The long story
I’ve featured in The Sunday Times, Psychologies Magazine, BBC radio, Time Out and written for well-known publications, like The Independent, The Belfast Telegraph, Well Doing, Juno Magazine, Stylist Magazine, Mind Body Green Top Sante and Rebelle Society you can scroll to find more articles here.
I’m insanely proud of my two books: Second Spring was published 2022 and was chosen as one of the seven best books on menopause by The New York Times. The Perimenopause Journal was published 2024 and is an essential resource according to renowned endocrinologist Professor Annice Mukhurjee.
My ongoing project is to deepen my understanding of healing and growth with personal research into falling on my face and getting up again. You can read some of my more personal reflections in these articles.
I long for a world where we can all access our vitality, free of shame, regardless of our race, colour or gender identity. You can check out more about this here.
I started to massage professionally in 1993, running a successful on-site massage company, working with Reiki and with women affected by HIV and AIDS at Body and Soul and in private practice. After training in Biodynamic Psychotherapy methods with Gerda Boyesen I deepened my understanding by studying at Chiron gaining a certificate in Body Psychotherapy and Biodynamic Massage.
I worked in many settings teaching, practising and writing about massage, usually focusing on women’s health and am fascinated with the process of empowering ourselves with body awareness.
Having benefitted from massage during my own pregnancies, I studied Shiatsu and movement with Suzanne Yates at Well Mother after which I specialised in pregnancy care.
Seeing that community is essential for businesses to thrive, I brought a brilliant gang of women together supporting each other in PAPA, a birth network in Watford. Some of the connections made at PAPA created businesses and projects that are still vibrant today.
Beginning my investigation into perimenopause, I trained in abdominal massage in 2013 with Helen Petch and Clare Blake. It made the perfect bridge between the energetic healing of Biodynamic work and the issues that arise from the cyclical nature of being a woman. My fertility massage and rebozo massage skills were developed further by studying fertility massage with Clare Blake in 2014.
For many years I also supported therapists to feel relaxed about their marketing with online training.
The movement and exercise I started to learn at Well Mother brought me to train in Womb Yoga with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.
Having come across the film ‘Moon Inside You’ by chance, I became aware of the awesome, luminous figure that is Alexandra Pope and finding that she was teaching in the UK attended her workshops in menstruality and took the Women’s Quest Apprenticeship Leadership Training in 2016. I’ve been following her around ever since.
My training with Red School continued and I was the first graduate in Menstrual Medicine Circles in June 2018.
I deepened my training in Yoga Nidra with the Yoga Nidra Network where I am registered as a Yoga Nidra teacher.
In partnership with Leora Leboff, we held space together for 12 year as Woman Kind, facilitating groups of menstruating and menopause women, non-binary folk and therapists to build more kindness into their lives.
The integration of cyclical awareness, body work and process work gives me a unique way of working that is respectful, gentle and present to the wisdom of the ‘soft animal body’. It is my delight to share these skills to support other well-being professionals with mentoring and training.
Having the privilege of two books in the world from major publishers, as well as 1-2-1 and group facilitation, I am now lucky enough spread reassurance, inspiration and a feminist view of menopause transition by speaking at real and virtual events.
Organisations, Insurance & Privacy
I am an honorary member of the ABMT (Association of Biodynamic Massage Therapists) and hold full insurance. I have professional supervision and keep my skills updated, you can find a full list of my qualifications here. It is very important to me that I hold safe, respectful spaces for those who menstruate, are in menopause or are in Second Spring, you can find my privacy policy here.
Social Media
I used to be ex-directory, imagine that! These days the best way to see what I’m up to is on Instagram. No blooming snap-chat though.
