A Little Bit About Us.
We All Start Somewhere.
FIRST BELIEF
COMPASSION
Compassion begins by listening to your body, not just your racing mind. When you are running on empty, your body registers exhaustion as a threat, making you snap or withdraw. By reconnecting with your physical sensations, you learn to meet your own tiredness and frustration with kindness instead of guilt. When you extend compassion to your own body, that patience naturally flows to your children and your partner.
SECOND BELIEF
ACCEPTANCE
Acceptance means welcoming all parts of yourself, even the uncomfortable ones like mum-guilt, dad-rage, or deep isolation. True inner harmony happens when you stop fighting your difficult emotions or burying your stress just to look strong. By embracing your whole self, you quiet your loud inner critic and build a steady, honest inner voice that allows you to parent with authentic confidence.
THIRD BELIEF
RESILIENCE
Resilience is not about quietly enduring exhaustion until you break; it is about processing your active triggers so you can respond rather than react. Parenthood highlights our own unhealed childhood wounds, making family chaos feel overwhelming. By clearing these old emotional blocks and using targeted somatic tools, you become more patient and navigate daily family challenges with more presence and stability.
Hi, I’m Fiona.
Co-Founder of Re-Younify, Integrative Psychotherapist & Somatic Therapist
I know exactly what it feels like to navigate the beautiful, chaotic, and exhausting reality of motherhood while trying not to lose your own identity in the process.Â
As a new mum to our seven-month-old daughter, a step-mum navigating the beautiful, complex logistics of a part-time blended family with our 9 and 11-year-olds, and a business owner, I live the reality of keeping a nervous system regulated amidst a busy household every single day. I use these exact somatic tools and nutritional practices to keep myself grounded. I am right there in the trenches with you.Â
But as a deeply qualified practitioner, I also know the exact physiological roadmap to pull your nervous system out of survival mode.Â
My Professional Journey: Bridging the Mind and Body
My fascination with how trauma affects the body began during my training as a Kundalini yoga teacher. Kundalini blends kriyas, breathwork, mantra, mudra, meditation, and mindful movement to expand awareness and shift consciousness. Unlike styles focused on physical postures alone, Kundalini directly targets and calms the nervous system. During this training, I came to understand that true healing requires far more than just talking through your struggles; it requires addressing how the physical body holds onto and expresses past trauma.
In my work as a trauma-informed, somatic, and restorative yoga teacher, I learned that survival responses stay stuck in our bodies. For a new mother, the combination of newborn exhaustion, a baby crying, and complex family dynamics can trap your body in a perpetual loop of fight-or-flight. When your nervous system is locked in this survival state, deep rest and relaxation become physically impossible. Your body and mind continue to react as if an active threat is present, leaving you running on adrenaline and parenting from an empty tank.
To bridge the gap between cognitive understanding (top-down) and physical sensation (bottom-up), I integrated Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Present-day parenting triggers are almost always linked to past, unhealed memories stored in the body. By tapping on specific meridian endpoints, we send an immediate safety signal to the brain, safely deactivating acute stress loops and daily parenting overstimulation in minutes.
As an integrative psychotherapist, I also became fascinated by Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work, the awareness that different aspects of our personality show up at different times. The intense, overwhelming triggers of parenthood often trace directly back to our own childhood wounds and the old protective strategies we developed to survive them. When zero sleep or a crying baby activates an anxious, angry, or protective "part" of you, it is an invitation to heal. Recognising these parts allows us to process early traumas, break generational patterns, and return to a grounded state of "Self-energy."
A Whole-Self Approach to Motherhood
True healing requires looking at the whole self. In our 1:1 sessions and with the digital sanctuary, I combine Integrative Psychotherapy with practical, body-based tools, like nap-time somatic movement, targeted nutrition for exhaustion, and mid-day tapping practices to help you process old childhood wounds, quiet the intense pressure to be a perfect mother, and build a lasting foundation of inner peace from the inside out.Â
Qualifications & Credentials
Integrative Psychotherapy Diploma – Holistic Healing College London
Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Certificate 100 hours - Trauma Therapy ManchesterÂ
 Frank Anderson’s Internal Family Systems Trauma Treatment Program: A 4-Month Online Intensive - PESI UK
Certificate Programme in Women’s Trauma - PESI UK
Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Training Level 1Â - PESI UKÂ
Life Coaching Certificate - Holistic Healing College London
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Certificate - Trauma Therapy Manchester
Kundalini Yoga Teacher 220 hours Certificate - KRI
Nutritional Therapy Certificate Level 5Â -Â The Health Science AcademyÂ
You don't have to carry the invisible load alone anymore. Let's step out of survival mode together.
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THIS IS OUR STORY.
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We are partners in life, parents in a busy blended family, and business partners too.
With a seven-month-old baby girl, two older kids (9 and 11) sharing our home part-time, and a business to run, we know exactly how quickly zero sleep and family chaos can strain a relationship. Luckily, we both share a deep passion for understanding how stress impacts the human body and mind. For years, we have backed each other up as we studied the latest research on anxiety, childhood patterns, and body-based healing tools.
