Mothers Choosing
Presence Over Perfection Connection Over Comparison
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Breathe Deeply
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Feel Your Body
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Listen to Your Heart
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Soften Into What Is True
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Come Into Presence
〰️ Breathe Deeply 〰️ Feel Your Body 〰️ Listen to Your Heart 〰️ Soften Into What Is True 〰️ Come Into Presence
Guided by the nervous system.
Anchored in the body.
The mother’s body is their first home. Her nervous system, their first teacher. When we leave her out of the picture, we all lose.
The world is loud with voices telling mothers what to do, yet so few honour her lived body, her felt reality.
Motherhood isn’t about getting it right. It’s messy and inherently challenging.
What nourishes a child most deeply is not perfection, but the embodied presence of a mother who can come home to herself, again and again, in tenderness and truth.
This is the return: mothers resourced, grounded, and unapologetically human.
The Mother’s Return
Supporting Your Journey Through Motherhood
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About Me & My Philosophy
Hi, I’m Lauren Howe - Somatic & Eco Therapist and Meditation Teacher and mum to twinnies. My philosophy is simple: a mother’s well-being is not an afterthought, it is the foundation of the family. When we tend to the nervous system, honour the body’s wisdom, and meet our own imperfections with compassion, we can create the ground from which true embodied connection with our children can grow. Loving presence, not perfection, is what nurtures both mother and child.
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Online Course - The Embodied Mother
This is not another parenting method.
It is a return to you. Over 21 self-paced days, you’ll be invited to soften the pressure, listen to your body, and land into the truth of your lived experience. This work is about embodying the wholeness you long to pass on — not only through words, but through the way you live, love, and repair when you stumble. Our children don’t need perfection. They need our humanness. And that messy and tender realness becomes their sacred inheritance. -
Work Privately With Lauren
Whether you’re expecting, in the early days of motherhood, feeling lost in the overwhelm, or quietly asking “How can I come back to myself when I feel disconnected, exhausted, or numb?”, these private somatic therapy based sessions are for you. This isn’t about fixing you, but about tending to your nervous system, trauma and old patterns with curiosity and compassion so you can journey through motherhood with greater awareness and presence.
Sessions are provided virtually.
What People Are Saying
“I cannot recommend her highly enough. Nothing is off limits in the safe container she holds you in, and her incredible intuition and gentle inquiry makes it possible to explore all the parts of yourself. I believe that Lauren truly ‘sees’ people, and she has helped me to feel more connected and curious about myself and the natural world around me.”
— Stevie
“I had the opportunity to experience somatic therapy with Lauren over 7 sessions, and I can’t recommend her services highly enough. The approach is gentle, body focused yet powerful, and each session had an immediate positive impact on my everyday life. Lauren has a grounding and nurturing presence, and she guided the sessions with skill and wisdom.”
— Siina
“Lauren provides a grounded, compassionate and supportive space in meditation, women’s circles and embodiment practice. She is a gifted and calming meditation guide and aims to create safe and supportive space. Lauren has a melodic and gentle guiding voice that brings a depth to the rest and restoration within meditation. ”
— Alita
“I absolutely love all of Lauren’s classes, she is such a beautiful soul!
I most recently joined her Women’s Embodiment classes which were a gentle and relaxing way to connect to your body and emotions. Could not recommend highly enough!”
— Elissa
Blog: The Soft Ground
A Journey I Know Deep in My Bones.
After 11 years of infertility, I finally became a mother to twins with the widest, most open hearts. In those early months was flooded with love… and at the same time completely undone. Sleep-deprived and anxious, I found myself in an unexpected reckoning. Old patterns and unhealed parts of me rose to the surface, shaping how I was showing up with my babies — parts I thought I had “worked through” before motherhood.
It was tender, disorienting, and deeply confronting. The only reason I could meet it (and continue to) at all was because I had a foundation in somatic therapy, meditation, and time in nature. These practices have become my rope back to myself. Slowly, gently, they guided me home from the inside out.
Hi, I’m Lauren Howe - Somatic & Eco Therapist and Meditation Teacher.
Motherhood continues to crack me open in ways I never could have prepared for. It isn’y just a new role, but a profound rite of passage into a truer, more embodied version of myself. A descent into truth where nothing can be bypassed and many hard and joyous moments feel like an invitation to meet myself with more honesty and compassion.
I created this space as a soft landing place for other mothers wanting the best for their children but knowing that this means being tender with themselves. My work isn’t about perfecting motherhood. It’s about remembering ourselves within it.
When we leave ourselves out of the picture, we lose touch with the very thing we long to give our children: loving presence and true connection.