswomen’s Club (TKBC for short) – a calm, supportive monthly membership for midlife businesswomen who spend a lot of time holding everything together and would rather lie down than lean in.
Every Wednesday at 1pm, there’s a 45-minute pause already sitting in your diary. Depending on the week, we’ll relax, talk, connect with nature or get some work done alongside each other. There’s nothing to prepare, no homework and no pressure to attend everything or keep up.
Because sometimes the most productive thing you can do … is stop trying so bloody hard.
If you’ve already read the books, listened to the podcasts, downloaded the apps, tried the breathing exercises, bought the courses or experimented with yet another productivity system, you probably don’t need more information or another thing to keep up with.
TKBC is different. There’s nothing to complete, prepare or catch up on, and if you’re already thinking, “I don’t have time for one more thing”, I get it. The last thing you need when you’re already knackered is another bloody thing to find time for. This is a regular place to finally put the list down for a while.
The doors are open now, and if you join by 31st August you’ll pay the founding member rate of £22 per month for as long as you remain a member. From 1st September, the price will be £27 per month.
If this sounds like the kind of space you’ve been craving, you can find out more here – and if you already know this is for you, you can join straight away.
Not sure you qualify as a Knackered Businesswoman?
THERE’S A TEST FOR THAT
The Official (but completely unscientific) TKBC Entrance Test takes just a few minutes. The nine questions are lighthearted but surprisingly revealing, and might help you spot just how much running your business and holding everything else together has been taking out of you.
TAKE THE
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes – including you.”
ANNE LAMOTT
Creating calm for
transformation
to unfold naturally
my approach
At the heart of everything I do is one simple truth: you are nature – and when you reconnect with it, you reconnect with yourself.
I’m Louise – a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Nature Connection Guide who knows what it’s like to be the capable, committed woman who keeps holding everything together, even when it’s taking far more out of her than she’d like.
I support women who feel anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted or stuck, including self-employed women who love what they do but are finding that running a business alongside everything else life contains is taking its toll. You might be struggling with something specific, or simply noticing that you’re more easily frazzled, second-guessing yourself or finding it harder to properly switch off.
Nature isn’t something I add on. It shapes how I work, how I hold space and how I understand change. Whether we meet outdoors, in my camper van or online, I draw on hypnotherapy, therapeutic questioning, simple nervous system practices and nature connection in different ways, depending on what you need.
Sometimes that means working one-to-one with something specific. Sometimes it means having a regular place to pause through The Knackered Businesswomen’s Club. Either way, the intention is to create a little more room for calm, clarity and ease, and help you reconnect with who you are beneath all the stress, expectations and noise.
So if you’re ready to discover your true nature through nature, you’re in the right place.
Struggling to switch off? Sign up now to calm the hell down.
The Lazy Way to Stress Relief: Nature & Hypnotherapy Secrets for Inner Calm is a practical little guide packed with down-to-earth ideas to help you slow down, ease stress and reconnect with what matters, without adding more to your never-ending to-do list.
Whether running your business is taking more out of you than you’d like, life never seems to slow down, or you’re simply craving more peace and less pressure, you’ll discover:
How to ease stress and anxiety without overthinking it
Simple nature-based ways to slow down and feel a little more settled
Gentle shifts in perspective to help you get out of your own way
Small, lazy-but-effective steps to bring more calm, clarity and joy into your life
Some of the reasons you might be feeling stuck, flat or overwhelmed
Nurture
…YOUR MIND WITH HYPNOTHERAPY
You know that feeling of being stuck on a loop?
The same reactions, worries or patterns keep showing up no matter how much you think about them, understand them or tell yourself you should respond differently.
Sometimes you know perfectly well what you’d like to think, feel or do, but knowing it and actually experiencing it can be two very different things.
That’s where hypnotherapy can be useful. It gives us a different way of working with the thoughts, associations, emotions and automatic responses that can be difficult to change through conscious effort alone.
It’s not about positive thinking or trying harder. In my work, I combine hypnosis with therapeutic questioning and other approaches to help you explore what’s been keeping a particular response or pattern going, and create opportunities for something different.
Sometimes change shows up in quite ordinary moments: you notice you responded differently to something that would normally have wound you up, a familiar trigger doesn’t have quite the same pull, or you realise you’ve stopped thinking about something that used to take up far too much room in your head.
If there’s a particular pattern, person or situation you feel ready to let go of, Hypnotic Cord Cutting may be a good place to start. It’s a focused 90-minute online session for £197, giving us the time to work with one specific issue without the commitment of a longer programme.
If what you’re dealing with is broader, more complex or something you’d prefer to work through with ongoing support, one-to-one hypnotherapy might be the better fit.
I was quite anxious going in […] Louise was brilliant at helping me feel calm and ready. During the session I felt totally relaxed and confident. It brought me many colours as we tapped into my subconscious mind. Quite beautiful. […] Quite remarkably, it doesn’t have the same power over me any more. I don’t feel the deep anger, sadness, wrong doing. I just feel like I’ve let it go and it’s lost its bad energy. I can now say with complete confidence that this session worked for me.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
LAO TZU
Nature
…YOUR PATH TO INNER PEACE
What if you didn’t have to do more, be more, have more?
Nature Connection offers something different. My approach draws on practices including Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing), with gentle invitations to slow down, notice what’s around you and experience the natural world in a different way.
No agenda. No achievement. Just you, in nature, with permission to slow down.
As you settle into the experience, you might notice your breathing change, your shoulders drop or the constant noise in your head become a little less demanding. There’s nothing you need to make happen; you’re simply giving yourself time to notice, be curious and see what unfolds.
For me, that’s where the real value of Nature Connection lies: stepping away from the usual demands for a while and reconnecting with the natural world, with yourself, and with the simple reminder that you belong here. That you are nature, not separate from it.
Nature Connection is woven through all of my work. It might mean a dedicated monthly session inside The Knackered Businesswomen’s Club, using nature and its metaphors within hypnotherapy, or meeting one-to-one in Bertha, my camper van, parked up somewhere peaceful in nature.
And if you’ve been dreaming of a little more time and space to experience this for yourself, I’m also planning future in-person Nature Connection sessions and mini-retreats. You can get in touch if you’d like to know more.
WHAT CLIENTS HAVE SAID
It was so precious to know that I had permission to have this time for me, being held in such safe hands by Louise and Nature.
I spend a lot of time in nature but usually feel like I should be doing something else, and don’t afford myself the gift of time.
I imagine it’s feeling I’m not worthy of having that time for me, so by being on a structured session and being guided expertly into slowing down, connecting and experiencing nature in a different way, felt like a massive gift for me.
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