If you’ve ever felt like every hard season knocks you off your routines

If you’ve called yourself inconsistent, lazy, or bad at follow-through

If discipline has never quite worked the way it’s “supposed to”

This episode is for you.

In this deeply personal episode, Anne shares her story, not as a lesson in willpower or motivation, but as a lived example of how the nervous system adapts long before the mind understands what’s happening.

From early childhood surgery to body image struggles, bingeing, burnout, postpartum anxiety, and repeated identity shifts, Anne unpacks how what looks like inconsistency is often a nervous system doing its best to survive.

This isn’t an episode about trying harder.

It’s about understanding your body, rebuilding self-trust, and learning how to stay with yourself when life changes.

If you’re done white-knuckling your way through routines and ready for calm, sustainable consistency, this conversation will land exactly where it needs to.

Feeling capable, but still falling off when life gets loud?

This podcast is for the woman who knows what to do, but keeps disconnecting from herself under pressure.

Around here, we talk about staying with yourself when motivation fades, building real capacity instead of pushing harder, and creating a life that feels steady, regulated, and yours, even in chaotic seasons.

No hustle. No performative discipline. No starting over every Monday.

Start here:

• Free Guide: The High-Achiever's Guide to Losing Fat Without Obsessing Over Food or Workouts: [https://www.annejonescoaching.ca/free-guide-your-body-your-way]

• Deeper support + essays: Join my Substack: [https://annejonesfit.substack.com/]

Work with me:

• Website: [https://www.annejonescoaching.ca/]

Connect With Me:

• Instagram: [@annejonesfit]

• YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@annejones]

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Why do you fall off track when life gets busy — even though you know exactly what to do?

In this episode of The Muscles & Mindset Revolution, Anne Jones breaks down one of the biggest myths in personal growth: that motivation is a character trait you either have or don’t.

Anne explains why motivation fluctuates with stress, sleep, hormones, and nervous system capacity — and why high-achieving women don’t fail because they lack discipline, but because they’re trying to do everything alone.

This conversation reframes support as a strategy, not a weakness, and explores how reducing cognitive load, increasing containment, and designing the right kind of support allows consistency to feel steadier and less exhausting.

You’ll learn:

• Why motivation disappears under stress (and why that’s not your fault)
• How discipline without support turns into self-abandonment
• What “containment” actually means for a busy, overthinking mind
• Why capacity — not willpower — determines follow-through
• How support helps your nervous system stay online when life gets loud

If you’re tired of starting over and want a more sustainable way to stay with yourself through real life, this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen now and let this episode be enough for today.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:

00:33 Why Motivation Isn’t a Personality Trait

01:35 Discipline Without Support Backfires

02:38 Self-Leadership vs Doing Everything Alone

03:47 What Support Really Looks Like

08:24 Capacity, Stress, and the Nervous System

12:05 Final Reflections + Where to Go Deeper

Feeling capable, but still falling off when life gets loud?

This podcast is for the woman who knows what to do, but keeps disconnecting from herself under pressure.

Around here, we talk about staying with yourself when motivation fades, building real capacity instead of pushing harder, and creating a life that feels steady, regulated, and yours, even in chaotic seasons.

No hustle. No performative discipline. No starting over every Monday.

Start here:

• Free Guide: The High-Achiever's Guide to Losing Fat Without Obsessing Over Food or Workouts: [https://www.annejonescoaching.ca/free-guide-your-body-your-way]

• Deeper support + essays: Join my Substack: [https://annejonesfit.substack.com/]

Work with me:

• Website: [https://www.annejonescoaching.ca/]

Connect With Me:

• Instagram: [@annejonesfit]

• YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@annejones]

Love This Episode? Share & Review!

If you found this episode helpful, take a screenshot and share it on your Instagram stories, tagging [@annejonesfit] so I can say thanks! Don’t forget to leave a review on your favourite podcast platform—it helps more women discover the show and start their tr...

If your week starts strong and collapses by Wednesday, you’re not broken.

In this episode, Anne Jones explains why most fitness and nutrition plans fail high-achieving women 30+, and how to stop starting over every Monday.

This isn’t about pushing harder or becoming more disciplined.

It’s about building gentle structure that works even when life is messy.

Inside the episode:

Why rigid routines assume predictable energy and schedules

• The difference between Big 3 goals and Anchors
• How to stay connected to yourself when the plan breaks
• Real client stories about returning without guilt
• Simple movement and nutrition anchors for hard weeks
• Why consistency is really about self-trust, not willpower

If your workouts, meals, or routines only work when everything is calm, rested, and uninterrupted, that’s not a plan. It’s a fantasy.

This episode will help you build a system you can return to on your worst weeks.

💙 Want help choosing anchors that actually fit your life?

You can reach out on Instagram @annejonesfit or email anne@annejones.ca .

No pressure. Honest support.

Feeling capable, but still falling off when life gets loud?

This podcast is for the woman who knows what to do, but keeps disconnecting from herself under pressure.

Around here, we talk about staying with yourself when motivation fades, building real capacity instead of pushing harder, and creating a life that feels steady, regulated, and yours, even in chaotic seasons.

No hustle. No performative discipline. No starting over every Monday.

Start here:

• Free Guide: The High-Achiever's Guide to Losing Fat Without Obsessing Over Food or Workouts: [https://www.annejonescoaching.ca/free-guide-your-body-your-way]

• Deeper support + essays: Join my Substack: [https://annejonesfit.substack.com/]

Work with me:

• Website: [https://www.annejonescoaching.ca/]

Connect With Me:

• Instagram: [@annejonesfit]

• YouTube: [https://www.youtube.com/@annejones]

Love This Episode? Share & Review!

If you found this episode helpful, take a screenshot and share it on your Instagram stories, tagging [@annejonesfit] so I can say thanks! Don’t forget to leave a review on your favourite podcast platform—it helps more women discover the show and start their tr...