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.

Alongside mindfulness for mothers, I offer one-to-one coaching for people navigating change — from career transitions and education applications to motherhood, identity and wellbeing. Sessions are 45 minutes and take place online, with introductory packages of three, six or nine sessions.

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.