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Marching to the Beat of Radical Self-Care: Embracing a Month of Wellness

March 8, 2024

I hit a wall at the end of February. I’ve been feeling increasingly burnt out since the start of the year, and I’ve reached a point when I just can’t keep pretending {to myself as well as the world} that everything is OK. The last few years have been a lot, so much unprocessed trauma...

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2024 Intentions and my word of the year

February 2, 2024

A month into the new year, and with the celebrations of Imbolc, I can feel myself coming alive again. The lengthening days and the early signs of spring are wakening me from my winter hibernation. I can feel the stirrings of hope building at a new year ahead, all the adventures and fun I can...

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30 little goals To make you healthier and happier this year

April 8, 2023

Spring is here. After the cold, dark days of winter, we’re slowly coming out of hibernation. It’s the perfect time to set some goals, to shake off the last traces of the old and welcome in new life. Goals are dreams with a plan. Goals will get you to where you want to be, rather...

Winter Self Care Tips

January 23, 2023

The long, dark nights and freezing cold days of winter make me yearn to curl up in my bed and stay there until spring! If it wasn’t for the fact the kiddos would get cabin fever {and possibly I would too} I’d actually consider just not leaving the house for a few month from now....

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A slow January

January 20, 2023

Twenty days into the New Year, and I feel as though it should just be beginning. With the end of Mercury Retrograde, this feels like it is the real beginning of the new year. After the stress and illness that featured heavily in the run up to Christmas, I made a conscious decision that January...

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Trusting the process

November 16, 2022

“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.” Mandy Hale The last couple of weeks, it is as though a switch has been flipped. I feel lighter, freer, happier, content. After almost a year of feeling like I was wading through mud, it’s a relief...

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A lesson in letting go

October 24, 2022

After last week’s do-nothing day, I’d expected to get back to our usual hectic pace of life. We had a full calendar ahead and I was excited about days out, a trip to Cardiff for a gymnastics competition coffee with friends and lots of other things we had planned. Then I woke up Saturday morning...

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A ‘Do Nothing Day’

October 13, 2022

How often do you allow yourself to do nothing? When you’re ill? Or just worn out? Or do you push yourself to keep going? I’ve always been terrible at doing nothing. I think part of it is anxiety – that constant need to be busy so that I don’t have to listen to it. Even...