Unravelling with Lauren Barber

In this episode I am reflecting over the journey that the Unravelling podcast has taken me on. It has been three years of episodes and incredible conversations and I am so grateful for all the love and support I have received along the way. This feels like a perfect time to bring the podcast to a close before I move on to the next chapter - which you can learn more about in this episode.    In thi...

In this episode of Unravelling,  I am excited to share a sacred conversation I had with Helen from The Fold. Helen is a yoga teacher in Manchester, teaching at her new studio The Fold. She specialises in yoga for women who are trying to conceive, with an emphasis on creating a restorative space for compassionate connection to self and others. Helen is also a lecturer in  education and writes about...

In this episode of Unravelling,  I am excited to share a sacred conversation I had with Alice Rose. Alice is a fertility mindset mentor, speaker, writer, and media consultant. She is on a mission to support and empower anyone trying to grow their family - and while she’s at it, change the social narrative we see around fertility too! In this episode we unravel… How often, there’s no action you nee...

In this episode of Unravelling, I am excited to share space with Lydia Reeves. Lydia is a Female Body Casting Artist working out of her studio in Brighton, UK. Her work focuses on allowing people to celebrate their incredible bodies, and to help eradicate any shame, embarrassment or negative thoughts that they may have encountered throughout their lives.   In this episode we unravel… Lydia’s journ...

In this episode of Unravelling, I am excited to share a sacred conversation I had with Emma Smallbone. Emma connects people to their ancestors, their higher selves and the collective to connect deeply to their authentic self and learn to walk the path  between the Shadow and Light. Emma’s head WOOmate at The WOOshop and loves helping people find the tools to strengthen their intuition and connecti...

In this episode of Unravelling, I am excited to share a sacred conversation I had with my dear friend Harriet Hoult. Harriet Hoult is an artist, a graphic designer and a creative mentor. Her artwork has been shown in galleries, art fairs and private collections throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the US. She heads up a small boutique design studio, Hoult & Delis, specialising in brandin...

In this episode of Unravelling I am excited to share space with Laura Agar Wilson.  Laura Agar Wilson is a business mentor, course creator and designer who helps women create wholehearted businesses that honour who they are and what they need to thrive. She’s passionate about supporting women to show up as their whole selves and build businesses that feel aligned and authentic. In this episode we...

In this episode of Unravelling I am excited to share a sacred conversation I had with Sophie Parker.    Sophie is a Nature Connection Guide and passionate Nature Lover. She truly believes that a connection with Nature can allow us to explore ourselves more deeply, so that we can become the truest, and most whole expression of who we are. Whether we are at a cross-roads in our lives, whether we’ve...

In this episode of Unravelling, I am so honoured to share space with Stella Stathi.  Stella Stathi MA is a qualified, experienced Jungian/Somatic Psychotherapist and Coach, Embodied Alchemy Teacher & Body Priestess.  She has specialised in the treatment of eating disorders and body-image issues and, for nearly a decade, she has been supporting womxn in healing their relationship with food and thei...

36: The Ever Evolving Unravelling Journey After just over a year, Unravelling has returned. And wow, what a journey it has been!  In this episode, I am sharing the lessons and learnings from the past year, as well as giving you an idea of what you can expect from the new series of Unravelling.  I think it is fair to say that the past 12 months has been pretty transformative in so many ways, and de...

This time last year I was in the thick of first trimester, an uncertain, anxiety-ridden time for me. In this episode of Unravelling I wanted to share my experience, the feelings, the emotions, the things that helped me, and simply open up a conversation about this ‘invisible’ trimester. In this episode I share... My experience of the first trimester, from the moment I found out I was pregnant and...

In this episode of Unravelling I invited the beautiful soul Anna Dunleavy on to talk about her journey in business, alongside being a mother. Anna is an NLP coach helping women to navigate through their self-limiting beliefs, so that they can stop playing small and live a life of alignment. She started her self-employed career as a wedding photographer, and quickly spotted the need for a supportiv...

