Francesca Steele

These are meditations to help you loosen and unbrace. Come to them at the end of a day, or the start of one. Use them before you begin making, when the work needs you settled or gently focused before it will let you in. Use them on the days when pain is loud, or if your neurodivergent brain needs somewhere soft to land. Imaginative, warmly spoken, softly paced — a space held open just for you. Steele makes them the way she makes everything else: as an artist first, and as a teacher, a student, a mother, and someone whose autism and ADHD were diagnosed later in life. She left academia when her health and the work became too enmeshed to separate. What she built afterwards has health at the centre of it rather than at the periphery. She lives with fibromyalgia and chronic pain, and she is in recovery, following a twelve-step programme. She now works one-to-one and in groups, easing pain and clearing anything that blocks creative flow. She is an apprentice Vedic astrologer building a practice informed by Ayurveda, Jyotish and native herbalism. Meditation and self-compassion are how she manages her own pain and her own days. She is not offering you anything she doesn't use herself. However you arrive — creative, in recovery, neurodivergent, in pain, or simply looking for somewhere gentle to land — you are welcome, exactly as you are. If something here could help you, please follow and give it a go. Warmest wishes x

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