
Do I need Coaching or Therapy?
Feeling stuck or unsure about your next step in personal growth? Whether you're navigating emotional well-being, mental health, or deciding between therapy and coaching, this 5-Point Wellness Checker helps you assess your needs. By evaluating areas like emotional stability, self-care, and support systems, you can determine which path is right for you.
I’ve partnered with Melbourne-based counsellor Radha Gautam to help de-mystify the industry wide confusion - do I need therapy or coaching?
Whether you're navigating emotional well-being, mental health, or deciding between therapy and coaching, this 5-Point Wellness Checker helps you assess your needs. By evaluating areas like emotional stability, self-care, and support systems, you can determine which path is right for you.

The hidden cost of motivating and leading others: A balancing act, between giving and self-care
As a life coach in Melbourne, I know the challenge of empowering others while also taking care of yourself. In my latest blog, I dive into the real cost of motivating others and the delicate balance between giving and self-care. I share tips for building a sustainable practice, including how to protect your energy and create space for your own growth. If you're a motivator, healer, leader, coach, parent or changemaker, this post is for you.
Read the full blog to discover practical ways to reclaim your strength and thrive while helping others.

Are you caught in the rip of life? How life coaching can help you break free.
Life can pull us in unexpected directions, just like a rip current in the ocean. In my latest blog post, I share a personal experience of getting caught in a rip at Gunnamatta Beach and the lessons it taught me about life’s challenges. Are you unknowingly being dragged away from your true path? Discover how to recognise when you’re caught in the "rip of life" and how reaching out for help, staying aware, and taking small steps can get you back on track. Read on for insights on navigating life’s powerful currents.

What mindset do you bring to work?
Jilly is a Melbourne-based life coach specialising in mindset coaching to help individuals find clarity, courage, and resilience. With a focus on empowering clients to overcome challenges, she integrates wisdom from thought leaders like Oprah Winfrey, Carol Dweck and Suze Orman to inspire personal growth and transformation. Through her coaching containers, Jilly guides clients to unlock their potential and create meaningful change in their lives.

Manifesting 2025 with mentalism techniques
Let’s explore how you can harness mentalism techniques to supercharge your manifestation practice and step into your best self in the coming year. Discover how focus, visualisation, and emotional alignment can transform your dreams into reality.

2024 Reflection prompts - for a look in the rear view mirror (for quiet achievers)
Let’s put 2024 in the rear view mirror and give all your achievements the time and space they deserve.

What is mentalism?
Celebrating 100 Years of Mentalism: Honoring Florence Scovel Shinn
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the transformative teachings of mentalism, popularized by Florence Scovel Shinn in her timeless book, The Game of Life and How to Play It. Shinn’s groundbreaking philosophy—that our thoughts shape our reality—continues to inspire individuals around the world to create lives of purpose, abundance, and joy. By harnessing the power of affirmations, gratitude, and faith, her principles remain as practical and relevant as ever. Join us in exploring her legacy and learning how mentalism can transform your life, just as it has for countless others over the past century.

New year, new thoughts.
New year, new you. Where were you last year? Were you unhappy? The thing I love about cyclical events, moments or reckonings… is that if you’re tuned in enough. You can catch yourself from going round the merri-go-round til you feel woozy. You have a chance to get the hell out of this loop.

What can Elphaba and Glinda from Wicked teach us?
What can the story of Wicked teach us?
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Are you a care-a-holic?
Stepping into coaching means being open to answer or at least consider answering brave and sometimes brutal questions. Could you be a care-a-holic?

Change your thoughts, change your life.
The power, the gold has always been with you. You maybe gave it away at some point, more than you should’ve. You can always take it back, remember it is yours. Choose yourself, choose now.

Stopped to smell the roses lately?
If you’re constantly running around like a headless chook, the first to roll up your yoga mat and b-line it out of the studio. Welcome to a new beginning.

Tuning into your intuition
Follow your nose, trust your gut. Here are some tips to following a path that’s right for you.

Do I need a coach, mentor or therapist?
Stuck choosing between life coach, mentor or therapist? Here are some things you can consider when taking the leap.

Arriving over striving
Aren’t you tired of climbing that ladder? Getting those gold stars? If you’re close to burn out- consider what it takes to arrive rather than strive.

Out with goals, in with allowing
When you let go, and allow flow there’s no telling where you may go.

What is coaching?
Stop here to see the difference between a coach, therapist, mentor, consultant, trainer.



8 Reasons to go on working holiday
Here’s me when I was settled into Montreal, well into my working holiday in Canada.