this is not self improvement - this is liberation
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this is not self improvement - this is liberation 〰️
About Me
I’m Charlotte and I thought the problem was me
I used to think I wasn't resilient enough. Disciplined enough. Grateful enough. I thought that if I could just try harder, push harder, be better, I would finally feel at home in my own life.
Instead, I became very good at enduring.
Grief shaped me. Chronic illness shaped me. Motherhood cracked me open. I learned how to carry difficult things while looking perfectly capable from the outside. I was coping, but I was disappearing.
For a long time I thought that meant something was wrong with me. What I understand now is that I was responding to the conditions I was living in. The exhaustion. The self abandonment. The constant pressure to be accommodating, productive, pleasing, grateful, selfless and available.
I wasn't failing. I was adapting.
For over a decade I worked alongside people experiencing homelessness, addiction and mental health challenges, while building a career as a photographer. Both taught me the same thing: there is always more going on beneath the surface.
My camera taught me how to witness. To look beyond appearances, and to notice what is hidden, overlooked or dismissed. Eventually I realised I needed to turn that same gaze towards myself.
What followed wasn't a reinvention. It was a remembering. A slow peeling away of roles I had inherited, identities I had outgrown, and beliefs I had mistaken for truth.
That path led me to somatics, and back into my body. I discovered that my body was telling me things my mind couldn't, not because my mind was the problem, but because I had spent years living largely from the neck up.
Nothing was missing in me. The qualities I thought I needed to develop were already there, beneath the conditioning.
A prism doesn't add colour to light. The colours are already there. It simply creates the conditions for them to become visible.
That is how I understand this work. Not fixing. Not improving. Creating the conditions for more of you to be seen, felt and lived.
Today I work with women at a similar threshold. Women who have achieved, managed, endured and adapted, and who know something needs to change, but who aren't interested in becoming a more optimised version of themselves.
They want to feel alive again. They want to know what is true for them beneath the noise of who they were supposed to be.
My work is an invitation to stop managing yourself long enough to listen. To let your body have a say. To make choices from somewhere deeper than obligation.
You are not too much. You are not behind. And it is not too late.
I'm not here to tell you who you are. I'm here to meet you where you are, and to help create the conditions for you to see it for yourself.
What changes in one woman rarely ends with her.
this is not wellness as usual
Somatic coaching works with what your body already knows. The grief that never moved. The rage that got swallowed. The joy that learned to make itself small. We don’t analyse these things. We don’t manage them or reframe them or breathe through them until they go quiet again.
We let them complete.
Because, my guess is that your body has been trying to tell you something for a very long time. And the moment you stop overriding it, something starts to shift. And when something shifts in this work, it is not because i fixed you, It is because you finally gave yourself permission to be heard and once that happens, you make room for something else to be possible. A new way of being, relating and living.
That is what happens here.
This is older than that. More honest than that.
Somatic work is not new, and it is not mine.
These practices arise from the embodied wisdom of countless Indigenous and ancestral lineages, carried across generations despite the ways they have been appropriated, repackaged and commodified. I have learned what I know from teachers, and I am still learning. I want to acknowledge the roots of this work and remain accountable to the ground I stand on.
That means being willing to name white privilege, and the ways it shapes access, safety, belonging and whose knowledge is valued. Not as something acknowledged once and then put away, but as an ongoing practice of noticing how power moves through the spaces I occupy, including this one.
I also hold an awareness that what women carry is not only personal.
Our bodies are shaped by the worlds we live in. Capitalism, colonisation, white supremacy and other power-over systems live in bodies, influencing our nervous systems, our health, our relationships and our sense of belonging. Human supremacy has taught us to see ourselves as separate from the living world, and above it.
These are not abstract ideas. They shape what we have learned to expect, what we believe we are allowed to want, and how much room we feel able to take.
This is one reason I hold a solidarity place each season.
It is for a woman who could not otherwise reach this work, at a rate we work out together according to what is genuinely possible for you. It is not charity. A practice that only reaches women who can comfortably afford it is not the practice I want to create.
If that is you, please contact me.
Where I stand
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The threshold call is an hour together to feel whether this is right. Not a sales conversation, a real one. We look at what you are standing at the edge of, and what it would take to cross it.
£45, credited in full against your coaching if we go on to work together.