Midlife Bloom™
I created Midlife Bloom™ to offer more than just sessions, but spaces of deep witnessing, safety, and soul nourishment.
In a world where so many women are navigating midlife silently while caregiving, co-parenting, working, and holding it all, the weight becomes invisible, but heavy. The silence grows louder. We were never meant to do this alone.
When we feel safe, seen, and supported, something profound happens: oxytocin, the hormone of connection flows. Our nervous systems soften. Our hearts open. We begin to re-member ourselves through each other.
We are relational, nuanced, creative beings. Wired for belonging. Now, more than ever, we need spaces that honour that truth.
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Enhancing the Mind-Body Connection
You don’t have to do this alone.
Whether you’re navigating burnout, trauma, or simply craving reconnection, I’m here to walk beside you.
Reflexology for women’s health support.
Honouring the HPTAO Axis: Nervous System, Hormones & Healing Touch,
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Compassionate Inquiry.
Healing from the inside out, through presence, curiosity, and nervous system truth.
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A weekly sanctuary for midlife women to soften, be seen, and come home to themselves.
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Somatic workshops
Somatic Workshops at Vitruvian Wellness
Midlife Bloom™ | Somatic Embodiment & Nervous System Care
The Midlife Bloom™ Approach
Midlife Bloom™ | Somatic Embodiment & Nervous System Care
Reflexology for women’s health support.
Honouring the HPTAO Axis: Nervous System, Hormones & Healing Touch
Menopause is not simply a drop in hormones, it’s a full-body recalibration involving the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid-adrenal-ovarian (HPTAO) axis, the intricate hormonal network that governs stress, energy, metabolism, and reproductive function.
As this axis shifts in midlife, the body may express deep signals of dysregulation: sleep disturbances, anxiety, mood changes, fatigue, thyroid imbalances, adrenal depletion, and emotional intensities that seem to rise from nowhere. From a somatic and trauma-informed perspective, these symptoms are not random, they are intelligent communications from a body that is asking to be heard.
Stored stress, early attachment wounds, and long-held survival responses often live in the body’s tissues, nervous system, and breath patterns and during menopause, they tend to rise to the surface, no longer buffered by reproductive hormones.
This is where reflexology becomes a powerful tool for body-based healing.
Rooted in the wisdom of therapeutic touch, reflexology works by gently activating pressure points on the feet that correspond to organs, glands, and systems within the body — including the thyroid, adrenals, ovaries, pituitary gland, and digestive system. When held in safe, attuned presence, this work helps restore balance to the HPTAO axis, regulate the nervous system, and promote a deep sense of groundedness.
Combined with my training in Compassionate Inquiry® and somatic trauma recovery, reflexology becomes more than a treatment — it becomes a portal for reconnection. A way of tending not only to your symptoms, but to the emotional and energetic roots beneath them.
By targeting these reflex points, reflexology can help promote hormonal balance, which is especially beneficial during transitional phases such as menopause. Research has shown that reflexology may reduce menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, anxiety, and sleep disturbances (Wang et al., 2019). Additionally, reflexology supports the nervous system, aiding in stress reduction through lowering cortisol levels, as evidenced in studies demonstrating decreased salivary cortisol after treatment (Hamed & Mahmoud, 2017).
Moreover, reflexology has been linked to cardiovascular benefits, including improved blood pressure regulation (McCullough et al., 2014), making it a valuable adjunct therapy for women experiencing stress-related hypertension during hormonal transitions.
This holistic approach offers a gentle, non-invasive way to support the body’s natural healing processes, reduce physical symptoms related to hormonal imbalances.
This work invites you to
• Soothe the stress response and support adrenal recovery
• Rebalance the endocrine system, including thyroid and ovarian function
• Gently process emotional residue stored in the body
• Ease symptoms such as hot flushes, anxiety, brain fog, and insomnia
• Regulate the nervous system through touch, breath, and relational safety
• Reclaim your body’s wisdom during the menopause transition
“When hormones shift, your body speaks louder. Reflexology helps you listen with care.”
Book in person blended sessions at:
Down to earth London, N19 5AA
Vitruvian Wellness, Belsize Park, London NW3 2BE
Moon: Three Age Women’s Health, 63 Chetwynd Road, London NW5 1BX
Triyoga at various locations in London
Price: £85
Duration: 1 hour bespoke to client’s needs
Sacred Pause
A weekly sanctuary for midlife women to soften, be seen, and come home to themselves.
