Hi, I am so glad you are here

A woman with a hat smiling, holding a young girl on her hip, and a small boy standing beside her, outdoors on a gravel path with green grass, trees, a mountain, and a blue sky in the background.

I’m Lauren Howe. I’m a SomaSoul Somatic and Nature Therapist, and Meditation teacher, and I’ve spent the last 12 years learning and living the worlds of meditation, embodiment, somatics, and eco-somatics, the kind of body centred and nature-led healing that brings you into deeper relationship with yourself and the world around you.

I’m also a mum to two wildly beautiful twins after 11 years of IVF, and I’m married to my soul mate, Ryan, the most caring and steady human I know. I love thru-hiking (on pause until the twins find their hiking legs), and nothing makes me happier than time with my sisters laughing, sharing vulnerably, and telling the raw truth about motherhood and parenting.

A family of four walking on a dirt trail through a natural landscape with trees and hills, under a blue sky.

My philosophy

I believe early motherhood carries an enormous emotional and nervous system load, far more than we are prepared for or supported through. There is so much focus on the baby, on attachment and responsiveness, while the mother is expected to absorb the impact quietly and keep functioning as she was before.

My work comes from my personal experience and seeing, again and again, that what mothers are struggling with is not a lack of insight or effort. It’s a body and nervous system under sustained pressure. Sleep deprivation, hormonal shifts, constant responsibility, lack of real support and earlier life experiences and trauma all shape how a mother feels, reacts and copes.

This is what I shine a light on here, how it lives in the body, why your responses make sense, and what it can look like to feel resourced again, so you’re not carrying it all alone.

Becoming a mother has been a sacred and confronting initiation for me. The first year of motherhood brought an intensity I wasn’t prepared for. Sleep deprivation, hormonal shifts, physical recovery from birth, and the constant sensory and emotional demands of caring for two babies all landed at once. Big feelings moved through my body, sometimes suddenly. Anxiety, tenderness, anger, love, and overwhelm often sat side by side.

Somatic therapy helped me understand that my body and nervous system were under immense physiological and relational strain. Living far from family support added another layer, feeling depleted without much chance to rest, be held, or share the load. Breastfeeding brought its own complexity too, pain, exhaustion, and the relentless pressure of needing to be available around the clock. IVF and birth left an imprint as well. The parts that were frightening, overwhelming, or not fully processed began to surface in the weeks and months that followed.

Alongside all of this, parts of my own childhood history quietly emerged. Old needs, unmet longings, and protective patterns rose, often at the very moments I was already running on empty. Over time I began to see that so much of what I was feeling made sense through the lens of the nervous system, the body, and lived experience, rather than through self-judgement or pathology.

What supported me through that season is what I now offer other mothers. Somatic work that gently meets the body. Meditation that is responsive and mother-centred. Time in nature that restores rhythm and offers a quiet kind of holding. These have helped me feel more resourced, less alone, and more able to meet the waves of early motherhood with compassion and steadiness.

My story: unravelling into early motherhood

My Qualifications & Memberships

SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy Foundations Training and SomaSoul®: Somatic Therapy Clinical Training
Leven Institute (approved training program by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA))

Embodiment Teacher & Practitioner Training in
The Non-Linear Movement Method®
Michaela Boehm

Holistic Counselling Skills
Metavision Institute

Year 1 of the Advanced Clinical Training In Contemporary Gestalt Therapy
The Relational Institute Australia

Bachelor of Laws and Arts
Murdoch University

Post-Graduate Diploma - Guiding and Teaching Meditation and Mindfulness
Australian Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness

Certificate of Ecotherapy
Eartheart Ecotherapy

Eco Therapy Professional Workshop for Therapists
The Relational Institute Australia

Soulcraft Intensive
Animus Valley Institute

Trauma Informed Facilitation
Melbourne Processwork Centre

Lifestyle, Food and Wellness Coach
Well College Global and Wellness Coaching Australia

I am also a member of Meditation Association of Australia and a Senior Mentor at the Australian Centre for Meditation & Mindfulness as well as the author of the Women’s Circles Elective.