Settle the Senses. Process What You Carry

Breath & Ember is a creative sensory studio founded by Donna Bottomley. Bringing sound-led expressive writing, composed bilateral music, and somatic regulation into healthcare, community spaces, and everyday practice.

The Sunday Practice

A free, quiet 21-minute reset web app designed to stop Monday stealing Sunday. Bilateral sound settles attention, followed by expressive writing to offload the week, process what remains and set clear intentions for the week to come. Free, needs no sign-up, stores none of your data.

Workshops & Facilitation

Experiential, trauma-informed workshops for health, care and arts and health practitioners carrying emotional loads from their work. Moving beyond still mindfulness practices and into sensory grounding, sound and expressive writing. We process in a shared space but confidentially. With nothing shared in public. We process what clinical supervision cannot shift and what remains from a busy week.

Composed Bilateral Music

Gentle musical compositions that move softly from left to right in stereo. Used by Brainspotting & EMDR therapists and individuals, to settle attention, widen awareness, and support sensory regulation.

Grounded in Clinical Practice. Crafted with Sound

I bring over two decades of experience as an Occupational Therapist and BABCP-accredited psychotherapist, combined with a Master of Music and Arts Council of Wales research into sound, gaze, and attention. As a neurodivergent practitioner, I meet the sensory system first so that genuine rest, reflection, and processing can happen. I believe that sensory regulation is important for emotional regulation.