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Sophie Messager, author of Beat of your Own Drum, Womancraft Publishing

We are delighted to introduce Sophie Messager, author of our wonderful September 2025 title, The Beat of your Own Drum, which will be available to pre-order in late June. Make sure you have signed up to our mailing list (see bottom of the page) to hear full details of your pre-order bonuses.

Sophie bridges worlds that rarely meet. A former reproductive physiologist with a PhD, she traded her microscope for a medicine drum after experiencing the transformative power of an empowered birth. Her decade-long journey as a doula, birth educator, and author of Why Postnatal Recovery Matters deepened her exploration of the rhythms surrounding women's transitions.

Now a holistic life transition mentor, Sophie guides women through significant life thresholds –from birth to perimenopause and beyond. Her unique combination of scientific expertise and spiritual insight allows her to serve as a compassionate space holder for those seeking to harmonise their analytical and intuitive selves.

Coming soon:

The Beat of your Own Drum: the history, science and contemporary use of drumming as a path for women’s wisdom, health, and transformation

Sophie Messager PhD

ISBNs: 978-1-916672-11-6 (Paperback) / 978-1-916672-06-2 (Paperback, US edition) / 978-1-916672-07-9 (ebook)

From the shamanic to the scientific, this book informs, reminds and guides. From a forgotten history of women as drummers, to the science of drumming, neurodivergence, stress and drumming through rites of passage. This book invites you to experience the ways drumming can be your sail, your anchor and the beat you march to. Unlocking your emotions, regulating your systems and connecting you into the pulse of life.

Bridget Supple, author of The Birthkeeper of Bethlehem

Have you ever been told you’re “Too Much…”?

Too Much Woman, a Womancraft Publishing Compendium
This vibrant collection of prose, poetry and art offers a powerful response to this historic patriarchal tactic of silencing, shaming and diminishing women. Our third Womancraft Compendium weaves together best-selling authors, and over seventy diverse writers and artists from around the world.

  • Too Emotional?
  • Too Big?
  • Too Ambitious?
  • Too Sexual?
  • Too Weird?
  • Too Loud?
  • Too…?

For generations, women have been told to make themselves smaller: quieter, softer, less demanding, less visible. “Too much” has been used as a weapon — a way of silencing, shaming and diminishing women who refuse to fit neatly into the boundaries set for them.

Too Much Woman says: enough.

This vibrant third Womancraft Compendium is a celebration of women in all their complexity, contradiction and glorious muchness. Through poetry, essays, personal reflections, and art of all kinds, more than 70 writers and artists from around the world explore what it means to be a woman who cannot – and will not – be contained.

These are voices reclaiming desire, ambition, anger, pleasure, creativity, vulnerability, power and possibility. Voices speaking to the experiences of those who have been judged, shamed or silenced for being too visible, too passionate, too complicated, too sexual, too powerful – simply too woman.

Come and reclaim your muchness.
Embrace your enoughness.
And discover that perhaps you were never too much at all.

With an introduction and foreword by Lucy H. Pearce, founder of Womancraft Publishing.

10% of proceeds from the book will be donated to women’s charities.