MICHELLE WOLLASTON

Nominee for what Award/s

Wellness with Heart Award

Wellness With Heart Award

1. What inspired you to champion wellness and healing?

For most of my life, I held space for everyone but myself. I was the emotional anchor in my family, the steady hand in crisis, the reliable one in the workplace. But over time, that constancy came at a cost. I wasn’t only tired; I was energetically depleted and emotionally erased.

My inspiration to champion wellness didn’t come from a textbook or a training, it came from personal necessity. I reached a point where survival was no longer enough. I didn’t want to function. I wanted to feel again. That was the beginning.

It wasn’t about chasing wellness trends or fixing myself. It was about unlearning the patterns that told me my worth was tied to my usefulness. Once I found my way back to my own centre, I realised how many women were quietly drowning in the same way, high-functioning, deeply spiritual, and completely disconnected from themselves.

That’s what inspired me: the knowing that healing is never meant to be a solo journey, and that true wellbeing begins with remembering who you are.

2. Tell us about a breakthrough moment in helping others feel whole.

She came to me not in crisis, but in quiet collapse. A mother of three, a natural intuitive, and someone who’d spent years showing up for everyone else, emotionally, spiritually, physically. On paper, she was doing all the “right” things. But she felt invisible inside her own life.

Her words still stay with me: “I feel like I’m disappearing. I don’t know what I want. I don’t even know how to ask for what I need.”

She didn’t need fixing. She needed a place to exhale. A space where she didn’t have to perform strength or clarity. Where her intuitive nature wasn’t dismissed, and where the grief, guilt, and rage she was carrying could finally be named.

We didn’t start with strategy. We started with silence. With tuning in. With creating energetic separation from the roles, she was drowning in, wife, healer, caretaker, and remembering the woman underneath.

Her breakthrough came in layers: learning to hold her truth without apologising, to honour her emotional needs without guilt, and to reclaim her connection to spirit, not through ritual, but through realness.

She later told me, “You didn’t lead me out, you walked beside me until I could.

3. What philosophy drives your approach to wellbeing?

I believe wellbeing isn’t something you chase; it’s something you remember.

My philosophy is centred on reconnection. Not with who the world told you to be, but with who you were before the burnout, the over giving, and the years of emotional survival. I don’t teach women to strive for a better version of themselves. I help them listen to what’s already within.

Wellbeing, for me, begins with energetic clarity, knowing what’s yours, what’s not, and where your energy is leaking. It’s about nervous system safety, spiritual integrity, and the courage to live in alignment rather than performance.

As a Projector in Human Design, I’m not here to push or fix, I’m here to see deeply, to guide with precision, and to offer insight when it’s invited. That informs everything I do. I work best in sacred one-on-one spaces where women feel safe to soften and be witnessed without judgment.

My approach is not loud or forceful. It’s spacious, subtle, and strong. Because true wellbeing isn’t found in a checklist, it’s felt in the body when you’re finally living in truth.

4. How have you overcome obstacles in your wellness journey?

My biggest obstacle wasn’t one dramatic event, it was the slow, quiet cost of living out of alignment for too long.

For years, I was the steady one. The helper. The one who kept things functioning no matter what it cost me. I lived in a long-term relationship where I wasn’t emotionally safe, and I stayed in work environments that praised performance but drained my spirit. I knew how to show up for others, but I didn’t know how to show up for myself.

The challenge wasn’t leaving those situations. It was learning how to stop abandoning myself.

My healing began in the quiet moments. Letting myself rest without guilt. Saying no without explaining. Feeling my emotions fully instead of overriding them. I had to rebuild a relationship with my own energy, and that meant learning what was mine to carry, and what was never mine in the first place.

Wellness didn’t come through striving. It came through slowing down, listening, and choosing truth over comfort.

Now, I live with stronger boundaries, deeper trust in my inner voice, and a clearer sense of what supports me. The obstacles are still there, but I meet them differently. With clarity, not self-betrayal.

5. What does true wellbeing mean to you?

True wellbeing is when you no longer abandon yourself to be loved, needed, or accepted.

It’s not about ticking health boxes or chasing balance. It’s about living in integrity with your own energy, values, and truth, even when it’s inconvenient, even when it disrupts old dynamics.

For me, wellbeing means being able to hear myself again. To rest without guilt. To feel without numbing. To show up without shapeshifting.

It’s the quiet knowing that you are safe in your own body, grounded in your own choices, and no longer leaking energy trying to hold everything together for everyone else.

Wellbeing isn’t just self-care, it’s soul-care. It’s reclaiming space where you once collapsed.
It’s choosing resonance over routine. And it’s remembering that your sensitivity isn’t a flaw, it’s a compass.

That kind of wellness can’t be measured from the outside. But when you feel it, you know this is what coming home to myself feels like.