A former Script Supervisor, who has worked on films and in television around the world, is now spending her time helping to change the lives of women and girls.
Ruth Sabrosa, nee Atkinson, originally from Weardale, has, in the past, worked on such films as Star Wars and James Bond and more recently on the last episode of Vera.
Since returning to the north-east in 2020, she has improved on the work she was doing in London, where she had previously lived. She all but gave up her film career after the birth of the first of her three daughters in 2010 and, after realising the poor state of maternity services in the NHS, retrained as a Natal Hypnotherapist to help other women to have the best birth experience they could.
While living in London, she formed and hosted groups of women and children to meet. When Ruth relocated to the north east, she began working in our communities with women and children. She also began to study herbs and homeopathy and, despite living in the countryside for all her formative years, began to really understand how nature can help people.
She became a leader of the Wild Sea Women on Durham’s coastline and set up workshops – Mindful Mothering – because Ruth realised that women need empowering and set out to bring back the magic and power of being female.
She holds workshops for women and their daughters, explaining the concept, ‘Supporting the rise of the feminine from Menstruation to Menopause’.
“It is interesting – and sometimes frightening – how little women and girls know and understand about their own bodies,” said Ruth. “There is nothing scary in starting periods, having babies or even the menopause. We women need to be reawakened and realise that we have the power. The concept of the wiser, older woman has been drowned in the care home system nowadays, but we need to bring her back!”
Ruth is also in demand as a hypnotherapist, treating everything from phobias to mental health problems, with huge success.
“My previous career in films and television could be exciting and even unique in some ways, certainly unusual, especially when I found myself directing Storm Troopers in Star Wars, but this work fulfils me like no other job can” mused Ruth.
To discover more about Ruth, visit her website at:
www.ruthsabrosa.com – or for any queries, email:
ruthy57@hotmail.com – or for more information about her empowerment circles:

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