Hi friends,

I have so many amazing articles to bring you this month - both ones I’ve already written that are sitting in my drafts, and ones I have ideas for that I’m excited to write, but I wanted to start with this because you and your kids NEED this this month, right!? (That being said, if you have any topics in particular you’d like to hear from me on, please do let me know in the comments - I’d love to give you what it is you need right now.)

I always hear people talking about the “back-to-school lurgy” they got, but I believe that with the right approach to immune health, we really don’t need to even factor that in at all… both from the perspective of knowing how to boost immunity with the right nature-given medicines, and also as a result of knowing that our frequency is what determines health more than anything else.

Either way, the summer was LONG and whether your kids are in school, or, like my home ed buddies, in numerous provisions, we don’t need any gaps in that in the coming months!

So I’ve put together what I believe to be the essential back-to-school supplement stack - not 17 supplements you’ll forget to give them, and not 1 lame multivitamin that’s not bioavailable and full of synthetic vitamins…

No, none of that. Just the top, most important supplements you need to keep your kids (and you) healthy this autumn.

And, yay for you, I’ve added discount codes for all of them, so do make sure to input the right ones so this becomes that little bit less costly!

Back-to-school supplement stack

1. Elderberry syrup - nothing beats this. If you buy nothing else, keep this stocked at home at all times - it genuinely is THE immune elixir from nature. If you are out and about in nature right now, you may even be able to forage for elderberries as they are abundant on the elder trees this month, and you can use this recipe from my good friend Katie Wells at Wellness Mama.
   How & when? I have been giving my kids a spoonful each morning for a few days before school started, and will continue every other day. If I can see their immunity is dipping, I’ll increase, and in times of illness, twice a day. This link at Healf will automatically apply 10% discount.
   

2. Whole food vitamin c - people often confuse the types of vitamin c, or aren’t aware there are different types, and end up buying ascorbic acid. I do not recommend this. Ascorbic acid is the synthetic form, and, as with everything, the best form of vitamin c - that is most bioavailable for your body and will have no long-term side-effects - is whole food vitamin c, IE made from acerola cherries, camu camu, and amla - the foods that provide the highest levels of vitamin c possible. This link will automatically apply 10% discount.
   How & when? Give one of these each morning with breakfast. If there is actual illness coming on, introduce liposomal vitamin c (only to be taken in times of acute illness, not year-round. Click here and use code LAUREN20 for 20% off for liposomal vit c.)
   

3. Cod liver oil - it’s funny, people try to leave this one out, wondering how cod liver oil is related to immunity, but if you had to ask me my top 3 supplements for adults and kids, it’s this. A good quality cod liver oil - because of the concentrated omega-3s - helps the body synthesise and absorb the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D & K) which in turn supplies the body with so much of what it needs. Supplements often come down to knowing which ones help you ABSORB the nutrients you get from food and the sun. Cod liver oil has myriad benefits and is the one consistent supplement both my kids have been on since they were babies. It supports skin, teeth, hair, nails, vision, cognitive function, joints, mood, gut lining and more.
   How & when? Give 1-2 caplets before school, or give in liquid form if easier. The links here will automatically apply 10% discount.
   

4. Hifas da Terra medicinal mushroom complex for kids - I have sworn by these for 5 years now, and so have all my friends and colleagues who I’ve recommended it to. Hifas use the best quality organic mushrooms, specially formulated for kids’ immunity. This one will boost immunity massively, and if you want to double down, this Dr GB is for the gut/brain axis and is amazing for kids with any neurological / cognitive difficulties and I give both. Don’t worry! They don’t taste like mushrooms! They’re sweetened using agave and taste really nice! Use code LAUREN15 at checkout for 15% discount.
   How & when? You can give both of these in the same syringe every day before or after school, or do it a few times a week right now, and increase to daily if you see their immunity is low. (the Dr GB one is more for long-term use for cognitive health so can be given a few times a week).
   

5. Magnesium supplement and transdermal balm - guys, trust me when I tell you that magnesium is one of the 2 most important minerals you need to be supplementing daily, no matter what. This will support your kids in their ability to focus, their sleep, immunity, muscles, bones, joints, cellular health and so much more. I love magnesium glycinate and malate combined for the best all-round support. The hyperlinked links will automatically apply 10% discount.
   How & when: I give my kids a supplement most nights (now they’re that little bit older), and rub this magnesium butter/balm on the soles of their feet at least 4 nights a week - for younger children just do this.
   

6. Trace minerals - again, it may seem like this has nothing to do with immune health, but many of the health issues we struggle with come down to mineral imbalance or deficiency. Headaches, also, are in 95% of cases down to lack of minerals!
   How & when? You can add this trace minerals drops to your water daily, and for an extra kick add in some celtic salt both to your water and on food. These links will automatically apply 10% discount.
   

