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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

During COVID, my bestie and I did A LOT of spinning. What's 1 healthy thing you'd be more likely to do if someone was doing it with you?

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would like to formally reclassify the following as productive: Laughing until your stomach hurts. Walking the long way because the street is pretty. Changing plans because something better came up. Going to bed. This has been reviewed and approved by a certified health coach. Me.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometimes the thing draining your energy is just your actual life. Too many plans. Too many decisions. No proper lunch. No quiet for 3 days. A supplement can't make any of that disappear.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My husband and I used to be excellent at going out. These days we're usually in bed by 10.30pm and at the gym together in the morning. Nobody supervises anybody. We go because the other one's going. That's the entire system.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I used to go clubbing to old school techno until the wee hours of the morning. The biggest banger I heard this week is the BBC News countdown. Life comes at you fast...

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We talk about "accountability partners" as if everyone needs a supervisor. Most people don't need someone checking up on them. They need someone who'll turn up to the same class, equally unsure about it, and go for a coffee afterwards. Being monitored is very different from having company.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My vote for a deeply unhelpful phrase: “You just have to prioritise yourself.” Lovely. And which responsibility are we moving, and who's picking it up?? I'd be much more interested in advice that stayed for that part of the conversation. What's the advice you wish came with actual help?

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some weeks I'm so proud of my newsletter I'm convinced I'm the next James Clear (but sassier and with better hair) Other weeks I want to throw my laptop out of the window, delete my Substack account and never open the Hemingway app again. There's absolutely no in-between.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Unpopular health coach opinion: half the self-care I see online is admin. Booking things, tracking things, logging things. At some point you have to put the apps down. The whole point isn't to be more organised, it's to feel more alive.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The goal was never to build a life that looks impressive online. It’s to have nights so good you forget your phone exists, laugh until your stomach hurts, and wake up thinking: Fuck. I’m really glad I’m alive.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Progress over perfection. Progress over perfection. Progress over perfection. Progress over perfection.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A healthy routine should make your life bigger. More energy to go places. More strength to do things. More years with people you love. If it makes you afraid of a spontaneous lunch, a rest day, travel or a changed plan, something has gone wrong. Health should give you more life, not more rules.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Most mornings, the first thing I do is check my phone to make sure the world is still standing. It usually is (barely…) So I make coffee and go about my day. I don't think we realise how much collective anxiety we're holding just by being alive with a phone in 2026.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What’s one piece of wellness advice that sounds lovely in theory but absolutely does not survive contact with your real life?

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I used to go above and beyond for everyone. I needed the validation to feel like a good, valuable person. Now? I match your energy. Not petty, boundaries. Protecting my time and attention is self-respect. I still love hard, but you'll get what you give. (ok maybe a bit more, I'm still me).

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"What if I got curious instead?" A question worth asking next time you're stuck or anxious about change!

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest becomes work surprisingly quickly. A walk for the steps. Reading to learn. Yoga for mobility. A hobby you can monetise. A quiet afternoon you have to "make the most of". Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is let the time be useless.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Stop waiting for something good to happen before you let yourself feel good! 1- Watch a sunset for no reason 2- Laugh at something stupid 3- Dance in your kitchen alone 4- Eat something sweet because it tastes amazing 5- Text someone just to say you thought of them Joy doesn't need a reason.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Maybe the problem isn't that we're not trying hard enough. Maybe we're trying TOO hard. The global wellness industry is worth $7 trillion. Yet, 82% of employees globally risk burnout. This isn't a coincidence

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We've rebranded work-induced anxiety as ‘Sunday Scaries’ like it's quirky and relatable. It's not cute. It's your body telling you something is wrong. Stop normalising it.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Be honest: what’s the habit that only works when life is going perfectly? Mine is meditation. I love the idea of setting aside time for it, but it rarely happens. What actually survives? A few intentional breaths when I remember (not always 🙃)

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Learn in public. Fuck up. Get feedback. Get better. Move forward even when you're unsure. Be excited. Be uncool! Remember that greatness often lives on the other side of cringe.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your brain runs on two systems: System 1 is fast, automatic and that’s where 95% of your life happens. System 2 is slow, logical, and exhausting. Your habits live in System 1. So you can't think your way out of autopilot. But you can redesign what triggers it.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Waiting for perfect conditions is just waiting. Messy action today beats flawless plans for someday.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You do not need to love every healthy thing you do. You can hate the workout and like feeling strong. You can resent going to bed and enjoy waking up rested. You can find meal prep boring and still like having lunch ready. Some things are allowed to be worth doing without becoming your personality.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Let's normalise taking breaks. Not just coffee breaks, but "I'm going to stare at the wall for 10 minutes" breaks. Or "I'm going to sit outside and watch the birds" breaks. Or "I'm going to stand by the window and zone out" breaks. Your brain needs empty space to make sense of things 🧠

