I have been working with women at all stages of the female cycle, holding space, supporting healing and journeying with women from fertility and as they head towards birth and beyond for a number of years. Having always had an interest in “new age” cultures and traditions, my knowledge has grown over the years. I am always researching, reading or attending further studies. I had shown a personal interest in a Fertility Massage course with Clare Blake. I felt it might hold an answer to my horrendous monthly bleeds, as the issues it addressed wasn’t just fertility but menstruation problems, as well as menopause. What I hadn’t prepared myself for was the huge shift I encountered during and after completing the course, not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. My husband jokes that he has married a “hippie” My response was she was always there, hidden. I was involved in a serious car accident when I was 8 months pregnant, carrying my second child. I had to be cut free from the wreckage. I didn’t go into early labour, in fact, I was nearly two weeks late, but I ended up having an emergency c-section. I was still suffering from the after-effects of the accident, which resulted in me not having full mobility, not being able to get dressed or take care of my personal needs, let alone trying to look after a new-born and a young child. I was then diagnosed with PND. With that came the guilt of not bonding with my new-born son, the frustration of how much my life had been effected from the impact of the accident and so on.
