The Clear Space

The Clear Space Creating space for connection, wellbeing, and community, through meditation, sound, ritual, spirituality, and nature. Working in Birmingham and beyond.

03/12/2025

The Morrígan is known as the Shadow Queen or the Phantom Queen. She is a being of many faces and shifting forms. She appears on the edges of battlefields as a crow, a wolf, an eel, a woman and a crone. She is the watcher at the thresholds between life and death.
Through her sister-aspects, other Irish goddesses that are thought to be linked to or different expressions of The Morrigan, she embodies the power of fertility, destruction, sovereignty and renewal, as threads of the same unending cycle.

In the Morrigan’s cosmology we can find archetypal energies. As I share these with you, can you notice where they land on your body?

The Void: the liminal space before transformation, a formless expanse that’s filled with the potential of the great unknown.

The Womb: the space of all becoming, regardless of gender. Creation pulses and the seeds of transformation take shape.

The Sovereign: the space of power, assertion and active transformation. The part of us that leads the way, not through domination, but through clarity of vision and strength of presence.

The Call of The Morrigan is is an guided audio embodiment practice, exploring the archetypal energy of the Morrigan and her sister aspects.

The full practice is part of my sacred somatic journey’s series and you can find a 15 minute sample on my Patreon. If you’d like to explore it, and other practices to support you to inhabit your body, attune to the rhythms of nature and explore the archetypal landscapes of your inner life, head to the link in my bio.

Feeling your feelings sounds like it should be instinctive. But for so many people, especially those with trauma histori...
02/12/2025

Feeling your feelings sounds like it should be instinctive. But for so many people, especially those with trauma histories, neurodivergence, high sensitivity, or learned emotional suppression from childhood, “feel your feelings” can be confusing, overwhelming, or even triggering.
If you’ve ever thought:
* “I don’t know what I feel.”
* “I can feel it, but it’s too much.”
* “I feel nothing, I’m just numb.”
* “If I let myself feel this, I’ll fall apart.”
…you’re not alone. And nothing is wrong with you.

We often use the words emotions and feelings as if they mean the same thing, but in neuroscience, they’re actually two different steps in your brain’s reaction processing.

Think of it like this:

An emotion is your body reacting.
A feeling is your mind noticing.

Emotions are body-based events; waves of physiological change involving the nervous system, the endocrine system, and brain processing.

Emotions are the quick, automatic reactions that your brain creates before you’re even aware anything is happening.

Check out the carousel or head to the post on my blog to learn more!

29/11/2025

Some thoughts on making offerings trauma informed: ask participants about their access needs, offer several alternatives for different aspects of practices, give people permission to turn their screens off /leave the space to use the bathroom / attend to other needs / don't rely on delivering training by just talking at people because some of us find it hard to hold our attention... and I'm sure there's more but my brain is already tired after 1/2 a day of training

28/11/2025

Reflections on capacity as an AuDHD perimenopausal person. It's a lot.

AUTUMN GIVEAWAYTo honour this season of descent, and stillness I'm gifting one person The Autumn Collection from my Sacr...
27/11/2025

AUTUMN GIVEAWAY

To honour this season of descent, and stillness I'm gifting one person The Autumn Collection from my Sacred Somatic Journeys series. The collection includes five immersive, audio-guided practices designed to ground you into the rhythms of the earth. This is your invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and align your body with the turning of the year.

Inside the Autumn Collection you’ll find:

1 x Embodied Ceremony
* Honouring the Ancestors, a grounding ritual for release, reflection & renewal.

2 x Embodied Archetype Journeys
* The Myth of Persephone, exploring themes of descent, thresholds, shadow and initiation.
* The Call of The Morrigan exploring themes of power, sovereignty, creation and the void.

2 x Embodied Nature Journeys
• The Sitting Place in Autumn exploring land-based presence through the senses.
• Leaning Into Darkness exploring night, boundaries and deepened awareness.

Each journey is designed to bring you home to your body, deepen presence and reconnect you with the cycles that sustain life.

Terms & Conditions
* No purchase necessary.
* Open worldwide, 18+
* Open internationally to participants aged 18+.
* Giveaway closes 23:59 (your local time) on 5 December.
* One winner will be chosen at random from all eligible entries.
* To be eligible, participants must: follow the account, tag at least one friend, and comment as described above. Story shares count as an additional entry if the post is tagged so it can be viewed.
* This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram.
* The winner will receive digital access to The Autumn Collection – Sacred Somatic Journeys. No cash alternative is available.
* The winner will be contacted via direct message from this account only.
* By entering, participants agree to these terms.

