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TealHummingbird
For a long time, I thought that my work over the years was about supporting people.
Or creativity. Or storytelling.
Looking back, I can see it has always been about something more layered than that.
I see the most vibrant thread comes from being drawn to creating spaces where people can breathe and release. Where whirling minds slow and curiosity and creativity return. Where people begin to recognise themselves again and feel their spark light up.
When Teal Humminbird was a seed of an idea I thought it was a coaching business.
But as I began to reflect on three decades of working with people around the world - from Uganda to Vietnam to the UK - I found myself realising that coaching is just one layer of Teal Hummingbird.
Because whichever country I have found myself in, I have seen that when people feel safe enough to trust, exhale and return to their bodies, something incredible happens. Their eyes lift. Their breathing steadys and their voice strengthens. Hope begins to return. They start to come alive again.
Not because they have been fixed (they never did need fixing).
But because they have finally found enough space to hear themselves again.
That is the foundation of Teal Hummingbird.
A safe and spacious wellbeing studio where we create the conditions for your fire to be lit again and for you to feel fully alive as yourself.
My own journey has woven together many different threads - journalism, humanitarian work, therapeutic art, frontline domestic abuse and mental health support, trauma-informed coaching, creativity, travel, faith and nature.
I thought these were separate chapters of my life, but now I see they were all teaching me the same things.
How to pay loving attention. How to listen without judgement or assumption, see the individual before me and what treasure lies beneath the layers of their lived experience. How to create environments where people feel safe enough to reconnect with themselves and others.
I know the importance of these things from my work, but also my own lived experience. My life has held its share of trauma and shame, responsibility and caring.
Over time, I began to notice a disconnection - from my body, self, community, environment - the senses dulled and joy dimmed.
My physical and mental health was impacted gradually, through years of holding, managing, and continuing.
I recognised that both life circumstances, combined with the way that society rewards performance and productivity, had left a numbness and a distancing from who I am and where I am going.
As I look back now I see that the things that helped me return were not achievements or performance. They were creativity, nature, reflection, movement, connection, curiosity, and learning to listen to my body again. Learning to pause and notice, exhale and express, nurture and nourish. Simplify. Recognising where I feel safe.
Teal Hummingbird is the place where everything I have learned over the years is weaving together with clarity and richness.
It is not a coaching business, but a wellbeing studio with a solid foundation and open vistas that will evolve and be co-created over time.
The Hummingbird Way
Teal Hummingbird offers a spacious, creative and trauma-informed approach to personal growth and reconnection. Rather than focusing on urgency or quick transformation, this work honours rhythm, capacity and lived experience.
You might arrive at Teal Hummingbird feeling disconnected from yourself after seasons of caregiving, burnout, controlling relationships or work environemnts, big life transitions, or experiences that have shaped how safe it feels to rest, speak, or take up space. Your needs might have been overridden for a long time and you have forgotten how to protect your boundaries be fully yourself.
But in the Studio growth is nourishing and grounded and the pathway are shaped by curiosity and compassion.
It is a place where women can...
- reconnect with themselves without pressure
- make sense of their experiences with compassion
- rediscover their own rhythms in their own time
- express what has been waiting to emerge without judgement
- move towards a life that feels more spacious, grounded and alive
The Hummingbird Way integrates trauma-informed coaching, attachement therory and the P.A.C.E model created by psychotherapist, Dr Dan Hughes:
Playfulness - creating space for creativity, exploration and gentle experimentation
Acceptance - meeting yourself where you are, without pressure or judgement
Curiosity - noticing thoughts, feelings and experiences with openness
Empathy - holding your story with care, compassion and understanding
These principles are woven throughout Teal Hummingbird, alongside:
- Therapeutic creativity
- Somatic awareness and nervous system regulation
- Nature and seasonal rhythms
- Reflection and storytelling
- Sensory awareness and embodied practices
Together, these create a calm and supportive environment where women can reconnect with themselves at their own pace - returning to what matters with a more regulated nervous system and clarity on what makes them feel alive.
Rooted in safety
Creating compassionate spaces where women can soften survival mode, reconnect with themselves and learn to regulate.
Moving in rhythms
Honouring the wisdom of the body, sustainable pacing, creativity, rest and the natural rhythms of life.
Coming alive
Supporting women to rediscover curiosity, reimagine expression, reawaken vitality and reclaim a sense of what might be possible beyond coping and survival.
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At Teal Hummingbird there is a safe and spacious place waiting for you to experience so much more than daily surviving, shrinking yourself and getting through, a place to...
You don't have to keep living dicsonnected from yourself. From your body, your voice, your passions and joy.
...you don't need to earn rest
...curiosity feeds imagination and possibility
...your body is wise
...you can be free from shame
...creativity helps us make sense of the world
...tenderness is not weakness
...there is life beyond survival
...you are allowed to take up space
--your voice and story matter
...you deserve to live the richly beautiful life you dream of
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