My journey as founder of Permission to Rest
Permission to Rest was birthed from my own needs as a working mother. After years of working in corporate environments, pushing through burnout, navigating grief, and arriving at the threshold of perimenopause, I understood in my body, not just my mind, what it costs women to keep performing when everything inside us is asking to slow down.
These products were not born in a lab or a trend. They came from 30 years of training and practice in aromatherapy, yoga, wellbeing & holistic medicine, and from the hard, quiet work of learning to value my own rhythms over a world that rewards relentless doing.
I am based in Clevedon, North Somerset, where I swim year-round, practice ‘rest’ daily, and live as cyclically as I can. Every product in this collection is rooted in that same intention - to meet you where you are in your cycle, in your season, in your life. The blends, the rituals, the words on the page are an invitation to come home to yourself. Not as a luxury. Not when you've earned it. But now, as a necessity - Because the world needs us rested, resourced and whole.