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When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees.
Five Years Later: A Letter to Jade
A heartfelt letter to my son Jade, five years after his death. About grief, motherhood, death, forgiveness, trusting life again, and the unexpected gifts...
Menstrual Seasons: How Your Cycle Influences Energy and Mood
Exploring the phases of the menstrual cycle, this post helps women understand how hormones affect energy, mood, and daily life.
My Journey as a Woman: Cycles, Healing and Coming Home to the Body
A personal reflection on my journey as a woman, exploring cycle awareness, healing, and learning to come fully home to my body.
What is change: A Cyclic Approach to Growth and Transformation
A reflection on change through the lens of the feminine cyclic nature, exploring how our bodies and rhythms guide personal growth.
She is Alive: birthing an earthly baby after stillbirth
A powerful and tender story of birthing a baby after experiencing stillbirth, exploring grief, hope, and the resilience of the body and spirit.
Life Transitions: Navigating the Moments That Shift Your Foundation
Reflections on navigating life transitions — those moments when everything familiar shifts and your foundation feels swept away. A reflection on the need for...
The Pains and Powers of baby loss: A Mother’s Experience of Grief
When I was asked to write about losing our son Jade, I felt both an instant yes and a deep vulnerability. Stillbirth is often...
Cherish Stone: Holding Grief, Memory, and Love in Form
A personal reflection on friendship between women, shared grief, and a bronze Cherish Stone holding a child’s ashes. This piece honors embodied remembrance—how touch,...
Why not me? Reflections on Grief, Resilience, and Choosing How We Heal
Reflections on grief, resilience, and navigating loss, exploring how shifting the question from “Why me?” to “Why not me?” can support healing and self-compassion.
Birthing death: When Love and Loss Meet in the Body
A deeply personal reflection on birthing a baby without a heartbeat. This piece explores the physical, emotional, and spiritual reality of stillbirth, the power...
I Allow Myself to Be Held: Learning Nervous System Safety and Support in the Body
In these past months of grieving I’ve learned something unexpected: not everyone’s tears are mine to carry. Our GP reminded us that people respond...
Expanding Awareness Through the Body and Inner Attention
During Baby Loss Awareness Week I reflect on the unpredictable waves of grief after losing Jade. From deep sorrow to unexpected light, this journey...
A deep surrender into life: the 3rd phase of our healing through stillbirth journey
Back in Cape Town after time in the Netherlands, I find myself in what we call the third phase of healing after stillbirth. Grief...
An unexpected awakening: A Client’s Journey of Transformation
In An Unexpected Awakening, Mirjam Leslie shares how her five-year-old daughter’s natural presence and body wisdom became a mirror for her own journey in...
My Aching, Fearing, Longing and Loving Heart
A raw and honest reflection on losing a baby during birth. This piece shares the early weeks of grief after stillbirth—living with an aching...
Empowered Feminine Embodiment
A personal and embodied exploration of feminine embodiment—moving out of the head and back into the body, awakening sensual wisdom, and reclaiming pleasure, agency,...
Dreaming of a Feminine Economy
A reflection on how women’s energy, creativity, and productivity naturally rise and fall with the menstrual cycle, and how to work with it rather...
Birthed into Motherhood: Navigating the Rite of Passage
A personal reflection on the transition into motherhood as a profound rite of passage. This post explores grief for the old self, excitement for...
The Cyclic Feminine: Honoring Rites of Passage with Support and Celebration
Exploring the cyclic feminine and the importance of supportive, celebratory guidance during life’s rites of passage. A reflection on the journey of She Blooms,...
Transforming Pressure Into Pleasure: Lessons from Pregnancy
A personal reflection on navigating the pressures of pregnancy—societal expectations, “shoulds,” and self-judgment—and how slowing down, softening, and trusting the body allows space for...
Shame Disconnects: Healing Shame Around the Body and Sexuality
Shame disconnects you — from your body, your truth, and the people around you. In this piece, I explore the layers of shame women...
From Yin Yoga to Female Sexuality: Coming Home to the Pelvis
A personal reflection on how Yin Yoga opened the doorway to healing the psoas, the nervous system, and ultimately female sexuality. This piece traces...
Opening Your Heart to Your Path: Courage, Choice, and Freedom
A personal reflection on the power of conscious choice, courage, and opening the heart to life’s path. This post explores how embracing change, moving...
Constructive Rest Pose: Calming the Nervous System and Releasing the Psoas
A simple, deeply restorative pose that supports psoas release and signals safety to the nervous system—inviting relaxation, grounding, and a return to the body’s...
Supporting Fertility and Female Sexuality: Insights from Coaching
Female sexuality is not separate from fertility, pregnancy or birth — it is all part of the same embodied whole. In this piece, I...
Coming Home to the Feminine: A Journey from Doing to Being
A personal reflection on burnout, disconnection, and the slow return to the body. This piece traces a journey from constant doing to embodied presence—reconnecting...
It’s Time to Celebrate: Becoming a Female Sexuality Coach
A personal reflection on completing training as a Female Sexuality Coach (Vita coach), honoring the journey of study, embodiment, and finding her voice. This...
Queen of Love: My Journey into Heartwork, Self-Love, and Healing
Exploring the phases of the menstrual cycle, this post helps women understand how hormones affect energy, mood, and daily life.
Come As You Are: Stress, Safety, and Completing the Stress Cycle
Inspired by Emily Nagoski’s work, this reflection explores stress as a full-body experience—fight, flight, freeze—and why simply “relaxing” isn’t enough. A gentle invitation to...
Letting Go is the Greatest Art: Closing a Chapter, Opening a New Path
A personal reflection on letting go of a beloved project, embracing change, and following the path that aligns with your authentic self. This post...
Blooming: Embracing the Raw Power of Womanhood
A personal journey into embracing femininity, reclaiming the body, and embodying the raw, sensual, and powerful essence of being a woman. This post reflects...
(s)he, too: Healing Beyond #MeToo
A reflection on the #MeToo movement through a lens of deep feminine and masculine energy, personal healing, and collective responsibility. This post explores vulnerability,...
