Last week at the Internal Family Systems International conference, I went to a session called ‘Playful IFS Pathways: Integrating Play Therapy, Expressive Arts, and Internal Family Systems.’ 

During the session, presenters Natasha Varela and Stefani Misiph explained how they integrate play therapy and IFS in sessions with children and young people. It got me thinking about how I do similar work with adults...

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I’m in the process of developing a new workshop called Body + Page: Creative Curiosity. 

I thought about it a lot whilst on a week-long silent meditation retreat at Gaia House in Devon a couple of weeks ago.

This blog explores some of the ideas behind Body + Page; how the body can be a portal to all of life, how both relaxation and movement can open up deeper ways of knowing and how the page can be a place to bring all those discoveries together and to find out even more.

There are three physical experiments in this blog, which you could try if you’d like to get an embodied taster. There are also a bunch of ponder points, which you could explore through meditation, movement or writing if you’re called to.

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It's Baby Loss Awareness Week! 

Big love to those who are living with this grief. For those of you who have never experienced it, baby loss brings complex grief which is often misunderstood, belittled and dismissed.  

The grief of baby loss is real and it can shape the rest of our lives.  

Here's 6 things not to say to someone who’s lost a baby (and 6 things you can say instead)

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This is a 10 minute guided grounding to help you connect with your body, heart and mind through the element of air.

Everything is an invitation and you can do it your way. There are invitations to first connect with the element of earth, before connecting with the air around your body. From here you are invited to connect with the sky and the sun and the moon and the stars, before breathing a sense of spaciousness into your body. From here you are invited to meet yourself as you are right now.

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On September 21st 2026, I facilitated an online session as part of Clown Spirit’s ‘Clowning For Mental Health’ series. So much juicy thinking came out of the session, I want to share some of it with you, dear reader. Come join our thinking party and ponder along with us as we go.

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This is a 10 minute guided somatic grounding to help you connect with the earth of your body.

Everything is an invitation and you can do it your way. 

There are invitations to connect with the earth beneath you, explore long, releasing out-breaths, connect with all the bones in your body and finally meet yourself from the perspective of a big, solid mountain.

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This August was the 6th annual #NoPlaceLikeKnowle Home Retreat, hosted by the magnificent Bee Golding and the mighty Lucy Heard. Every summer for the last 6 years, Bee has opened up her home and garden to an assortment of Bristol’s finest oddballs for a week...

These retreats have become an important pause-point in the middle of my year, a place where I notice where I’m at with my grief, re-connect with my creative practice and feel the support of a community of hilarious, tender-hearted creatives...

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This article was written for World Childless Week 2026

What does a childless, single woman do in August?

Does she tag along on a friend's family holiday?

Does she send herself off on a yoga retreat?

Does she hike, ramble, climb, kayak or deep sea dive?

Does she do another training course?

Generally, I like to fill the whole month of August with work...

...But this year I’m trying something different: I am exploring what happens when I give myself some space.

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This August, I bounced straight from months and months of back-to-back projects, into a 5-day Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 2 training, called Deepening and Expanding, led by Osnat Arbel.

This year, most of my time has been organised around holding space for other people, so I thought it would be a lovely treat for the first week of my summer break to put myself in a held space, in a beautiful place, surrounded by the kind-hearted IFS community....

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I have just completed my last online one-to-one (for now). 

For three years, I have regularly sat with a gorgeous assortment of artists, performers, directors, musicians, poets, therapists, facilitators and researchers. I have held space for them to explore their lives, their work, their creativity, their inner worlds and their relationships and I have loved every minute of it...

After the final obligatory Zoom-goodbye-wave (I still wish we did that in real life meetings), I sat down and I meditated. 

Wanting to mark the transition, I picked three cards from The Wild Unknown Archetype Tarot Deck at random, holding these three questions in mind...

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