Greetings, dear Reader, At WellMama, our mission and passion is cultivating a culture of community, celebration, and collective care - rooted in the knowing that nature, nurture, nutrition and nourishment are the roots of maternal health and wellbeing. We are an intergenerational, multicultural organisation, practicing mutual reciprocity... honouring Earth's capacity to nourish, sustain and heal us, and growing resources and resilience for women, mothers, families, and communities. One of the...
3 months ago • 7 min read
Greetings, dear Reader, I'm so grateful right now for the sunshine, the buds and blossoms of a new season... The WellMama seeds and visions we sang to during the fertile darkness of the winter, have sprouted and are growing beautifully this spring here at Bryn y Blodau (Cymru, West Wales), the hearth and home of WellMama CIC. I'm really delighted that Caia and her family have come to live here on the land, and together we are cultivating a community garden, growing food and nutritional...
5 months ago • 8 min read
This offering is close to my heart... Dear Kin, I recently invited women to answer my questions about their experience around pregnancy and birth preparation, and the conversations I had were rich, honest, and deeply illuminating! I remembered aspects of my own journey though pregnancy and birth, and the journeys of the hundreds of women I have accompanied. There are so many threads that are similar, yet weave uniquely through journey. I love to listen to women as they become still, bring...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Spring Equinox: Embodying Balance Dear Reader, Here it WellMama HQ at Bryn y Blodau, spring is in the air! The songs of the birds are sounding sweeter and sharper, and the first buds are beginning to burst from beneath the earth... The apricot tree in the polytunnel is already flowering and the bees are buzzing to and from the hives... The peach blossoms are just emerging and starting to turn pink... The first salad leaves are being enjoyed, and the watercress by the ancient spring is growing...
5 months ago • 6 min read
A new start - from April 8th... Dear Reader, I have practiced Qi Gong and Taoist Arts for 30 years, as a relational, seasonal, cyclic and ongoing journey, and I'm happy to start offering these ancient practices again from next week in our Essence ~ Moving Meditations, gathering together every Wednesday, 9-10am UK time. These practices have interwoven with my path as a Traditional Birth companion, doula and carrier of traditional midwifery practices, as well as my personal journey as a mother...
6 months ago • 1 min read
...Dream Seeds of Spring Dear Reader, As we greet the Imbolc Full moon, the seeds of Spring are beginning to stir... Nestled within the fertile darkness, they are singing softly, calling forth a quiet cultivation of our dreams for WellMama over the coming year... Over the winter, we (myself, Tariqua and Caia as WellMama directors) have been receiving some fantastic support from BA4Good to work on our Volunteering process, Funding strategy and Impact report. In this way, we are creating a more...
8 months ago • 6 min read
Dear Reader, Here at Bryn y Blodau (WellMama HQ in Cymru, Wales) the sun is riding the days low in the sky, and the dark of the moon and light of the stars are guiding the long dark nights of dreaming... I am deeply grateful for the opportunity this midwinter to retreat, to rest, release and renew... 2025 has been a full year for all of us here at WellMama, with a shedding of old skins and sliding into new forms... A season of stillness, serenity and solitude... WellMama Collective is...
9 months ago • 4 min read
Dear Kin, For generations upon generations, Birth knowledge, Skills and Wisdom were held within the hearts and hands of women — guided by intuition, ancestral experience, and nurtured through collective and community care. With the coming of the age of medicalization, many of our wise women and ancestral traditions were silenced. Yet… the memory remains in our blood and bones, the threads of True Midwifery are still being spun by a Web of Wise Women around the world. The 13 Moons Journey is...
10 months ago • 1 min read