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About
Doula Services
Massage and Reiki
The Food Doula
Blog
Birth Art Mandala and Belly Painting
Placenta Remedies
Contact

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Happy birthday to my Dylan! 12 epic trips around the sun for you my sweet boy, how lucky we all are to share the world with such a lovable, huggable rock star 🤘🎸💖🎂
#birthdaycake #layercake #candycake #birthdayboy #birthdaymemories

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Shared doula support 💖
A little while ago I had the honour of offering a shared Doula support package for the amazing @tammysyoga with my doula wife @sacredmotherhoodjourneys
Lucky us!
Tammy wrote a fantastic blog on her experience of hiring doulas, in fact she has written lots of interesting and beautiful content for mothers. It was an honour and a joy to work with Tammy offering her all we could to support her so that she could meet her baby in the most loving way possible, what a journey becoming a mother of two! It truly takes a village and I hope that our shared support offered that sense of the village that we all need during these transitions.
#Repost @tammysyoga (@get_repost)
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I’m often asked, “so what does a doula actually do?” The answer in a nutshell is that they are a birth support worker whose intention is to serve and protect mother, baby and family during pregnancy, birth and postnatally. This can involve many things, physical, practical, emotional, energetic, psychological and spiritual in nature. It’s effectively yoga in action. Check my Blog article to find out more and read about my personal experience of the Doula’s I had support me. @sacredmotherhoodjourneys and @doulagemma made my journey into 2nd time motherhood a grounded, healing and enlightening process that I’m forever grateful for. Link in Bio @tammysyoga ☝️. #doula #doulauk #yoga #doulaeastsussex #doulabrighton #doulahove #sussexdoulas #birthdoula #motheroftwo #ittakesavillage #motherhood #brightonbirth

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Colonial kedgeree
A spin on kitchiri from the days of the British empire. The British felt the need for meat or fish with their brunch so the simple rice and lentil kitchiri wasn’t enough. Since the Indian chefs always bought fish first thing in the morning and with no refrigerators the fish needed to be eaten by noon, so this dish sorted both issues no rotting catch and no vegetarianism for the Raj.
I love this dish with its warming spices , so comforting and full of goodness. I often prefer to add salmon over haddock, with a big sprinkle of coriander and fresh chilli, topped with a hard boiled egg and crispy fried onion it’s the perfect weekend brunch.
#colonial #kedgeree #saturdaybrunch #postnatalfood #rajkitchenrecipe #healingspices #brunch #fooddoula #indianbrunch #fishdish #familydish

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❤️Sometimes simply pausing is enough.
I was reminded this week that during a massage sometimes the most important part of the whole experience can be the pause. A firm, loving and reassuring touch or hold while I wait for the body to talk, just simply listen and breath. The deep breath we take together in between movement as the body releases is a profound conversation and as important as any technique I use. In Jing we are taught ‘listening touch’ and it really is so valuable. 💖 Simply pause, hold, breath and connect 💖
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths”
Etty Hillesum
#massage #listeningtouch #breathe #fascialrelease #holdandrelease #touchheals #thebodytalks #healingjourney #postnatalmassage

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We love the humble cookie in my house, so many variations to enjoy with this wonderful little treat. There are rules however, whereas the adults of the house will enjoy variations with fruit, nuts and oats the children of the house will only tolerate chocolate! The perfect cookie in my son’s
opinion is warm from the oven and gooey in the middle with chunks of chopped dark chocolate NOT CHOCOLATE CHIPS
We simply cannot understand those people who prefer a crunchy cookie (who are you people?) I’m quite convinced that this simply can’t be true. One of my favourite little treats is the simple joy of a soft cookie carefully dunked in a warm drink, imagine my disappointment yesterday at spending over £2.00 on a dry as hell, crumbly chocolate cookie from a cafe to have with my after work coffee! I was absolutely fuming, honestly £2.00?! Once I returned home I felt the need to remedy the experience with a batch or two of chocolate chunk cookies.
#baking #chocolatechunkcookies #thismotherbakes #thejoyofbaking #cookies #cookiesofinstagram #simplejoys #bakingistherapy #lovetobake

