27/12/2025
Why I am no longer a trauma coach
This might surprise some people, but I want to say it clearly and gently.
I am no longer working as a trauma coach. Not because trauma isn’t real.
Not because the work isn’t important.
And certainly not because healing doesn’t matter.
It’s because I’ve lived what happens when we stay oriented around trauma for too long.
After my own nervous system crash, I learned something profound.
Healing doesn’t come from endlessly revisiting what hurt us.
It comes from feeling safe enough to be here now.
For a long time, my work focused on helping women understand their trauma responses, their nervous systems, their stories. That phase was necessary. Educational. Valid. Life-saving for many.
But there came a point where I could feel, in my body, that staying centred on trauma kept my system subtly orientated towards the past. And my body said, no more.
My happiest times this year have been work with others, chatting, laughing, exploring and I don’t want to spend my life dissecting pain, I want to cultivate aliveness.
Now, my focus is joy.
Presence.
Being in The moment
Gentle connection.
Laughter.
Movement.
Rest.
I am far more interested in who we become when we feel safe enough to exhale than who we were when we were surviving.
That’s why Nook & Nourish is becoming something different.
Not a programme.
Not a fixing space.
Not a place to tell your story again and again.
But a clubhouse.
A nook.
A place to just be.
More details to follow
A place where one can arrive exactly as they are, without labels, without goals, without needing to heal anything be sure maybe that’s not needed as you were never broken
Because sometimes the most regulating thing we can do is
sit together
Share a cuppa
move gently
feel the sun
and remember we are already here.
And for me this comes from deep lived experience as joy is not the opposite of trauma.
Joy is evidence that the nervous system is finally beginning to trust life again.
If you’re ready for less work and more being,
less digging and more delight,
you’ll understand why I’ve made this shift