7. Ion Gut - Zach Bush’s magical gut formula, extracted from ancient soil to balance the gut microbiome and thereby strengthen immunity - I swear by this for my littles. Link will automatically apply 10% discount.
   How & when? I give my kids a tsp (or squirt it directly into their mouths) daily.

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If you’d like my article on the top 5 supplements for adults that everyone needs, you can find that here.

I hope this helps you in getting your kids winter-ready!

In love & health,

You know I hate doing disclaimers, but I will start this off by saying I AM NOT JUDGING YOU. I see you.

I know some amazing, incredible, beautiful women who got onto GLP-1s because their lives are so hectic and stressful and they don’t have it in them to put their all into a weight-loss journey that never worked before and this option came along and it felt like “how much harm can it really do?”.

I also know just how much excess weight can make you sad, angry and miserable, and how, if an option came along to remove it, it might seem like a good weighing up of risk vs benefit in how good it will make you feel to lose weight.

I say this all from a place of love, and non-judgement.

I wouldn’t spend my precious time researching and writing about a drug I’ve never been near just so you can be well, if I wasn’t doing it to help you.

I’m also making this article free so that anyone who needs to hear it but might close the page where they see the paywall, can keep going. This is the one you NEED to hear. Of course, if you do feel this has helped you and you’d like to support my work and keep getting articles that support you in your holistic health, self-development and spirituality journey, do consider becoming a free or paid subscriber (paid gets you all the juicy stuff I don’t say on IG, and the intimate BTS of my life).

So, please, take your fingers out of your ears and buckle up. I am going to say some things that will shatter your cognitive dissonance, dismantle your confirmation biases on why it’s ok, and generally tell you things you’d rather not hear BUT REALLY, REALLY NEED TO IF YOU WANT TO BE WELL ENOUGH TO SEE YOUR KIDS AS GROWN UPS.

I also don’t want to spend time disclaiming about people who take these drugs for diabetes - this will be maybe 0.1% of people who come across this article. This is for the people (women OR men) who are taking GLP-1s as an easier route to weight loss.

Lastly, no, I’m not a doctor. But Anthony Fauci is. So that’s all I have to say about that…

Let’s get to it…

The 12 things happening inside your body after a year of being on GLP-1s that you NEED to know about

#1 - Muscle mass loss

Muscle mass loss is NOT trivial. Up to 40% of the weight lost on GLP-1s can be lean muscle, not fat. Less muscle means slower metabolism, weaker bones, reduced strength, and worse long-term metabolic health. This is a significant problem with how these drugs work. Please remember that metabolic health IS health.

Your metabolism isn’t just about weight. It runs the show – how your cells produce energy, how your hormones communicate with each other, how your organs can repair themselves, how your brain functions, how your immune system responds, etc.

When metabolic health is compromised through muscle loss or disrupted hunger hormones or pancreatic stress or nutrient deficiencies or blood sugar dysregulation, nothing in the body operates properly. It can show up as fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, nervous system dysregulation, lowered immunity, hormonal disruption, depression and accelerated aging at a cellular level.

Metabolism is the foundation, with everything else built on top of it. You can’t discount it in one place and expect the rest of the house to stay standing.

#2 Gastroparesis

There are active lawsuits over this; genuine stomach paralysis due to food sitting undigested for hours because the stomach is essentially being paralysed, leading to chronic nausea, vomiting and quite terrible long-term stomach issues. And for some people this doesn’t resolve after stopping the meds. The American Society of Anesthesiologists has issued warnings because patients on GLP-1s are aspirating during surgery due to full stomachs – a big problem. You see how this has a domino effect…?

#3 Your pancreas is screaming

Pancreatitis is a documented risk with FDA warnings on the package insert. GLP-1 receptors sit on the cells that produce your digestive enzymes. A year of continuous pharmaceutical-level stimulation means those cells have been multiplying, your digestive enzymes have been backing up due to slowed digestion, and your pancreas may be under measurable stress … even if you feel nothing.

Studies show elevated pancreatic enzymes in people with zero symptoms. The pancreas is working harder than it should be. That comes with risks you shouldn’t be ignoring.

The longer concern of this? Chronic inflammation leads to cellular changes that can lead to precancerous lesions. That chain is biologically plausible. Whether it’s happening to you specifically? We don’t have 10-year data yet. Nobody does.

Your pancreas can’t tell you when it’s struggling. Your bloodwork can, but is anyone checking that?! 🫣

#4 Eye health decline

Rapid blood sugar changes can trigger a paradoxical worsening of diabetic retinopathy (paradoxical because GLP-1s are “meant to help diabetes”), documented in clinical trials. The risk is particularly real for people who had any pre-existing retinal vulnerability. Your eyesight may be worsening before you realise it, but more than that, the health of your eyes at large is at serious risk the longer you’re on GLP-1s.