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❤️The return to nourishment ❤️
I hope you have all had a cosy festive season, for many of us it’s back to the normal flow of life as of tomorrow, maybe already this week. For me returning to normal flow means nourishing and caring for some well deserved mothers. Tomorrow I will be providing nourishment, massage, ritual flower bath and lots of well deserved mother love! As we all know it’s so often mothers that make Christmas so let me make your morning at least!
After the heavy festive feasts a beautiful cleansing ginger chicken broth feels needed (a firm favourite)
A kitchiri and the comfort of some nutritious oaty lactation cookies. There’s much more of course but that’s to come!
#postnatalnutrition #nourish #whofeedsmama #feedher #postpartumnourishment #sacredpostpartum #sacredpostnatal #thisismotherhood #motherhoodrising #ritual #postnataldoula #broth #lactationcookies #chickenginger

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Here’s my top 9 of 2019 according to topnine. Heart expanding rediscovering these wonderful moments! This year has been deep, delicious, magical, exhausting in parts and full of profound lessons and amazing people. These pictures show me
❤️ The many chances I’ve had to empower women and share in their journeys. Deep and powerful experiences and wonderful women. ❤️The joy of offering and enjoying ritual and journeying deeper into my sacred postnatal offerings ❤️ The reminder to not trade my authenticity for approval and to empower my clients to do the same. Truly living this included me sharing more of my time and heart with likeminded people, wonderful friends and doula sisters ❤️ Of course how could I forget the glorious vagina museum. An amazing step into educating and empowering! ❤️ The honour of supporting many births this year. This photo in a birth room sitting at the feet of a goddess and basking in the glory of her fresh and beautiful home birth! Do I need to say more other than more of this in 2020 please!
❤️I took part in an instagram challenge this year from @socialmums and it was a veryreflective and helpful time. it was great to see so many wonderful mothers out there offering amazing gifts, women are amazing has been a recurring theme this year! ❤️ I have enjoyed offering so much ritual this year, birth vision and mandalas, sacred postnatal and more. Weaving a little more ritual into my birth and postnatal packages has been special. ❤️ Taking time to reflect and recharge has been a lesson I learn and re learn constantly, dont we all? Enjoying simple days of ritual and trusting deeply during my more quiet work periods. ❤️ Lastly, giving nourishment, so much deeper than simply giving food. One of my biggest joys is nourishing new mothers and the people in my life, it’s something I have done a lot of this year. I have provided more postnatal nourishment packages than ever and have developed so many new treats, meals, essences and remedies. More of this in 2020 please!
#top9of2019

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I am so feeling this @rising woman! In praise of all the strong women in my life ❤️
I’m a very emotional person, I feel a lot, like to cry and would generally be described as sensitive sometimes even ‘delicate’. I am a big believer in feeling what you feel when you feel it and am pretty much an open book. In the past I would try and hide my ‘too muchness’, not wanting to inconvenience anyone with my emotions, like many of us I’m sure. Over time and especially since working in the world of birth and motherhood I’ve come to discover this, beautifully summed up by Daisy Buchanan: “Our sensitivity is a sign of deep passion. It isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s pure fire.” There is a lot of strength in vulnerability, I find myself saying this often.
When I praise the strength of women I’m not using the old fashioned masculine measure. I’m praising the strength of a woman that shares and experiences all that she is, the honesty of raw emotion, the fire of tears, pain, joy and the bravery of embracing that in a world that urges us to repress messy, inconvenient and real feelings. I admire a woman that has the strength to cry when she’s sad, to ask for what she needs and the strength to take it, to fall into someones arms and be held without apologising. I admire women who make safe spaces for others to feel and to be held. To be sensitive in what can often feel like a very tough world is to be strong. To allow ourselves to experience the full rainbow of emotions is healthy and makes for deeper healing and a healthier life for everyone, when we repress we get stuck, it’s flat out unhealthy so let it all flow, all the elements that make wonderful magical you. #motherhoodrising #feelwhatyoufeel #emotionalhealth #stongwomen #womanrising #feelingstrong #emotionsmatter #strengthinvulnerability #youmatter

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