Weaving Women's Wellness

Weaving Women's Wellness -Shani Southwell-
Integrative Counselling and Embodied Support. Where balance, inner strength & deeper self-connection are woven

✨️Bookings now open at The Wellness Collective, Wauchope✨️Weaving Women’s Wellness offers integrative counselling and em...
13/01/2026

✨️Bookings now open at The Wellness Collective, Wauchope✨️

Weaving Women’s Wellness offers integrative counselling and embodied support.

This work is open to people of all genders, with a special focus on women’s wellbeing.

Support is available for those feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, burnt out, navigating life transitions, or simply seeking a gentler way to reconnect with themselves.

Sessions are slow, relational, and shaped around what feels most supportive for each person. There is no set agenda, no pressure to know what’s needed, and nothing is forced.

This work weaves together:

integrative counselling

somatic and body-based support

women’s embodiment work

creative exploration

grounding and nature-based practices

In-person sessions are currently available at The Wellness Collective, Wauchope, with online sessions also offered.

https://www.fresha.com/book-now/the-wellness-collective-cxehl5ot/services?lid=335687&eid=4992508&share=true&pId=312856

For a long time, I lived in my head,pushing through, trying to cope, trying to hold it all together. Anxious, depressed,...
11/01/2026

For a long time, I lived in my head,
pushing through, trying to cope, trying to hold it all together. Anxious, depressed, I was deeply out of touch with myself and my needs.

From the outside, I may have looked like I was functioning, capable, like I had my s**t together.
Honestly, there were probably many times I looked like a complete mess.

Inside, my body was carrying far more than my mind could name.
There were many moments I found myself asking, 'Why am I like this?', 'Why can't I get my s**t together'?

I didn’t need more advice.
I didn’t need to be fixed.

What I really needed was support —
support from someone who understood where I was at and could walk alongside me, offering guidance and tools when I needed them.
I found an incredible coach, and I am deeply grateful for her.

What I needed was space.
Space to come back into my body — slowly, safely, and in my own time.

My healing didn’t begin with answers.
It began with listening.

Through the body.
Through the nervous system.
Through creativity, movement, stillness, and time on the land.

Through weaving — literally and metaphorically — learning that healing isn’t about pulling threads out, but gently weaving them back together.

Weaving Women’s Wellness was born from this knowing.

From knowing that women don’t need to be rushed, analysed, or pushed through healing.
They need to be supported.
They need space to arrive in their bodies in their own time.

They need to be met.
Held.
Given permission to soften, feel, and reconnect with their own wisdom.

My work is for women who are tired of holding it all alone.
Who feel disconnected from their bodies.
Who are trying to cope, trying to function, and often putting everyone else’s needs before their own.

Here, we work slowly.

Through somatic therapy, embodiment, creativity, and nature-based practices.
We listen to the body, honour cycles, and move at the pace of your nervous system.

This isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about coming home to yourself —
and weaving a life that feels grounded, supported, and true.

If something in my story feels familiar, I see you.

31/12/2025
2025 — the year I said yes.As this yearly cycle comes to an end, I find myself in deep reflection.This was the year I ch...
31/12/2025

2025 — the year I said yes.

As this yearly cycle comes to an end, I find myself in deep reflection.

This was the year I chose to say yes and go with it…
to choose myself, and what I truly needed — even when it stretched me, even when it was outside my comfort zone, even when it made me nervous.

A year of trying new things.
Of gently getting out of my own way.
Of visiting the deeper parts of myself.

It was also a year of surrender.
Of letting myself be supported — especially with my health and my body.
A quiet acceptance that I couldn’t do it all alone anymore… and I didn’t have to.

This year brought incredible women into my life — women who are now dear friends.
It brought big change too… selling my house and arriving to a beautiful new property.

It brought new skills and new threads — learning, creating, and remembering.
Ancestral skills. Survival skills. A deeper relationship with what it means to live, to care, to tend.

