Gather & Glow

26/11/2025

🕯️ Birthing by candlelight 🕯️

A little collection of thoughts, musings and insights all about pregnancy and birth that I think you might find useful along the way. This is my cosy winter series to help you prepare for birth feeling calm, confident, and truly ready.

But it’s all for YOU - What do you want to know about?

I’ll keep it short and sweet - not overwhelming but 100% helpful! Pregnancy questions, birth fears / wobbles, curiosity, excitement? — send everything my way! I’ll be answering your questions in the next recording.

💬 DM me
🎤 Leave a voice note
📝 Drop a question below

Let’s step into birth with clarity, confidence, and that inner spark still burning.

You can do this!

𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒆 𝒙

22/11/2025

It really does take a village who are full of love xx

22/11/2025

For anyone needing this over the weekend. ♥️

21/11/2025

I can make a difference to how you feel about having a baby.
Not by changing who you are… but by helping you feel supported in it.

Recently, a woman looked at me and whispered,
“There’s this little knot in my chest I can’t quite untie.”

She wasn’t being dramatic.
She wasn’t overly anxious.
She was just… human. Pregnant. Hopeful.
Carrying her questions; tucked close, hidden, a little heavy.

We sat together, and as she spoke honestly about her pregnancy and birth, I watched her body soften.
Not because I had all the answers, but because she didn’t have to protect her worries anymore.
She could lay them out like delicate pieces on a table, look at them clearly, and choose what truly belonged to her.

This, to me, is alchemy; transformation through being witnessed.
When fear loosens.
When confidence returns.
When a woman remembers she was never meant to do this alone.

If you’re holding quiet worries close… I’m here to support the kind of birth that feels yours — the one you envision, the one you deserve.

📲 My diary is open next week and I have a few spaces before Christmas too so we can make a plan just for you.

Send me a message or a voice note (I adore them!) and let’s change the way you think and feel about birth!

𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆,
𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒆 𝒙𝒙

19/11/2025

Please have your say - let them know your experiences

Your voice matters!
Dorset County Hospital is looking at reviewing their community maternity care and would love to hear from you.
Share your experience to help us make maternity services even better for families across our trust.

Please complete the form to share your views:
https://forms.office.com/e/qnpC9Zpz7N

Your feedback is confidential and used only to improve our care.

19/11/2025

19/11/2025

🌼 Pregnant in Blandford?

Let’s talk birth… over coffee + croissants.

Because learning how to feel calm, confident + in control shouldn’t feel clinical — it should feel cosy, friendly, and utterly empowering.

I’m hosting a **FREE** Hypnobirthing Coffee Morning + Taster Session at the beautiful new RUCO Café on Friday 28th November at 11am, and you’re invited to join me.
I’m a mother, birth cheerleader, writer, certified KGH hypnobirthing teacher, Founder of Gather & Glow and I can’t wait to show you how birth can feel safer, softer, clearer — and even enjoyable. Yes, really.

✨ At our little morning meetup you’ll learn:

💛 What hypnobirthing actually is (spoiler: not just breathing!)
💛 How to reduce fear + build trust in your body
💛 How partners can become powerful birth supporters
💛 Tools you can start using the moment you walk out the door

Plus… coffee on hand, pastries on plates, beautiful mamas in the room. A perfect chance to meet others and ask the real questions.

🌿 Limited spaces, so please book ahead (it’s free!)

📩 Drop me a message or tap the link in bio to claim your spot.

Let’s start your birth feeling informed, supported, and beautifully empowered.

Can’t wait to meet you there

𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒆 𝒙
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒍𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕

30/10/2025

✨ A thread between worlds… ✨

Today I learnt something new and wonderful: In Siberia, Nganasan women once marked the moons of their pregnancy not with words, but with stitches.
Each moon, a strip of colourful fabric sewn into their garments — ten moons in total — a living calendar of becoming. 🪡🌕

How beautiful is that? Their pregnancy worn as art, as ritual, as a remembrance.
Each colour, a whisper of transformation and each stitch, a moment of devotion, reflection and connection.

I love this so much — a reminder that your journey doesn’t need to be rushed or hidden, that it is uniquely yours.
You’re weaving something ancient, luminous, and entirely your own maybe even creating a keepsake for your baby.

Maybe your version isn’t thread and fabric — maybe it’s journaling, a weekly photo, a scent, a song but whatever it is, let it be a ritual of becoming and acknowledging of your pathway to motherhood.

19/10/2025

The bags are dusty, the heart’s wide open — and Honey Roads begins in South Africa 🍯
A new travel journal full of sunlight, soul, and wonderings in and about places new ✨

Come wander with me — first entry landing soon on Substack - link in bio if you want to follow along 💛