ABOUT ME
This is Me...
I’m Heather. I’m 45, a Therapeutic Massage Therapist, a wife, and a mother. I live in Surrey with my family, in a small village and community I truly adore.
I love coffee, long walks, dancing, singing, sound baths, yoga, the theatre and ballet. I value time with my friends and family deeply. These simple, everyday things matter to me more than they ever have.
I value truth, community, family, love, and kindness, but above all, I value an imperfect, messy, balanced life. One where I move slowly, listen carefully, and don’t strive for external validation or approval.
My life might look ordinary or even boring to some, but in today’s world, I hold that ordinariness as something precious. The quieter and simpler my life has become, the more at home I feel in it.
However, it wasn’t always this way.
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For many years, my life was fast, unbalanced, and externally driven...
This is The past...
​​For fourteen years, I worked in Film and Television Production where exhaustion was worn as a badge of honour, and rest was non existent.
Much of my sense of worth came from being needed, chosen, or approved of. I over-gave, over-functioned, and moulded myself to fit what I thought was required in order to belong.
I was drawn to unavailable people and toxic environments. Boundaries were non-existent, and what I called self-care was mostly aesthetic. Beneath that, my nervous system lived in survival. I moved between fight, flight, freeze, and fawn without understanding what was happening in my body. People-pleasing became a default. Saying no felt unsafe. Slowing down wasn't an option.
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Burnout was familiar. I relied on unhealthy coping mechanisms and distractions. Over time, I became increasingly disconnected, from others, from myself, and the world around me. I was running on empty, while appearing capable and successful from the outside.
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Becoming a mother interrupted all of this, and forced me to see what was no longer sustainable.
This is What changed me...
​My postpartum experience was unexpected and deeply challenging. I was unprepared for the physical, emotional, and hormonal shifts, and shockingly under-educated about postpartum care. Within days, my life was forced to slow down: a newborn demanded it, and Covid brought the world to a halt.
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That experience led me to study proper postpartum care, where I trained as a doula to support other mothers during that vulnerable time. While meaningful, the role never felt fully aligned.
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Supporting new mothers requires a particular kind of steadiness and clarity. My own postpartum experience was still close enough that I felt deeply aware of how my own personal history could shape how I showed up. This rocked my confidence.
When I began training in hands-on massage, the contrast was immediate. I felt calm, confident, and deeply settled in myself. My nervous system softened. I trusted my hands, my presence, and my ability to support others with clarity and care. There was no over-identifying, no emotional bleed.
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For the first time, my work felt uncomplicated and deeply aligned.
I knew I had found exactly where I was meant to be.
This is Mothering...
Really simply, when I became a mother everything in my life changed; my mind, my body, my identity, my values, my priorities, my postcode and much more.
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The further into my motherhood journey I was, the clearer it became that in order to become the mother I wanted to be, I had to become the parent I myself had needed, and with that came a lot of work and healing. ​
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No matter how you were raised, becoming a parent has a way of confronting you with your own childhood and whatever still lives within you. I’ve learned that our children mirror us, they bring what’s unresolved back to the surface, quietly inviting us to meet it, understand it, and, where possible, heal it.
Being my daughter’s safe space, her sanctuary, and her north star is my most important work.
It shapes every chapter of my life.
This is Massage Therapy...
Massage is where everything in my life comes together. All my healing, all my learning, all my studies; it all now lives in my hands. This work lights me up from the inside out with each and every massage energising me.
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This work demands a slow steady pace, and that practice now shows up in other aspects of my life; how I parent, how I show up for friends and family, how I brush my teeth and move through the world.
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Being a sensitive and empathetic person is my superpower in this work. Those qualities allow me to sense what is needed, to respond rather than react, and to hold space for what my clients need, even without words. Energy moves, settles, and finds its way where it is meant to go.
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I trust the wisdom of the body. Bodies don’t lie. When we slow down enough to listen, they speak clearly. I also trust the ancient wisdom of massage, its simplicity, its depth, and its ability to restore balance without force or fixing.
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I’ve created a space within my home that feels like a sanctuary, somewhere people can step out of the noise of everyday life, soften, and truly let go. Creating that space has been as intentional as the work itself.
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This work brings everything together for me. It is aligned, purposeful, and deeply right.
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This is the work I was always meant to do.
“Rest and self-care are so important.
When you take time to replenish your spirit,
it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”
- Eleanor Brownn
