Nicola Jane Hobbs

Nicola Jane Hobbs I help women feel safe enough to rest, play and fall in love with life.

As an integrative counsellor and lifestyle consultant, I combine counselling, yoga, breath work, meditation, nutrition and psychological skills training to help people thrive. In my private practice, I work with entrepreneurs, executives, athletes, authors and anyone experiencing body image distress, anxiety and burnout. In my books, I explore healing, awakening, grief, joy, stress, rest, success, community and how we can make the most of these precious breaths we call life.

I’m realising that motherhood is not only raising a child, but re-mothering ourselves.I’ve been noticing how many of the...
26/06/2026

I’m realising that motherhood is not only raising a child, but re-mothering ourselves.

I’ve been noticing how many of the things I’ve been trying to role model to my toddler are also deeply healing for me.

Resting when I’m tired. Eating when I’m hungry. Asking for help when I’m struggling. Speaking kindly to myself when I make mistakes. Taking my time. Letting myself cry. Making room for joy.

It’s made me realise how many of us grew up learning the opposite: Push through. Work harder. Be perfect. Hurry up. Don’t trust your body. Don’t rely on anyone. Don’t rest. Don’t cry.

I think one of the most beautiful things about motherhood is that it invites us to treat ourselves the way we hope our children will one day treat themselves.

These gentle acts of re-mothering are at the heart of my new course, Becoming The Relaxed Woman. The introductory offer is available until the 30th June and you can find out more through the link in my bio.

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If there was ever a time to do the bare minimum, this is it. Because everything takes more energy in this heat. Because ...
24/06/2026

If there was ever a time to do the bare minimum, this is it. Because everything takes more energy in this heat. Because you don’t always have to go the extra mile. Because your best self is not always required. Because your nervous system matters too.

✨ This is one of the things we explore inside Becoming The Relaxed Woman — how to embrace seasons of gentleness alongside seasons of excellence. The introductory offer is available until the end of June and you can find all the details in the link in my bio.

I am currently seven and half months pregnant, solo mothering a toddler in a half-renovated house in a heat wave. My cap...
23/06/2026

I am currently seven and half months pregnant, solo mothering a toddler in a half-renovated house in a heat wave. My capacity is pretty low so my expectations for myself are low too — so that I do not burn out, so that joy doesn’t get squeezed into the margins of my life, so that I do not miss the miracles.

✨ One of the things we explore inside Becoming The Relaxed Woman is what happens when we stop demanding perfection from ourselves, when we stop expecting ourselves to perform like machines, when we allow ourselves to be human. The introductory offer is available until the end of June and you can find more detail in my bio.

After years of living in survival mode, I am learning to relax into this messy, beautiful life. This longing - to discov...
21/06/2026

After years of living in survival mode, I am learning to relax into this messy, beautiful life.

This longing - to discover a life beyond survival mode - is the reason I created Becoming The Relaxed Woman. The introductory offer is available until June 30th and can find all the details in my bio.

May we become relaxed woman together.

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In the beginning, I would sit down to rest and a harsh inner voice would say,‘Why are you relaxing when you could be doi...
19/06/2026

In the beginning, I would sit down to rest and a harsh inner voice would say,

‘Why are you relaxing when you could be doing something productive?’

It would say that I needed to create a new cleaning schedule, that I should quickly reply to an email, that I had to declutter a drawer, that we were out of mustard, that I absolutely must rearrange the kitchen cupboards.

Whenever I finally found a few minutes to relax, it would give me a dozen perfectly reasonable reasons to get going again.

These days, that voice is much quieter. And alongside it is kind, loving voice that, when I’m tempted to push through exhaustion, gently asks me,

‘Why would you force yourself to be productive when you could be relaxing and enjoying your life?’

These loving thoughts arise so much more naturally these days. Relaxing feels so much more natural these days. Instead of pushing through and doing more, resting and slowing down and being kind to myself are things my nervous system naturally reaches for.

This is healing. This is freedom. This is joy.

✨ This is one of things we explore inside Becoming The Relaxed Woman — how to gently create new pathways, new patterns, new nourishing ways of relating to yourself and the world. The introductory offer is available until 30th June and you can find out all the details through the link in my bio. I hope you love it.

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You don’t have to keep postponing your rest, your recovery, your joy. You’re allowed to relax now. Amongst the chaos and...
17/06/2026

You don’t have to keep postponing your rest, your recovery, your joy. You’re allowed to relax now. Amongst the chaos and the crumbs and the beautiful unfinishedness of life.

✨ We explore all of this more deeply in Becoming The Relaxed Woman. The introductory offer is available until the end of June and you can find all the course details via the link in my bio. I hope you love it!

I wrote these two lists at the beginning of last year. And looking at them now, I feel so grateful. Grateful for the way...
16/06/2026

I wrote these two lists at the beginning of last year. And looking at them now, I feel so grateful. Grateful for the way my nervous system has healed. Grateful for the way my inner critic has softened. Grateful that what once felt impossible - resting, trusting, nourishing - now feels natural. Grateful that my life is no longer dominated by rushing, striving and overachieving. Grateful that I feel safe enough to dance and wander and trust and surrender and enjoy being messy and imperfect and alive.

✨This is much of what we focus on inside Becoming The Relaxed Woman — noticing the nervous system patterns that keep us rushing and striving and gently practising new ways of being. The introductory offer is available until the end of June and you can find out more via the link in my bio.

I have no idea where the first two trimesters have gone but I’m feeling like the luckiest mama in the world ♥️(please ca...
14/06/2026

I have no idea where the first two trimesters have gone but I’m feeling like the luckiest mama in the world ♥️

(please can I have all your favourite baby names as we currently have zero on our shortlist!!)

This afternoon, I was slowly peeling an orange for my little one. And it reminded me how, in seasons when we are stretch...
13/06/2026

This afternoon, I was slowly peeling an orange for my little one. And it reminded me how, in seasons when we are stretched thin, moments like these — moments that shift us from thinking to sensing, from the future to the present, from doing to being — are deeply healing.

These moments might seem too small to matter but to a nervous system in survival mode, these moments are medicine. To a mother in the thick of it, they are nourishment. To a woman stretched thin by responsibilities, with no space to fall apart, they are sacred moments of healing.

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This is why I created Becoming The Relaxed Woman: 8 Ways Out of Burnout — for seasons when you cannot escape your responsibilities but you can discover moments of ease and relaxation alongside them. You can find out more via the link in my bio. I hope you love it.

I asked myself this today when my little one was having his nap,‘What would a relaxed woman do?’And even though I’d plan...
12/06/2026

I asked myself this today when my little one was having his nap,

‘What would a relaxed woman do?’

And even though I’d planned to do some work, reply to a few messages and paint the skirting boards, it helped me to realise that what I truly needed was to send one important email and then prioritise rest and recovery.

I find this question is such a beautiful and powerful way to help you become aware of when you’ve fallen into patterns of urgency, busyness or perfectionism so you can gently step out of them and towards what matters most.

♥️ We explore this more deeply in my new course, Becoming The Relaxed Woman: 8 Ways Out of Burnout. The introductory offer is available until the end of June and you can find all the details through the link in my bio. I hope you love it!

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