Bearing Wonder

04/12/2025

✨ Last week, in the very early hours of Wednesday morning, my dad breathed his last breath.
 
Together we stayed with him as he passed over. Time stood still as we watched, waited and held him through his last moments.
 
Even though in my heart I’d already said goodbye over and over again through the long years of dementia. His passing has profoundly re-arranged my sense of where I fit in the world.
 
He’s always been there.
And now he’s not.
I’m not sure yet how to make sense of that..
 
My biggest sadness is that his grandkids won’t get to spend more time with him. He loved reading to them, taking them on train journeys, playing little cars, and eating ice cream with them.
 
Forever grateful to sit with him last week.
Forever grateful he was my dad.

We’ll miss you dad.
And we’ll remember you too. 
Thanks for being my dad.

Sophie xx

10/11/2025

Imagine birth feeling supported, even magical ✨⁠ ⁠ ⁠
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The Mana Birth Skills Workshop gives you and your partner ways to connect with each other, with birth, and with your baby.

You’ll both learn:

🌱 Skills to ease birth anxiety and prepare your body⁠ ⁠
🌱 Partner support techniques so you feel connected and confident⁠ ⁠
🌱 Guidance for breastfeeding, postpartum recovery, and early parenting⁠ ⁠
🌱 Tools to help you feel calm, centred, and empowered⁠ ⁠ ⁠
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Everything you need in a birth workshop. Super practical, supportive, educational, immersive, inspiring, and real. All in one weekend workshop.⁠ ⁠ ⁠
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✨ Join us 6th and 7th December in Preston. ⁠
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29/10/2025

Recently I had the pleasure of caring for, tending to, and binding this gorgeous Mamas beautiful belly. 🥰

Belly binding is one way of supporting her body as she heals from pregnancy and birth. And at just 9 days postpartum there’s a lot of healing still to happen.

(Healing from pregnancy and birth generally takes at least 1 year, and often much longer.)

The loss of abdominal support in early postpartum is often deeply destabilising and disorienting and can contribute to lower back pain.

When the abdominals aren’t working properly (because they’re so stretched out) the lower back muscles need to work harder to create a feeling of stability. Leading lower back tightness, stiffness, and pain.

Belly binding provides support to stretched abdominal muscles and decreases the pressure on tight lower back muscles.

It’s particularly supportive if you’re managing diastasis recti which can feel sore and really uncomfortable. Binding can give you some of the support and containment that your body is craving.

There are different ways to belly bind - I offer this Benkung style which is beautiful and also a soothing daily ritual. I also provide tubular bandage to use on the days when you want something easy.

The beauty of a Benkung wrap is that the bind is tailored specifically to your belly and your body. Fitting you and supporting you just exactly right.

You can wear a bind all day if it’s comfortable for you. (It should feel like a warm hug around your belly!) And it’s most beneficial in the early weeks.

Beyond about six weeks postpartum you’ll need to start rehabilitating your deep core muscles so you feel connected, coordinated, and strong again. Ready for the normal activities of Mamalife.

Belly binding is something I offer to all the mums I care for and also as a one off postpartum appointment.

Reach out if it’s something you want for yourself. 🥰

This beautiful Bengkung wrap is from .houseofwellness

18/10/2025

Rest isn’t selfish.
It’s survival.
And it’s sacred.

Because when mothers rest,
the cycle of overwork begins to shift.

The whole world softens a little.
A gentler culture is born.

✨ Rest is rebellion.
✨ Rest is cultural repair.

Let’s create a culture that truly, deeply holds mothers. Even as, and especially when they rest. 😴

And rest doesn’t always mean sleep! Rest could be a breath, a pause, a moment outside with your feet on the grass.

I’d LOVE to know, how do you rest in the midst of mothering?

How are you resting yourself this weekend?

Share your thoughts in the comments below 🤍

10/10/2025

When we hold mothers, we hold the foundations of our entire culture.

Mothercare isn’t just a personal act, it’s cultural repair.

Because Birth is transformative.
Motherhood is transformative.
And holding Mothers transforms everything.

✨ This is how we rebuild culture.
✨ One gently held Mother at a time.

