Maha Stannard

No. 01Work with me

Bring me your hurry,
and I will help you remember
how to belong
to your own life again.

— Maha

I am Maha. Image Consultant, mother, and a quiet student of the slow. Originally from Tuxtepec in Oaxaca, now making a home in the north of England.

I work with women in seasons of transition — new mothers, women rebuilding after illness or loss, women crossing into a new culture, women who suspect they have grown beyond the version of themselves they used to wear.

The work I do is not about polishing the surface. It is about returning a woman to herself with such tenderness that the outside catches up on its own.

No. 02Three things I take seriously

Presence. Beauty. Stewardship.

i.

Presence

We were not made to live three steps ahead of our own bodies. Everything I offer begins by slowing you down enough to actually be where you are.

ii.

Beauty

I believe beauty is a moral act. Not vanity — devotion. The way you dress, the way your home receives a guest, the way you set a table on a Tuesday: these are quiet sermons your soul preaches to itself.

iii.

Stewardship

You have been given a body, a home, a story, a season. None of them belong fully to you, and all of them are yours to keep beautifully.

No. 03Ways we can work together

Three paths.

Path · I

The Personal Image Study

A four-session, one-to-one journey through your image, your wardrobe, and your self-perception. We don't begin with clothes. We begin with the woman inside them — who she has been, who she is becoming, who she has been afraid to be seen as. Then, slowly, we let the outside agree with the inside.

  • · 90-minute discovery conversation
  • · Written Image Study — colours, lines, season, signature
  • · Guided wardrobe edit, in person or remote
  • · Curated shopping day or sourcing plan
  • · Final session for styling and photography
Begin the conversation

Path · II

The Home Atmosphere Study

Some homes shout. Some are silent. The ones we remember exhale. One-to-one consulting on the atmosphere of your home — not the interior design, the atmosphere. The way the door greets you. The way it holds your guests. The way it sounds, smells, lights up at sunset, falls quiet at night.

  • · Written Atmosphere Study, room by room
  • · Sensory editing — scent, light, sound, texture, table
  • · Hospitality framework for hosting beautifully
  • · One styled gathering of your choice
Begin the conversation

Path · III

Private Days

A single day, in your home or in mine, designed entirely around the question you cannot quite name. We walk, talk, eat slowly, look at images, write, pray if you wish, and listen to what your life is trying to tell you. Half spiritual direction, half image consulting, half hospitality, half nothing the world has a word for yet.

  • · Pre-conversation to discern the shape of the day
  • · One full day, in person — Yorkshire or Oaxaca, seasonally
  • · A handwritten letter, sent afterwards
  • · Quiet aftercare for thirty days
Begin the conversation

No. 04How we work

Listen. Reveal. Express.

i.

Listen

First, I want to know who you are when no one is watching. We slow down before we do anything else.

ii.

Reveal

Together we name what is already true about you — your beauty, your season, your particular grace.

iii.

Express

Then we attend to the surface. Wardrobe. Home. Table. Posture. We let your life look like you again.

No. 05By the way

I'm Maha.

I trained as an Image Consultant and in Public Relations in Veracruz, Mexico. I spent three formative years in Redding, California at BSSM. I have lived in Mexico, Spain, and now England. I am wife to Josh, mother to Judah and Brooke.

I have walked through cross-cultural transition, my husband's leukaemia diagnosis and recovery, postpartum healing, and the long quiet work of building a home in a country that is not the one I grew up in. If any of that sounds familiar — I would love to meet you.

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No. 06A note on faith

I am a follower of Jesus. This shapes how I see beauty, motherhood, womanhood, and the dignity of every person who sits across from me. You do not have to share my faith for us to work together — many of my favourite clients don't. But you should know that none of what I do is performance. Everything I do is prayer in some quiet way.