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Passing Round the Madeleines
I am in such awe of the beautiful women that have chosen to work with me. When I started my business just over a year ago, I dreamed of being able to support and comfort and guide and inspire women of all in ages, in all life-stages. That I would invoke a true circle of women where everyone was welcomed and accepted just the way they are – loved, cherished, seen, held. To watch these dreams coming true deeply humbles me. Holding space for these women to share their truths, to shine their light, to open their hearts, to truly and fully accept themselves and all the wonderful contradictions that…
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Do You Feel the Pull of the Moon?
I pull open the blinds and look out at… nothing. A dense, white, sea fog has drifted in overnight and is now pressing itself against my windowpanes. In response, I press my body to the other side of the cold glass, and stare out at the swirling forms that appear and disappear in the milky air. After a while my eyes stop striving for focus, and I lose where I end and the fog begins. I feel my consciousness stretch out before me and soon I am dancing between the tiny water droplets suspended in the air. I am diving between rain-soaked blades of grass. I am soaring on the…
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Introducing My Inner Critic
If I were to picture my inner critic, she would probably look a lot like this. The cool fixed gaze. The stark contrast between light and dark, black and white – no shades of grey here…. The set of the chin. The drawing down of the brow. The straight nose. The pressed lips. I imagine that her name is Rosamond, and that she is invested in the upholding of the ingrained Scottish Protestant work ethic which dogs my waking hours. She tells me to “haud my wheesht”* when I want to complain about something. Rosamond doesn’t have time for those who whinge and whine. She tells me to “get oan…
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Did You Know Phoenix Eggs Are Blue?
Yesterday I received a beautiful Tansu session from the truly gifted Annu Tara. Now, Tansu is completely new to me, but like almost all bodywork I receive (holistic massage, reiki, Indian head massage, shiatsu), it shifted me into an altered state. When I’m in this kind of state, this plane of consciousness, I find that images, words, colours, stories, wisdom, understandings come through. I don’t know where they come from. I don’t know whether these are communications from angels, goddesses, my own inner self…. But what I do know is that they always reveal something new to me. They give me back a piece of my self. Towards the end…
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Hip Stories
I have hurt my hip. And it’s not for the first time. When I was pregnant with my third and final baby I developed issues with my right hip. 3 pregnancies in under 4 years had resulted in an excess of relaxin – a hormone that loosens up your joints to allow the baby to pass through your pelvis. It was painful at the time, and I had physiotherapy after he had made his appearance, which seemed to sort out the majority of my aches & pains. But the truth is that walking distances, especially when I’m in a hurry, causes it to act up. Cut to Wednesday. That third…