#5 Gallbladder disease

The risk of gallstones increases 2-3x. Many people end up needing their gallbladder removed, which is its own significant surgery with lasting digestive consequences. Modern medicine has made us believe that some of our organs are superfluous (appendix, spleen, tonsils - I know tonsils aren’t an organ per se, but another example), but nature makes no mistakes… you need your gallbladder if you want to retain balance in the long-term wellness of your body.

#6 Nutrient deficiency & absorption

A lot of people I come across tell me it’s ok because they’re taking multivitamins. I’m sorry, but as a holistic health expert who healed from supposedly unhealable disability and chronic illness, it’s not ok.

You will be losing important nutrients right now which no multivitamin can give you back with enough bulk. Right now your bones, cognitive function, energy, hormones and immunity are starting to be impacted beyond repair because of the lack of nutrients you’re consuming.

Not just what you are not consuming… you are being impacted by the fact that, yes, GLP-1s will be affecting absorption. You are not absorbing much of what you are consuming. Mic drop.

Not to mention the fact that most multivitamins are made using synthetic vitamins that hinder more than they help, causing issues in the liver, especially if you have a genetic polymorphism called MTHFR (read more about that in an article I wrote here). MVs also often mix the wrong combination of vitamins, and add in things you just shouldn’t be supplementing. This is a whole post in itself..

#7 Thyroid tumours

There is a black box FDA warning on GLP-1s that state the risk of THYROID TUMOURS.

GLP-1s caused thyroid C-cell tumours in animal studies. We don’t have long-term human data yet because, hey, we’re just a teensy step up from the rats – we’re the guinea pigs.

At the very least your thyroid is potentially being harmed beyond repair, and from experience, healing a damaged thyroid takes YEARS and a HUGE amount of dedication. In some cases, it becomes irreparable.

#8 Bone density loss

Bone density loss compounds the muscle loss problem. Less mechanical load on bones from weight loss plus potential direct effects on bone metabolism, plus the fact that your bones aren’t getting the right nutrients, means fracture risk rises, particularly for women, and especially for women in or approaching midlife where osteoporosis and osteopoenia are more of a risk where oestrogen is depleting. Do not underestimate how this will impact your mobility as you age.

#9 Hair loss

Hair loss is very common due to the rapid weight loss and can be severe enough to cause lasting thinning. This is already a problem as we age, we don’t need to be helping this along. And please - for all the women asking me what supplements they can take for thinning hair while they’re on GLP-1s - it will not work.

#10 Dependency & rebound

Around 75% of weight lost while on GLP-1s is regained within a year of stopping. These medications don’t fix the underlying metabolic issues for most people (or the emotional complexities involved with relationship to food and body); they suppress symptoms while you’re on them. It’s really important you understand the distinction.

#11 The studies are misleading

Here’s the issue with the studies. The ones that have been done and show GLP-1s as safe for long-term use are VERY misleading. Context is everything and when taking a new drug, unfortunately for us lay people, we have teach ourselves how to be able to read and dissect medical research. What I found when doing this (because I learnt how to do this on my own healing journey) was that the studies showed GLP-1s to be safe IN CONTRAST with what would happen to people with severe diabetes who didn’t respond well to Metformin and who otherwise had no other options. It is safe in that context - IE otherwise they’ll die - but it has not been shown to be safe long-term for anyone else. Very, very big head shake here.

#12 Anhedonia

As a coach who spends so much of my time speaking about the importance of pleasure for wellness and for us to live full lives, this one kills me.

Reports of emotional blunting, loss of pleasure, and anhedonia are growing by the day.

Anhedonia is the inability to feel pleasure from things that used to bring you joy. Food, sex, socialising, hobbies, music. They feel flat or empty rather than enjoyable.

The issue here is that many people don’t even realise this is happening. Some do, and it feels devastatingly depressing for them, but the trade-off of putting weight back on feels too great.

Imagine how this is impacting every area of life…

#13 Spiritual disconnection

And to end on lucky number 13, spiritual disconnection is by far the most important.

Why is this important, you may be thinking, if you’re not inclined to follow a spiritual path or refer to spirituality as “woo woo nonsense”?

Because of this … these drugs calcify your pineal gland and disconnect you from access to intuition, and if you have no access to intuition, you are malleable. You are anyone’s sheep. You’ll follow orders.

If there’s no guiding light or intuitive compass in you that you use to discern what is right for you and what is wrong for you, how can you make any right decisions? How can you make the right decisions for your children?

How can we even know if our decisions are our own anymore?

Isn’t there even a chance that this is just another “fix” in the stream of “fixes” that have been dangled in front of us in the past decade with the promise of them being for the greater good, but that shut off our intuition? Can’t we see that the more we fall for it, the more malleable we are for the next thing that comes along, because each one dulls our senses that little bit more?

