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The Soft Ground: A Somatic Therapy and Meditation Blog for Women and Mothers
The Soft Ground is a place to pause, soften, unfurl and come back to yourself.
Here you’ll find somatic therapy reflections, nervous system education, body-led meditation practices and embodied motherhood writings for women and mothers moving through postpartum, anxiety, overwhelm and life’s tender transitions.
These words are for the wild, beautiful, slow and emerging places where the body asks to be heard and something within you begins to shift.
Find my more personal musings and writings over on Substack
Why Meditation Feels Harder Before Your Period - A body-led guide to meditation, hormones and your cycle
Meditation can feel different across your menstrual cycle. This blog explores why meditation may feel harder before your period, how hormones and the luteal phase can affect your nervous system, and how to adapt meditation for menstruation, the follicular phase, ovulation and the luteal phase.