Holistic Health & Education
You will find here some reflections, insights and musings. Enjoy and please get in touch if you want to know more.
Reiki: It's Simple
Reiki is the most wonderfully easy gateway into connecting to the energy and flow of life.
7th January 2024
Read more...About Negative Emotions
There are no negative emotions. There are unhelpful emotions, such as the ones which generate unpleasant feelings and sensations and may trigger negative behaviours. But no emotion in itself is negative. As human beings, we can and should be able to feel a broad range of emotions. Consider instead that emotions are information that our senses translate into feelings and physical sensations. We may experience them as pleasant or unpleasant and we judge them as good or bad.
10th August 2022
Read more...The baby, the Bathwater, and the New Normal
I thought I’d share with you some reflections that have arisen for me over the last few weeks, based on conversations with clients and fellow practitioners. It strikes me that, as we attempt to make sense of the unprecedented upheaval that Covid-19 has brought with it, we are each doing so with no roadmap and, often, alone...
19th March 2021
Read more...About Spiritual Health & Happiness
For many of us, 2020 didn’t finish (and 2021 didn’t start) with the change or perhaps the relief that we were hoping for. So where to from now? There are a few foundational things we can do for ourselves. If they don´t come naturally at first, take baby steps. Remember they are all gestures of self-care which is so important right now.
1st January 2021
Read more...Christmas 2020
I’ve been scratching my head about how to begin … I could say that I know how you feel after nine months of challenging, or unprecedented, or weird, or bewildering, or turbulent, or painful times. Two problems with this. I’m not sure I do know. And I am running out of adjectives to describe “this year”. They all apply …
23rd December 2020
Read more...In the Midst of Disruption
First of all, I hope this finds you, at the very least, intact. I know that, for everyone, this has been a time of enormous disruption. For some, it has also been one of loss and sorrow, while others have been in a holding space of enforced introspection.
1st July 2020
Read more...Stillness
Well here I am, neither late nor early, arriving "precisely on time" like Gandalf, true to my promise of not bombarding you with too many emails and overloading your inbox! As 2018 draws to a close, I want to let you all know I am thinking of you and give you the opportunity to have a look at my 2019 offerings, especially the Diploma in Practical Spirituality and Wellness, which will be in its third year.
7th December 2018
Read more...Reflections on the Nature of Helping
Consider the nature of the helping role that many of us take in our professional or personal lives. When we try to help someone else, we generally think in terms of skills, advice, input or practical guidance. So whether you are a plumber or a doctor, this is most likely what you have been trained to do – sort something out.
3rd January 2017
Read more...Reiki as a Gateway to Spiritual Discovery
When I first encountered Reiki, also referred to as Universal Life Force, almost by accident, in 1998, I was in such a place where the changing demands of a job which had once filled my heart with love, had turned into pressure and I was beginning to feel symptoms of stress. It’s not that I didn’t like teaching anymore, I did (and I still do), but ‘something’ was missing.
2nd December 2016
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