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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 Can’t I Just Calm Down After Having A Baby
Why can’t you relax after having a baby? Learn how postpartum nervous system changes, neuroception and childhood imprints can fuel anxiety, and what truly helps.
Three Powerful Somatic Practices to Reduce Overwhelm for New Mums (Backed by Research)
Feeling overwhelmed as a new mum? Here are three research-backed somatic supports that actually fit real life: move what you feel, steep in nature with your baby, and co-regulate with one safe person.
It’s not you, it’s me (the system owes you a village)
Feeling anxious, flat, angry, or overwhelmed after baby? Explore how postpartum anxiety and depression are often nervous system responses to an under-supported system, and what helps.