Beauty & Bone Podcast
Exploring a radically new way of mothering both ourselves and others, and the impact of that on how we manifest in the world. I have conversations with women doing this radical work - women who have ✺ opened my mind ✺ blown wide my heart ✺ pivoted how I see and navigate the world Pull up a chair and join us. laylaomara.substack.com
A map to our true selves

Hello friends and welcome to week 2 of our REST series.
This week, I’m delighted to share with you a conversation I had recently with coach, mentor and writer Lauren Barber about Human Design. I wanted to share with you my experiences of discovering and integrating this powerful way of understanding our energy into my life, and have Lauren explain to us what Human Design is, how it works and how it can be useful for us in terms of being more easeful in our lives.
It felt really appropriate to have this conversation during th...
Water & Grief | A healing practice

Hello friends,
The morning after the conversation I had with Easkey Britton about the power of WATER for the Element Sessions she emailed me to say that she had woken with a sense she wanted to share a little more with us all around the healing and holding power of water when it comes to grief and loss.
She offered to share with us a practical embodiment practice, a water ritual, as a way to honour our loss and express our grief, a way to be with our heartbreak, which has been immense for us...
Beauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode 4

The Element Sessions Podcast | WATER with Dr Easkey Britton
I recorded this conversation with writer, big wave surfer & social ecologist Dr.Easkey Britton a number of weeks ago. I can honestly say that the time since I spoke with her has been different. I’ve engaged with the water around me in a different way, I’ve placed myself in and beside bodies of water more often, I’ve thought about my relationship to water, within myself and, rippling out, within the planet we call home, in a deeper, more present way. I am so excited to share...
Mid-life Chat | Part 2

Hi friends,
{ words below are mostly penned by the wondrous wordsmith Lindsay Johnstone ! }We wanted to get this out to you ASAP so you can dig in over the weekend. This is the second part of our chat inspired by All Fours by Miranda July, which far more famous women than us implore you to read :
We talk about leaning in to the messiness of midlife; fear of what’s going on inside our bodies; our relationship to our sexual bodies and how midlife offers us an opportunity to (re)discover who we are and wh...
Doors Closing on €20 membership : why I'm here & how I want this community to feel

Hello dear friends,
I’m sending this video by way of both introduction, and also as a way of telling you a little more about why I’m here on Substack, what my intentions for the beauty & bone community are and most importantly how I want this space to feel.
I’ve a special offer running until midnight tonight for my membership (GMT, Nov 9). The offer is for €20 a year for as long as you subscribe versus the usual €50. I will be putting my prices up next year (but you’ll still pay €20).
To get more of...
Beauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode Three

OK, let’s dive in to the second spiral of the Element Sessions, which is exploring
M E T A L
The Metal Element is connected to the season of Autumn, to a shedding, releasing, letting go. It is a deeply powerful time of the year. It was said in ancient China that the emperor would wait until Metal season to decide on which prisoners were to be release and which executed, because there was the greatest access to discernment and truth at this time. It is a a time of release, of return, of re...
our mid-life chat! | recording

Myself, Caro Giles, Lindsay Johnstone and Chloe George thoroughly enjoyed this thought-provoking chat, with a wonderful gathering of well over 30 of you, about how we are feeling at this wild time of mid-life.
We’d all read and adored Miranda July’s All Fours, and thought it would be a wonderful spring board from which to explore so many of the experiences we find ourselves having in our 40’s.
We spoke candidly about how we are feeling in our bodies now in our 40’s, what we are not ready to let go of, what we are grie...
HRT - on taking it & being cross about it

I started taking HRT about two months ago. I was quite cross about starting to take it. I felt a little ashamed about it. A little bit like I’d failed. I’m also feeling remarkably, annoyingly, pretty great on it. I’d be lying if I said this didn’t piss me off quite a bit.
A voice recording of a post in which I explain why....
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Beauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode Two

Hi dear friends, Welcome to the second conversation in this series of slow seasonal explorations of the five elements : The Element Sessions.
Today, I’m sharing, for all subscribers, a glorious conversation I had with writer, mother, grower and holder Kerri ní Dochartaigh. (More on this below!)
Next Tuesday morning I’ll be holding a live workshop and journalling session focussing on the element of EARTH. I’m so looking forward to putting some faces to names and meeting some of you in person. If you are curious about the offering but not yet a paid su...
Beauty & Bone | The Element Sessions | Episode One

I’m delighted to welcome you to The Element Sessions.
If you would like to follow along with this year long gentle exploration of the elements, please subscribe to my Substack beauty and bone.
I’m thinking of these slow, seasonal sessions as small pitstops in our year.
𖥸 Ways to pause, take a breath, take a look around.𖥸 See what is working for us, reflect on what is not.𖥸 Connect to different fundamental aspects of ourselves.𖥸 Be curious about what is challenging for us, absorb what has been good.𖥸 Be in community with other like-minded p...