From the outside, with a pineal gland as clear as quartz, as someone who has proudly rejected any of those dangling carrots, this is what it looks like to me…

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To summarise…

Again, I’m not trying to shame you. I’m trying to give you the cold, hard, inconvenient facts that you might not want to hear but that you need to hear if you’re on these drugs.

People will say to me “But surely if I weigh up how unhealthy I was before because of all the weight and unhealthy food it’s still better?”

I’m afraid not. The risk to all areas of health - as you’ve seen from my 13 points - far outweighs any potential benefits of using GLP-1s to lose the weight.

To live a full life means to live an examined life.

We must work to understand the patterns that cause us to have a challenging relationship with our bodies and with food before shutting that off, because that only gets held in the body as trapped emotion if we haven’t healed it first. Emotions vibrate at certain frequencies and trapped emotions can lead to dis-ease, as we know from books such as The Body Keeps the Score. This is no longer hearsay, it’s medical fact.

This is the work I do with women in RISE. We heal the shadow aspects that keep us in these loops, and learn how to operate from the identity of the person we want to be, so that it starts happening (in this case, the person who has a great relationship with food and their body and knows how to prioritise health and fitness and will reach their goals).

And we must also be able to use our intuition.

Without access to intuition - your most sacred gift as a human - you simply cannot live the life you’re meant to, because you’ll be leading yourself down paths that aren’t for you, as opposed to being able to hear the guidance towards the life you want.

Nothing less will do if we’re aiming for long-term wellness & happiness..

I hope this has helped, even if it has annoyed you.

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As always, in love & health,

I’m currently holed up in a cabin in the woods - literally. Well, more like a cabin on a field with some woods behind. The picture you see above isn’t a stock image - it’s the photo I took yesterday at sunset, with no filter. It actually looks like that. (Find it here if you’d like to book!).

The cabin is surrounded by apple trees, pine trees, oak trees and farmland right up to the horizon … and I once again wonder why I don’t live like this every day.

I planned to come here this week specifically, as the summer comes to an end, right before the kids go back to school, and during the full moon / eclipse, so I can really be present with the eclipse and full moon, in a natural setting.

After a hectic (albeit still beautiful) summer, I needed this, and I’m so grateful I have opportunities to create this sort of space in my life - this is the kind of visual I used to manifest the life I wanted when I was still disabled.

I do this 2-3 times a year; take myself to a cabin somewhere to write, uninterrupted for 2 nights, and - as with everything we don’t want to end - it flies by far too quickly.

But I am here right now, having had the most perfect night’s sleep, started my day with 20 mins of stretching, had my lemon water, have done a meditation with the silence and stillness that nature offers up so generously, followed by a delicious breakfast, and now, as I begin to write, an adaptogenic coffee to get my brain deep into it.

And I find myself going back to “why don’t I live like this every day?”…

Which is pertinent right now because what’s coming through me in the stillness about this particular eclipse is about roots.

This eclipse is widely known as the one that closes a chapter on what began in September 2024, and, though that’s true, I’m also getting the sense that it’s more than just about closing a chapter.

This is why I think it’s poignant that I am in nature, wondering why I don’t live like this always.

Thoughts are not arbitrary. When people ask how I channel, I remind them that it’s not exclusive to me. I’m not special. We are all cosmic beings having a human experience which means we all have access to the same abilities, and that all we need to do is get silent and still daily and observe our thoughts. Notice the ones that circulate differently, the ones with a different frequency, a different intonation, the ones that feel less angular and more circular, the ones that move from thought to feeling as they arise.

Those ones usually are channellings. After a lifetime of spiritual practice and nearly 6 years on a shamanic apprenticeship, I’ve learnt that, and learnt how to differentiate them.

And right now, I’m certain that I’m being shown that the ideas of laying down roots somewhere less suburban are now asking to be realised.

How has it all unfolded this past month?

Many of you have mentioned to me feeling a big shift since Lion’s Gate 8/8, with people telling me it feels like everything has shifted since then, and I’m feeling that too, in a BIG way.

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Einstein called it combinatory play - the act of engaging in one creative pursuit to open up channels for another.

For example, if you’re a writer and are experiencing writer’s block, it might be a good idea to start painting, or pottery, or gardening, or knitting, or just grab a kids bracelet making kit from Hobbycraft and bead some bracelets.

Often when there are higher stakes on your creativity - if you do it for work, for example - the nervous system kicks in with some protective mechanisms. The high stakes feel daunting for our poor brains; we don’t know how we’ll live up to our own expectations and those of others - what if this project isn’t good enough to pay the bills? - so the brain slams the breaks on productivity.

