Dip Into Nature

29/12/2025

I’ve been doing some quiet reflecting lately.

The Year of the Snake has a way of asking better questions than we expect…. not what did you achieve? but what did you shed? What did you stop carrying? What no longer fits the person you’re becoming?

I didn’t choose a word last year, I needed to live it first. The law of attraction planner has really helped to keep me focused and grounded.

Over the past couple of months, I stepped back.
Not to disappear, but to rest, to listen, and to stop moving from urgency.

That pause mattered.

In the quiet, important things have been taking shape:
• I’ve been training and stepping into my role as a volunteer doula and enhancing my perinatal knowledge.
• I’ve been writing my book, slowly, honestly, and with care
• And I’ve been learning what it feels like to move from steadiness rather than survival, this has been my biggest shift!

As I step into 2026, my word is ANCHOR.

Not to hold myself back, but to move forward with depth, clarity, and intention.
To choose where I place my energy.
To stay connected to what matters, even as things shift around me.

What I’m leaving behind is urgency, over-giving, and proving.
What I’m carrying forward is steadiness, trust, and direction.

More to come. 🐍✨

08/12/2025

How are you getting out and about this Winter?

Some days in early motherhood feel heavier than others.
The darker mornings, the exhaustion, the noise, the weight of simply being needed, it all lands differently when you’re already stretched thin.
And then you step outside for a moment…
and your body does something before your brain even notices.
Your breath deepens.
Your shoulders drop.
Your nervous system goes, “oh… that helps.”
There’s real science behind that tiny shift.
Just 30 seconds outdoors can:
❄️ lower cortisol
🌬 stimulate the vagus nerve
☀️ boost your mood (even without sunshine)
👶 help regulate your baby’s nervous system too
Even in winter.
Even on your doorstep.
Even when you’re running on two hours of sleep.
That’s why I created Get Out, Get Grounded:- a gentle winter walking guide + pram tag designed for the mums who don’t have capacity for long walks or Perfect Motherhood™… but do need tiny, doable moments that support their body and bond.
Inside you’ll find:
🌿 5 grounding outdoor micro-moments
🌿 sensory cues you can use anywhere, the city, garden, doorstep
🌿 a free pram reminder tag for those “I forgot to breathe again” days
These aren’t tasks.
They’re invitations.
Little pockets of calm you can lean into when the world feels too loud.
If your mind or body is asking for a reset this winter, download your free guide + tag here:
👉 https://digital.dipintonature.co.uk/getoutgetgrounded
And if you’d like to connect with me over on Facebook, join me here:
👉 https://www.facebook.com/dipintonature
Because grounding doesn’t need more time…
just a moment to notice what’s already here. 💚

05/12/2025

✨ If you’ve completely missed what’s been happening over on Instagram this month, here’s the quick catch up… ✨

A group of us have come together to create a gentle Coping With Christmas calendar, a daily dose of support, comfort, and simple ideas to help you get through the festive season without feeling overwhelmed. 🎄💛

And because not everyone is on Instagram every day (or at all!), I’ve pulled everything together in one place for you.

✨ Coping With Christmas ✨

There’s now a dedicated branch on my Linktree with all the grounding, calming, and connection-focused support I’m sharing throughout December:

👉 https://linktr.ee/dipintonature

Each day this month, someone new is offering something supportive, from simple calming ideas to reflective moments, honest reminders, and practical tools that can genuinely help when everything feels a bit much.

Across the month you’ll find:
✨ People sharing their favourite ways to slow down and breathe
✨ Parents and professionals offering ideas that helped them through tough moments
✨ Gentle suggestions for soothing yourself and your little one
✨ Emotional support and reassurance for when you’re running on empty
✨ Little sparks of joy to bring some festive light into the harder days ✨

And from me, you’ll get grounding support, bonding ideas, and simple ways to steady yourself when Christmas feels heavy or hectic.

If you want a calmer, kinder festive season or just one place where everything feels supportive rather than overwhelming, come join us.

🎄 Visit: https://tr.ee/fbH_x2vfXs

04/12/2025

✨ I’m so excited to share this… it’s my day in the Advent Calendar! ✨

This month I’m part of the Coping With Christmas Advent Calendar!!

It's a beautiful collaboration of doulas, midwives, sleep consultants, perinatal specialists and maternal wellness practitioners, all coming together to support pregnant women and new mums through what can be a magical… but also incredibly overwhelming… season. 🎄💛

Every day in December, a different practitioner offers a free gift, something soft, supportive, practical or grounding because Christmas can be more difficult when you’re pregnant, postpartum, sleep-deprived, or carrying a story that still feels raw.

