BeingVITAL.Me
Founder-led · Physiology-aware · Privately delivered

You have kept going. Now build back properly.

For people who have carried responsibility, stayed productive, and kept going — while quietly drifting away from feeling and functioning as well as they know they can.

Already decided? Book the 90-minute Initial Consultation — £295

35+ years
Career in frontline healthcare
ICU · CCU · HDU
Critical-care environments worked in
25+ years
Holistic training and practice
Founder-led
Every session directly with Russ
The work

Most people are not lacking effort — they are working at the wrong level.

If you have tried to improve your health, energy or performance and still feel inconsistent, fatigued or not fully yourself, it is rarely useful to reduce the answer to discipline alone.

Most people do not arrive short of information. They arrive with fragments: things they have noticed, previous advice, changes that came and went, strategies tried at different points in life. Those pieces rarely sit side by side — and isolated snapshots are difficult to learn from.

  1. History

    What has already happened

    Relevant background, what you have already tried, and the context you arrive with — brought together as a starting picture.

  2. Today

    What is happening now

    Brief Client Compass observations across sleep, energy, meals, recovery and digestion — without turning your life into constant tracking.

  3. Over time

    What appears to change

    Weekly review builds a living record of what seems to help, what seems to cost you, and what is still genuinely unclear.

You are not buying a protocol or a stack of isolated sessions. You are building a coherent picture of what appears to support you — one that becomes more useful as the weeks add context.

Understanding comes first. Clarity supports informed choice. The decisions remain yours.

What you keep

The part that outlasts the programme.

Twelve weeks is the intensive phase. What should survive it is not a plan you follow but an understanding you hold.

The Client Compass

A small daily practice.

Brief morning, midday and evening touchpoints covering sleep, energy, mood, body state, meal timing, hydration and digestive rhythm. Weekly, you step back and ask what helped, what drained you, and what is worth repeating.

It is not a health score and it is not designed to diagnose anything. Its job is to turn ordinary daily experience into useful context.

The Personal Blueprint

What helps me. What costs me. How I return.

Repeated observations and weekly conversations build a living record: reliable routines, early warning signs, useful recovery strategies, and the areas still genuinely uncertain.

Its purpose is not to claim that every correlation is a cause. It is to help you recognise patterns worth repeating, questioning or discussing — so the understanding lives with you rather than in someone else's head.

About information you already hold. Sharing previous reports or correspondence is entirely optional and never required to take part. Where you do share them, they are placed in date order only — not read for clinical meaning, not interpreted, and not used to form any view about your health. That remains the work of your GP or other appropriately qualified clinicians. Anything you send is held securely, used solely for your own programme, and deleted on request. Full detail is in the Privacy Notice.

The Client Compass

Your health story, your direction, your progress — in one private place.

A private, evolving record of where you have been, what you are working on now, and how your capacity is changing over time — owned by you and shared only when you choose.

The Compass turns the work between sessions into something visible and useful: daily observations, your agreed direction, weekly patterns, and an evolving Personal Blueprint that remains yours.

HistoryWhere I have been
DirectionWhat I am working on
ProgressWhat is changing

Not a diagnostic app and not a competition to generate data. The purpose is to help you notice, understand and discuss the patterns that matter — then gradually need less interpretation from somebody else.

BeingVITAL.Me Client Compass
Daily Compass

Five foundations. A few minutes a day.

Record how you feel, what you actually did, and anything worth carrying into the week.

Today · the foundations
Hydration8/10
Morning light7/10
Conscious movement9/10
Nutrition & rhythm7/10
Sleep & recovery8/10
What helped today?
Morning light, water before coffee, a 35-minute walk and an earlier final meal.
BeingVITAL.Me Client Compass
My Direction

Know what you are building towards.

The plan stays personal while the underlying structure stays simple.

Current phase

Regulate · Months 4–6

Nourish
1–3
Regulate
4–6
Strengthen
7–9
Thrive
10–12
My agreed emphasis
Hydration on wakingDaily
Conscious movement30m
Eating window10–6
Personal Blueprint
What helps me. What costs me. How I return.
BeingVITAL.Me Client Compass
Progress

See the week, not just the day.

Daily entries roll into a weekly picture so patterns can be discussed rather than guessed.

This week
5/7days logged
76weekly score
8.1energy average
7.8sleep quality
Pattern worth noticing
Energy has tended to be steadier on recorded days where morning light and waking hydration were both completed. An association to discuss — not proof of cause.
Momentum
BeingVITAL.Me Client Compass
Share

Share deliberately, when it is useful.

Choose what Russ receives before a coaching conversation. Nothing is shared simply because it exists.

Include in my summary
✓Weekly Compass picture
✓My current direction
✓My weekly reflection
✓Questions for Russ
Preview
A clean coaching summary shows what changed, what got in the way and where the conversation may be most useful.
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Russ Maher
Russ Maher

“My background is in environments where reading the earliest signs was everything — not just recognising a problem, but recognising a system moving toward one.”

Russ Maher

Depth of experience. Human understanding.

