Balance with Tracey
Hello
Hi, I’m Tracey. Pilates instructor, mum of two, and Movement & Wellness Coach for mums.
After over 10 years in the fitness industry, my work now focuses on helping women feel like themselves again after having children. Not through pressure, extremes or “bounce back” fitness, but through supportive movement, education and realistic coaching.
My approach blends Pilates, barre, strength, breathwork, pelvic floor education and nervous-system-aware support to help mums reconnect with their body, rebuild strength and create routines that actually fit family life.
Everything I do is built around The RESTORE Method: reconnect, regulate, rebuild, routine and rise.
It’s a calmer, more supportive way back to yourself.
My Story
I first found fitness as a teenager, but if I’m honest, it didn’t come from the healthiest place. I got into exercise because I wanted to change my body, feel more in control, and feel more accepted in myself.
For a long time, movement was tied to appearance, discipline and “being good”. I became focused on training, food, numbers and routines and because I was often praised for being committed, I thought that meant I was doing something right.
That eventually led me into the fitness industry. I qualified as a personal trainer at 17 and went on to work in gyms, bootcamps, fitness classes and health clubs.
There were parts of that world I genuinely loved: teaching, helping people move, and seeing how powerful exercise could be. But over time, I also started to see how much of the fitness world was built around pressure - push harder, do more, stay disciplined, burn calories, change your body.
Eventually, that stopped feeling like health to me.
After stepping away from that environment for a while, I slowly started rebuilding my own relationship with movement. Finding Pilates, barre and more mindful forms of exercise changed so much for me.
For the first time, movement wasn’t about punishment, calories or trying to fix myself. It became about how I felt, how I moved, how I breathed, and how connected I felt to my body.
Then becoming a mum deepened that shift.
After having my son, I realised how unrealistic so much fitness advice is for women in motherhood. Your body changes. Your energy changes. Your priorities change. Your nervous system is stretched. And yet so many women are simply told to “get back into exercise” without being shown how to reconnect with their body first.
That’s why my work now sits in the middle ground and it's why I created The RESTORE Method — a five-stage approach to help mums reconnect with their body, regulate their nervous system, rebuild strength, create realistic routines and rise into the next version of themselves.
Because I don’t believe mums need more pressure.I believe they need support that helps them restore.