If you’ve ever felt stuck
in the gap between knowing what’s good for you and actually doing it, FEEL BETTER NOW is your roadmap forward.
This #1 bestselling book weaves neuroscience, mindfulness, and the power of simple pleasures into a revolutionary framework for wellbeing. With relatable stories, practical rituals, and science-backed tools, FEEL BETTER NOW helps you rescue yourself from burnout, rewire your brain for lasting habits, and rediscover delight in everyday life.
Through Catherine’s wellness retreats, corporate workshops, and keynote speeches, thousands of people have learned how to reconnect with their wild nature, break free from perfectionism, and savour the pleasures that make life delicious.
Now it’s your turn.
FEEL BETTER NOW is more than a book — it’s a movement toward living with ease, vitality, and reverence for your one precious life.
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I help purpose-driven leaders go from physically drained and emotionally exhausted to the most energized and joyful version of themselves — so they can continue their meaningful work, without compromising their own wellbeing.
Oak Bay Beach Hotel Wellness Retreat
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Hello! I’m Catherine, the OG wellness coach
As a certified life coach, personal trainer and group fitness instructor with a neuroscience degree, and student of mindfulness, conscious parenting and deeply connected relationships, I have drawn from many different disciplines to create my multifaceted wellness curriculum.
I started my fitness career in 2001, when mindfulness was absent from the industry and the spotlight was on pain and deprivation – long grueling workouts, bland calorie-restrictive diets, and little attention to the power mindset and mental health play in habit formation and success.
After spending thousands of hours talking with clients about exercise and nutrition, and seeing not only them but myself fail to achieve the goals we aspired to, I became burnt out, frustrated and depleted.
I left the fitness industry to become a solitary lifestyle writer, and to work on my own wellness.
Having received a neuroscience degree years prior, I was drawn to the emergent field of mindfulness.
Research into contemplative neuroscience, neuroplasticity and stress management completely blew my mind – these were the missing pieces that together with exercise and nutrition were the secret sauce I’d long felt was missing.
Further research into goal setting, habit formation and time management solidified my belief that flexible, subtle shifts paired with strategic repetition were the fast and easy way to create lasting change – to hardwire pleasurable new habits, providing much more time and energy for impact and influence.
Suddenly, after struggling with depression for 15 years, I felt happy and healthy for the first time in forever.
I reverse-engineered how I’d got there, and The Life Delicious curriculum was born – ready to be shared!
But what was I? No one was teaching my unique mix of mindfulness, movement, nutrition, sleep and connection.
No available title described the totality of my curriculum, so I made one up: wellness coach.
For more than a decade now, I’ve shared this multifaceted approach with thousands of people through my private coaching practice, freelance writing work, corporate workshops, keynote speeches, and luxury wellness retreats with Fairmont, Four Seasons, and the Oak Bay Beach Hotel.
As a certified personal trainer, fitness instructor, older adult specialist and coach practitioner, I’ve been featured on blogs, TV shows, podcasts and radio programs for my expert opinion on mental, physical and spiritual health.
And as a fitness, food and travel writer, I’ve been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and blogs, including Montecristo, Canadian Living, Lululemon, The Vancouver Sun, The Province, BC Business, WestJet Magazine, Westworld, Real Weddings and BC Living.
Before settling on the West Coast, I lived in Sydney, Toronto, Oregon, Montana, and practically everywhere in Alberta, and currently live in Vancouver with my fabulous husband, delightful daughter and adorable dog.
I’m thrilled to present new online offerings that expand my teachings on pleasure and connection – from parenthood, community-care and social justice to sensuality, sexuality and nature therapy.
We’re at a pivotal point in history. The world needs us to rise up, come together and lead the way forward – with pleasure. I hope you’ll join me.
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