I want you to get to a point of truly feeling more joy in this lifetime.
About me (Sophie Rucker)
I’m a trauma-informed somatic counsellor and communications strategist, with over a decade of experience working across global campaigns, systems change, and high-pressure environments.
My early career was spent in organisations where emotional intelligence was valued, but embodiment was rarely part of the conversation. People were expected to be resilient, adaptive, and self-aware — often without being given the tools to understand what their bodies were signalling under chronic stress.
Alongside this work, my own life demanded deeper inquiry.
After my mother’s suicide, I entered therapy and stayed there. I learned the language of insight, trauma, and self-reflection. That work mattered. But over time, it became clear that understanding alone wasn’t enough.
I could name what had happened — without feeling integrated.
I could articulate pain — without feeling resourced.
Training in somatic, body-based approaches changed that. Not because it offered answers, but because it taught me how to listen differently — to sensation, to emotion, to the nervous system beneath the story.
Founder & Practitioner
Why Body Space exists
I didn’t set out to build a mental health platform.
I built Body Space because I kept encountering the same gap 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.
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.
We have built a mental health culture that is largely mind-led, time-limited and dependency-based.
Talk therapy offers insight.
Wellness culture offers regulation.
Very few spaces teach people how their internal system actually works or how to respond to it with agency.
Body Space exists to change that.
— Sophie Rucker (Body Space Founder + Practitioner) 
The work I do now…
Somatic Counselling
working with sensation, emotion, and nervous-system states
Systems thinking
understanding how environments shape internal responses
Ethical scale
designing work that can reach more people without losing care
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