Somatic & Trauma-Informed Coaching
Understanding your body's response to life.
Life in Motion is about understanding how your nervous system responds to the demands of everyday life, recognising when you feel grounded and engaged, when you need rest, and what helps you return to balance when pressure begins to overwhelm you.
Why you might be here.
You may be navigating profound personal challenges and looking for someone to walk alongside you. Perhaps you are feeling overwhelmed, lost, or stuck in a constant state of high alert or complete shutdown.
Perhaps you are waiting for therapy, or maybe you have explored clinical solutions but find they just aren't enough. You may be looking for a deeply human approach, grounded in empathy and lived experience.
Through somatic, trauma informed coaching, I provide a safe space and practical tools to help you understand your body's physiological responses to stress, map your triggers, and gently find your way back to balance.
What is your nervous system telling you?
Much of what we experience emotionally anxiety, exhaustion, shutdown, overwhelm is not a character flaw. It is the body's protective response to too much pressure, for too long.
Understanding this through a nervous system lens changes everything about how we support ourselves and others. To explore this in depth, including what sits beneath the surface of everyday behaviour, visit the Mental Wealth page.
Nervous System Check-in
Take a moment to notice where your body is right now.
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Find your calm with Box Breathing.
When the nervous system is overwhelmed, we need practical, somatic tools to bring us back to the present. Box breathing is a simple but powerful technique to help regulate your body and mind in moments of high stress.
This is also an incredible tool for co-regulation. Parents can easily teach and practise this alongside their children during moments of overwhelm.
Use the interactive tool here to practise this technique right now and find your way back to balance.
Interactive Box Breathing
A simple co-regulation tool for you and your children.
What you might be navigating
Grief and loss
Bereavement, relationship loss, loss of identity or purpose.
Menopause and midlife
Navigating hormonal change, identity shift, exhaustion.
Parents and carers
Holding everything together for everyone else.
Neurodivergence
Masking, exhaustion, finally understanding yourself.
Burnout
Running on empty. Not coping. Waiting for support.
Just not feeling right
No neat label. Just knowing something needs to change.
How We Work Together
Mental Wellbeing Clubs™
Themed group support programmes: Anxiety and stress, men's mental health, and general mental wellbeing.
Trademarked by The Mental Wellbeing Company, these clubs provide a local, community-based safe space to land, learn practical tools, and reconnect, without diagnosis, pressure, or judgement. This is preventative, human-centred support rooted in safety, education, and connection.
There is no roadmap for the hardest parts of life.
When you're navigating deep pain, people are often lost and no one seems to have the answers. We are so used to having things "fixed," but sometimes there is no solution, you just have to move through the pain. The answer is often found with people who have been there before, but they can be difficult to find.
While I cannot provide clinical therapy, I can provide the space, the tools, and the somatic coaching to help you map your nervous system, recognise your triggers, and find your footing. I can't walk it for you, but I can walk alongside you. You don't have to carry it all alone.
"Karen has supported me through one of the most difficult years of my life; from a serious health issue and homelessness to relocating and planning for the future. Karen's support, guidance, understanding and compassion has been an integral part of my healing journey along with her incredible tools, modalities and experience. I have been able to release trauma that I have been carrying for over 20 years. We have worked through grief, loss, anxiety, lack of confidence, money mindset, health & wellbeing, childhood beliefs and trauma and past life regressions among other issues. The results of working with Karen are difficult to put into any words other than LIFE CHANGING."
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