Becky is a trainee acupuncturist, a gardener, facilitator and poet, living in West Yorkshire, UK. Nature-inspired simplicity and flow are essential foundations for her life and work, she enjoys tennis, qigong, tai chi, boxfit and physical labour and her sense of humour often verges on the daft and absurd.

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She's been influenced and is inspired by the writings of Audre Lorde, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, bell hooks, Karl Marx, Margaret Atwood, David Graeber, Angela Davis, Carl Jung, Marion Woodman, and Mencius. Her working-class roots and degree in sociology have shaped her 'social-justice-fierce' political outlook.

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She’s no stranger to working on the shop and factory floors, having worked from age thirteen. She has a background in NGO work, as a Shiatsu practitioner in communities with substance coping mechanisms, and in research around the intersectionality in/with HIV, refugees, Travellers/Romany, LGBT*, domestic abuse, and forensic mental health. She has persistently and creatively attempted to subvert power to co-create disruptive divine healing spaces within the dominant narrative.

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The age of 17 kick started the lifelong act of coming out as lesbian. Having always been sex non-conforming, she has a grounded understanding about being lost in voids, lacking language in the in-betwixt spaces and eventually finding home.

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Becky's shame shifting trip began during the 2022 Menstruality Leadership Programme, and three years later she stands solidly in her power without shame and with determined self-cherishing. Paradoxically, as a staunch pragmatist, she has experimented in imaginal knowing as the space for change ripening her, as she excitedly navigates menopause. In this past year, she has been integrating her menarchial self, affectionately known as ‘inner gayden’ with her menopausal self, as she cusps in the bounteous phase of emergence.