And so much more that words can’t quite hold.

Now, as a new cycle begins, I feel myself planting seeds with intention.

Many blessings to you as we close this chapter.
And I invite you to take a moment to reflect on your own year.
What you’re ready to release… and what you want to cultivate in the next.

✨ xx

I’m so excited to be able to share that I’ll be joining the beautiful team at The Wellness Collective in January 🤍I can’...
20/12/2025

I’m so excited to be able to share that I’ll be joining the beautiful team at The Wellness Collective in January 🤍
I can’t wait to share my offerings in this nourishing space and welcome you into this next chapter.

✨ Bookings opening soon ✨
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Something new is quietly weaving itself together behind the scenes ✨ I’m so excited to share this with you…A little hint...
18/12/2025

Something new is quietly weaving itself together behind the scenes ✨
I’m so excited to share this with you…
A little hint before the full announcement 🤍

Have you ever felt like you’re just moving through the motions of each day…feeling numb, disconnected, or simply getting...
12/12/2025

Have you ever felt like you’re just moving through the motions of each day…

feeling numb, disconnected, or simply getting through?
Like you’re not really living — just surviving?

Chances are, you may be caught in a survival response. You’re not alone, I’ve been there many times. Sometimes, I didn’t even realise it till ages later.

Survival mode can be subtle.
You might notice your body feels constantly on edge or overstimulated.
Maybe you find it hard to slow down, rest, or switch off.
You may feel distant or disconnected from yourself and others.
Perhaps you catch yourself saying “yes” to keep the peace or pleasing others to avoid conflict and stay safe.
You might stay busy just to feel in control, filling every moment so you don’t have to feel what’s underneath.
Or you may simply feel detached from your emotions or your body, like you’re watching life happen rather than living it.

The survival response is the body’s way of keeping you safe, even long after the moment has passed.
We can live in this state for long periods of time, and because the body is so adaptive, it can start to feel completely normal.

Survival mode often develops when the body has had to cope with too much for too long- chronic stress, overwhelm, emotional load, lack of support, childhood conditioning, or moments where it didn’t feel safe to express or feel.

The nervous system adapts.
It learns to stay alert, stay busy, shut down, or disconnect as a way to protect you.
And when this goes on for a long time, it becomes familiar… almost invisible… yet still shapes how you move through the world.

But the body can shift.

You can support yourself out of survival by offering your system what it never had in those overwhelming moments: safety.
Safety through breath, grounding, presence, connection, and allowing your body to finally process what it once had to hold alone.

It takes awareness, gentleness, and commitment,
but once you recognise these patterns, you begin to understand yourself more deeply.
And from there, change and healing becomes possible.

Support helps create safety.Safety creates openness.And from that openness, healing, growth, and transformation begin.
08/12/2025

Support helps create safety.
Safety creates openness.
And from that openness, healing, growth, and transformation begin.

I can't wait to share this with you 💫
08/12/2025

I can't wait to share this with you 💫

Your life is a art work of all your experiences.So often we’re looking too closely at just one part,seeing only the knot...
04/12/2025

Your life is a art work of all your experiences.

So often we’re looking too closely at just one part,
seeing only the knots, the loose threads,
the places that feel tangled or unfinished.

But when you pause…
when you gently zoom out…

You may begin to notice.
The colours of your joy.
The shadows that shaped you.
The textures of every season you’ve lived through.

Your life is an artwork
ever-evolving, ever-unfolding.

Allow yourself to feel, all of it, the discomfort, the uncertainty, the heaviness, and the restlessness. Breathe into it...
15/11/2025

Allow yourself to feel, all of it, the discomfort, the uncertainty, the heaviness, and the restlessness. Breathe into it. Let it move through you. Let it flow. Trust that even in the moments that feel uncomfortable, there is healing, growth, and release. You don’t need to fix, resist, or control. Just be present with what is.

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37 Cameron Street
Wauchope, NSW
2446

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Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
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