Russ Maher's professional background spans more than 35 years across frontline healthcare, critical care, complex rehabilitation, training and senior education. That career included ICU, cardiac high-dependency and coronary care, spinal-injury services, fifteen years as an ALS Instructor with the Resuscitation Council UK, and thirteen years as a senior instructor with A&A Training.

Those environments taught a particular kind of attention: listen carefully, notice patterns under pressure, communicate clearly, and avoid jumping to conclusions when the picture is complex. That habit of attention is what he brings to BeingVITAL — not the clinical role itself.

Alongside it, more than 25 years of ongoing holistic training and practice has broadened the lens. BeingVITAL does not force every person into one theory. It brings different strands of experience together to ask better questions.

Career
35+ years — frontline healthcare, critical care, complex rehabilitation and education
Environments
ICU · Coronary care · High dependency · Spinal injuries
Formerly
ALS Instructor, Resuscitation Council UK — 15 years
Holistic practice
25+ years — ongoing training, practice and development

The scope of this work. Russ's clinical career is described here as professional background. BeingVITAL.Me provides wellbeing coaching, education and structured self-observation. It is not nursing or medical care and does not involve clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment or prescribing. It sits alongside — never in place of — your GP and other appropriately qualified clinicians.

Client stories

Three different starting points.

In their own words. Individual experiences, not promises.

Alan’s experience
“He genuinely cares.”

Alan talks about the time, attention and follow-up he experienced while working with Russ.

Alan Elvin · Former competitive strongman
Danny’s experience
“I feel like I’ve learned so much in the last 18 months.”

Danny describes learning, changing routines and feeling more able to make sense of what he was doing day to day.

Danny Williams · Scaffolder, 33
Geoff’s experience
“It’s made a difference to my everyday life.”

Geoff describes what he noticed in everyday life and what mattered to him about the experience.

Geoff Harrington · Retired, 80

These are personal accounts of working with Russ. They are not clinical evidence, medical claims or guarantees of outcome.

Pathways

Different levels of depth. One coherent way back.

Every pathway is founder-led. What changes is the breadth of the work, the degree of access, and how much ongoing interpretation sits behind it.

Foundation

Gut, Rhythm & Recovery

Digestive rhythm, sleep, recovery and the daily foundations that support steadier function.

£2,25012 weeks
Flagship

The BeingVITAL Method

Weekly founder-led work, a coherent baseline, daily self-observation and an evolving Personal Blueprint.

£4,50012 weeks
Premium

The Second Renaissance

For significant life transition, renewal and integration — scope shaped personally after consultation.

From £6,000By consultation
By invitation

Private Advisory

Not a programme. A relationship — continuity, discretion, and an advisor who already understands the context.

BespokeDeliberately limited
What is included at each level
 Gut, Rhythm & RecoveryThe BeingVITAL MethodThe Second Renaissance
Duration12 weeks12 weeks12 weeks
1:1 rhythmBi-weeklyWeekly, opening 90 minutesShaped after consultation
Between sessionsPrivate messagingDefined access on working daysIndividually agreed
Client CompassIncludedIncludedIncluded
Midpoint reviewStructured reviewsFormal recalibrationShaped to the work
Personal BlueprintFoundation BlueprintFull Blueprint and continuation planBlueprint and integration work
Follow-upOn requestApproximately 30 days afterAgreed individually
Investment£2,250£4,500From £6,000

Twelve-week programmes may be paid in three monthly instalments. Fees cover BeingVITAL coaching, education and support; supplements, laboratory testing, medical appointments and third-party services are separate unless expressly stated. Full detail is discussed at consultation.

Fit

This works best when both sides are fully engaged.

BeingVITAL is intentionally selective. The work is close and high-touch, so fit matters more than filling a diary.

A good fit

Ready to participate, not just purchase.

  • Actively looking to make changes rather than collect more information.
  • Prepared to invest time, attention and honest effort between sessions.
  • Values a personalised process more than a generic protocol.
  • Willing to notice patterns, test changes and discuss what actually happens.
What you should leave with

More ownership, not more dependence.

  • A coherent understanding of your own history, patterns and priorities.
  • Clarity about what appears to support your energy, recovery and function.
  • A Personal Blueprint recording what helps, what costs you and how you return.
  • Better questions, and a practical way to recognise when you are drifting.

BeingVITAL is not designed for emergency or acute medical care, quick-fix promises, or a one-off free consultation disguised as a discovery call.

Begin

Start with the right conversation.

A short application first. It gives Russ enough context to decide whether a Clarity Conversation is likely to be useful — without turning first contact into homework.

The private client journey
  1. Apply

    A short application if you are actively considering working together.

  2. Clarity Conversation

    Up to 45 minutes with Russ, no charge, to establish fit and direction. Not a free assessment or problem-solving session.

  3. Initial Consultation

    A 90-minute, £295 conversation where the substantive work begins. Credited against a 12-week programme if you proceed within 14 days.

  4. Private Programme

    If there is a strong fit, Russ recommends the pathway and you decide whether to proceed.

Russ works with a limited number of private clients at any one time. The point is not manufactured exclusivity; it is protecting the depth and continuity the work requires.

Short application

Apply for a Clarity Conversation

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