We hear so much in new-age spirituality about ascension; rising above, transcending, being “higher” than the messiness o...
26/11/2025

We hear so much in new-age spirituality about ascension; rising above, transcending, being “higher” than the messiness of being human.

I’m currently reading The Journey of Soul Initiation by Bill Plotkin, and it’s given me language for something that’s woven through the work I do; something I’ve felt for a long time but never had a clear framework for.

It’s the idea of inscension versus ascension.
Not escaping the human experience but sinking into it.

Into the body, the instincts, the shadow, and most importantly, into our connection with the Earth.

Inscension is a return to the Earth.
To the soil, the seasons, the cycles that shape us.

Because going inward is remembering that we’re part of a living system that breathes us, feeds us, holds us. Read more in the post.

24/11/2025

Have you ever wondered why certain stories feel like they’re speaking directly to you?
In this series, I’m diving into Archetypes; the mythic patterns that show up everywhere from psychology to ancient stories.
If you missed my last video, definitely check it out so you can follow the full thread.
Today, I’m bringing a mythological lens to archetypes; let’s explore a mythical archetype together and break it down.

19/11/2025

We all love a good story. Whether that’s an epic tale that transports us into another world, or a fairytale that inspires our imagination, stories invite us to connect with experiences outside of our own. They often also reflect something back to us that can reshape our sense of who we are. Within every story that exists, you’ll find archetypes; patterns that are thought to live within the human psyche, that shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. In this series I'm exploring archetypes, from the psychological to the mythical and spiritual.

I wanted to share I wanted to share some recent feedback from clients and people I’ve held space for or supported. It’s ...
18/11/2025

I wanted to share I wanted to share some recent feedback from clients and people I’ve held space for or supported. It’s always beautiful to hear about the impact my work is having and I’m very grateful to be able to walk alongside people on their journeys of self discovery and healing.

It’s always beautiful to hear that my work is having an impact and I’m very grateful to be able to walk alongside people on their journeys of self discovery and healing.

In this feedback, and other feedback from clients, I hear themes of nourishment, safety, calm, and connection. Of feeling welcomed as they are, supported through the tender bits, and being invited (never pushed!) into practices that help them to root back into themselves and the living world.

My work blends psychology, counselling and somatic trauma therapy, embodiment, neuroscience, ritual and nature connection. I’m grateful that my approach feels accessible, grounding, and real.

If you’ve worked with or been supported by me and you’d like to leave some feedback, you can get in touch directly or drop a comment.

17/11/2025

Fancy exploring my sacred somatic journey series? This month we'll be connecting with the archetypal energies of The Morrigan, one of my favourite Irish goddesses. Through her story we'll explore the archetypes of the void, the womb and the sovereign. My nature practice this month explores leaning into darkness: can embody the dark and our own fears that might confront us there. Each of these somatic practices is designed to be downloaded: no screens, just me as your guide, along with your body and your senses. These practices explore archetypes, ritual and nature and I'm excited to share them with you. I'll be sharing more about the Morrigan very soon.

One of the most transformative lessons in trauma recovery,  and one I wish I’d known at the start of my own journey, is ...
11/11/2025

One of the most transformative lessons in trauma recovery,  and one I wish I’d known at the start of my own journey, is that the body remembers. Our stories don’t just live in our minds; they’re woven through our muscles, breath, and nervous systems. Babette Rothschild, who coined that phrase, also reminds us: “Don’t hit the gas pedal until you can hit the brakes.”

In trauma therapy, safety is the brake. Before we can process memories or make sense of the past, our body needs to know it’s safe in the present. This is why so many trauma-informed and somatic approaches focus on grounding, resourcing, and nervous system regulation before starting to explore trauma. Safety isn’t a concept, it’s a felt experience. 

Many of us begin therapy wanting to understand our patterns or release what’s been held for too long. And while the talk-based modalities that I work with along side body and nervous system approaches can bring profound insight, if we dive into processing trauma too quickly, before the body feels steady, we risk feeling flooded, numb, or even re-traumatised.

Slowing down, learning to listen to what the body needs, and building regulation skills allows integration to happen gently and sustainably.
If you’re beginning or deepening your healing journey, try starting with safety:

* Identify what brings grounding and sensory connection to the here and now.
* Identify “anchors”. The people, places, or experiences that help you to feel supported.
* Remember that pacing is important. Small, steady steps create lasting change.
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Finding more stability is not a race toward release, but a gradual return to connection; with your body, your self, and your sense of safety in the world.
Explore my full post on Trauma for more reflections and gentle practices to support nervous system safety in trauma healing.

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