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Tuesday 9:30am - 2:30pm Wednesday 9:30am - 2:30pm Thursday 9:30am - 2:30pm Friday 9:30am - 2:30pm Saturday 2pm - 5pm

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Star and Well

A place to find your way + fill your cup.

Doula Support~Women's Community~Mizan Therapy
Birth Story Listening~Deep Healing

Join our free FB groups:
Birth Healing (for parents and professionals)
The Red Thread NE Women's Circle (in person events)

08/12/2025

Blowing away the cobwebs after 5 days stuck in caring for 2 with flu. Love + solidarity to all dealing with similar. ♥️

03/12/2025

♥️ this - if you’d like to know more, feel free to dm me.

🌿 Why So Many Parents Are Tired of Birth Debriefs

There’s a quiet shift happening in the birth world right now.

Parents are saying:

“I talked through the notes… but I don’t feel any better.”
“I understand what happened medically… but something still doesn’t feel right.”
“I’ve told the story so many times, and it still sits in my chest.”
“I’m tired of talking about it, but it still won’t settle.”

This is birth debrief fatigue — and it’s real.

Because a debrief can give you information…
but not integration.

It can explain the sequence of events…
but it can’t touch the part of you that felt confused, shocked, unseen, rushed, or powerless in a single moment.

A debrief can review the external story…
but it rarely meets the internal story —
the meaning you made,
the beliefs you formed,
the identity that cracked open,
the parts of you still holding that moment.

Birth Story Medicine is different.

It’s not factual retelling.
It’s not “What could we do better next time?”
It’s not a clinical review or a do-over plan.

It’s tending to your inner landscape —
the tangled emotions, the unfinished loops, the unanswered questions inside your nervous system.

It’s a place where we listen for the moment the story snagged,
the part of you that didn’t have words yet,
and the deeper truth waiting beneath the survival narrative.

Parents don’t need more information.
They need integration.
They need compassion.
They need a way to come home to themselves again.

🌿 This is the work we do in Birth Story Medicine.

It’s gentle, surprising, deeply human — and often the missing piece after a birth that left you unsettled in ways a debrief could never resolve. DM to enquire about a session.

02/12/2025

FESTIVE GIVING - 'tis the season

Digital gift vouchers applicable to anything Star and Well offers are available.

Some nourishing gift ideas for the women on your list:

*gift a circle (£17)
*holistic therapy (energy or bodywork, from £65)
*birth story medicine session (£65)
*healing ceremony, including Closing the Bones (from £120).

In 2026, I'll be returning to doula work as well with a focus on antenatal (birth prep) and postnatal support. Packages start from £350 and honestly is a fantastic gift for an expectant family.

You can gift in any amount from £10 and it can be applied to any service. 💙

01/12/2025

Did you know I offer an online circle and community space?

When my life was at its absolute busiest (solo parent, disabled child, commuting and working more than full time in employment), I was only able to maintain it for as long as I did through accessing spaces and practices to lean into - ways of accessing community and energetic support that didn't require me to leave home or take time away from work or children.
'Fill your cup' was born from this. It's a space for busy women (including mamas in impossible situations) to restore in the time they have.

It is built around simplicity and flexibility with:

*online circle (+ group coaching),
*energy work (2x monthly, simply receive),
*micro practices (heart centering, freeing),
*community space (hosted on FB).

Our theme for December is WISEN, we're working with the Heart Centered virtue WISDOM.

No long term commitment is required, you are welcome to check it out for a month and stay as long or as little as suits you. If you'd like to know more or join us, link is in the comments.

27/11/2025

This ♥️

This is an invitation to look calmly at what is happening, what is beautiful about unassisted birth, what is deeply concerning about how it is sometimes promoted, and what it might all mean for the choices people make next.

19/11/2025

It's not just what happened to us, but how we make sense of it that matters.

15/11/2025

*You are who you choose to be with each new moment and decision.*

06/11/2025

Invitation to come join the email newsletter list to get updates directly to your inbox.

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Tuesday	9:30am - 2:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 2:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 2:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 2:30pm
Saturday	2pm - 5pm

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