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“We don’t just treat symptoms; we tend the roots. Healing is slow, deep, and beautifully messy, but it’s yours.” (Sudden Unexcepted Death from Epilepsy).

Michelle thought she had the perfect life, recently married to her teenage love, they had bought their first home and had just given birth to her first son. It couldn’t have been any better with plans afoot to launch a new family business too. The first month of being a New Mum was blessed, however 5 weeks later, Michelle’s life came crashing down, when her sister, Diane (20) was found dead in her sleep, unexpectedly from SUDEP. The last spoken words remembered were a sibling squabble. She just didn’t want to be here anymore and the struggle to get up and show up everyday for her baby was exhausting. Michelle got up everyday and carried on as ‘normal’. 15 months after losing her sister Michelle welcomed her second son into the world and for a while her 2 babies kept her busy emotionally and physically. However, everything was more removed from normal than ever. The loss of her sister had unlocked hidden memories of being abused as a young child by her Grandfather. Over the years, the grief and trauma was having a deeper impact on her marriage. Michelle was diagnosed with PTSD and took antidepressants to numb the feelings of life. After years of fundraising and raising awareness of SUDEP, working in the family business and being a full time Mummy, the marriage sadly didn’t survive. Michelle realised that she had always put herself at the bottom of the pile, that old saying “you need to put your oxygen mask on first” could not have been more true. After years of personal development, Michelle found her true passion and mission in life. In 2015, Michelle started helping bereaved siblings through their grief journey. Sibling grief is unique and the journey can be lonely and fraught whilst trying to stay strong for other family members.

06/09/2025

Why I No Longer like Using the Words Trauma or Healing 🤷‍♀️

For a long time, I spoke about my past in terms of trauma and healing. But what I’ve come to realise is that those words kept me circling back, stuck in old stories rather than living in the present.

Yes, horrid and vile things happened. But the freedom is in recognising that my life is mine and I get to decide the part I play.

Today, I choose to follow my purpose. To explore my birth timeline, trust my gut, and take action especially when it feels scary.

I believe we come here to live with joy. The dark times? They’re not punishments. They’re blocked paths. And when we listen inwards and shift direction, the way forward gets lighter.

This is where I am now choosing courage, action, and joy.

05/09/2025

At Nook & Nourish, we believe healing isn’t one-dimensional. It’s a gentle blend of therapy, colour, movement, breath, and the simple act of gathering in a safe space.

💗 The colours we use the pinks and oranges that have carried me through my own journey aren’t just decoration. They are medicine for the soul. They remind us of warmth, joy, creativity, and connection.

The therapy we offer whether fascia release, trauma-informed coaching, or somatic practices is about guiding you back to wholeness in your own body. We meet you where you are, and together we create space for release, safety, and growth.

And now, something new is coming to our Nook… Meditation Evenings.

A chance to step away from the noise of life, slow down, and reconnect with your breath and your heart in community. These evenings will be simple but powerful a space to rest, restore, and return home to yourself.

Because healing isn’t about doing more. It’s about being. About colouring your life in your own unique way. About allowing the body and mind to remember their natural rhythm.

Nook & Nourish is here to remind you you’ve always been whole.

Coming soon: Meditation Evenings at the Nook.

Keep an eye out for details we’d love to welcome you.

29/08/2025

Who are we really?

There was a time when I thought my worth was measured by how much I did for others. If I kept serving, pleasing, showing up, then maybe I would be loved. Maybe I would feel safe.

But what I didn’t realise was the quiet cost to myself. Living in constant service began to hollow me out. My body grew tired, my heart heavy, and my sense of self blurred. I was always doing, but rarely just being.

And then came the healing years. The books, the courses, the therapies, the endless search to fix what I thought was broken. But somewhere along the way I noticed that even in “healing mode,” I was still chasing something outside myself. My nervous system never got to rest. It only learned the message: you are not whole yet.

One day I asked myself:
🦞What if I stopped?

🦞What if healing wasn’t about fixing, but about allowing myself to live?

🦞What if joy and laughter and connection were as much medicine as tears and processing?

That question changed everything.

Now, I’m learning that creating space for myself doesn’t mean I am selfish. It means I am alive. It means I get to enjoy the human experience, I love simple things like walking by the sea, feeling sunshine on my skin, laughing until my belly aches, without carrying the guilt that I should be doing more, or fixing more, or serving more.

I am not broken. And neither are you.

We don’t always need to heal. Sometimes we just need to live.

18/08/2025

This is true post traumatic growth as today is a date I shall never forget.

Here are 10 things I “did wrong” in my marriage (though I’d call them survival strategies that eventually stopped serving me):
1. I put his needs above my own and I learned to shrink myself to keep the peace.

2. I stayed quiet when my body screamed “no”. My nervous system knew, but I overrode it.

3. I tried to be the “good wife”. Playing a role society expected, instead of my true self.

4. I tolerated behaviour that chipped away at me. Because leaving felt scarier than staying.

5. I thought love meant sacrifice. I forgot love should feel safe, not draining.

6. I avoided conflict to keep harmony. Which meant my voice and truth got buried.

7. I ignored my body’s whispers. Anxiety, weight shifts, exhaustion, signs I wasn’t being nourished.

8. I forgot my own dreams. His path became the main path, while mine gathered dust.

9. I confused loyalty with losing myself. I stayed longer because I thought that’s what “commitment” meant.

10. I didn’t know then what I know now. About fascia, trauma, nervous system regulation, and how to truly listen to my inner self.

