Not Ideal uses maps to explore resilience, taking you from the map you started with towards creating one of your own.
Drawing from her own deeply personal experience of chronic illness and cancer, Sophie uses humour, research, and sardonic lessons learned the hard way to take you through what happens when your route changes, landmarks disappear, and the destination stops making sense.
Sophie founded and built Wellbeing First. It gives people access to coaching, expert-led content and simple tools designed to help them stay consistent.
INDIVIDUALS
£20/month
or £220/year
Organisations
Custom Licence
for universities, employers and healthcare services
Message a Health and Wellbeing Coach or Personal Trainer through the support portal.
Courses
At your own pace, from everyday health to menopause and long-term conditions.
Nutrition & Fitness
Resources and activities for physical health goals.
Mental Wellbeing
Mindfulness, breathing, grounding, trackers and journals.
Goal Setting
Personal SMART goals, for change that sticks around.
Fellow Travellers
Talks on health, wellbeing, cancer and resilience.
without the inspirational soundbites.
Keynotes, panels, workshops and podcasts for NHS and health bodies, charities, workplaces and universities. Expect honesty, research and some dry humour. You will not be told to stay positive.
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01
Resilience, annotated
A critique of the resilience genre: what it gets wrong, who it lets off the hook, and what helps instead.
02
When the map changes
Living with chronic illness and cancer when the route, the landmarks and the destination all move.
03
Support people actually use
What NHS coaching and building Wellbeing First teach you about support that gets used, not just launched.
04
Pressure and performance
For workplaces and universities: managing pressure without pretending it isn’t there.
Book me to speak.
Tell me about the event, the audience and what you'd like them to leave with.
The Horizon
Get the Notes
occasional & short updates
The Cartographer
About Sophie.
Sophie Abergil is a Senior NHS Health and Wellbeing Coach working across four GP practices in London, a personal trainer, and the founder of Wellbeing First.
Her background is in nursing, paramedic science and coaching, and she is a former youth ambassador for a health-focused charity. Not Ideal is her book on resilience, written as a critique of the genre rather than another entry in it. She also designs websites, which is how this one happened.