Remember, my loves, everything begins and ends with nervous system regulation, which is why it’s the very first module on my RISE Membership and the cornerstone - alongside Identity Work - in all we do over there (if you’re curious and have just opened the RISE link I embedded here, take a sweet little discount from me, for being a subbie. Use code RISE60 to take the price down for you 🥰).

This is exactly why engaging in creative pursuits that hold no stakes, and where your perfection can shimmy her way out the window (if you step out her way for long enough to allow her to), allows the brain to feel safe in creativity once again, which enables that creativity to start effortlessly flowing through you and out into the world.

If your brain senses threat of any kind, productivity and focus operate at no more than 20% capacity, because, even though the high stakes of your work isn’t necessarily life or death, your brain doesn’t know this. When you’re stressed or operating from a place of high pressure or dysregulation of any kind, your reptilian brain believes you’re trying to run away from a predator. This instinct initiates a shutting down of all the other parts of the brain (neocortex for problem solving, limbic system for emotion etc.), so that the reptilian brain can focus on survival, shutting down any processes that are superfluous and not necessary for survival (focus, executive function, digestive system, immune function etc.). This, as I’m sure you can imagine, is NOT conducive to great creative work!

In most cases, having moved away from the work at hand and into a creative pursuit that is for the sole purpose of creativity and enjoyment, when you then return to the creative work that holds the higher stakes, you experience far greater outcomes. Your body feels safe and your brain is operating from a place of regulation, which allows those channels to crack wide open. Imagination is in full swing, focus is sharp, intuition is switched on, so you can continue on with far more impressive outcomes, though we should always work towards removing any perfectionism from the act of creativity itself, even if the stakes are high.

Why? If this creative project needs to pay the bills, shouldn’t we absolutely be working towards perfection?

No.

Your creativity doesn’t come solely from your own study and effort, and we’d be arrogant to think it does.

Creativity is a channeling, and if you’re focusing on perfection, you are blocking the ability for your Higher Self to push through the noise and into the fore of your conscious world.

When you can detach from the outcome and create for creation’s sake, you will find your creativity soars, because whatever it is that truly wants to come through you, now can.

By immersing yourself in your creativity for the sake of creativity alone and allowing it to flourish in the way it’s trying to without you and all your trauma-based opinions getting in the way, not only are you amplifying your creative genius and producing great work, but you’re increasing neuroplasticity, making yourself smarter, increasing productivity and focus, and strengthening intuition.

The best way I’ve found to enhance my own creativity

Interestingly, though I make sure to engage in different forms of creativity wherever I can, the thing I’ve found to enhance my own creativity most profoundly is not an art or pottery class.

It’s reading. Fiction. Stories. That’s it (3 guesses why I called my dog Story.)

Seriously. Giving my poor, tired, over-worked brain the opportunity to whoosh off into whimsical, wonderful worlds that are not my own is what cultivates imagination in us grown ups.

Did you read books as a child? I loved nothing more than getting lost in the fantastical worlds of Enid Blyton as a young child, and then pretending I was one of the American teenagers in The Babysitter’s Club living in the very exotic-sounding Connecticut when I was a teen (and Connecticut is very exotic when you’re growing up in the suburbs of North West London).

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Can I invite you for a moment to immerse yourself in the memory of how it felt to read a book you loved as a child? Or what it felt like as a child to let your imagination run wild for no reason other than the fact that you were a child and that’s what children are meant to do?!

But we grow up, and life starts lifing, and we believe that imagination is no longer important.

And we couldn’t be more wrong.

Imagination is what keeps us ALIVE, it’s what keeps us out of “FINE” and stagnation and allows us to keep moving towards something more extraordinary as the scenarios our brain is conjuring up remind us just how much life has to offer us and keep ensuring that we refuse anything less than the thing that creates true Inner Wholeness within us… no surprise as to why my book is called I’M FINE!.

How we convince ourselves that we no longer require imagination as adults

I do get how it happens, how we move ourselves away from imagination and whimsy as we get older and life presents us with obstacles.

Firstly, when life demands more of us than we ever realised it would once we start adulting, anything not related to getting through the day can take a backseat.

As an aside to that general state of getting by, when you find yourself down a rabbit hole of any kind (which you may do as a result of ill-health, becoming a parent, or for any number of reasons), you inevitably end up surrounded by a pile of nonfiction books on the subject at hand.

Over the years, I’ve read extensively on the topics of holistic healing, spirituality and business, and anything remotely related, and have a collection of nonfiction books that any self-proclaimed eternal student would be proud of.

As an identity expert obsessed with both what forms identity, and what shapes our brains, I’ve always believed that if you want to embody something - for it to become who you are - you have to immerse yourself in the study of it. When I was wading through my healing journey, I was immersed completely in the study of what makes a human body and mind work and not work, through books, recordings, talks and later, podcasts. (Honestly, I believe books and podcasts have given me a wider education than university would have done.)

