
WISWY Health
Work In Sync With Yourself
What works, works
Calm, evidence-informed health coaching for women in demanding careers
Stress & recovery • Nutrition & emotional eating • Menstrual & hormonal health
Catherine Howell
Lawyer • Health Coach • Writer
I support capable, conscientious women who are functioning well on the surface but beginning to feel the cumulative effects of pressure through their sleep, energy, eating patterns or menstrual cycle.
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Perhaps you find it difficult to switch off after work. You reach for food when you are stressed, overwhelmed or exhausted. Your energy feels increasingly unpredictable, or PMS affects your mood, appetite, relationships and ability to feel like yourself.
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My work brings together three interconnected areas of women’s health:
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Stress, sleep and recovery
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Nutrition and emotional eating
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Menstrual-cycle awareness and reproductive health
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Together, we explore what your body may be responding to and build practical ways to nourish, regulate and recover within the life you actually have.
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This isn’t about following a perfect routine or turning your health into another performance target. It is about becoming more resilient: noticing when something has disrupted you, understanding what you need and finding your way back without shame, punishment or another complete restart.
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I understand professional pressure from the inside.
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I trained and qualified as a solicitor and experienced burnout early in my legal career. I eventually stepped away from law and spent time rebuilding my health before returning with a very different understanding of work, wellbeing and capacity.
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Today, I practise law alongside health coaching.
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Returning wasn’t about becoming better at pushing through. It was about learning to notice my limits, support my body and recover when work or life knocked me out of rhythm. That lived experience shapes the way I coach.
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Over the past few years, I have supported women navigating stress-related eating, disrupted menstrual cycles, low energy, poor recovery and the feeling of being constantly “on.”
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These experiences aren’t always major health crises. Often, they are quieter signs that the body has been carrying too much for too long.

When things feel off, but you can’t quite name why

You may still be keeping up with work and life while feeling increasingly tired, wired or disconnected from your body.
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Perhaps stress is beginning to affect your sleep, energy, eating patterns, recovery or menstrual cycle. You know something feels off, even if you cannot yet identify exactly what needs to change.
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The Woman's Out of Sync Check-In offers a structured opportunity to pause, notice the patterns and consider how sustained pressure may be affecting you beneath the surface.
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At the end, you will receive a personalised reflection to help you understand what your body may be responding to, why your current patterns make sense and which areas of support you might explore next.
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The quiz is a reflective educational tool and is not a medical assessment or diagnosis.

How I work
You are not a problem to be fixed, and you do not need another set of rigid health rules.
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We begin by looking at the full context: your work, responsibilities, routines, relationships, symptoms, eating patterns and current capacity. This helps us understand what is happening beneath the surface rather than responding to each difficulty in isolation.
Together, we:
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Notice the patterns and signals in your health
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Explore what may be contributing to them
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Choose proportionate changes that fit your current capacity
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Experiment with practical forms of nourishment, regulation and recovery
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Learn from what happens without judging the result
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Build practices you can return to when life disrupts them
The purpose is not to remove every stressful day, difficult meal or premenstrual wobble. It is to help you respond differently when they happen and recover without abandoning yourself.
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What this means in practice
You will receive calm, personalised support to help you understand your health more clearly and make changes that are sustainable alongside a demanding career.
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Depending on your needs, our work may include:
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Stress regulation and recovery after demanding periods
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Sleep rhythms and the transition out of the working day
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Regular, satisfying nourishment
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Emotional and stress-related eating
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Premenstrual appetite, mood and energy changes
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Menstrual-cycle awareness and symptom tracking
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Seasonal foods, herbs, spices and supportive home rituals
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Thoughtful self-experimentation and reflection
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Knowing when additional medical or therapeutic support is needed
You do not have to perfect your health.
You can begin by noticing what is happening, working with what you have and taking one supportive step at a time.
