Writings & Musings
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Insight and inspiration on living unhurried lives, overcoming feminine burnout, reclaiming our radiance and self-sovereignty and embracing our brilliance.
Beyond Healing: How Somatic Work Opens the Door to Expansion
We think somatic work is all about healing. But beyond healing, it also opens a doorway into expansion.
When I first came to the world of somatics, supporting women on healing journeys was at the heart of my work.
That’s what I believed somatics was exclusively about.
So much of the language around somatic work focuses, understandably, on trauma and the nervous system, regulation and safety, and the ways our bodies become organised around experiences that were overwhelming, painful or too much for us to metabolise alone.
This work matters deeply, and it continues to matter deeply to me.
And yet, over the years, I have become increasingly interested in what happens when we are no longer organised around protection: no longer living from survival, anticipating what might go wrong, overfunctioning, giving to the point of exhaustion, pleasing everyone (often at our own expense), pursuing perfection in everything we do, or holding everything together while we slowly crumble beneath the surface.
What happens when some of this energy is freed and more of it becomes available to orient towards new possibilities?
A Lifetime of Becoming: Honouring the Immensity of Women’s Hormonal Transitions
As women, our life is punctuated by significant hormonal transitions: from menstruation to the cyclical ebbing and flowing of hormones throughout our monthly cycles, from our peri- and postnatal journeys if we have children, to peri- and post-menopause transitions.
Our bodies are innately cyclical - and yet, so much about the significant transitions we experience throughout our lives is still underplayed and deeply misunderstood.
Our culture continues to assume that a woman who has just given birth is essentially herself, just with a baby. Or that a woman moving through perimenopause will remain mostly as she was before, simply with more erratic hormones.
But these transitions are not minor adjustments. They are not just biological events unfolding in the background alongside the rest of our lives.
They are whole-person reorganisations: of our body, our nervous system, our hormonal landscape, our sense of Self, and the relationship we have with our work, family, values, and future.
Burnout Begins Long Before it Happens : When Women Don’t Have a Village
Recently, I’ve been immersed in a lot of films, books and content that speak to the early days of motherhood. I’ve been viscerally reminded of the immense rush of love and care we often experience at this life-changing threshold. But also of the less spoken about raw exhaustion, tender hormonal rollercoaster and emotional fragility that so many of us experience concurrently.
It got me reflecting on my experience of profound burnout over ten years ago …
We often think of burnout as a switch that is flicked quite suddenly.
And in truth, it often presents this way.
Many of the women I have supported over the years feel like they were coping, functioning, managing one day, before seemingly ‘crashing’ through sheer exhaustion the next.
But in reality, burnout begins long before it happens.
In the many seasons of carrying too much without being properly held.
