Hannah Staunton Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy and Perinatal Therapy

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Hannah Staunton Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy and Perinatal Therapy

Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy and Perinatal Therapy

09/09/2024

I’ve been running these day retreats for the past year and this was the final one for 2024.

I’ve had babies as young as 4 weeks old, women in their final days before birth, and women with multiple children experiencing each birth and motherhood journey completely differently.

Hopi was just 5 months old when I ran the first one - I’ve turned up to these retreats buzzing with energy, fatigued as hell, hungry, full of creativity, rife with brain fog, distracted - breastfeeding whenever little man desires each time. Facilitating with him right next to me. Teaching, holding, responding - it requires a well of inner resources but each and every time I name this experience and bring it to the space. This is motherhood.

And it can’t be anything other than complete honesty and transparency otherwise you crumble. The constant expectation (put on you and from you) will pull you into a pit. This part I am still learning but it is, I believe, at the crux of every difficult feeling toward and during motherhood.

The expectations of your child, yourself, your family dynamic, what you thought your life would look like, what your babies birth would be like, what you can give to other people, what you still have capacity for.

There’s a resonance in the room with these women. So much to say, but the quiet nods are often enough.

We will pass one another again, at different parts of our journey, but knew we received that well known look of admiration and the silent “I see you”, that is more than deserved.

A community, in flux. No expectation. Holding one another in the force field of motherhood.

Next retreat will be spring 2025. Cooking up an extended mother only journey for those that want to delve deeper into the initiation - TBC.

You mamas are 🔥

07/08/2024

FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER we will be at again for The Nourished Mama day retreat.

It’s for mamas and their babies (aged 0-3 years) and pregnant women (any stage of pregnancy).

Those bringing babies will have access to childcare for the afternoon sessions (included in ticket cost) so they can have some moments to themselves in a room full of women, to lean back and take the physical and mental weight off.

The morning is dedicated to mama and baby/ bump bonding practices, educational content about attachment and neurophysiology, and a sharing and discussion circle.

The afternoon is for the mothers, with focus on the pregnant and postpartum body, movement, breath and deep nervous system support.

€139 - price includes practices, lunch, snacks AND childcare.

Comment or DM me with ‘MAMA’ for more info

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30/07/2024

At the studio last night after dropping my mama at the airport to fly home - she’s spent the last two weeks with our little cub and their bond is so special. Every time I leave family now, and since the passing of my dear grandad, it reminds me how precious this time is and how important the moments are. The moments can easily just become another day and some moments feel so still like you could put them in your pocket and step into them whenever, but it’s so easy for so many of these moments to just fade into the every day life-ness of life.

Im forever trying to grip onto time with tight fists and noticing I’m just about catching my breath from the last big experience. I genuinely re-realise that I live in Portugal quite often. They grow up so fast. These are the best years everyone tells you and I’ve never experienced such love and grief in the very same moment as I have these past 2 years. A mother and friend posted the other day about the fallacy of ‘having it all’ and this has been stirring in me too. The internal conflict of being a mother/ lover/ business owner/ everything else in this dysfunctional nuclear family oriented society we have found ourselves living in, can make one feel rather fragmented. And some moments like this one where I stood in the studio I teach at each week and realise just how much a mother can hold. Like we’re filling up our insides, always finding small spaces to put more. And we can but we shouldn’t have to as we weren’t supposed to do it on our own.

11/06/2024

How you can connect/ work with me currently 👋🏽

🧘🏽‍♀️Every Monday you’ll find me at teaching Mindful Flow 7.30-8.30pm - open to anyone, also suitable for pregnant women

👶 20 - 24 June: A lovely long weekend for mothers and their babies to join and I at for a deep immersion into rest and receiving, and being with other mamas in a 4 day retreat setting - 2 spaces left! Options to join for Saturday only

👩🏼‍🍼 Friday 26 July: Another opportunity for mamas and their babies, or pregnant women to come together for a day and connect with their babies/ bumps, other women and themselves during The Nourished Mama day retreat at

Think: deep conversations, time to yourself, rest, rejuvenation, connection, and I teach some cool things about the neurophysiology of you and your baby too

💡Wednesday afternoons, Friday mornings: current slots available for 1:1 Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy sessions or Perinatal Therapy 1:1 sessions - I offer free consultation calls to see how I can support you and if we are a fit

31/05/2024

One full year of motherhood. One year of making it up as I go along but also somehow knowing exactly what to do. Most people can’t believe he’s already one but some others, including myself, feel he’s been on this planet for many years, like a wise old soul.

One year since the birth of him, and the birth of me as a mama. Just before his first birthday, I sat with the medicine of the 🍄’s, and they allowed me to re-experience his birth again with pure presence - slowed right down, so I could crawl in and see, feel, touch and taste the magic of it without the overwhelm. It also allowed me to see how the programme of the birth experience has recently been replaying itself in my system over and over again everyday - this overwhelming experience that felt too out of control for me to grab onto. Which has felt like my recent reality - I’ve found parenting these past few months very intense. He’s wisely holding up a mirror for what I need to see.

