Women’s well-being and self-development
Sacred times in a woman’s life. These are natural and normal processes for women, yet they can affect our mind, body, emotions, and spirit.
I bring my experience and knowledge as a health practitioner, midwife, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, Emotionally Focus Therapy®, Renxue Teacher, mother, and grandmother to assist women who may be struggling with the events surrounding the changes in our lives with pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period, parenting, and menopause. The major life changes and events surrounding these journeys can trigger or exacerbate a response to past stressors and can be difficult to navigate on our own. I have assisted many women with the stress surrounding these stages of their lives.
Women and couples often get stuck in events that surround these periods of their lives. Somatic Experiencing®, Emotional Focussed Therapy®, Somatic informed, touch and Renxue have proven to be a valuable technique in assisting women and couples with physical and emotional pain, overwhelm, and stress-related conditions.
Pregnancy and Menopause are times in a woman’s life when ideally, we make adjustments and listen to our body and what it needs.
In Western society, we tend to not allow for a woman’s changes and create patterns of busyness, not understanding the essential needs for the body to restore its energy. It can be a chance for women to heal and promote a healthy life and bring harmony to all these parts of ourselves.
Our body is unique in its healing abilities. As women, we can bring wellness to our minds and bodies, which allows for a healthy relationship with our bodies, ourselves, and others.
Contact Donna for the many tools that can help and support us to navigate and enjoy this time in our lives.
When I think about my life, I see an accumulation of traumatic events from a very young age making it to 50 with only my survival mode on. What I didn’t realise was that surviving is not living. It’s like being in an endless cycle unable to get out, where my past ruled my present without me even knowing it.
When I met Donna, I did not understand why all these things happened to me, I mostly blamed myself and forgot that I mattered. I then was able to truly allow myself to know that I was not alone allowing me to feel that I was worthy of being helped and I mattered no matter what.
I am nowfacing my emotions, knowing that they are not a bad thing, I’m allowing my body to feel and express my emotions, I’m acknowledging my strengths, I’m loving and caring for myself for the first time, I’ve created an authentic and loving bond with my family and most importantly I’m learning to love life again.