But on the flip side, as a writer and devotee of creativity and story, I was never able to pull myself fully away from fiction, and as far back as I can remember I’ve always had one fiction and one nonfiction book on the go at a time.

I always assumed everyone must do this, but when I raised this with friends, I was surprised to find that on the whole they either exclusively read fiction, or nonfiction, with the odd exception during life changes.

But what happens to those beautiful imagination circuits in the brain when we stop being kids and are managing the day-to-day logistics of life and only reading nonfiction?

Turns out, they atrophy a little bit! And, based on everything we’ve already spoken about here, we can see why it would be catastrophic to allow the imagination circuits in our brains to atrophy.

Ironically, my favourite kind of nonfiction books these days are those about creativity, and in every single one of those books they speak about the importance of engaging our imagination in order to enhance and amplify our creativity and live a fuller life.

, in The Creative Act, teaches that creativity isn’t necessarily a skill to develop, but rather a state to return to, and that the actual work of creativity is keeping yourself open and receptive enough to the ideas that are always coming your way, but you may not always be open enough to receive them. On his brilliant Substack, he offers weekly creativity exercises.

- one of my absolute all-time favourite authors and someone who has influenced my work in more ways than I can share - talks in Big Magic about creativity as a living force that wants to work through you, and our only job is to let it in and be guided by it, which we can only do when we are focused on the creativity itself, not the outcome of it.

And then there’s Julia Cameron who, in The Artist’s Way, sets out daily rituals and guides that are less about technique and more about clearing the blocks that prevent us from being in connection with the artist that lives in all of us.

There are plenty of other brilliant books on creativity, but these three are probably my favourites.

The thing that all of them have in common is how they make you realise that creativity and imagination are not just for those whose jobs depend on creativity.

By cultivating our imagination way past childhood, we actually make ourselves smarter, happier and, believe it or not, far more successful.

Imagination, it turns out, increases neuroplasticity and through continuous dedication to creativity and imagination, we actually increase neurogenesis - the production of brand new brain cells.

We also know that the most successful people with the most optimised brains are those who possess a high emotional intelligence, and this is also enhanced by creativity and imagination.

So, lovely readings, today’s Sunday post is here for nothing other than to encourage you back into your creativity and imagination and I hope this has inspired you to do that.

Some official holistic life coach guidance for you this week…

• Read fiction novels that make you FEEL something, please - heartbreak, longing, lust, sadness, excitement, whatever. All of it. Humans are meant to experience the full spectrum of human emotion, not to numb ourselves in a state of Fine. Just start feeling through story.

• Go do something creative that requires no specific outcome, just go do it to enjoy yourself, open those creativity channels, and remind yourself that you are an artist.

Some of my all-time favourite novels, for inspo:

Still Life by Sarah Winman
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Women by Kristin Hannah
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
There Are Rivers in the Sky by
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Anything and everything by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ann Patchett, Elizabeth Strout & Elizabeth Gilbert.

I also wrote this article last year about the book that changed my life and the person who gave it to me, and in the article I also list my favourite nonfiction books.

If this has inspired you back into some form of creativity and back into fiction and story, let me know in the comments!

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In love & health,

As usual, this post was written and edited without the help of AI. Substack now uses Pangram to scan for AI use - see below pic as Pangram detected “100% human-written” for this article.

Every month for the past 4 years I’ve sent out a full moon newsletter to my mailing list.

I’m bringing it over here now, but with extra rituals, wisdom and recommendations for my paid subscribers 🥰

IMPORTANT: I will be running a Lion’s Gate Portal 8/8 Manifestation workshop on 6th August at 7.30pm GMT, open to anyone (female), not just subscribers or RISE members. This event will guide you through exactly how to utilise this incredibly powerful amplification energy on 8th Aug to call in your most prevalent manifestation. Book here. Subscribers can choose the concession option for discounted tickets.

The Buck Moon in Aquarius

Next Wednesday 29th July the full moon will rise in Aquarius.

You know when you sense a storm coming before there’s a single cloud in the sky? That’s July. And especially July in Aquarius, between the 7/7-8/8 portals. Our emotions, the things we know we need to hear but we keep silencing for ease or convenience, our reactions, our awareness, what we’re not willing to settle for … all of it feels just a little bit EXTRA.

This has been more than true for me over the past week specifically, so I wonder if it is for you?

It’s coming through signs, symbols, conversations, awarenesses and, as always - if we’re quiet enough to listen - our intuition.

I’m extremely tuned into the signs that come my way, and after a lifetime of cultivating my spiritual practice, I’ve learnt which signs mean what for me.

