If the new year feels like just another day of caring, feeding and holding everyone together, you’re not alone. This post is an invitation to step away from pressure and perfection, and instead turn inward with kindness.

Motherhood can feel deeply lonely, even when you are never actually alone. Big emotions like overwhelm, rage, grief, guilt or numbness are not signs that something is wrong with you, but signals from a nervous system under pressure. This article gently normalises the emotional intensity of motherhood and offers a somatic, body-led perspective on how to meet these feelings with kindness rather than fixing. It also introduces a supportive Insight Timer course created for mothers who want simple, grounding practices they can return to in real life.

This blog explores why more mothers are turning to AI tools like ChatGPT for emotional support, and what this reach may be pointing to beneath the surface, including loneliness, shame, and a lack of relational care. While acknowledging the comfort and accessibility AI can offer in moments of overwhelm, this piece gently names the limits of technology when it comes to deep healing. Through a somatic and nervous-system-informed lens, it explains why our deepest wounds are formed in relationship and therefore need to heal in relationship too, highlighting the essential role of embodied presence, co-regulation, and human connection, particularly in motherhood.

So many mothers quietly carry this question, especially when they lose their temper or can’t live up to the “gentle” or “conscious” parenting ideals. This blog explores how shame and silence after hard moments keep your nervous system in survival mode, and how societal pressure, lack of support and old wounds all play a role. Instead of perfection, you’ll be invited into something softer: connection, nervous system awareness, and the courage to tell the truth and repair.

Shame, guilt and judgement can flood in after a messy day with your child, especially when you feel you should know better. This piece explores why your nervous system reacts the way it does, and how somatic, cycle breaking motherhood work can create more space, repair and compassion for both you and your little one.

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.

Explore what happens in your body during and after breastfeeding from hormonal shifts in oxytocin and prolactin to the emotions of weaning. A gentle, somatic reflection to help mothers understand, normalise, and honour this transition.

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.

A gentle, embodied reflection on breastfeeding, weaning, and motherhood, exploring cultural pressure to “get back to normal” and honouring every parent’s unique feeding journey through presence, feeling, and body wisdom.

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.

Discover how to be more present with your children by working with your nervous system, noticing glimmers, and softening old patterns.

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.

Motherhood isn’t about getting it all right. It’s about showing up, even when it’s hard. Learn how presence shapes your children more than words, why we drift away into old patterns, and gentle ways to return home to yourself and your child.

Matrescence is the emotional, physical, and identity transformation into motherhood. Discover what it really means, why it’s as big as adolescence, and how to navigate it with compassion.

When a baby is born, it’s not just the child who transforms the mother does too, in ways that are often unseen. For the partner standing beside her, understanding this shift is essential. This piece offers insight into the emotional, physical, and somatic changes of early motherhood and how to show up with presence, compassion, and care.

Embodiment in motherhood is a profound yet often overlooked part of the transition into parenthood. This blog explores how pregnancy, birth, postpartum and past trauma can deeply impact a mother's connection to her body. It shares my personal insights and research around body image, disconnection, fatigue and emotional overwhelm. And a path to reconnection and healing.

Somatic Therapy supports mothers to reconnect with their bodies and emotions in a gentle, creative way. It blends mindfulness, body awareness, and expressive practices to help release tension, process held experiences, and build a deeper sense of inner connection. Especially during pregnancy, postpartum, or parenting, it offers a safe space to come home to yourself and feel more grounded, present, and resourced.

Many of us newer mothers face intense pressure to be perfect, present, and conscious. In this blog I explore how shame fuels burnout and why self-compassion can be the answer.