But! Everyday learning to unearth the calm within the chaos and find that slice of nothingness between the inhale and exhale which enables my system to gather itself once again when it feels like there’s a volcano erupting somewhere internally - it’s a learning process 🥲

AND also immensely grateful at the same time that I get to tuck a healthy, happy and immensely loved boy into bed every night knowing they will be there when I wake in the morning. And that I get to have moments like these with family and friends who are also family, which I wish I could just press pause on and make them last forever 🥹

10/11/2023

So what exactly is somatic psychotherapy?

I often try to explain the body-oriented piece to people and can see them vacantly stare through me. They say “ahh yep” but I know they don’t get it. Often people only understand the traditional psychoanalytic type of therapy, which is the foundations of all talk therapy and transformative in so many ways, but we’ve moved on from this.

Here’s a first attempt, but I’ll continue to spell it out for you.

Somatic psychotherapy recognises the need for cognitive processing, but ALSO brings the body into the therapeutic space - sensation, visceral feeling and emotion, body posture and movement, postural holding and using interoceptive awareness to better understand ourselves and our minds.

The way we think influences our physiology and how we move around physically in the world - the way we feel physically and emotionally influences how we think and what beliefs we hold about our internal and external environments.

30/10/2023

I’ve pondered over this one for a while. The boundaries on social media can often feel ever evolving and I’ve often felt a bit unsure how to navigate these small boxes when sharing my work and experiences online.

My work as a therapist and my life outside of it are all one of the same thing. It’s work but it’s life.

But I’m also very aware that I want the freedom to show up as non-therapist Hannah without worrying about boundaries. And now adding psychotherapy to my existing work, means I need to get a little more defined when it comes to client boundaries. SO, with that in mind I’ve decided to create a new page solely for my therapy work - .with.hannah you may notice there’s a couple of other therapists called Hannah in the world but I can assure you this Hannah is a good one.

I’ll mainly be using this current page going forward for personal things, sharing my valuable opinion on stuff, trees, food, and some of my other work like events and if I decide to ignite the old yoga teaching flame. I’ll finally have a space for silliness and sarcasm which doesn’t often come across well online but let’s see. Being and training as a therapist can sometimes feel quite heavy and serious and I need to ensure I don’t turn into a super serious person in my older age, because the world definitely needs more silliness in it.

Anyway, follow me! If you’re into things like trauma, polyvagal theory, attachment theory, neuroscience, the challenges of being a human and more! .with.hannah

10/04/2023

Because with most conditions or challenges people are facing, it usually always comes back to this 👇🏽

A dysregulated nervous system.

And I’m sure you’re hearing this in every corner of the digital world at the moment. I feel like every other coach or course is throwing in the buzz words.

But the nervous system and all it’s intricacies are complex and take time to understand and work with. It doesn’t work alone, and requires re-communication with all the other bodily systems.

It’s a slow healing process which requires safety and deep care.

But when these layers are worked through in an intimate and safe setting, with trust and attention, the results can be profoundly life changing.

It doesn’t happen overnight, but slowly integrating tools and techniques with awareness and self-compassion, is where the mind and body systems begin to work together again and create freedom and ease.

Nervous system dysregulation is often at the root of:
- chronic anxiety + panic attacks
- chronic fatigue/ ME
- autoimmune diseases
- chronic pain
- digestive disorders
To name a few…

And it’s also not just about ‘calming’ the nervous system either - but I’ll save this one for another post

31/03/2023

GIVEAWAY TIME 📣

Who doesn’t love a giveaway?!

I’ve teamed up with .blends for you to win 2 incredible goodies:

The winner will receive:

✨ A .blends staple - the Serenity aromatherapy single wick candle. Created with natural, vegan and sustainability sourced materials and lots of ❤️ (worth £28)

✨ A bespoke 1:1 online well-being session with ME combining therapeutic yoga and breathwork (worth £60)

These prizes have been selected due to their well-being benefits - use scent, movement and breath to reduce stress, calm the nervous system and discover moments of stillness.

The Serenity candle blends spearmint, lavender, jasmine, cedar, ylang ylang and geranium essential oils, which have anxiety and stress reducing properties and help to ground and calm emotions.

Excited for my first collab with a Staunton sister ❤️

We wanted to run this to promote self-care rituals that allow people to discover a sense of whole-ness: something at the very heart of both of our work! And the candles are literally heaven in a glass jar 🫠

To enter:

💫 Make sure you're following both .blends and

💫 Like the posts on both pages

💫 Tag at least two friends who would also benefit from the gifts

Share on your story for the extra chance to win 🔥

The winner will be chosen on Friday 7 April

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