This week, the signs came in the form of brightly coloured moths, and the moth is very much a sign of something deeper. In the Carlos Castaneda books on the teachings of Don Juan - which are about Don Xavier, the shaman I have had the immense privilege of working with and being guided by the past 5.5 years - he talks about the moth being the sign of the Nagual (pronounced nawal) - the higher self - and they show up when the higher self is coming through to tell us something important.

This past week, in the space of 24 hours, I was visited by 3 moths in particular (there have been other smaller moths around, but the ones that were bringing a message SHOWED themselves, and things that have meaning for me always show up in 3s). The first 2 were 2 tiger moths who arrived onto the arm of the chair I was sitting on, outdoors, and they arrived conjoined, entwined in each other, which is apparently how they mate and can stay like this for hours, which they did. They made their way up the back of my chair and stayed there, next to my shoulder, the entire time.

I’m pretty sure there was a message in the shape their conjoined form made, in the fact they were “tiger” moths, and in the fact they were conjoined. I’ve been listening out for what this means for me specifically.

The next evening, I noticed this beautiful pink and gold moth had landed on my daughter’s gymnastics beam - maybe she was attracted to the pink? Pink and gold are the highest vibrational colours, with pink appearing alongside green from the heart chakra when we’re in a state of complete love, and gold being the colour that appears alongside violet from the crown chakra when we are elevating beyond.

There are many messages in these for me, and I share this to encourage you to look for signs coming your way this week, and to sit in the silence to listen to what they’re trying to show you, because signs are ALWAYS, ALWAYS guidance towards your soul’s highest path…

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{For the full story on my journey from disability to wellness, read here.}

When I was around 19 months old, my mum noticed swelling around my left ankle.

She took me to the GP who advised it was probably “growing pains”.

The swelling spread to my other ankle, and back my mum took me to the GP. More talk of growing pains or “it will pass”.

But my mum had a niggle inside her that told her it was more.

My mum grew up on a council estate in the East End of London and left school at 15. She had no education in health, holistic health, or, really, anything else, but something was telling her not to settle.

She didn’t yet have the terminology for it, but there was something in her that understood that what was happening was systemic and chronic, so she kept fighting to get to the bottom of it.

After months of pushing, I was booked in for a biopsy at the Royal London Orthopaedic Hospital. I stayed the night before (Mum with me), and when the doctor who would be doing the biopsy came around to the ward to see me beforehand - the ward I remember with vivid clarity 40 years later, having only been 23 months old - he took one look at me and said to my mum: “She doesn’t need a biopsy, she has Still’s Disease”.

A lump formed in Mum’s throat at the sinister-sounding, very emphatic diagnosis.

Still’s Disease, it turns out, was also called Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, or Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (idiopathic meaning “no defined cause”, though I have since learnt that dis-ease doesn’t, in fact, fall out of thin air and that everything has a cause - perhaps not “defined” and usually more multi-faceted and with many contributing factors, never just one, but there is always a cause).

The top paediatric rheumatologists at the time were suggesting very high doses of oral steroids as the best course of action for young children with RA. Their hypothesis was that very high doses would “knock it on the head”.

As a young mum with little guidance and scant resources, she was also faced with the imposing figures of authority that doctors in the 80s were. We happened to be under one of the top paediatric rheumatologists of the time as she was based at our local hospital, and she told my parents unequivocally that if they kept waiting and didn’t tackle the inflammation head-on, I’d start experiencing joint damage. This was further fuelled by the fact that the disease had now spread to both knees.

My dad fed into the fear - as any parent would - but my mum? She wasn’t having it.

The message kept coming to her, “You can’t put this stuff in your 2-year-old”, and so she kept holding off.

While the doctors were instilling the fear of God into her - forcing her to make a decision before she was ready to, before she had done any of her own research, this being more a forced decision than an informed choice - she stood back. They told her she was being a bad mother, that the “alternative” options were “voodoo”. But she wouldn’t make a decision from a place of fear. And that, perhaps, has been one of the most important lessons she’s ever taught me.

She took herself to the library and read everything she could about childhood illness, autoimmunity, and natural options.

To add context, though my grandparents were working class East End Jews, they were - completely paradoxically - also spiritualists who were part of a spiritual circle in the East End in a time where it wasn’t just “fringe”, it simply couldn’t be spoken about. (If you’re not from the UK, imagine the East End of London as the Jewish version of Little Italy in New York in the peak days of European immigration.)

What this did was offer my mum a connection to her intuition and the ability to read signs and synchronicities in a way that other people may just not have had access to.

Through her research, Mum decide on homeopathy as our course of action. Everything she read showed her that her instinct was correct: long-term use of steroids would lead to bone erosion and secondary conditions (and many other side-effects that no one was writing about yet), and that homeopathy would strengthen the immune system, and help bring the body back to a place of balance.