A culture grounded care, compassion, courage, and connection. 🤍

Thank you for letting me hold you

16/09/2025

✨ I love these stories from mums inside The Motherbody Way.

Because The Motherbody Way isn’t just a program, it’s a place where postpartum healing, core recovery, and connection actually happen.

You’ll feel more held, grounded and whole.

Spring enrolment is open now until tomorrow midnight.

Link in bio to join your Motherbody Way journey

We’d love to welcome you in xx

11/09/2025

For the Mothers just hanging on by a thread.

The Motherbody Way is here to hold you.

We won’t fix you.
We won’t save you.
We won’t tell you what to do.
We won’t give you a six-pack in six weeks either.

But we will hold you gently and tenderly as you navigate Motherhood in a culture that somehow entirely neglects the need you have to feel cherished too.

You’ll come home to yourself. You’ll come home to your body. You’ll feel nourished. You’ll feel stronger. You’ll feel held.

Spring enrolment opens Sat 13th Sept.

We’d love to welcome you. ✨

25/08/2025

✨ Every mother deserves to feel deeply cared for after giving birth.

The kind of care that holds you.⁠
Through the fog of sleepless nights.⁠
The aches of birth recovery.
In the wonder of your newborn baby.⁠
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But not every mother has access to care like this.⁠

Not every place has it.⁠
Not every family can afford it.⁠
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And yet every single mother deserves to feel cared for, held, and supported. 🩷
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Which is why I created The Motherbody Way - an online, accessible, community based version of postpartum care. ⁠

A place to feel nourished, connected, and not so alone.⁠
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🌱 Spring enrolment opens 13th September.⁠

Join the waitlist through the link in my bio.⁠
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23/06/2025

✨ Expecting a baby soon?

Join us this June for a super practical birth skills workshop in Preston.

After birth there’s a phase of healing that needs to happen for every Mama. Unfortunately this period of recovery is often completely overlooked.

Which is why our Birth Skills Workshop includes preparation for labour & birth AND ALSO preparation for postpartum & breastfeeding.

🌿 Postpartum preparation includes…

👉🏾Learning what’s normal or concerning in postpartum recovery

👉🏾Learning about about prolapse and pelvic floor prevention and recovery

👉🏾Knowing when to start exercise or increased activity after giving birth

👉🏾Discovering the value of pelvic floor physical therapy early on

👉🏾Planning for realistic postpartum preparation including:

✨A timeline of recovery
✨The first forty days
✨Principles of postpartum care
✨Matrescence
✨Postpartum nutrition
✨Skllls for early breastfeeding

Join us this weekend Sat 28 & Sun 29 June | 1–5pm both days

📍 Preston
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Spaces are limited + they always fill. 🤍

20/06/2025

✨ If you’re expecting a baby soon, join us this June for a super practical Birth Skills Workshop in Preston.

👉🏾Learn the risks and realities of labor, birth & recovery.

👉🏾Learn about your pelvic floor and how Kegels relate to birth.

👉🏾Learn skills for when birth doesn’t go to plan.

👉🏾Find out about prolapse, how to prevent it, what to do about it.

👉🏾Prepare for early breastfeeding and postpartum

👉🏾Feel SO excited, informed, prepared, and confident about caring for your body, your baby, and yourself through birth and into postpartum.

🗓 Sat 28 & Sun 29 June | 1–5pm both days
📍 Mana Health Practice, Preston
✨ bookings

Spaces are limited + they always fill.

17/06/2025

If you’re expecting a baby soon, join us this June for a super practical Birth Skills Workshop in Preston.

You and your birth partner will learn:
🌿 Movements for different stages of labour
🤲 Partner support techniques
🌸 Pushing practices to protect your pelvic floor
🤱🏽 Breastfeeding prep with a lactation consultant
💗 How to set up for a supported, healing postpartum

Because birth isn’t something you leave to chance. It’s a process, a rite of passage that you can learn to navigate with connection, confidence, and skill.

🗓 Sat 28 & Sun 29 June | 1–5pm both days
📍 , Preston
✨ bookings via

Spaces are limited + they always fill.

17/06/2025