Are you ready for a revolutionary Approach to Reclaim your Wellbeing?
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Small, simple steps to wellbeing, pleasure, and power.
Have you been putting your health and happiness on the back burner? Achieving your wellness goals doesn’t have to pile on more to-dos.
In Feel Better Now, neuroscience-based wellness coach, veteran fitness professional, and lifestyle journalist Catherine Roscoe Barr gently guides you in a revolutionary approach to reclaim your wellbeing.
Merging cutting-edge neuroscience with mindfulness-based practices, this flexible framework will allow you to finally achieve consistency when it comes to exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
For the busy professional, the overwhelmed parent, or anyone seeking more balance and joy in life, this transformative guide maps out the journey to sustainable health, authentic pleasure, and empowered living.
Advance praise for FEEL BETTER NOW:
“Feel Better Now is full of useful tools to help readers live with a greater sense of joy and wellbeing.”
— SHARON SALZBERG, author of Real Happiness“Catherine Roscoe Barr has good news: our minds already contain all the resources we need to live healthier, happier lives. The bad news is we also have brains full of obstacles, bad habits, and rationalizations. Feel Better Now will inform and inspire you to rewrite old scripts, build new habits, and get moving.”
— ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG, PhD, author of Rest and Shorter"There is power in pleasure, and Feel Better Now is your roadmap to harnessing it. This uplifting guide reveals how simple joys can transform your wellbeing, inspiring you to live with more ease, energy, and delight.”
— JESSICA O'REILLY, PhD, founder of HappierCouples.com"Feel Better Now is a refreshing and inspiring guide to creating a life of balance and fulfillment. What I love most is how Catherine Roscoe Barr combines science-based insights with a warm, relatable tone, making the guidance feel both practical and achievable. The book doesn’t just offer advice — it also provides a clear road map for creating meaningful daily habits. The concept of a 'micro-manifesto' really resonated with me — small, intentional actions that align perfectly with your personal goals and values."
— PETER VON STOLK, former CEO of Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery (SPUD.ca)“‘Between stimulus and response there is a space…’ Catherine Roscoe Barr has offered powerful considerations about what to do in that space. Her study and experience model a beautiful approach to considering your reactions and caring for your nervous system, growing your wisdom and wellbeing. Grateful for this work!”
— JUDY BROOKS, advisor, entrepreneur, community leader
Oak Bay Beach Hotel Wellness Retreat
Registration is OPEN – and filling quickly – for our 2025 event from January 23-27!
Hello! I’m Catherine, the OG wellness coach
As a certified life coach, personal trainer and group fitness instructor with a neuroscience degree, and student of mindfulness, conscious parenting and deeply connected relationships, I have drawn from many different disciplines to create my multifaceted wellness curriculum.
I started my fitness career in 2001, when mindfulness was absent from the industry and the spotlight was on pain and deprivation – long grueling workouts, bland calorie-restrictive diets, and little attention to the power mindset and mental health play in habit formation and success.
After spending thousands of hours talking with clients about exercise and nutrition, and seeing not only them but myself fail to achieve the goals we aspired to, I became burnt out, frustrated and depleted.
I left the fitness industry to become a solitary lifestyle writer, and to work on my own wellness.
Having received a neuroscience degree years prior, I was drawn to the emergent field of mindfulness.
Research into contemplative neuroscience, neuroplasticity and stress management completely blew my mind – these were the missing pieces that together with exercise and nutrition were the secret sauce I’d long felt was missing.
Further research into goal setting, habit formation and time management solidified my belief that flexible, subtle shifts paired with strategic repetition were the fast and easy way to create lasting change – to hardwire pleasurable new habits, providing much more time and energy for impact and influence.
Suddenly, after struggling with depression for 15 years, I felt happy and healthy for the first time in forever.
I reverse-engineered how I’d got there, and The Life Delicious curriculum was born – ready to be shared!
But what was I? No one was teaching my unique mix of mindfulness, movement, nutrition, sleep and connection.
No available title described the totality of my curriculum, so I made one up: wellness coach.
For more than a decade now, I’ve shared this multifaceted approach with thousands of people through my private coaching practice, freelance writing work, corporate workshops, keynote speeches, and luxury wellness retreats with Fairmont, Four Seasons, and the Oak Bay Beach Hotel.
As a certified personal trainer, fitness instructor, older adult specialist and coach practitioner, I’ve been featured on blogs, TV shows, podcasts and radio programs for my expert opinion on mental, physical and spiritual health.
And as a fitness, food and travel writer, I’ve been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and blogs, including Montecristo, Canadian Living, Lululemon, The Vancouver Sun, The Province, BC Business, WestJet Magazine, Westworld, Real Weddings and BC Living.
Before settling on the West Coast, I lived in Sydney, Toronto, Oregon, Montana, and practically everywhere in Alberta, and currently live in Vancouver with my fabulous husband, delightful daughter and adorable dog.
I’m thrilled to present new online offerings that expand my teachings on pleasure and connection – from parenthood, community-care and social justice to sensuality, sexuality and nature therapy.
We’re at a pivotal point in history. The world needs us to rise up, come together and lead the way forward – with pleasure. I hope you’ll join me.
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