Come Into the Circle: An Invitation to the Sacred Reclamation Gatherings
Come Into the Circle: An Invitation to the Sacred Reclamation Gatherings
There are parts of yourself you can rediscover alone.
A quiet morning with your journal can reveal what has been waiting beneath the noise. A walk can give a thought enough room to finish itself. Sitting at your altar, closing your eyes in meditation or allowing yourself a few uninterrupted minutes can bring you back into conversation with your own inner life.
I believe deeply in the value of those private spaces. Sacred Reclamation is, in many ways, an intimate and personal journey. Nobody else can decide what is true for you, tell you what your body is communicating or define the life that feels authentic to you.
Yet there are also things that become possible when you enter a circle of women.
An experience you have carried privately can feel different once it has been spoken aloud and received without judgement. Another woman may name something that opens a door within you. You may recognise part of your own story in words that are not your own. Sometimes the gift is not advice or an answer. It is the experience of being witnessed and discovering that you do not have to find your way home to yourself entirely alone.
What becomes possible when you are witnessed
Sacred community does not ask every woman to share the same story, hold the same beliefs or arrive at the same conclusion. The power comes from entering a space in which each woman can follow her own path while being supported by the presence of others.
You may have spent years being the person who listens, organises, remembers, supports or holds everything together. You may be very comfortable offering care while feeling less certain about receiving it. Within a thoughtfully held circle, you are not required to perform any of those familiar roles. You can listen without needing to solve. You can speak without having to make your experience easier for somebody else to hear. You can remain quiet without disappearing.
Being witnessed does not mean being exposed. There should never be pressure to disclose more than feels right or to turn a private experience into a public story before you are ready. A sacred circle respects your boundaries as part of your sovereignty. It gives you the choice to speak, reflect, write, listen and participate in the way that feels honest for you.
It also makes room for warmth, pleasure and laughter. Coming home to yourself is meaningful work, but it does not have to be solemn at every moment. Connection can be found in a shared smile, conversation over a cup of tea, the relief of being understood and the delight of spending a morning with women who have chosen to give themselves the same space.
This is what I believe a circle can offer. It does not give you a prescribed answer or ask you to become more like somebody else. It creates enough space for you to hear yourself more clearly, while reminding you that your experience does not exist in isolation.
Why I wanted to create the Sacred Reclamation Gatherings
I love holding space for women, both online and in person. Online circles can create genuine intimacy and make sacred community accessible across distance, health, caring responsibilities and the realities of everyday life. However, being able to gather in person is a real treat. There is a quality of connection that can be difficult to replicate through a screen. There are no hugs through a screen, for a start, and anyone who knows me will tell you that I am a hugger.
I have held a number of in-person workshops and Sister Circles over the last few years, and each one has carried its own kind of magic. You can feel the atmosphere changing as women settle into the room. Conversation becomes more honest. Shoulders begin to soften. Something that felt difficult to name may find words. By the time the circle closes, the room holds the imprint of everything that has been explored, witnessed, laughed over and reclaimed.
When the idea came to me to create the Sacred Reclamation Gatherings, I knew I had to follow it. The themes are rooted in my own lived experience and in the questions that have shaped my work for many years: how you care for yourself, how you listen to your body, how you make room for rest, how you reclaim your authority and how you allow yourself to receive.
I deliberately chose the word ‘Gathering’ rather than ‘workshop’. These mornings are not about sitting in rows while I teach you how to improve yourself. They are small, intimate gatherings of women. I will bring structure, questions, teachings and practices, but you will bring the wisdom of your own life. Both belong at the table.
The first Gathering, The Woman You Were Before, begins with the question of who you are beneath the roles, labels and expectations you have gathered. This is not about returning to an idealised younger version of yourself or rejecting the life you have lived since. It is about remembering what has remained true within you and making room for the woman who may have become harder to hear beneath everything she has needed to carry.
I know these questions because I am living them too. I have not stopped being a carer, daughter, sister, friend or business owner. I have not walked away from the people I love or the responsibilities that matter to me. I am learning to make more space for myself alongside those roles, and to recognise that prioritising myself does not mean believing that only I matter. It means remembering that I matter too.
Come into the circle
The Woman You Were Before takes place on Saturday 10 October 2026, from 9.30am to 12.30pm at The Phoenix Tree in Edithmead, Somerset.
There will be no more than nine women gathered around the long rustic table. The small group matters because it allows the morning to remain personal, spacious and connected. Through meditation, reflection, journalling and conversation, you will be invited to explore what you may be ready to remember and reclaim. There will be no pressure to share more than feels comfortable and no expectation that you arrive with any answers.
Your investment is £55 when you reserve your place by Saturday 12 September. After that date, the full investment is £65.
If something within you has responded while reading this, perhaps the woman beneath the roles does not need another promise that you will return to her when life becomes quieter. Perhaps she needs one morning placed in the diary now. One morning in which she is not an afterthought, a role or the person holding everything together. One morning in which she is given room to breathe, speak, listen and be witnessed.
You do not need to arrive knowing who you were before or what you want to reclaim. You do not need to have begun the journey privately or be ready to tell your story. You can come into the circle exactly as you