In a world that asks so much of us, there is power in pausing.
Sacred Pause is a weekly holding space for women moving through the thresholds of perimenopause, menopause, and midlife mothering
And all the tender unravelings in between.
A space to be witnessed without needing to explain.
To breathe a little deeper.
To be held, not fixed.
Each week, we gather in quiet reverence for our becoming.
This is a circle of truth, tenderness, and presence
We may gather to speak the unspeakable. To shed the masks. To rest in our realness.
This is not therapy. This is a witnessing.
A gentle co-regulation. A return to your voice, your body, your knowing.
Held in a trauma-informed field of compassion, rooted in presence, and open to all midlife women ready to soften and be seen.
Anchored in the Compassionate Inquiry approach and guided by somatic awareness, we slow down together, co-regulate our nervous systems, and honour the sacred messiness of midlife.
This is your soft place to land.
What to Expect
• A gentle, grounded opening practice to arrive in your body
• An optional sharing circle, no pressure to speak
• Trauma-informed witnessing, nervous system care, and soulful prompts
• Silence is welcome. Tears are welcome. You are welcome.
When & Where
Thursdays at 8 pm GMT (via Zoom)
60 minutes | Cameras optional
Free for 2 women each week, otherwise £15 per session
(Limited free spots fill quickly. Book early to reserve your place.)
The Compassionate Inquiry Method
Healing from the inside out, through presence, curiosity, and nervous system truth.
When the therapeutic relationship becomes a safe, attuned container, curiosity and compassion allow us to.
Explore the emotional wounds that shaped early adaptations
Recognize the survival beliefs we’ve carried since childhood
Feel the emotions we once had to suppress
Reconnect to our authentic voice, boundaries, and embodied self
Together, we uncover the mental climate, implicit memories, nervous system imprints, and unconscious stories that shape how you feel and who you believe you are.
Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades of clinical and retreat work, and further evolved into a training program by Sat Dharam Kaur ND.
It gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, emotional constriction, and internalized beliefs held in the body, often at the root of chronic stress, illness, addiction, anxiety, and hormonal dysregulation.
At Midlife Bloom™, I use this method to support women through the often misunderstood transition of perimenopause and menopause, a time when emotional memory stored in the body rises to the surface, asking to be witnessed, metabolized, and transformed.
As we bring these into awareness, what once felt fixed begins to soften. And from that space, a new way of being can emerge: one rooted in choice, freedom, expansion, and wholeness.
Menopause isn’t the end, it’s the sacred unveiling of the woman beneath the roles, beneath the survival patterns, beneath the story.
This is your Midlife Bloom. And Compassionate Inquiry is one of the tools we use to meet it with depth, grace, and healing.
The Midlife Bloom™ Approach
‘‘My trauma-informed practice is shaped by a whole-person understanding of health.”
“What rises now was once adapted for survival.
What you meet now can be reclaimed for wholeness.”
At Midlife Bloom™, I weave together the science of neuroscience, the knowing of the nervous system, and the compassion of trauma-informed presence to help you meet the deeper roots beneath your symptoms.
Using Compassionate Inquiry®, somatic practices, nervous system mapping, and body-based therapeutic tools, we create space to listen, not just to the mind’s stories, but to the body’s quiet truths.
This is not about managing menopause.
It’s about honouring it as a portal of awakening a place where biology, memory, and meaning intersect.
A Whole-Person Lens
My approach is grounded in the biopsychosocial model, meaning I don’t see symptoms in isolation, but within the full ecology of your life
Your biology and hormonal shifts
Your emotional imprints and early attachments
Your social and cultural landscape, including gendered expectations, intergenerational patterns, and inherited roles
Menopause is not just a hormonal event. It’s a relational and spiritual reckoning, one that often surfaces everything we had to suppress to survive.
Rooted in Compassionate Science
At Midlife Bloom™, I draw primarily from Polyvagal Theory and neuroception, which help us understand your body’s implicit cues of safety, danger, or overwhelm.
I also integrate neuroendocrine awareness to support the shifting hormonal terrain of perimenopause and beyond.
