Fiona L Smith - Bodywisdom Therapy & Coaching

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Fiona L Smith - Bodywisdom Therapy & Coaching

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I help successful professionals 35+ heal from burnout, anxiety, trauma & chronic pain and
feel safety, clarity, calm & connection.|
Mental First Aid Programmes & Trauma-Informed Positive Psychology workshops & coaching for Individuals & Organisations.

05/02/2026

Perimenopause can be exhausting.

You're not just tired, you're wired. And plagued by confusing symptoms.
Emotionally on a rollercoaster.

But sleep - when you can get it - doesn’t feel restorative.
Time off is still busy.
Even practices that once helped don’t land in the same way.

That’s because perimenopause isn’t just hormonal; it’s neurological.

As oestrogen becomes more unpredictable, the Nervous System becomes more sensitive; old stress patterns surface more easily and our buffer gets thinner. What used to stay held in the background starts to show up in our body, mood, sleep and digestion.

This is why my new sharing circle and programme, Reconnect, includes the Rest and Restore Protocol™, developed by Unyte, in collaboration with Stephen Porges.

RRP isn’t meditation or relaxation; it’s a listening-based therapy protocol that supports the Autonomic Nervous System to settle into a genuine parasympathetic state – often for the first time in years.

Regulating the nervous system and getting deep rest isn’t a luxury in perimenopause; it’s ESSENTIAL.

If your body has been begging you for support, comment ME for the programme details. We start 25 Feb. ♥️

04/02/2026

Reconnect is a 6-week guided online Sharing Circle for women in perimenopause who are exhausted by the symptoms and confusion and mental and emotional upheaval and want to DO something that helps them feel better and more in control.

This isn't just another programme with lots of information (though you will learn more about what's happening to your body and brain and what it needs right now) - this integrates Rest and Restore Protocol™ which is a clinical-grade listening therapy designed by Stephen Porges. Based in polyvagal theory, the adapted music works with the Autonomic Nervous System (basically, the fight-flight response) to bring homeostasis - balance - back to the system.

Meaning less symptoms, less inflammation, less fog and MORE space, better rest, more balance and a way to getting back to feeling more like YOU.

We don't need to DO more in perimenopause - we need (sometimes desperately) to learn how to REST and to understand what our body and mind need during this time of change.

I love what Alexandra Pope (The Red School) says about this time in our lives - that perimenopause 'asks us to stop giving our life force away and reclaim it for ourselves'. Yes!

The group is limited to 10 women so everyone is held and has space. Comment 'ME' for more info or send me a message. ❤

29/01/2026

The midlife journey...

The reality is that supporting a loved one with dementia is hard, and it's even harder when you're not there next door to pop in and take care of them or check up, or have a cup of tea or take them somewhere they want to go.

My dad has been told this week that he's no longer able to drive and driving has been his hobby and passion for over 30 years. He's probably been driving for about 70, so this is a massive part of his identity that he's saying goodbye to. And navigating this alongside him is really challenging because he's no longer able to see the big picture and doesn't want, of course, to accept reality.

So this is the message that my body needs to hear today. ♥️

28/01/2026

Why are we still reducing menopause to HRT or not?

What if the real question is how to support the body through a complex, intelligent transition – rather than rushing to fix symptoms?

💥Understanding your woman's body and your Nervous System, going through menopause.

💥Real support, not one stop solutions.

This is what we'll be exploring in my class on Friday.

Link to register is in my bio. Join me on Friday 30 January at 12.00. Replay available.

23/01/2026

Perimenopause - from Anxiety to Capacity

Literally every day, I see posts online from distressed women going through perimenopause and experiencing symptoms that are confusing, debilitating and exhausting! I am in groups where there are literally hundreds of thousands of women having a negative experience that is largely unsupported or misunderstood by their doctor and families.

I started my research into perimenopause a decade ago, when I started to wake up with anxiety and heart palpitations - I was healthy, fit, in my mid 40s and had NO idea what was happening.
My (older, female) doctor was incredibly unhelpful and basically told me that she wasn't going to give me antidepressants (😲😳 - I hadn't asked for them!) and that only women without a purpose had symptoms in perimenopause. Seriously??
But I'd only recently moved to Denmark and didn't really know who else to ask for support.

So I got curious and I learned, and experimented, and used what I already knew, took courses and also took a 3-year education to certify as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner!

I now teach others from both my experience in perimenopause, and through my experience as a Nervous System expert.

Women deserve and need meaningful support and education on WHAT is happening and WHY and HOW to find a way forward out of the mess and 'hot & uncomfortable' experience so many are having.

I’m running a free live masterclass on 30 January at 12.00 CET for anyone navigating perimenopause and feeling a bit… undone by it all.