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m a certified health coach and the best advice I can give you right now is to do LESS. Not less care. Not less effort. Not less self-respect. But less constant self-monitoring. Less tracking. Less turning your body and mind into a project with KPIs.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You can't fail if learning is the goal. Failure only exists when winning means one outcome. If winning means learning? Every outcome is a success. Most people accept failure. Smart people eliminate it.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That thing you're overthinking? Take the smallest possible move forward. Tiny actions kill anxiety faster than perfect plans. Just focus on that first step.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A lot of people do not need a better morning routine. They need to stop going to bed with work in their hands and the entire internet in their face. Morning gets blamed for what the night keeps doing.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What other people think of you is none of your business. For real. You can't control it, you can't change it, and obsessing over it is just borrowing problems. And you probably have enough of those. The only opinion worth caring about is your own

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I write for people exhausted by wellness culture who still want to feel their best, without making wellbeing another full-time job. On a mission to cut through the wellness BS and make healthy living work in real life. Behaviour change science + human-centred design. if that's you, come say hi!

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nobody has ever asked me to work on holiday as much as I have asked myself to. Turns out being expected to be available does about as much damage as actually being available... New essay is out! www.unwrittenpotential.com/p/cant-switc...

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I Answered Work Emails on Every Continent. Nobody Asked.

Why you can’t switch off on vacation, and what helps

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm a health coach and I spend a worrying amount of my time convincing people to do LESS. Less tracking. Less optimising. Fewer “rules” Turns out the hardest sell in wellness is "you're allowed to relax". People will fight you on it!

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You can turn almost anything into work if you try hard enough. Walking becomes steps. Sleep becomes a score. Lunch becomes macros. A hobby becomes content. A holiday becomes an itinerary. You are allowed to experience your life without constantly collecting data from it.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You can spend so long trying to become your best self that you forget to be a person. Miss the workout. Order the easy dinner. Laugh too loudly. Do something badly for fun. Stay longer than planned. A healthy life should contain evidence that you enjoyed it 💛

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Maybe this week wasn't impressive. You ate properly a few times, went to bed at a reasonable hour once or twice, and didn't turn one bad day into a bad week. That's a decent week. The spreadsheet is welcome to submit a complaint in writing.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Bread has somehow become a moral position rather than a food. Somebody always benefits when you're unsure about lunch, and it isn't you. I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, if it's useful. www.unwrittenpotential.com/p/eat-the-br...

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Eat the F*cking Bread

How to enjoy food on holiday without guilt, compensation or moral maths

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Your phone is not a sacred portal to inner peace. It has streaks now. Scores. Reminders to be present, arriving as notifications, from the device you were trying to look away from. Leaving it in another room does more than the app does.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Put the trainers where the morning actually happens. Put the phone charger in another room. Put lunch somewhere you'll see it before hunger turns into a crisis. Motivation gets blamed for a lot of work the room could have done.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Which number have you muted, or secretly want to? Mine is the readiness score. It has told me I was wrecked on days I felt great, and fine on days I could barely think. I want the metrics that stopped being useful and somehow kept their seat at the table.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Consistency isn't doing the full version every day. It's knowing the 10-minute version. The hotel-room version. The terrible-night's-sleep version. The day-that-went-completely-sideways version. A habit that can shrink is a habit that can survive.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As a health coach I'm meant to help you manage stress, and sometimes I do. But breathing exercises can't do the work of cancelling, delegating, leaving, asking, or refusing one more job. Not every stress problem is a coping problem.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nutrition advice gets strange when one biscuit, one dinner or one weekend has to stand in for your entire diet. What you eat most weeks matters. What you ate on Saturday mostly doesn't. Zoom out far enough and the plate in front of you is just food again.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reviewing your week works when you only ask 2 things: what helped, and what got in the way. It stops working the moment it turns into a trial about whether you're disciplined enough. Shame mostly just produces better hiding.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You can come home from a trip and still not have arrived anywhere. The bag gets unpacked. The washing gets done. Some part of you is quietly refusing to rejoin the schedule. This morning's newsletter is about that gap. [LINK: issue 62 slug not yet recorded]

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Self-care has a public relations problem. It keeps sending baths to do the work of sleep, boundaries and one awkward conversation about who does what at home. The bath is innocent. It's just wildly underqualified for the job.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Back in Cusco, going down stairs like someone twice my age. I'm not fixing 4 nights of bad sleep in one go, and I'm not turning the trail into a lesson about resilience. I'm sitting still on purpose for a few days. Highly recommended.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Before you call it a willpower problem, look at the house. Who does the shopping? Who cooks? Whose work decides what time dinner happens? Who gets an uninterrupted hour to exercise? Most of what looks like discipline is really just who got handed the time.

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Noemie Mooney @noemiemooney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've walked a lot of kilometres this week and my legs have filed a formal complaint. No lesson in it. I'm not turning the Inca Trail into a metaphor for anything. It was hard, it was beautiful, and I'd now like a very long shower.

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