Welcoming in September 🍎

Hello 🌸,

This is your monthly newsletter showcasing everything that is coming up for Postpartum Matters CIC and The Women’s Health Hub in the month ahead. If you are passionate about our work, or if you want to keep up to date with events, do consider subscribing below.

We are a non-profit and most of the work we do is free to access, if you are able, we would so appreciate you supporting us financially by becoming a paid subscriber, you can also make a one off payment of support here.

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I really want these monthly emails to showcase all the wonderful things we have going on, that you can join in with, without you having to read a full essay - so I’ll get right to it-

What’s happening in September ~

In person:

You can find our up-to-date timetable of free-to-access workshops and support at The Women’s Health Hub by clicking here. We have workshops to support a wide variety of lived experiences, for women, girls & all those assigned female at birth of all ages and stages - it’s not just for mothers. So do check it out!

The date of our first Safe Space meeting is 6pm on Thursday September 26th. These sessions are open to everyone who has lived experience of domestic violence - it is for those folks who are now safely removed from their abusive situation, to receive on-going community support, to rebuild friendships and community and trust 🥰.

There is no need to book, I’ll be bringing cake, we’re wheelchair accessible and there is a private space if you need alone time or get overwhelmed in groups/ new spaces ❤️

Here on Substack:

✨ The sixth installment of our online Mindful Bookbinding course will be released at the end of the month to celebrate the autumn equinox! This is a slow, mindful process which we have been working on together. This turn of the wheel I show you how to make your own folded storage to add to your book & keep all the odds and ends you might have gathered over the last few months😍.

Pretty soon we’ll be starting to sew your book together. You can read more about the whole process here.

✨Our next Community Connection Circle is on Wednesday September 25th at 7pm GMT. We’ll gather, share stories, journal together, I’ll share a meditation & I promise you’ll leave feeling lighter.

You can find the Zoom link for it here.

These Substack offerings are specifically for my paid membership - it’s £6 a month or £60 for the year and you are so so welcome to join us 💕 all monies go directly towards funding the non-profit. If you’d like to join us but finances are a barrier, please do email for a comp subscription, no explanation needed.

Did I also mention…

I’m part of this beautiful anthology, curated by the wonderful & filled with poems, prose & magic around creativity & motherhood 🥰✨. This is a grassroots project including 55 mothers who are painters, writers, potters, visual artists, musicians, poets, and multi-passionates. The purpose of this project is to inspire mothers to pursue creativity in their own way.

There is also an art journal companion named Ember, which includes a variety of creative prompts (writing, observation, ideating, dreaming, and making) curated to help mothers to kindle their creative sparks.

The crowd-funder to bring the book alive has just launched this week and we’d love your support ❤️. You can support the project by preordering, donating a copy, or sharing on social media.

Click here to check it out!