BIOME movement was born from a lifelong relationship with exercise—and an early understanding of its power to change lives.

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As a child, Helen had a relentless urge to move. Athletics, triathlons, team sports and yoga filled her early years. Exercise was simply part of who she was.

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Then, when Helen was fifteen, her sister became life-threateningly ill. Together, they used exercise and movement as part of her recovery. Seeing her sister rebuild her health changed how Helen saw movement. Exercise isn't just about sport, fitness or performance. 

 

Exercise can be a powerful tool for healing, health and recovery.

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But Helen's own relationship with exercise wasn't always easy. As life became more complicated, exercise became harder to maintain. Through anxiety, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other challenges, she repeatedly experienced both the difficulty of exercising and the difference movement could make.

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That experience eventually led Helen to train as a physiotherapist, followed by further study in Public Health and a PhD—always driven by a belief in the potential of exercise to improve people's lives.

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Motherhood, cancer and an ADHD diagnosis in her forties added another perspective. Helen began to understand why her own relationship with exercise had changed so dramatically throughout her life—and led Helen to question

 

"why does conventional exercise advice so often fail ADHDers?"

 

That question became the vision behind BIOME movement. ​Today, Helen combines lived experience, physiotherapy, public health and research to explore exercise from an ADHD-centred and neuro-inclusive perspective. ​Because knowing that exercise is good for us isn't enough. ​

 

We all deserve exercise that works for us.

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