Hello — I’m Akilah.

I read English at Cambridge. I’m a qualified teacher and I trained at a magic-circle firm. I still practise law — that’s my day job, and I’m good at it. My whole identity was orientated around being unflappable on four hours’ sleep, lunch at my desk, and a sense of humour about it.

My son was born in the autumn of 2025. Within a few weeks I was crying in the Sainsbury’s car park about a yoghurt. The strategies that had carried me through finals, boisterous classrooms, a training contract and a pandemic — all just stopped working.

What did work was something much smaller. Two minutes of conscious breathing at the kitchen sink. A walk on the heath before anyone was awake. My husband putting a hand on my back and asking how are you, really?

I trained as a mindfulness teacher not as a career pivot, but because I needed to understand what had finally allowed me to settle. Akilah Wellbeing is the quiet calm amidst the chaos: a small practice for other mothers who are carrying a lot, curated around childcare needs. Built for real-life motherhood, plainly spoken, and shaped for women who think for a living.

I keep capacity small on purpose. One six-week container at a time. One circle a month. This is the part that lets me stay whole — and where I get to sit, once a month, with twelve other mothers doing the same.

And one more thing, while we’re here. I’m a Black woman in spaces — the City, postnatal-mum life, mindfulness as a discipline — structures that haven’t always been built for us. This work doesn’t lead with that. But it makes room for it. If you’re a mother who knows what I mean, you’ll feel met here. If you’re a mother who doesn’t, you’ll be met here too. The point is the same: I offer somewhere to set some of what you’re carrying down.