#dolessbemore

Do L e s s Be MORE From the wonderful @doulashell • • • • • When it is going well... . As a birth doula I often explain to families that when labour is working for them, this does not necessarily mean totally to plan, I will simply do less and be more . I will always be there as a reassuring presence but there is no need for me to step forward and do anything physical or encroach in your space . Giving you this space can only encourage labour to continue to progress positively ❤️ . 🎨by unknown #dolessbemore #antenatal #pregnancy #postnatal #newborn #newmother #motherhood #shellyeah #doulalove #bathdoula #bathlife #bathmums #mumsinbath #doulalife #doula #birthdoula #doulasupport #postpartumdoula #doulashell #thecalmintheroom (at Rochester, Medway) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2EqdZVAX5P/?igshid=1cgyqer2ruaq6

Fabulous #funatwork seminar @edinburghzoo with @tree_of mint the beautiful building of the #rzssedinburghzoo #bethemilk #iamasausageroll #dolessbemore Thanks @gavoattes & team (at Edinburgh Zoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPhzOHJ22F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1cdw4gerwzpga

"There's only us, there's only this Forget regret, or life is yours to miss No other path, no other way No day but today" 🎵 Songs from beloved musical #Rent are going through my mind these days, and it's always a perfect day for frozen peach lemonade and chocolate at @cocoaandcochi! 🍋🍑 #chocolateandlemonade #renthead #dolessbemore (at Cocoa + Co.)

Bonjour! 🌞 So have you seen the video ad where Mariah Carey is accidentally booked to stay at a hostel instead of a luxury hotel, and after some initial concern, it ends up being perfect and super fun and she performs at the hostel night club, thus having experiences she wouldn't have had at a 5-star? That's how I felt at the Ibis Budget hotel which became home for part of my Paris stay! Long story which we can get into, but for now, it's like the simple modern dorm I never had, and I feel 19 again in some ways on this trip, so it all fits! 🌟 I'm also reminded of the bit in classic film Roman Holiday where Audrey Hepburn looks up at the gilded decor in the palazzo where she is staying in Rome, and then after she runs away on her "Roman Holiday" there's a cut to where she looks up in Gregory Peck's decidedly non-gilded attic apartment; there is initial concern, and then she goes on to create the best and most transformational day. 🌟 There is a loss = gain theme in these stories too, isn't there! 💛 In my own real life fairy tale, I was offered a simple yet charming breakfast onsite, which I enhanced with treasures I picked up at the amazing @chocolatitudes shop: the house pear confiture with cacao nibs (and with no pectin, hooray!), and @marouchocolate's normally unavailable-outside-of-saigon caramelized nib bar! Thus: #chocolateandgrapefruit on the road, and wonderful experiences across the spectrum, as my #EuropeAprilMay2018 journey continues onward and upward! 🏅 #dolessbemore #chocolateforbreakfast #cacaonibsgowitheverything (at Paris, France)

Five stars are not enough! @ritzparis 🏅 I couldn't leave Paris without a visit to the magnificently and warmly reimagined Ritz, and indeed this has proved a perfect spot during this trip which I've undertaken for inspiration, reflection, and transformation. 🌹 I came out of a heavy 3-year phase - sort of like one of those days where nothing seems to turn out successfully or the way you want no matter what you do, only instead of 1 day it was 3 years - and into a new phase of light, lightness, and lightheartedness, from which I started to see that all of that loss was really gain! Gain through new experiences, amazing people, and exciting freedom. This trip and this visit mark that, complete with a (deliciously glazed) Proustian madeleine at the Ritz, as the journey moves onward and upward! ❤ #teatime #lossisgain #dolessbemore #EuropeAprilMay2018 (at Ritz Paris)