In this episode of Unravelling I got the honour of welcoming my good friend Katy Baker onto the show to talk honestly and openly about transitioning to motherhood. Katy is mum to Maggie (3), Jasper (2) and 4 month old Delphi. She is a qualified KGHypnobirthing teacher, founder of The Birth Thing and loves sharing knowledge of pregnancy, birth and parenthood with parents-to-be in and around Tunbrid...

One of the biggest lessons I have learned so far in motherhood has been through breastfeeding and so I thought it now the right time to share my journey with it. ‘Breast is Best’ is a phrase that is used a lot when you talk about motherhood - however for me breast wasn’t best and I am sharing my journey with breastfeeding here. I am sharing this because I want to be honest about my experience and...

In this episode I wanted to share some of the lessons and experiences I had in the first two weeks after giving birth to Sophia. I feel like this time is a real ‘space in between’… you have given birth to your baby but also had to rebirth yourself as a mother - and this is a transitional process that takes time. In this episode I share... Some of the lessons I learned in the first few days after g...

This is the first episode of Unravelling that I have recorded since giving birth to my daughter Sophia, so I thought that it was the perfect time to share the story of her birth. Birth has so much uncertainty and despite having a ‘plan’ I had to fully surrender and trust that Sophia knew how to be born. In this episode I share... The whole story from the beginning of labour until after she was bor...

In this episode of Unravelling, I am talking about my journey to making friends and cultivating a nurturing relationship with my womb… Many years of disconnect, and then the loss of my menstrual bleed meant that my relationship with my womb was somewhat lacking. However, the challenges I have faced have actually been catalyst to come in to a deeper relationship with this part of my body, including...

In this episode of Unravelling, I get to chat to the wonderful Ban Hass about her journey with anxiety, as well as the magic of social media. Ban is a BS free Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor and freelance writer. She uses satire, humour and parody to voice opinions and make observations on the fitness industry (#fitspo) on social media. I came across Ban through Instagram and was so excited t...

In this episode of Unravelling, I am kicking off season 2 with an intense but essential topic… rock bottoms! As I explain in the episode, I want to share the absolute truth with my listeners and it feels only right that I share about one of the biggest transformative periods of my life - despite it coming from a rock bottom place. Maybe you have been there too? Or maybe you are in it? Wherever you...

This episode of Unravelling is a little different to the normal episode formats as I have got together with my beautiful friend and fellow soulful entrepreneur, Vix Maxwell from New Age Hipster , to reflect together over the rollercoaster year that 2018 has been. This is a slightly longer episode than normal, but it can be listened to in small chunks, and I have also created you a simple worksheet...

In this episode of Unravelling, I had the honour of speaking to Lauren Armes , who is not only a friend, but also the business coach that helped me find the confidence I needed to make some big leaps in my business. Lauren Armes is a business coach, speaker, writer and entrepreneur. She founded Welltodo , a global industry network for the wellness industry, in 2014. Welltodo is now respected as a...

In this episode of Unravelling, I am dropping in for a short episode to simply talk about how we can look after ourselves over the festive season. If you find the festive season challenging for any reason, then this episode is for you. In this episode I share... How we are designed to go ‘inwards’ during this time of the year and how we can honour that. Why honouring our emotions during this time...

In this episode of Unravelling, I got to chat the magical Sinéad de hÓra about a whole host of things. From intuition, manifestation, slowing down, listening to the body and the art of embracing playfulness as an adult. I absolutely loved this conversation which was a true free flowing chat between two friends. Sinead is a Multi Award-Winning Intuitive Specialist, Speaker, Founder of Treatment Cre...

In this episode of Unravelling, I talk about my journey with Yoga Nidra (so far), about my recent training in Canada, and about how it is time to reclaim our right to rest! Yoga Nidra is the most powerful practice I have discovered so far in my own healing journey, and I am really excited to be able to now share some of my learnings with you in this episode. In this episode I share... How I discov...

In this episode of Unravelling, I got to chat the lovely Madeline MacKinnon from Natural Hormone Healing about all things menstrual cycle and food! Madeline is a certified nutritionist and the founder of Natural Hormone Healing. She believes in peeling back the layers that surround the root of your hormone imbalance, exposing it, and then treating it with a combination of food, herbs and lifestyle...