Hello, and welcome to my site.
Dr. Maya Angelou once said ‘When you learn, teach’. It’s this adage that inspires my work. My purpose on this planet is to learn about what makes us healthy and happy human beings and teach this by communicating hard-to-understand information in a user-friendly and accessible manner, and by writing articles and books that inform and inspire. I hope my words affect you somewhere along the way, and help to make a small (or hopefully huge) difference to your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.
Yours in health and happiness,
P.S. my site is currently undergoing a redesign...please visit again soon for a fresh new look.
After giving birth to her first child, a precious daughter, Charlise Sage, Donna now devotes her time to writing
(in between being a mother that is!).
Donna with baby Charli
Donna is a certified personal trainer and educates others on fitness, exercise and physical activity as a specialised fitness writer. As the contributing fitness editor of Good Health & Medicine since December 2003, she has her own fitness q+a page and writes health and fitness articles for the magazine.
If you have a burning fitness question you’d like answered in Good Health & Medicine (names not printed), email
As a freelance health writer - with journalism, exercise science and nutrition qualifications – Donna writes on the topics of health, fitness, diet, nutrition, weight loss, body-image, self-development and spirit. She currently contributes regular fitness pieces to Australian Good Taste and has written for a variety of newspapers and magazines, here and overseas, including The Sunday Telegraph’s ‘body+soul’, New Woman and SHE.
To commission an article, email
Donna is the author of three books on health, fitness and weight loss. She also helps people bring their book ideas to life as a co-author or ghost writer. Her latest book, Winners do What Losers Don’t (New Holland, 2008), co-authored with Ray Kelly, is a fitness and weight loss book based on the training secrets personal trainer Ray Kelly used to assist the victory of the 2006 and 2007 winners of The Biggest Loser.
If you have an idea for a book and need help writing or putting it together, email