Well, hello there!
I'm Deborah Berryman
Somatic Movement, Yoga and Meditation Teacher Trainer
Midlife coach and mentor
Writer and Recovery Warrior
Curious, flawed & beautifully messy human being.
If you’re new to my world, here’s five decisions that changed my life and shaped my work
I've had to make some deeply difficult, deeply human decisions in my own life. Not because I was fearless, but because, over time, I learned that staying true to myself mattered more than staying the same.
🤍 I spent my first decade climbing the corporate ladder in leadership roles. From the outside, it looked like great success. Inside, I knew I was slowly losing myself. I was really good at the job, but I knew it wasn't good for me. So I walked away in my 30s with no plan, but I determination to do something from the heart.
🤍 I swapped boardrooms for bare feet and built a thriving yoga studio and teacher training centre. It became everything I'd dreamed of and a beautiful community I loved deeply. Choosing to let it go 10 years later was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made. It taught me that loving something doesn't always mean you're meant to keep holding onto it. Sometimes the kindest thing for yourself and for what you've created, is to let it evolve without you.
🤍 I married a wonderful man and years later, gratefully, had the sweetest divorce. Because sometimes love evolves, and honouring that can be the kindest thing two people do.
🤍 For over 14 years I've led retreats and teacher trainings, both UK and internatonal. After a few years, I realised I wasn't just teaching yoga. I was sitting with thoughtful, capable and deeply caring women who were asking much deeper questions: who were asking much deeper questions: "Why do I keep putting everyone else first? Why can't I just do what I know is right for me?" "Why aren't I braver?" Those conversations quietly changed the direction of my work.
I became increasingly interested in what helps us to live more true. Not more insight or information, but the patterns held in the body that keep us second-guessing ourselves, keeping the peace, staying small, or abandoning what we know to be true. That curiosity led me into coaching and somatic practice, where I now help women trust what they already know, and create lives that feel more honest, spacious and their own.
🤍 I’ve spent years travelling, both inside and out – from trekking across South America + Africa, to week-long Silent retreats. Turning 50 felt less like a milestone and more like an invitation, so I took a year-long Soulbattical - a pilgrimage of sorts - not to escape my life, but to make sure I was still fully living it.
Looking back, every chapter has asked the same question - can I trust myself enough to live what I know?
Sometimes that meant leaving a career.
Sometimes it meant ending a marriage with love.
Sometimes it meant building, then letting go of a successful business.
Sometimes it simply meant telling the truth.
Every season has taught the same lesson - that we don't become ourselves by trying harder.
We become ourselves by listening more closely and having the courage to honour what we hear.
That's the work I do today.
Not helping women become someone new, but helping them come home to who they've been all along,
Because when someone I work with lights up and says, "I finally feel like myself again," I know we're in exactly the right place.
I’m still living into this, still as curious as ever – about growth, freedom, and being the truest version of ourselves. About how good life can get when we stop pleasing and performing, and start becoming.
And so on we grow...
The Wake-Up Calls That Changed Everything
I’ve had the gift of a few rock bottoms in my life – or as I like to call them, wake-up calls.
The first came in my twenties, when my life was unravelling fast. Yoga, meditation, and recovery became my lifeline.
The second arrived in my 30s. On the outside, life looked great: successful career, full diary, endless motion. But inside, I was running on empty. Exhausted. Disconnected. Aching for meaning. I remember thinking, how can a life that looks so good feel so bad?
It was another clear message: you’re on the wrong track. So I made big changes.
The third wake-up call came more quietly. I’d poured myself into creating thriving yoga studio and community – work I loved deeply. But after 10 years, the joy started to feel heavy. Responsibility crept into every corner and resentment seeped into something once sacred.
After holding it together through the extraordinarily difficult pandemic, I realised I’d crossed a line. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to keep going – it was that I couldn’t. Not for one moment longer.
What followed was a long season of grief and grace. Letting go of something beautiful can break your heart, and still be the most loving thing you ever do. I came to see that who I was had changed, and what I wanted had changed too.
I realised I wasn't longing for a different life so much as a more honest one. One with less proving, less carrying, and more space to hear myself think.
Each of those moments stripped away another layer of “shoulds” and brought me closer to what’s real. They taught me that transformation doesn’t always look like striving for more or to keep going – sometimes it’s permission to want less, to listen inward, and trusting the truth living in your bones: even if it means disappointing others.
That’s the work I do now – helping other women who find themselves in that same tender place. When what once fit no longer does, and your soul whispers something has to change.
You may not know how yet, but you don’t have to walk it alone.
My mission is simple:
to share practices and tools that reconnect you to your authentic self, and empower you to create a better life. And to make you feel a little less alone by encouraging you every step of the way, to go deep and laugh hard as we learn and grow together.
I share the practices and tools that have worked for the big (and small) transitions in my life and in thousands of womens lives, all creating a brave, whole and joyful life.
Take a step toward the life you want. I can show you how.
