Somatic Nest Care
Narelle Fowler 

Hello, I'm Narelle (aka Naz)!​

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Between us, my gorgeous partner, Salvador, and I have two beautiful children - Leo (14) and Vera (2). I'm a mama, doula, social worker, former sexual assault trauma counsellor, trauma-informed yoga teacher, somatic therapist, and group facilitator.

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Now living in Naarm/Melbourne, I was raised on a farm in the Mallee and feel deeply grateful to have been shaped by country life. I’m a mystic with a bit of bogan, an ambivert who loves connection but also needs solitude and quiet to recharge. Pisces Sun, Cancer Moon, Pisces Rising - if that’s up your alley!

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Somatics and embodiment are my jam. I believe the body holds deep wisdom, and I love helping others reconnect with theirs. Nature is my medicine. I go glimmer hunting often (a beautiful nervous system practice by Deb Dana - highly recommend!). I miss the stars when I’m in the city (you can’t beat those big Mallee skies) and dream of one day living on a piece of land with my little family.

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My life’s work is holding space for deep transformation, guiding people through the sacred transitions of birth, postpartum, healing, and embodiment. I understand the deep listening and nervous system attunement required to feel truly seen, held, and witnessed. ​​

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I’ve been a counsellor for over 12 years, after completing a Bachelor of Social Work. I spent about five of those years in youth and adult alcohol and other drug counselling. It was in that space that I became deeply curious about the impact of trauma. How it shows up in the body, how it shapes the way we engage with the world, and how it longs to be met with care, not shame.

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This growing curiosity and a deep desire to support people impacted by trauma eventually led me to work as a sexual assault trauma counsellor, including some years within a women's prison. It was here that I witnessed, even more clearly, how trauma is stored in the body, and how words alone are often not enough.

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I’m endlessly grateful to the clients who trusted me to walk alongside them during such vulnerable moments. I will always hold deep gratitude for witnessing the resilience, courage, and hope of those who’ve lived through trauma.

 

This path guided me toward training in Somatic Experiencing® (SE), a gentle, respectful, and powerful body-based approach to healing. SE affirmed everything I had been witnessing and intuitively sensing in my work, and it’s now the lens through which I understand embodiment, trauma, healing, and life itself.​​ 

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Somatic practices have been my greatest allies in birth, postpartum, and life. A tapestry of grounding, regulation, expression, and integration practices; essentials I return to daily as I navigate life (especially parenting a toddler!).

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My path to doula work opened after birthing our daughter, Vera - an experience that became my greatest teacher.

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Birth cracked me open, exposing patterns of people-pleasing, the “good girl” narrative, and a tendency to obey the 'authority'. I emerged from pregnancy and birth feeling disoriented and disconnected from my instincts and intuition. It certainly wasn’t the initiation into motherhood I had imagined. But, it became an awakening, one that led me toward the greatest lessons, and deepest truths of my life.

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My journey back to an embodied, intuitive way of living and mothering is part of the medicine that arose from our experience. In time, and with support, I took radical responsibility for my choices, sought space to unravel and integrate my birth, and began to gently reconnect with my body’s wisdom and my inner knowing. 

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Matrescence also exposed the gaps in how our culture supports birth and postpartum, highlighting the lack of reverence for this epic transformation. It became so apparent to me that I want to support mothers, parents and families through this transition too. I feel so at home and alive in this work.

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Doula support and somatic therapy is my soul's calling. 
. As you navigate the sacred chaos of motherhood and recovery, I am here to hold space for you. I want you to feel nourished, intuitive, supported, embodied and deeply cared for.