Anxiety that comes out of nowhere.
Brain fog.
Exhaustion.
Physical aches and pain
Hot flashes, tremors, smells, skin issues....
Feeling unlike yourself and wondering what on earth is going on.

This isn’t about fixing or pushing through. It’s about understanding what your body and nervous system need now – and why doing more can make things worse.

If perimenopause has felt jarring, confusing, or overwhelming, this will help you make sense of it and find a steadier way forward.

This is NOT a quick-fix solution and it's not a medical prescription.

👉Register to come live on Friday 30 January, 12.00CET.
👉Replay is ONLY available to those who have registered.

01/11/2025

"There's a parrot at the door!!"

Not what you'd expect to hear on Halloween, but my son was almost right... this fabulous cockatoo came for a visit last night with his DJ owner & four small costumed children! 😄🎃😍

Definitely the highlight of our Halloween evening...the music was my son's choice when told that the cockatoo likes techno 🤣🤣

We had a great chat on the doorstep while the bird danced on my arm - such an unexpected, and welcome, moment of warmth, laughter and connection.

When we open to connection and beauty; when we actively seek these moments, our nervous system attunes towards noticing and experiencing more of them.

Sometimes in the most unexpected of places!!

This is why, in trauma healing, we begin - not with the symptoms and 'what's wrong', you KNOW that experience all too well - but in noticing even micro moments of what is okay (sometimes it's simply 'neutral' or not pain), pleasurable, joyful, beautiful or fun.

These are GLIMMERS. The opposite of trauma triggers.
Moments when we notice what feels good...and we slowly expand from here. Because when feeling becomes safer, we can also begin to heal what was too painful or too much. We begin to get unstuck.

What glimmers have you found today? ♥️

30/10/2025

I'm really looking forward to teaching my free peri-menopause masterclass tomorrow, on the last day of Menopause Awareness Month.

31 October @ 14.00cet

This class is a 1-hour practical look at how we can optimise our energy, our hormones and our mental and emotional clarity during this powerful time of transition.

We NEED this information BEFORE we get de-railed by symptoms and start to feel as though we're going crazy. This is the class I wish I'd been able to go to a decade ago, when my body and mind began to change just after (and perhaps precipitated by) my move from the UK to Denmark, and the loss of my maternal grandmother. I was grieving the loss of a person I loved dearly and who'd meant the world to me, but I was also grieving the loss of a community and a job I'd loved. This all disguised the fact that under all this, my hormones were fluctuating wildly from one day to the next and my emotions and behaviour became almost unrecognisable to me, almost from one day to the next.

- emotional volatility: furious, frustrated, outraged...feeling tears well at what felt like 'minor' upsets
- aching hips and shoulders
- insomnia
- 4am anxiety and feelings of doom
- feelings of despair
- forgetting the names of things

This was just the beginning of my list and of course, it REALLY didn't help that I had no idea how much of this was related to the beginning of peri-menopause, because I HAD NO IDEA what that was!!

Now, a decade later - I'm going to share with you what I've learned, researched and tested. How to advocate for your own health and mental & emotional wellbeing and particularly, how to regulate and mitigate stress during this time of your life and how to eat and move to stay healthy and happy now, but also far into the future.

It's absolutely crucial that we're informed of what our changing bodies and minds need so we don't have to play catch-up or deal with poor health because of what we don't know.

If you'd like to join the conversation and feel empowered and more in charge of how your life looks and feels through menopause, join me to more. All the deets below and in my bio. (There's a replay, but only if you've registered).

Sending love 😘

17/10/2025

When perimenopause started for me, I had no idea what was happening.

Suddenly anxious, irritated, mood all over the place - even a frozen shoulder that no one connected to hormones.
I saw doctors, physios, specialists. Not one mentioned perimenopause.

After 25 years working with the body, I still didn't understand what was happening to me.
Now I know better.

This stage of life is our autumn - and just like the seasons, we're meant to change.

In Japan, they call menopause Second Spring, which captures something beautiful: this isn't decline, it's transformation.

But to feel that possibility, we need different tools.
We need to support our nervous system through these changes.
We need to understand that we're not broken - we're becoming.

Join me on 24th October at 14:00 CET for a FREE One-Hour Workshop where I'll share simple, practical tools to help you navigate this transition with RADICAL SELF CARE.

Because you deserve to feel empowered through every season of your life.
Link in bio to save your spot.

16/10/2025

Perimenopause brings change. And the brain hates change!

I know from my own journey and from working with hundreds of women that this stage of life can bring a barrage of uncomfortable or distressing symptoms: hot flushes, brain fog, weight gain, aches, anxiety and disturbed sleep are the least of them, though they are the ones we at least know about!

The symptoms themselves, and trying to understand what on earth is happening to us can feel both exhausting and disorientating and it all chips away at both our confidence and capacity just when we're at the top of our game - as women, business owners, leaders, mums, partners and breadwinners.