Today is my day.
I’m sharing something really close to my heart:

👉 Get Out, Get Grounded.. a gentle winter walking guide + pram tag
Created for the mums who feel tired, stretched, overstimulated, or just not quite themselves in the darker months.

A tiny pause outside can reset so much
Your breath, your mood, your nervous system,
even your bond with your baby.

You don’t need a forest.
You don’t need a long walk.
Just a moment.
And this guide helps you make the most of the ones you already have.

I’m genuinely so proud to be part of this collaborative circle of women who just get the heaviness, the beauty, the mess, the magic and are showing up every day this month to make things feel a little lighter for you.

If you’d love your free guide (and all the other beautiful gifts), the Advent Calendar is here:
✨ www.claudiasabinawellness.com/advent-calendar

Here’s to tiny resets, gentler days, and knowing you don’t have to navigate this season alone.
💚❄️

02/12/2025

I’ve not spoken a lot about my love of hillwalking as I had an injury and haven’t been on a summit since but this is local to me and a worth cause 🫶 ⛰️🚶‍♀️

07/11/2025

You haven’t truly lived until you’ve had a deep, soul-stirring conversation about birth… while half-naked with a paper towel spread your belly button for dignity. 😳😂

That was me today.

My beauty therapist and I always end up having the best chats!! The kind that start light and end up profound. We’ve talked about motherhood, mental health, conspiracy theories, identity… basically everything. Some people go to therapy. I go for a wax.

Anyway, I was telling her I’ve started training to become a doula.
It’s a volunteer role, but it feels like such a natural next step.
I’ve supported mums before and after birth for years, but this is a chance to be there in the moment to help women feel safe, heard, and supported no matter how they choose to give birth.

She got so excited and said, “Oh my god, I’ve always wanted to be a doula!”
And I said, “You’d be amazing!! You’ve got that calm energy, you make people feel comfortable and cared for…”
and before I could even finish, she goes

“I already look at vaginas all day anyway!” 😂
You know… whilst I’m on full show 😳

We both just lost it.
Like, full on laughing.

And you know what? She’s right in her own hilarious way.
Because what she does…
holding space and making people feel safe when they’re at their most vulnerable, it’s not that different at all.

Whether it’s a treatment room, a birthing suite, a kitchen table with a cup of tea or a late night phone call with a glass of wine… 🍷

Women’s work so often looks like that.
Quietly caring for each other.
Making each other feel seen.
Making each other laugh😂

“What’s the most unexpectedly deep conversation you’ve had mid-wax / massage / haircut? I can’t be the only one 😅”

06/11/2025

Have you noticed how easy it is to give other mums praise
but impossible to give it to yourself?

You’ll tell your friend, “You did your best,” and mean it.
But when it’s you, that same voice says,
“You should’ve done more.”

That’s the guilt talking.
And guilt can be sneaky...
it disguises itself as responsibility,
but really, it’s just self-punishment .

By the time you reach this part of the journey,
you’ve already done the hardest work:
you’ve faced what happened.
You’ve made peace with where you are.

Release is the moment you stop carrying guilt as your proof of love.
Because love doesn’t need guilt to exist.

You can hold compassion for who you were then
and pride for who you are now
at the very same time.

This is what healing looks like...
not chasing “better,”
but allowing “enough.”
Because you are GOOD ENOUGH!

🌊 Lantern 3 is RELEASE
Let the guilt go.
Keep the love.
You’ve always been the right mum for your child.

04/11/2025

What if healing isn’t about moving on…
but learning to rest in the middle of what still feels messy?

There’s a point in recovery where you realise you’ve been fighting so hard to “get better”
that your body hasn’t had a single chance to breathe.

You’ve read the books, talked it through, stayed positive...
but there’s still a tightness in your chest,
a deep fatigue that doesn’t lift,
and a voice inside that keeps whispering,
“You should be over this by now.”

That’s the moment this lantern begins...
ACCEPT: Calming the Waters.

Acceptance isn’t approval.
It’s not pretending it was okay,
or forcing yourself to feel grateful for what hurt you.

It’s reclaiming the energy that resistance has been stealing.
It’s where your nervous system finally exhales
because you’re no longer at war with yourself.

For second-time mums, this is where healing starts to turn inward and
where unspoken stories from the past stop shaping how you bond in the present.
It’s dropping anchor in rough seas,
not because the storm is over,
but because you’ve found somewhere safe enough to rest. 💛

So if you’re here, still healing, still messy, still trying...
pause before you scroll.