And I work through the lens of the ACE Framework, because early life stress leaves fingerprints on the nervous system that often show up most loudly during hormonal transitions.
The ACE Model: A Window Into the Past
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, first conducted by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente, uncovered a powerful link between early emotional wounds and long-term health challenges, including anxiety, depression, chronic illness, hormonal imbalances, and autoimmune conditions.
But your story doesn’t end with what happened.
The body, when met with safety, presence, and compassion, can soften, rewire, and transform.
ACE Questionnaire
This isn’t a diagnosis. It’s an invitation, to notice the nervous system patterns that shaped your life.
Before age 18…
Did a parent or other adult in the household often swear at you, insult you, put you down, or humiliate you?
Did they ever push, grab, slap, or hurt you physically?
Did someone at least 5 years older ever touch you sexually or try to?
Did you often feel unloved or emotionally insignificant in your home?
Did you experience hunger, neglect, or lack of protection or care?
Were your parents separated or divorced?
Was your mother or caregiver ever physically harmed or threatened?
Did you live with anyone who misused alcohol or drugs?
Was anyone in the home depressed, mentally ill, or suicidal?
Did a household member go to prison?
We also honour what didn’t happen:
The touch that wasn’t tender, the words that were never spoken, the feelings that had no place to go.
If you resonate with three or more ACEs, this work can meet you where you are.
But even one “yes” is enough to begin.
Because healing isn’t earned by how much you endured, it begins when you are finally, fully met.
Inside your body are stories, survival strategies, and sacred wisdom, waiting to be heard in the presence of attunement and care.
This is not about fixing you.
This is about reclaiming you, softly, steadily, from the inside out.
This is a 360° integrative approach:
Body. Mind. Nervous system. Soul.
This is your Midlife Bloom™.
This is the future of midlife care.
Somatic Workshops at Vitruvian Wellness
Midlife Bloom™ | Somatic Embodiment & Nervous System Care
I support women through trauma-informed, somatic, and body-based practices that gently guide you back home, to your body, to your breath, and to your wholeness.
As a Compassionate Inquiry® Practitioner and somatic coach, my offerings are rooted in nervous system awareness, emotional processing, and deep embodiment. I invite you into a sacred space, where survival responses soften, protective patterns unravel, and your inner truth begins to bloom.
This is the work of re-patterning. Of remembering. Of reclaiming.
Soma means body. So together, we listen.
We listen to the whispers beneath your symptoms, the language of sensations, images, emotions, impulses, clues from your nervous system that reveal where the past may still be living in your present. This is where the healing begins.
With tenderness and curiosity, we explore what’s ready to emerge, not by force, but by attuning to your body’s wisdom and allowing the pace of healing to unfold naturally.
You’ll be invited to step out of your story and into your body.
Out of the noise and into presence.
Beyond the masks and into what is real.
This is sacred worK, not about fixing, but about meeting.
Not about pushing, but about unfolding.
Not about perfection, but about permission.
Through our work, you’ll learn how to:
Name and gently explore your core wounds, trauma responses, and nervous system patterns
Cultivate safety through anchoring tools like orienting, movement, self-contact, breath, and education
Stay present with discomfort using the Sensation–Image–Behavior–Affect–Meaning (SIBAM) framework
Release stuck stress patterns and complete unfinished stress cycles
Experience the power of co-regulation in a trauma-informed, relationally safe space
Meet the unmet parts of you with curiosity and compassion
Themes we may explore together
Midlife reclamation & transformation
Inner child healing
Somatic boundary work
Embodiment as a daily practice
Locating the blocks to your authentic voice
The psychic residue trauma leaves in the body
How early imprints shape your present responses
Restoring the body, mind connection
Conscious reparenting and emotional integration
This is an invitation to rediscover who you were before your nervous system told you to survive.
My Role: A Body Wisdom Inviter
I won’t tell you who to be, but I will help you listen deeply to who you already are beneath the adaptations.
This is soul work, nervous system work, shadow work held with the utmost care.
Ready to begin?
Please visit my Holistic Health, Optimal Wellness | Vitruvian Wellness to learn about my latest September offering.
This is your soft place to land.
Let’s begin your journey inward.
Let’s bloom.
Ready to start your healing journey?
Not sure what’s right for you?
Let’s talk it through together.