These are a few things I do to help reduce the severity of my endo symptoms both throughout my cycle and during my period when the pain is at its worse.

Endo is still such a mystery, whilst we’ve made progress we’re still so far from being able to properly manage this chronic illness.

If you’re unfamiliar with my story, here’s a quick recap:
• unlike many women I was diagnosed straight away after experiencing horrific pain with my period (this was in 2010, I was 21)
• I had the lap surgery to see if I had endo and they find very very minor endo in there (pain & amount of endo aren’t correlated - you can have a lot and no pain or a little and lots of pain)
• during the surgery my bowel was perforated but no one realised
• over a week later I was having emergency surgery to repair the perforation, spent over a month in hospital, ICU, more surgeries (this time to my lungs) and antibiotics for over a year
• I was very very lucky to live and vowed never to get the surgery again

My initial exploration into reducing toxic load was in relation to supporting my endometriosis, but the more I learn the more I discover how cooked exposing ourselves can be to our health. This post isn’t to scare you or shame you, but to share some small (and some significant) things I’ve done to reduce my exposure.

Because these toxins are found in so many products, household items, flooring, shoes (bringing in dirt from outside through our house), air, water etc… there are lots of ways we can reduce our exposure.

Next for me - DIY cleaning products, replacing ALL food storage containers with glass (about 80% of our home is there), swapping plastic/ rubber cooking utensils for wooden/ steel, researching food storage wrap (instead of cling wrap/ foil), more indoor plants… my list will grow (lowkey scared about make up though).

I’d love to hear any deals you’ve made that we could all benefit from?? ⚠️✨

My Puglia/ Bari recommendations 🇮🇹🍝🛵 (swipe for the list), we absolutely loved Puglia. It hasn’t been discovered by tourists anywhere near as much as other parts of Italy such as the Amalfi coast, far less people, more local Italians, and a far more authentic experience imo (I’ve been to both). Also a lot more affordable and better value for money. We hired a car (Italian drivers disregard speed limits 😂), and explored the beach’s and towns nearby but mostly relaxed at our beautiful accomm. 10/10 would go back and explore more beaches along this coastline. #puglia #bari #southitaly #pugliarecommendations

Eras tour *fitness edition* 💪🏼 from forcing leanness on myself for years and years, living in a deficit and ruining my hormones as a result, making fat loss incredibly difficult each round. To rebuilding myself by EATING MORE, spending more time OUT of a deficit, focussing on getting strong, seeing myself as more than my weight and expanding my self-view (I am more than my body, shape, weight and size).

Health is something only we can define for ourselves, I used to think being small made me healthy, but as you can see it wasn’t. Unless genetically so, we can’t stay at our smallest weight for life. We go through seasons, change, grow, priorities shift — what sticks are the consistent daily habits 🫛🥑🫐

If you’re struggling with fat loss but spending most of your time in a deficit, this is your sign to reverse diet and spend MORE TIME at maintenance. Check out @train.withsoph if you’re serious about doing this the right way #fitnessresults #transformation

I’m on vacay 🩰 Tassie + some home for Chrissy 🎄✨#merrychristmas

🤑🤑🤑 about to make some withdrawal, thank you 🙏🏻. If this continues I might start going some giveaways 😂

The glamorous side of work is always the photoshoots, edits, make up, and creative outcomes - the other side is part me stressing about where I’m at in my cycle (for those extremely interested in my period 😂 I was 5 days out here so I wasn’t feeling amazing), if I’ve remembered all my props/ outfits/ shoes/ accessories/ cameras, what photos we need to get, changing between shoots, getting BTS, photos, videos for socials, then browsing through 900 photos to pick around 6-20 to edit, coming back home to all my computer work that I missed that day (being the face of and also the one running the biz - thank fk for my team)… did I mentioned I spray painted all my props for this shoot? 😂

Sometimes I look at bigger companies and think… it would be really nice to have a big team to take care of a lot of those tasks 🥹 but then I think about how far we’ve come, from my solo days to having a team I plan on growing…

‘What if this is shit’… today my business Train with Soph turned 4!!! I never had any ambition to become a business owner until about 5 years ago. This was around the time I became obsessed with fitness and helping women achieve their goals. I felt like everything I needed didn’t exist and I had to piece together bits of everything from everywhere with no clear understanding of why I needed to do these things to get from A to B. So I did it myself and then built TWS to help others feel less alone/ more empowered and sure of their path with their health/ fitness/ nutrition goals.

I never thought (or even now think) of myself as a business woman/ CEO type. I never would have followed this path if my desire for freedom and flexibility hadn’t collided with my passion for fitness and helping people — I guess that’s fate.

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A girly capable of enduring more than she ever thought possible.

A girly making choices that put her first.

A girly who never dreamt she’d have achieved all that she has to date.

A girly protecting her energy and light at all costs.

A girly forever a work in progress and learning to be accepting and self-compassionate in the face of all that still needs to be worked on.

Photoshoot bts for our new challenge coming this month!! 🍒❤️‍🔥💋 I’m still shook that I did my own hair, the Dyson is giving professional blow dry dupe for a very basic girly 🙌🏼 #photoshootbts

Gains !!!!! 🍑😘

Sydney actually goes so hard 🛰️⛓️ things, places, & people. 🇦🇺🦘#sydneyphotodump

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