Breathe.

You’re not falling behind.
You’re learning how to rest.

✨ Follow along as I share the next lantern in the HARBOUR Method.

04/11/2025

You’ve spent so long holding it all together that even the thought of softening, of hoping, feels dangerous.
Because what if it hurts again?
What if believing things could be different only leads to more disappointment?

You’re not alone in that.
I remember what it felt like to lose all hope and to believe I would never feel ‘well’ again.
For a long time, I didn’t focus on thriving or healing. I just focused on staying alive.

Somewhere along the way, I don’t even remember when, I started to notice small shifts.
Moments where the heaviness wasn’t quite so heavy.
Where the light felt a little softer.
Where the thought of tomorrow didn’t feel quite so impossible.

And one day I realised that the hopelessness I’d been carrying had gone quiet.
That’s when I saw it...
All the people who had been holding hope for me
until I was strong enough to believe in it myself.

That’s what this lantern is about.
The flicker that returns quietly, tenderly, even when you thought it had gone for good.

Take a breath right now.
Notice what softens when you stop bracing for impact.
That’s hope moving in.
It doesn’t roar. It hums quietly beneath the noise,
waiting for you to listen.

If you don’t see it yet, I’ll hold it for you.
Because every safe return begins with a flicker
and that flicker is where healing begins.

That's it..
That’s your first lantern.
And over the next few days, I’ll be introducing the rest of the HARBOUR lanterns as
the steps that help you move from surviving… to truly feeling safe, connected, and whole again.

Follow along as we light the path home together. 🌅

23/10/2025

You look at your baby and think
I get to be the one who tells you who you are.

I get to show you that you’re safe.
That you belong.
That you are loved, not for what you do, but simply because you exist.

And maybe, in the process, I finally get to remember that for myself too.

Because every time you hold your baby close,
you’re not just comforting them, you’re shaping their story.
You’re teaching their nervous system what safety feels like.
You’re wiring in worthiness, calm, and connection with every heartbeat.

This is what it means to change the world
one held breath, one gentle whisper at a time.

You are raising a child who will grow up knowing:
✨ Their presence matters.
✨ Their voice deserves to be heard.
✨ They were born with something special to offer the world.

And the most beautiful part?
You don’t have to teach that through perfection.
You teach it through presence.

When you slow down.
When you breathe together.
When you choose connection instead of control.

That’s when it happens, That's the rewriting of generations.

Because you, right now, are the bridge.
You’re the one who gets to turn love into legacy.

And the more you believe that you are safe, enough, and capable,
the more your baby will grow up never needing to be reminded. 💛

✨ If this spoke to you and you want to explore this more,
head over to my blog where I share what it truly means to carry both the weight and the wonder of early motherhood.

https://www.dipintonature.co.uk/blogs/holding-more-than-a-baby

21/10/2025

A year ago, I joined Susan Payton Storytelling Mastery after taking part in her 5-day challenge.

That week completely shifted something in me.
I’ve always loved books. I’ve always loved stories.
But I hadn’t realised how powerful storytelling could be in business or how much it could change the way I connect with people.

One of the first exercises I did when I joined the program was The River of Life exercise, and it completely transformed how I saw my journey.
I became obsessed with it, exploring every bend, every moment, and pulling out so many stories I didn’t even know I was carrying. I even started pulling out the photo albums and the stories hidden within there.
And somewhere in that process, those stories started to come together in a way that inspired me to start writing my book, something I'd longed to do but never thought I’d actually do.

Then came my Dear Business letter. This was a moment that helped me fall back in love with my work and shaped the way I share my message today.

Since then, Susan has helped me refine and shape so many of my stories even guiding me through the full makeover of my Home and About pages.
It’s elevated my business, yes, but it’s also elevated me.

I've learned that every time I invest in my own growth, my clients grow too.
Every time I stretch myself, I’m able to hold them more deeply, see them more clearly, and support their transformation with even greater care.

That’s why I’ve just joined for another year! Not only for the masterclasses and storytelling tools, but for the space to keep learning, expanding, and connecting with the most supportive community.

It’s been one of the best investments I’ve made in myself, and in the women I’m here to serve.

✨ The next round of Storytelling Mastery is open now if you’re a business owner feeling called to find your own story and voice this is the perfect place to do that!

I do have an affiliate link (disclaimer) but I have spoken about this program so much (possibly more than my own at times) it's a great investment!
👉 https://dipintonature--thebusinessofstories.thrivecart.com/storytelling-mastery-5dc/?ref=dipintonature