I’m Hayley, (she/her)

I’m a neurodivergent Mum, Somatic Healing Practitioner, Menstruality Mentor and Maker of crochet things.

You’ll often find me dancing the 5 rhythms (mostly in the kitchen these days), at a protest, or having slow days on the beach with my little family, near Margate on the UK South East coast.

Through my own journey of healing, I came to realise that my explorations aren’t just about me. But about supporting others to reconnect with their bodies and reclaim their wisdom too. This work is about creating alternatives to the cycles of shame, disconnection, and oppression that so many face, and creating spaces where we can heal, together.

My Story…….

As a child I was a super sensitive ‘good girl’, with a tendency to daydream. By menarche (my first period) I started to rebel, I experienced an overwhelming surge of energy and emotion but had no idea how to channel it, internalising it as ‘there’s something wrong with me’. But of course, that which gets suppressed will find other ways to be expressed.

I spent 2 decades seeking belonging through alcohol, debilitated by shame and gave years of my energy to diet culture. I learnt how to mask who I really was to try to fit in. Unaware of my own unique gifts and rejecting my sensitivities.

And honestly, it makes sense, most of us are conditioned to neglect our emotional and spiritual well being. We aren’t taught to listen to the wisdom of our bodies. Instead, we often learn to override our intuition, think our way out of problems, value productivity above all else, and measure our worth by society’s expectations. I began on a cyclical path, back home to myself…..

It started with spiritual practices in my twenties, and in my early thirties I began my recovery from alcohol dependence, soon falling pregnant with our little one. Since my teens I’d always struggled in the pre-menstrual phase of my cycle and when my bleed returned 5 months postpartum, my luteal phase lead me into my deepest and darkest initiation yet.

I found Menstrual Cycle Awareness, was held by community, anchored into my spiritual practice and somatic exploration. I realised along the way that I don’t need fixing, that my body’s response has been appropriate and understandable all along.

I discovered that my nervous system was doing exactly what it was meant to, protecting me from perceived threats. I started to see that I’m not a failure, but that the systems we live within are intentionally built to fail us. The more I accepted myself, the more fight I found for humanity.

My body’s wisdom was calling out to me, urging me to bring all the things that’d been pushed into the shadows into the light, to be seen, heard and metabolised. This didn’t happen in one big cathartic moment, but as an ongoing remembering, unfolding little by little, at my body’s pace.

I don’t want to frame this as a neat ‘before-and-after’ success story, it isn’t linear like that. But I do know first hand how somatics & cyclical living can create more aliveness, capacity and ease in who we are;

Not as a ‘perfect’ future version of ourselves, but in our full humanity, exactly as we are.

I initially trained in Somatics and Menstrual Cycle Awareness to help individuals on their healing journeys, and that’s still at the heart of what I do. But my intention has expanded far beyond that. I truly believe that individual and collective healing are deeply entwined. Healing isn’t just a personal journey, it ripples outward, creating shifts in our families, communities, and the world. Equally, the work we actively do to dismantle oppressive systems and co-create something better, contributes to building a world that supports healing for ALL.

At the heart of my work…

My own healing path continues to be a unique weave of embodied menstrual cycle awareness, trauma healing, community care, un-shaming, decolonising & spiritual practice.

I deeply respect that you will have your own unique weave, which we can explore together.

Healing not fixing

By healing, I mean tending to your body memories from past experiences, trauma and conditioning. I mean reclaiming ALL parts of you. Not fixing, but remembering who you are.

A remembering

I see this work as a deep in-your-bones remembering, that you too are nature, that you belong, that you are a cyclical being with your own unique gifts to offer to these times.

I see you on this brave journey, lovely one, and you don’t need to take it alone.