We need and deserve the support, information and tools to move through this NATURAL, BIOLOGICAL time of transition and change with grace and our marbles still intact.

That’s why I’ve created a free one-hour workshop for women 35+ who want to feel more informed and more empowered, clearer, lighter and more energised, even through the ups and downs of perimenopause and menopause.

You’ll learn how small, realistic lifestyle shifts can:

• Clear brain fog and sharpen your focus
• Boost your energy without sugar or caffeine crashes
• Support immunity and reduce inflammation
• Help you feel more at ease in your changing body

This is your invitation to pause, breathe, and take time for you.

Join me on Friday 24 October at 14.00CET (a replay is available if you can’t join live but you need to register).

Sending love
Fiona x

03/10/2025

World Menopause Month

The theme of world menopause month this year is Lifestyle Medicine.

So how do we empower and support ourselves through this powerful time of change and transition?

The truth is that menopausal women have got a lot of sh*t to deal with - now more than ever before in our history. We have so many different roles that we fulfil at this stage in our lives. We are business owners, career women. We are leaders and carers; We're mums of small children, as well as looking after elderly parents. We're homeowners with a mortgage to consider. We're worrying about inflation and pensions at the same time as trying to support our children through challenges in school.

And all this is against a backdrop of a constant barrage of information all day everyday... and it's relentless.

Never before have we been able to know - minute by minute - the intricate details of wars playing out on different continents, of political upheaval; of genocide.😢 And it's so hard not to get lost down the rabbit hole - because we care. Genetically, we're wired to be empathetic. ♥️

And amidst all the turmoil our bodies appear to be betraying us - hot flashes, aching joints, sleepless nights, crippling anxiety that comes out of nowhere at 4:00 in the morning is the least of it! 😳

Then there's the very significant brain changes that nobody told us about. Our brains are literally being pruned during perimenopause, but so many of us think they're going crazy because we literally lose a word mid-sentence or lose track of thought in the middle of a meeting or presentation... and it affects our self confidence. It affects our work and it affects our ability to enjoy life.

After over 8 years of going through this transition - I'm now 55 years old and still have my period regularly - I can safely say that I am an expert in perimenopause. I'm also an expert on the nervous system and somatic approaches to physical and mental health.

This month I'm going to be posting regularly on how we can support ourselves through this time. Culminating with a webinar on 24 October. Follow me to get the updates.

Let's do this together 🔥♥️

03/10/2025

STRESS BINGO - How many can you tick?

Full house?
Your nervous system's trying to tell you something.

The good news is that very single one of these can shift with the right tools.

21 days.
24 somatic practices.
5-15 minutes to learn the practices - and then rinse and repeat for a lifetime.

Sometimes just a couple of minutes is enough for your body to stop telling your mind it’s fighting for survival and to feel connected, calm and present.

Stop playing stress bingo.
Start feeling better.

Get your Somatic Stress Tool Kit - link in bio.

Because your body's keeping score, and it's time to reset the game.

This is the very best low-cost investment you’ll make this year. Made with YOU in mind… because you deserve to feel better.

love Fiona x

28/09/2025

It’s Sunday evening.
And you’re already dreading Monday.

The emails, the meetings, your boss who seems to think you don’t exist outside of the office, the school run… the endless juggling act starts again in approximately 10 hours.

And you’re already on edge.

Already worrying, planning and wondering how on earth you’re going to fit it all in.

You struggle to get to sleep and then wake at some point before your alarm drenched in sweat with a knot in your belly, tight chest and your mind already in top gear

It’s 5.35am and you know you’re going to struggle again today.

But what if Monday mornings didn't have to feel like going into battle?

The Somatic Stress Tool Kit gives you 21 days and a total of 24 practical tools to gently teach your nervous system how to switch off, how to feel safe and how to release the tension that send your mind into hyperdrive.

These are real techniques that work to create calm in the chaos. Because you can't control Monday, but you CAN control how your body responds to it. And that means a quieter mind, more space and more ease.

Take 5-15 minutes daily (or when you can) for just 3 weeks to shift from dread to ready. And recycling all the tools whenever you need them.

For life. Because regulation gives you freedom, space and hopefully a reasonably relaxing Sunday evening (NB - it’ll help your kids and your husband too)

Get your toolkit via the link in bio.
Make Sunday nights about rest, not resistance.

Sending love, Fiona x

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Behandlerkollektivet, Holger Danskes Vej
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Therapeutic Thai massage treatments and MFR (Myofascial Release Therapy) for both children and adults by RAB therapist in Copenhagen (Frederiksberg). Massage workshops and professional training throughout Denmark and abroad. Specialising in pregnancy & post-natal Thai massage. 1:1 Yoga classes (can be combined with massage) in English. Bookings through our website www.bodywisdomschool.dk