💡 But those “wrongs” were not failures, they were lessons. They’re what gave me the wisdom to do what I do now at Nook and Nourish.

Happy I met you 32 years ago day
Happy we got married 24 years ago day

Happiest, that reunion led to 2 amazing sons and that is called post traumatic growth

16/08/2025

There are no ordinary moments in life.

Every single one is a message, a lesson, a nudge from the universe. Even the ones that feel hard, unfair, or like doors slamming in our face.

What if instead of asking “Why me?” we softened into “Maybe this wasn’t for me…” not that easy when you’re on the middle of the s**t storm I hear you shout back at me

No indeed it’s not 🫣

Because sometimes the universe redirects us. Not to punish us, but to protect us. To guide us to something more aligned, more nourishing, more deeply ours.

When we stay open, even the smallest moments , a smile exchanged with a stranger, the way the light hits the trees in the morning sunrise, a conversation that shifts us,become extraordinary.

Nothing is wasted. Nothing is ordinary. It’s all part of our unfolding to becoming

15/08/2025

Nourishment starts with the way we speak to ourselves 🤦🏻‍♀️

The words we use with ourselves aren’t just fluffy affirmations or passing thoughts they’re instructions to our body.

From childhood, the way we were spoken to by parents, teachers, and peers begins to carve neural pathways in the brain. If those words were loving and encouraging, they built bridges to confidence and safety. If they were critical or shaming, they left grooves that wired us for fear, doubt, or hypervigilance.

Here’s the thing, your nervous system and even your fascia remember those words.

• Harsh self-talk can keep your body in a low-grade stress state, tightening fascia and keeping you in fight-or-flight.

• Gentle, compassionate language can signal safety, softening fascia and allowing the body to release tension.

• Repeating empowering words over time creates new neural pathways, reshaping how you think, feel, and move through life.

Changing the way you speak to yourself isn’t just “positive thinking” it’s deep nourishment for your mind, body, and spirit.

This September, at Nook & Nourish, we’re starting with language. We’ll explore how to rewire your self-talk, soften your fascia, and create safety in your body with the words you choose.

You can Start today; pick one loving phrase you wish you’d heard as a child, and say it to yourself in the mirror every morning for the next week. Your nervous system will thank you. Love Michelle 🫶🏼

14/08/2025

Feeling validated, heard and healthy during menopause is every woman’s right.
What’s gone wrong?

06/08/2025

What is self-nourishment?

It’s more than what we eat.

It’s who we spend time with.
It’s what we feed our minds.
It’s how we speak to ourselves.
It’s the air we breathe, the pace we walk, the boundaries we hold, and the rituals we keep.

At Nook & Nourish, we hold space for women ready to feel again, not just numb the symptoms of weight gain, anxiety, low mood or self-doubt, but to listen to what their bodies have been trying to say.

Because we don’t just “look” at the symptoms.
We get to the root.

We work with the nervous system.
We move the fascia.
We learn how to feel safe again, in our own skin.
We unravel patterns of stress, stuck emotion, trauma and shutdown… gently, compassionately, and with a roadmap.

This is nourishment.
This is the reclaiming.
This is why women come through the doors at Nook & Nourish and why they leave feeling lighter, more themselves, and less afraid of the truth their body holds.

It’s not about willpower or being “good” it’s about remembering you were never broken to begin with.

🧡 If you’re feeling ready to begin, or begin again…
Doors reopen this September.
Your space is waiting.

31/07/2025

When work looks like this…
Cake, coffee and great conversations with strangers, journal open, matcha in hand.
A soulful corner of my favourite coffee shop and oh my the most delicious cake.
No hustle.

This is where the magic brews, in the pauses we choose.

I used to think productivity had to look a certain way.
Structured. Measured. Always doing.
But healing has taught me that allowing is a form of action too.

When I stop trying to control every outcome, something deeper comes alive.
Clarity. Calm.
A feeling of being in step with something greater.

Sometimes the most aligned thing we can do is go off-grid
Not disappearing, just detaching from the pressure to perform.
To breathe. To reconnect. To trust.

Because the nervous system knows when it’s safe to bloom.
And today, at The Pink Cabbage coffee shop , I let myself bloom a little

09/07/2025

One Last Run (Or Maybe a First)

This morning I went for a run.

Nothing unusual, same trail, same rhythm, same familiar bends and trees. I’ve run this route hundreds, maybe even thousands of times. But today was different. Today, I realised that in four weeks’ time, this path won’t be on my doorstep anymore.

And that stopped me in my tracks.

I sat on a bench THE BENCH, the same one where I told my ex we were pregnant with our first child. That moment, that life, that version of me… all held in this place. And now, as I prepare to move on, the emotions are a tangle: sadness, elation, fear, and the quiet whisper of excitement.

This isn’t just about moving house. It’s about moving through another threshold as a woman. Facing empty nest. Facing the unknown. And most poignantly, facing myself.

Because as women, we so often put others’ milestones first, babies, partners, parents. But what about our milestones? What about when the trail we’ve run for years ends, and a new one begins?

It’s wobbly. It’s muddy. It’s frightening.
But here’s what I know from deep within my soul, from all the healing work I’ve done and offered:
You are not sinking. You are rising.

So if you’re standing at a turning point, heart thudding, unsure where the next step leads know this:
It’s okay to be scared. It means you’re on the edge of something meaningful.

Grasp the unknown with both hands and both feet. Let the tears come. Let the wind meet your skin. And step forward, one foot, then the next.

This is your life now.
And it’s going to be beautiful in a brand new way.

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