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powerful pause journal
Here you will find articles and reflections to help you prioritise slowing down, rest, and taking care of your beautiful female body.
I hope you find them useful and inspiring.
Bea x
Whose Job Is It to Market Your Yoga Classes?
Where does the responsibility for filling yoga classes really sits — with the teacher, the studio, or both?
Letting My Hair Go Grey: What Happens When We Stop Editing Ourselves
I thought I was just letting my hair go grey. What I didn’t expect was how much this small decision would change the way I see myself. From healthier hair to caring less about being seen, it’s become an unexpected lesson in ageing, transition and what happens when we stop trying to edit ourselves into being acceptable.
Yoga & Cyclical Living: How to Adapt Your Yoga Practice to Your Cycle
Learn how yoga can support cyclical living by helping you tune into your body's changing needs throughout your menstrual cycle.
The Womb-Voice Connection: Reclaiming Your Inner Wisdom and Speaking Your Truth
Explore the powerful relationship between the womb and the voice — and discover how reconnecting with these two parts of the body can help you trust yourself, take up space and return home to who you truly are.
The Space Between: Learning to Rest in the In-Between
There’s a particular kind of rest that becomes possible when we stop trying to rush through the in-between. The space between seasons, identities, chapters and what we thought would happen next.
Why You're Struggling at Work During Perimenopause (It's Not What You Think)
If work has started to feel harder than it used to, you're not imagining it. Perimenopause can affect far more than our hormones, influencing our energy, confidence, concentration and resilience at the very point in life when many women are being asked to carry the most.
The Reinvention Years: Why Women Redefine Their Lives in Their 40s
Our 40s can become a time of profound questioning, change and redefinition. In this decade, we learn to listen to what is calling us and begin creating a life that feels more like our own.
How Grief Affects the Body: Why Loss Feels So Exhausting
We often think of grief as an emotion — something that happens in the heart and the mind. But grief is also an intensely physical experience, affecting our energy, sleep, concentration, nervous system and our ability to simply do the things that once felt easy.
Cyclical Living During Perimenopause: Learning to Trust Your Body Again
For years, many women learn to override their bodies in pursuit of success, productivity, and achievement. Perimenopause offers a different path — it’s a powerful invitation to reconnect with your body, honour your natural rhythms, and create a gentler, more intentional way of living.
What Your Envy Is Trying to Tell You
By understanding and managing envy, we can turn it from a negative force into a powerful tool for self-discovery and personal growth. Embrace your feelings, connect with your values, and start living the life you really want.
I Thought I Was Coping. Then I Got Shingles in My 40s
Getting shingles in my 40s, while travelling in Bali, forced me to confront something I thought I already understood: rest. Reflecting on the experience through the lens of women’s health, stress and nervous system regulation, I explore what our bodies might be telling us when we keep pushing through.
Why Almost Everything We Were Taught About Our Periods Was Wrong
What if your period isn't the main event of your menstrual cycle, and many of the things you've been taught about the female body simply aren't true? It's time to rediscover the wisdom of your cycle.
Why Does Everything Feel So Much Harder Before My Period? Day 19-21 & The Transition Into Inner Autumn
Why does everything feel so much harder before your period? Discover why Day 19 can feel like an emotional turning point, and how understanding your Inner Autumn can help you work with your cycle instead of against it.
Why Have I Lost Interest in Sex? What Your Body May Be Trying to Tell You
Perhaps your body isn't resisting intimacy. Perhaps it's waiting to feel safe enough to welcome it.
Why So Many Women Feel Disconnected From Their Bodies (And How to Find Your Way Back)
Why do so many women feel disconnected from their bodies? Inspired by my experience at a Yoni Initiation retreat in Thailand, this article explores body wisdom, feminine embodiment and how reconnecting with ourselves can become a powerful path to healing.
Why Women Hold Tension in the Jaw and Pelvic Floor (and What it Means)
Many women hold chronic tension in the jaw and pelvic floor without realising the two may be connected. Discover the surprising link between stress, the nervous system, women's health and the female body's hidden wisdom.
Perimenopause, Ovulation and Mood Swings: Understanding the Day 12 Crash
Perimenopause can bring unexpected symptoms, including ovulation anxiety, mood swings, irritability, and overwhelm. In this post, I explore the hormonal changes behind my day 12 struggles and explain how cycle awareness can help women better understand and support their changing menstrual cycles.
How to Support Your Actor Partner (Without Losing Yourself)
What practical steps can you take to support each other when one (or both) of you is trying to make a living in the most competitive and most challenging industry in the world?
How to Honour the Feminine in Your Yoga Teaching (and Reject The Patriarchy)
Not all yoga teaching language is neutral. Some of it carries the weight of systems we didn’t consciously choose.
7 Best Yoga Poses for Female Hormones: Supporting Your Body Through Perimenopause
Here are my 7 favourite yoga poses for female hormone health to support the perimenopause, helping to calm the nervous system, and restore balance in midlife.
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