"A healer does not heal you. A healer is someone who holds the space for you while you awaken your inner healer, so that you may heal yourself"
Before I became a mother I expected my life to change.
When I was pregnant I moved house, signed up for antenatal classes to make new friends, even took a Hypnobirthing course! I was focused on the birth and not much beyond that. I did ALL the things to have an amazing birth.
Birth itself is a Rite of Passage. And it’s one that we don’t really acknowledge in our modern world. So I didn’t know that I needed to prepare for it. I didn’t realise that everything that needed to heal would come up for me. And I didn’t have the professional support I really needed as I transitioned through.
"Helen holds a space that allows other people to open up about themselves and what they are going through, through her own open spirit. Her being authentically herself with her own energy is healing for people in and of itself."
Since having my son, 10 years ago, I have been on a journey of healing and discovering the new version of myself that includes being a mother. To make space for motherhood I had to be completely changed. We often hear about “getting back to normal” after having a child, but there really is no going back. Each birth we go through changes us fundamentally. This is what makes each birth a Rite of Passage. And this is why I had to explore myself to discover this new version of me.
"It is said that women in labour leave their bodies - they travel to the stars to collect the souls of their babies, and return to this world together”
Qualifications
4 Seasons Journey
Jane Hardwicke Collings - School of Shamanic Womancraft
February 2023
Mizan Therapy for Pregnancy & Postnatal
Mizan Foundation
June 2022
Mizan Therapy Practitioner
Mizan Foundation
March 2022
Journey to Mastery (Reiki Master)
Louise Carron Harris - Medicine Woman
September - December 2020
BirthBliss Academy Doula Training
Kicki Hansard’s BirthBliss Academy (Doula UK Accredited)
February 2018
HypnoBirthing Practitioner Training
Marie Mongan’s UK HypnoBirthing Institute
September 2014