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Rooted Well Being A gentle, body-led approach to health and wellbeing.

Helping you listen to your body through somatic bodywork, abdominal therapy and guided health sessions.

📍 Whitstable & Herne Bay | In-person & online

03/11/2026

Something I believe more deeply every year is that our bodies know how to look after themselves, given the chance.

I relate it to counselling, actually. A good counsellor doesn't try to fix us, they give us a space to be seen and heard, and we find our own way through. Our bodies work the same way: when someone listens to it - really listens, through unhurried hands and responding to what is - our body can notice this compassionate presence and can begin to unwind, soften and rebalance on its own.

We don't have to be “fixed”, we need to be met.
That's the work, as autumn comes in. Less doing. More listening. Our body can find its own way.

27/10/2026

More and more I bring gentle rocking into nearly every bodywork session.
People often say: it soothes, it settles and it makes them feel safe.

Yes. 😊

Rocking is one of the first rhythms we ever know. It's a movement we are usually calmed by before we have words. Our body remembers.

Sometimes the most effective thing I can do in a session isn't a technique at all. It's rhythm, slowness and familiarity. That builds trust in the nervous system and our bodies need to trust touch and feel safe before anything else can happen, or let go.

22/10/2026

When I work slowly (and deeply and responsively) the touch itself carries a message...
You're safe. You're not alone.
I see you, I hear you - and I feel you.
There is nothing to do, nowhere to get to and nothing to perform.

We're often used to touch being functional, practical, task-focused - adjusting, fixing, treating, trying to get somewhere. There's a whole other kind… Touch that says: be as you are. I'm not going anywhere, I’m responding to you where you are, now.

That's the kind I'm most interested in these days.

20/10/2026

Co-regulation might sounds like jargon, so here's what I mean by it in relation to my bodywork sessions.

Babies don't calm themselves down. They borrow the calm of the person holding them. Their steady heartbeat, slow breathing and unhurried present touch.

Our nervous systems never outgrow that ability to regulate with others. As adults, we can lose access to it… to aim to always calm ourselves alone.

Gentle, safe touch is one of the most direct routes back. When someone settles near us - really settles, without rush or demand, our body reads this message: we’re safe now, our nervous system begins to stand down.

We can't think our way there. But our body knows the way.

14/10/2026

A client said something to me recently that I have been thinking about.

She told me her nervous system feels fried and that everything's held in her neck and shoulders. When she booked in, she didn't ask me to fix anything, she asked me to relieve her nervous system, to help her body calm down and for co-regulation.

I've been doing this work for 16 years, and honestly that's the clearest description I've ever heard of what my practice has become over time. It's not primarily about knots or muscles, it's meeting a nervous system that's been running on high for too long - and giving it somewhere safe to come down, with someone who is present.

13/10/2026

I've been quiet on here since the summer; mostly because I've been deep in work, and partly because autumn always pulls me inward a bit.

While I've been away from social media, my practice has been quietly shifting.
Some of that work has been somewhere new. I've been bringing gentle, therapeutic touch into a specialist care setting, working with residents with complex physical and neurological needs. Some of the people I see can't speak at all, and it's been the most profound reminder of what touch actually is: not a treatment, but a way of being met and seen when words aren't available.

It's changing how I understand my work with everyone I see.

In my regular practice, more and more, the people coming to see me aren't coming for a "massage" in the way we might typically picture it. They're coming because their nervous system is fried and they need somewhere safe to land.

More on that over the next few weeks. My diary is open through the autumn, and more about how I work is on my website: rootedwellbeing.co.uk. For now, hello again and happy autumn
🍂

16/09/2026

When my hip started hurting, my first question was the obvious one: what's wrong with it?

Which is a fair question. My body hurt and muscles do compensate along with changes in movement patterns.

But I also found myself asking some different questions:

* What does my hip want to do?
* What does it feel like?
* What does it remind me of?

When I actually listened, something unexpected emerged... Not a diagnosis or a fix, but more like a message.

I've written about what happened when I stayed with that question, in my latest blog:
https://rootedwellbeing.co.uk/blog/hip-pain-sitting-it-out-endurance/

🌿 Rooted Wellbeing has a new home.After leaving Beach Street, I've been settling into a quieter, more spacious base at W...
15/09/2026

🌿 Rooted Wellbeing has a new home.

After leaving Beach Street, I've been settling into a quieter, more spacious base at Whitstable Yoga & Wellbeing Centre. Same approach, same listening touch - just a different room to work from.

I also offer home visits in the local area, and some clients come to me in Chestfield: both available on request - and depending on what works best for you.

If you've been curious to book, or you're interested in a somatic approach to bodywork, exploring Thai yoga massage or listening to the deeper why behind symptoms through Embodied Health sessions, I'm delighted to now be taking appointments.

www.rootedwellbeing.co.uk

02/09/2026

What if your hip is holding more than physical tension?

My left hip started hurting on moving day, before I’d lifted a single box.
There may, of course, have been physical factors involved. But when I became curious about the pain and started really listening to my body, something unexpected emerged.

I noticed anger. And underneath that, something much more familiar: endurance.

Years ago, through my root cause health coach training, I came across a theme around hips and “sitting something out” - particularly experiences where we don’t feel able to push back or defend ourselves. This theme resonated profoundly with my own experience.

It led me into an exploration of the things we learn to tolerate, what happens when an old pattern of endurance continues after circumstances have changed and the different forms that “sitting it out” can take.
As I worked through the beliefs and emotions stored in my hip, my hip pain shifted too.

I’ve written about this exploration in my latest blog:
🌿 Sitting It Out: Hip pain, endurance and the things we learn to tolerate.

Read via the link in my bio.

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25/08/2026

What does it feel like to be on the receiving end for once? 🌿

I received these beautiful words from a client recently, and this part particularly stayed with me:

“When you’re used to giving so much of yourself, it’s easy to forget what it feels like to simply receive.”

So many of the people who come to me are used to doing, managing, caring and carrying.

Somatic Thai Bodywork isn't a routine that I perform in the same way each time. I listen with my hands, notice how your body responds and allow the session to unfold around what you need that day.

And perhaps sometimes having someone be present for us - without needing to do anything in return - is part of what we need.

Thank you so much for trusting me with these words. ❤️

🌿 Somatic Thai Bodywork
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