A woman with long blonde hair and light skin, smiling slightly, wearing a white sweater with a dark green section on the sleeves, standing against a plain white background.

About me (Sophie Rucker)

After my mum died, everything inside me turned upside down and back to front. It was chaos. The shock the trauma. The grief.

There was no strategy. No resilience plan. No “coping well.”

I was screaming and crying on the floor for months. It was during Covid, so the world had already paused. In a strange way, it gave me permission to pause too.

There was nothing to do but listen to what my body needed.

Grief took over and I trusted myself to follow it.

I practically threw myself into countless therapy sessions. Gestalt. CBT (which didn’t feel like a great fit for me). Grief training and eventually, somatic therapy.

Somatic work felt different. Less about analysing and more about actually being with what was happening in my body.

I realised how mind-focused I’d been for most of my life how much I could explain without really feeling.

Giving myself space to listen to both my mind and my body changed something.

In 2024, I trained as a Somatic Counsellor.

Now I hold 1–2–1 sessions and bring this work into workplaces through my communications consulting and group facilitation.

Most of us are taught how to think but very few of us are taught how to feel steady in our own bodies.

Founder & Practitioner

Why Body Space exists

I didn’t set out to build a mental health platform.

I’m building Body Space because I kept seeing the same disconnect in my own life, in therapy rooms and in the systems I worked inside.

People were learning how to talk about themselves but not how to listen to themselves more deeply so the same patterns we’re just repeating.

Highly capable, thoughtful people could explain their patterns, their trauma, their stress but still felt disconnected from their bodies, their instincts and their capacity to feel safe or make grounded choices. Insight was there. Integration wasn’t.

At the same time, I watched organisations invest in wellbeing initiatives that helped people cope just enough to keep going without addressing the nervous-system load underneath burnout, disconnection and collapse.

Body Space was born in that gap.