About me
Hi, I'm Alison. I bring over 25 years of experience as a personal trainer, Pilates instructor, and science educator. I founded SheVive following a long, yet ultimately successful, journey with my hormones and fertility.
In my 30s, without changing my diet, lifestyle, or routines, I began noticing subtle shifts: disrupted sleep, fluctuating energy, and a sense that something just wasn’t right.
Still, I entered my fertility journey full of hope.
What followed was a decade of emotional highs and lows, multiple pregnancy losses and a growing sense that I was losing touch with my old self.
I experienced seemingly unrelated symptoms: irritability, brain fog, internal electrical shocks, interrupted sleep, anxiety, loss of strength, loss of confidence and emotional turmoil - to an intensity that made me feel like I was going crazy. After much research, I realised I was in perimenopause.
Like many women - in fact, a whopping 60% of those surveyed¹ - I had never been informed about menopause before the symptoms began affecting my work, relationships, and overall wellbeing.
Hormone therapy wasn’t an option whilst trying to conceive, so I felt alone and uncertain. Yet, as a firm believer in education and possessing a growth mindset, I turned to study and research. Through personal research, professional courses and a university Master's degree, I began connecting the dots.
I learned how stress hormones can disrupt the body’s ability to balance other hormones which affect your sleep, mood, energy and brain.
Reducing stress became my primary focus. I also discovered how specific nutrition choices, lifestyle changes, and nervous system support could improve my sleep, mood, and clarity.
I adapted my exercise routines too — shifting away from long cardio sessions to more restorative movement and targeted strength training. Bit by bit, my energy and confidence were restored.
I found calm, alignment and subsequently joy when, in my late 40's, I had my beautiful daughter.
Today, I’m fully committed to helping women feel informed, empowered, and nurtured through perimenopause and menopause.
My MSc in Clinical Nutrition (with Distinction) sharpened my research skills and expanded my knowledge, enabling me to provide Science-backed, Evidence-based Women's Health Education and practical guidance - delivered with empathy and understanding born from experience.
My mission through SheVive is simple: to help women feel educated, empowered, comforted and more like themselves..
To feel seen, heard, held and genuinely supported for a proactively improved perimenopause journey.
