Our Mission

To help women come home to themselves – through sea, stillness, and soul-led remembering.

At The Nest, we don’t ask you to perform healing.

We offer you space to feel it – safely, slowly, and in your own rhythm.

Through 1:1 retreats set on the Cornish coast, we work with the body, the breath, and the wisdom of nature to support women in transition:
Midlife, identity shifts, quiet awakenings, emotional fatigue, creative stirrings or the tender call of “something needs to change.”

We walk with you, not ahead of you.
We don’t offer answers – we hold space for your truth to rise.

Our work is grounded in:

• The medicine of the sea and land
• Restorative, holistic experiences
• Ritual and movement that feel safe and intuitive
• Conversations that hold depth, not diagnosis
• And nourishment – for the body, heart, and nervous system

This isn’t a place to fix yourself.
It’s a place to come back to yourself and remember that you were never lost, just waiting for a safe return.

Our Story

At The Nest, we don’t ask you to perform healing.

In September 2021, just after the storm of Covid, I created The Nest in Kent as a quiet answer to a loud season.

It began with my own reflection.
I’d just walked through the deep unraveling of a marriage breakdown and with it came anxiety, scatteredness and a version of myself I barely recognised.

But that was only part of it.
This was the beginning of my own midlife chapter – a season layered with so many quiet thresholds:
Peri-menopause.
The ache of an emptying nest.
Aging parents.
And the quiet realisation that I could no longer outrun my own truth.

I didn’t feel lost. But I felt stretched, tired, and unsure of who I was becoming.
And yet, even in the ache, something stirred:
Other women are here too.
Maybe I can hold space for their return, while I keep walking my own.

So The Nest began.
Not as a business, but as a container: soft, spacious, honest.
A place for women to rest, remember, and return to themselves, not by force, but by feeling.

In February 2023, The Nest Cornwall was born.
And in September 2024, I followed my soul whisper all the way home, relocating to the place where I first learned how to be wild.

I grew up in St. Agnes, just down the road from our retreat space in Porthtowan.
Coming back wasn’t just a move.
It was a soul-call that had been rising in me for years, until it got so strong, I could no longer ignore it.

The sea has always been in me.
Its rhythm. Its honesty. Its vastness.
The way it holds so much, without explanation.
I didn’t just return to Cornwall – I returned to myself.
To the cliffs that raised me.
To the ocean that steadied me.
To the coastline that reminds me what it feels like to be truly held.

The ocean isn’t a backdrop to this work.
It’s a teacher. A mirror. A medicine.
It weaves its way into every retreat, every ritual, every woman who comes here needing to soften.

And now, I offer this space to you.
Not to fix you.
Not to change you.
But to hold you while you gently gather what’s been scattered.

And I don’t do it alone.

I’m held by an incredible team of Cornish women – healers, guides, teachers, and mentors, each with her own story, her own medicine, and her own journey walked with courage.

Together, we create a circle of care that’s rooted in experience, not theory.
We’ve been through the breaking.
We’ve felt the stretch.
We’ve each found our way back and now, we offer our work to you with open hearts and grounded hands.

Book a discovery call

Every journey begin with a quiet conversation.

We’ll explore what you need and help you shape a retreat that feels like a sigh of reiief.