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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
Somatic Meditation: What Over 10 Years of Meditation Has Taught Me About My Body
After more than ten years of meditation practice, teaching and training meditation teachers, I have learned that meditation is not only about stillness or quieting the mind. This personal reflection explores somatic meditation, body-led meditation, trauma-informed practice, movement, spiritual bypassing, nervous system safety and why the body needs to be included in meditation, especially for women navigating anxiety, overwhelm, motherhood, burnout and life transitions.