OUR
STORY.
I founded LeavenWell in 2021 (after a decade in the NHS) when I began to see and experience the limitations of the healthcare service and in a lot of cases the harm it was causing to women and their bodies (despite the good and kind people who work within this system).
As I began to dig my teeth into the work of traumatology, somatics, neuroplasticity and embodiment, I was struggling to work in a system that refuses to see the body as anything but an object. Further more I began to see how conditions of this system were counter to the conditions the female body actually required for true healing.
I longed for and envisioned a level of care for women that nourished them. One that was kind, co-creative and empowering. That didn’t traumatise them under the masquerade of ‘good intention’.
I wanted to provide a level of care that feels like alchemy.
Where intellect softens it’s edges in reverence to bodily intelligence.
Where science meets mystery.
Knowledge meets knowing. Where the female body is offered the reverence it deserves.
Where we move away from the obsession with protocols and into a care where women’s bodies are heard and held.
This is where LeavenWell was born.
LEAVEN WELL is informed by cutting-edge science and deeply inspired by timeless wisdom. Sitting at the intersection of the known and the felt, Leaven Well wants to explore what happens when we honour the polarities of both the ancient and contemporary.
Leaven Well is rooted in self exploration, connection and transformation.
It seeks to unearth the inner wild, that is so often buried beneath a lifetime of pain, social conditioning and stigma.
The change we want to evoke is healing, wholeness and connection through embodied living.
A world where every person's truest self is both held and free.