The Soft Ground

Welcome to The Soft Ground. It’s a blog where you’ll find reflections, practices, and stories that honour the messy, beautiful, and often tender journey of being a mother but firstly a human.

Millennials & Gen Z, Motherhood, and the Beautiful Burden of Cycle-Breaking

Millennial mums are the first generation widely parenting while healing their own wounds. It is beautiful and heavy work. This blog explores the research on cycle-breaking and offers simple, body-based practices to ease the pressure, so you can choose presence over perfection and grow real connection with your little one.

Read More

The Soft Art of Letting Go - (Letting Go of Parenting Pressure and Finding Presence in Motherhood)

A heartfelt reflection on the pressure so many mothers feel to “get it right.” This piece explores how the self-improvement mindset and constant stream of parenting advice can leave our nervous systems overwhelmed and disconnected from our own intuition.

Read More

Why You Need to Know How Hormones Shape Your Body, Emotions and Relationships

Your hormones shape more than your body, they shape how you feel, relate and care. From the sensitivity of adolescence to the deep bonding of breastfeeding and the inward pull of menopause, each shift changes your emotional landscape.

This is why you need to know. When we understand our hormonal rhythms through a somatic lens, we stop fighting our bodies and begin to listen. And in that listening, we find our way home to ourselves.

Read More

When Parenting Turns Into Survival (“mess around and find out” parenting)

There’s a new kind of parenting trending — the “mess around and find out” approach. It’s sold as strength, as firm boundaries and tough love. But beneath the tone, you can feel something else. The tightness. The exhaustion. The quiet grief of parents who are stretched beyond capacity and just trying to survive the day. This isn’t bad parenting; it’s the sound of nervous systems crying out for rest and connection. Maybe what we need isn’t more control, but more compassion — for ourselves and for the children who are learning from the way we soften.

Read More
Lauren Howe Lauren Howe

8 Things to Know About Me (and Motherhood)

I’m Lauren. Somatic and Eco Therapist, Meditation Teacher, and mum to spirited twin toddlers who keep me both grounded and slightly wild at the same time.

This isn’t a polished list of facts. It’s more like a conversation over coffee, a little bit real, a little bit reflective, with crumbs of sourdough between us and the sound of small feet in the background.

Read More

How to Support Your Nervous System After Birth (A Mother’s Guide)

Becoming a mother transforms not only your body, but also your nervous system. After birth, it’s common to feel wired-yet-tired, anxious, or disconnected from yourself, even while deeply in love with your baby. This guide shares gentle, realistic practices—like rest, nature, movement, connection, and self-compassion—to help you feel grounded and supported in early motherhood.

Read More

A Mother’s Guide To Understanding and Regulating Your Nervous System

Motherhood reshapes your nervous system in deep, powerful ways from sleep deprivation to emotional overwhelm. This article helps you understand your body’s signals, normalise dysregulation, and offers simple, embodied practices to come back to calm and connection.

Read More