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The Hearth Project
Creating spaces of belonging for young adults struggling in a disconnected world
I want to tell you about The Hearth Project, which is quietly birthing into the world.
In truth, it has been many years in the making.
For a long time, I didn’t know what I was being prepared for. Looking back now, I can see how the experiences, challenges, healing, teachings, revelations and quiet inner knowings that have shaped my life were all preparing me for this moment.
At times the journey has felt relentless.
There have been many moments when I wanted to walk away from the vision completely. By “the vision” I mean Home House Homestead and everything that comes with allowing this creation to emerge through me.
It has required a complete turning of my life. A journey that bears little resemblance to the life I was living before.
And perhaps that is the nature of any true calling. We rarely understand it while we are walking through it. It is only when we look back that we begin to see the thread that was quietly weaving everything together.
The Hearth Project has grown from my own lived experience.
It has grown from being a woman navigating divorce after seventeen years of marriage. A woman trying to understand who she was becoming, what her life meant now, and where it might be leading her.
It has grown from being a mother trying to support teenage twin boys and a daughter who eventually left home to escape the chaos our family had found itself in.
We were all being carried through a difficult season.
Life had tumbled us into waters none of us had expected to navigate.
I was struggling. My children were struggling. Most days I was simply trying to keep my head above water.
I won’t share the details out of respect for my children and my former husband, but one thing became painfully clear to me. When young people are struggling, there is often very little support available that nurtures the whole human being. Much of what is offered can feel clinical, disconnected, and unable to address the deeper longing beneath the symptoms.
At the same time, my own healing journey was leading me somewhere unexpected.
In 2020 I left behind the life I had known in the city and moved to the Norfolk countryside with a longing to learn a different way of living. I wanted to be closer to the land, closer to nature, and closer to something that felt more real and essential. The longing for more meaning and purpose within me was guiding me towards this house, this land, and ultimately a deeper relationship to God through service.
What I didn’t realise at the time was that Home House Homestead would become one of my greatest teachers.
The land taught me to slow down.
The animals taught me presence.
The seasons taught me patience.
The garden taught me trust.
Nature invited me to soften, to listen, to observe, and to remember that I am not separate from life but a part of it.
Through tending the land, I found myself being tended.
Through learning the rhythms of the natural world, I began to reconnect with the rhythms within myself.
And through that reconnection came healing, meaning, belonging and a deeper understanding of the Oneness that holds us all.
Now I find myself wanting to share that experience with young adults who are searching for something they may not yet have words for.
Young people who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, depressed, anxious, lonely or unsure of their place in the world.
Young people who have grown up in a culture of constant stimulation, noise, pressure and distraction, yet often feel deeply disconnected from themselves, one another and the natural world.
The Hearth Project is an invitation back to something ancient and deeply human.
A place to gather.
A place to belong.
A place to slow down enough to hear your own heart again.
Around the hearth, friendships are formed. Stories are shared. Hands work together. Meals are prepared. Seeds are sown. Fires are lit. Laughter returns. Meaning begins to emerge.
It is not therapy.
It is not fixing.
It is not another programme demanding more from young people.
It is an experience of living differently.
An opportunity to reconnect with nature, community, purpose, creativity, service and the deeper wisdom that already lives within them.
My hope is that through time spent here, nervous systems begin to unwind, hearts begin to soften, and young people begin to discover a deeper sense of belonging within themselves, with others, with nature and with the Divine.
The space at Home House Homestead is, at its heart, a place of healing for the body, the heart and the soul.
And The Hearth Project is my offering of that healing space to the next generation.
Applications will be opening soon.
Hawa is a Sufi healing practitioner, spiritual guide and mother whose work is rooted in lived experience, devotion and deep personal transformation. Drawing from Sufi Spiritual Healing, breath and bodywork, sacred sound and Holy Hijama Therapy, she offers compassionate spaces for healing, remembrance and reconnection to the Divine. Based at Home House Homestead in the Norfolk countryside, her path is one of surrender, simplicity and the unfolding journey of the heart.
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Hawa’s path has been one of deep longing — a search for love, truth and a more meaningful connection to life.
Originally studying music at the University of East Anglia, she was first introduced to yoga in her early twenties, where she discovered a quieter and more connected way of being through breath, movement and inner awareness.
Motherhood became one of the greatest loves of her life. Becoming a mother at 23, and later raising twin boys, her early adult years were devoted to family life. Yet beneath the surface remained an unshakable longing for something deeper.
Her journey led through periods of grief, addiction, disconnection and profound inner searching, whilst yoga remained a constant thread throughout her life. Following the death of her stepfather, unresolved pain and deeper questions began to surface, marking the beginning of a sincere healing journey.
Over the years, she immersed herself in many healing modalities including yoga, meditation, bodywork, ceremony, sacred sound and transformational practices — not initially as a profession, but as a path towards healing her own heart and life.
A major turning point came after the breakdown of her 17-year marriage. During this period of surrender and personal transformation, she was guided back to her voice, to song, and to a deeper relationship with herself and the Divine. It was also during this time that the spirit of the Hummingbird came to her as a symbol of unconditional love, resilience and the ability to find sweetness amidst suffering.
In 2020, she stepped away from her growing healing and coaching business, left city life behind and moved to Home House in the remote Norfolk countryside. There, immersed in simplicity, nature and spiritual devotion, a new way of living began to unfold.
Her path eventually led her to Islam and the mystical tradition of Sufism — the path of the heart — where her lifelong longing found a home. She was given the name Hawa, meaning Eve, the first woman and mother of humanity.
Today, Hawa walks the Sufi path devotedly whilst studying Sufi Spiritual Healing through the Sufi University, continuing her training towards a Master of Divinity. Her work is grounded not only in study, but in lived experience, surrender and ongoing spiritual practice.
Through Sufi healing, breath and bodywork, sacred sound, Holy Hijama Therapy and the spaces she holds at Home House Homestead, she offers others a compassionate space to heal, soften, reconnect and return to themselves and to the Divine.
Her work is rooted in the belief that when we empty ourselves of what no longer serves, Divine Radiance can begin to shine through.