When we started practicing what we were learning inside our own busy household, everything changed. Instead of snapping out of pure exhaustion or taking our daily stress out on each other, we learned how to handle the chaos as a team. We started communicating better, felt much closer and safer with one another, and found real happiness amidst the daily juggle.
It was right there in the parenting trenches that we created the Integrated Self Framework (ISF). This simple step-by-step method teaches overwhelmed mums and dads how to hit the pause button, calm a racing mind, drop out of "survival mode," and safely heal the old childhood wounds and deep-seated habits that parenthood brings to the surface.
This approach completely transformed our family life. It lifted the heavy weight and short fuses we had been carrying for years, letting us show up for our kids with genuine patience and energy.
Now, we want to help you do the same. You don’t have to survive the beautiful chaos of parenthood alone or in silence. Let us help you get your calm back, handle your daily triggers, and build a peaceful, happy home.
Ready to Step Out of Survival Mode with Us?
If you are ready to pause the daily juggle, leave the family chaos behind for a day, and experience our framework firsthand, we invite you to join us at our next in-person event. Come restore your nervous system, connect with other conscious parents, and leave feeling deeply recharged.
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Hi, I’m John.
Co-Founder of Re-Younify, Integrative Psychotherapist & Breathwork Coach
I know firsthand what it means to carry the silent weight of the world on your shoulders while trying to be the steady rock for everyone else.
As a dad to our seven-month-old daughter, a dad co-parenting my 11-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, and an entrepreneur managing two separate businesses, I live the daily balancing act of family logistics, financial pressure, and sleepless nights. I know the exact point where stress turns into a short fuse, and I use these exact somatic tools every day to remain patient when under pressure and keep my own nervous system regulated.
You pretend you have it all together because you believe that showing struggle is a sign of weakness and vulnerability. I am here to tell you that you don’t have to survive in silence anymore.
My Professional Journey: Moving Beyond Talk Therapy
I trained as an integrative psychotherapist in 2012, but over the years, I realised that talk therapy alone wasn’t enough to truly support men in overwhelming situations like becoming a dad and juggling work and everyday responsibilities with a baby. I began to see that how the male body stores and responds to life experiences is just as important as the story being told. Talking cannot fix a body trapped in a physical loop of fight-or-flight.Â
To give dads tools for immediate, real-life relief, I deepened my study of somatic therapies. Alongside Fiona, I completed trainings in Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work and Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO). This allows me to guide clients through their protective inner parts so they can resolve complex relationship dynamics, work through deep frustration, and heal old childhood wounds.Â
I qualified in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) because talking alone cannot stop a physical stress response. By tapping on specific neuro-somatic acupressure points while pinpointing a heavy memory or raw emotional trigger, we send a physical "safety signal" directly to your brain's alarm system. This rapidly deactivates your survival loop, allowing you to process trapped frustration, clear old self-sabotaging blocks, and neutralise intense triggers in minutes.Â
Finally, I trained as a Breathwork Coach to bring practical, in-the-moment regulation tools to my clients. When you are running on empty, your breathing becomes shallow, keeping your body trapped in an anxious fight-or-flight response. I teach you how to use conscious breathing patterns to physically flush out stored stress hormones, switch off the adrenaline loop, and instantly reclaim your clarity and patience during high-stress family times.
Reclaiming Your Core Strength
In our 1:1 sessions and digital spaces, I integrate breathwork, parts work, and EFT through our Integrated Self Framework. We don't just sit and talk about your stress. We target the physical exhaustion, release old emotional blocks, and give you a practical toolkit to master your triggers.
Together, we break generational cycles, handle the chaos of modern blended families, and rebuild the inner stability you need to show up confidently for yourself, your partner, and your children.
Qualifications and Credentials
Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling – CPPD
Breath Coach -Â The Bedfordshire Centre for Therapeutic Studies
Spiritual Counselling Diploma - Holistic Healing College London
More Than Words - How to bring the body into therapy - clinically relevant strategies for talking therapist -Trauma Therapy Manchester
Life Coaching Certificate - Holistic Healing College London
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Courses we have studied together to make us better at what we do
EFT Level 1 and 2 training - Holistic Training and Therapies
Deb Dana’s Polyvagal-Informed Practitioner Online Course: Proven Interventions to Guide Clients Towards Safety and Connection – PESI UK
Comprehensive Internal Family System Therapy Course – PESI UK
Intimacy from the Inside Out a 6-month online programme exploring how Internal Family Systems (IFS) can be applied to relationships – IFS Institute
Get Over Shit and be Happy - Self-Paced Online Course in Radical Honesty
Golden Spine 9 Chi Kung - Holistic Healing College London
Soul Plan Therapy - Holistic Healing College London
Soul Transformational Therapy - Holistic Healing College London
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