This decision was solidified through more spiritual confirmation: my dad - a man born and raised in Morocco in the 40s and 50s, with absolutely no connection to anything “spiritual” other than his Jewish faith - was the one given this confirmation. He was a market trader, and one Saturday as he stood at his stall, there was a stall opposite him that had never been there before. It was a book stall. He recalls it like this (and it is so much more alluring in his patois, but to help this make sense, I’ll paraphrase!): I’d never seen anything other than other clothes stalls there, but this week it was a book stall, and a red book caught my eye, so I went over to it, and it was a book about healing arthritis with homeopathy. So I bought it and took it home.

Now, please understand, my Moroccan, market-trader father was not someone to stroll into bookshops or stop at second hand book stalls, or ever to say that “something called out to him”. But this did. He took it home to mum, and their decision was final. The book was guidance. The stall itself may even have been something sent through ways that I won’t scare you by speaking about here…! (IE, was it a portal that only my dad could see? Was it put there for us alone that day as the support that is always there if we ask for it?)

They gathered whatever money they could and took me to a homeopathic dietician, which is what started the process. He put me on some remedies and told my parents about certain things I shouldn’t eat, like acidic foods, dairy and anything packaged in aluminium.

But homeopathy really was very fringe back then. That, coupled with the fact that my parents had no access to information, very little access to resources, and had no one around them to help them make sense of any of this, meant that there were many missing pieces.

Not long after, a homeopathic clinic magically appeared in the town where we lived, which saved my mum having to take me up to central London each time, and it didn’t cost as much.

I started with a herbalist and later worked with a homeopath.

In the late 80s and early 90s I was on herbal tonics, fluoride-free toothpaste, dairy and gluten free foods, goats cheese products, and a bunch of other stuff that seems normal now but that made us complete anomalies then.

Mum did everything she was told by the holistic practitioners, because it all made sense to her.

Homeopathy treats the person not the dis-ease ✅
Herbs and homeopathy bring the body back into balance ✅
We’re not fighting the body like with the drugs, we’re supporting it ✅

All of that made sense, but they didn’t have access to information about nutrition, lifestyle etc., meaning that there were many missing pieces to the jigsaw puzzle. For example I was not having dairy or acidic foods but would have sugar, Diet Cokes and other things that just weren’t what my body needed. But we didn’t know that.

Also, though the timelines on my medical notes showed unequivocally that the measles-rubella vaccine (this was just before MMR) was what triggered the JRA, the doctors refused to acknowledge this or speak about it, and so Mum was left without ways to fully understand what to do about most of it, other than trust the path she’d chosen and that the right options would open up when we needed them.

She also took me to have spiritual healing with a psychic surgeon every week. While most kids with RA were going in for procedures, I was going for weekly healing, and that became my reality.

But the missing pieces meant that the homeopathy wasn’t “curing” me. Not because it wasn’t working - it was - but we didn’t have all the answers to fit all the pieces together yet (those would show up as many, many different things, but at that time what we now know we needed was heavy metal detox, the right information on nutrition, other lifestyle practices and things not to do, like how to treat me during acute illness (fevers) to not exacerbate the autoimmune reaction, etc).

And that meant that, like the other kids with JRA, I also had to have some procedures, like having my knees and ankles drained when they got too swollen, and having them injected with steroid - the doctors assured my parents that the steroid injections did not absorb into the body in the same way the oral ones did. This was incorrect, and we’d learn that later.

I was also diagnosed with Uveitis a year after the JRA - very common for girls diagnosed with JRA before the age of 4. Uveitis is inflammation of the iris, and can cause many problems with the eyes. Luckily it stayed in one eye, and this was treated with topical steroid eye drops. Mum always said that with the joints, she could see when they were inflamed and my general mood and health would tell her when I was in a flare-up. With the eye, we could only know when the ophthalmologists looked in the eye with the slit lamp machine, and it scared Mum too much, so she agreed to the eye drops, again with the trust that they wouldn’t harm me like the oral steroids could.

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Unfortunately, during times of high flare, like when I was 7 and my entire eye went grey due to the level of inflammatory cells, I ended up having to be admitted to hospital for a week and have the eye injected with steroid. I also had a similarly traumatic experience when we were due to go to Disney World Florida on the Monday, but on the Friday my knees swelled up like balloons and if we wanted to get on that flight, I had to have them drained then and there without sedation. At 8 years old. Ergo, I was the 8-year-old in a wheelchair in Disney World.

For the rest of the story, please read this article here, as this article isn’t about that.

What I’ll tell you now is just how my mum’s brave decisions saved me…

Every week Mum took me to my group physio and hydrotherapy sessions with other kids with arthritis, and as the years went on, we started noticing the difference between them and me.

Next to my friends at school I was often “arthritic”. Not always; sometimes I’d have good periods, but mostly, I couldn’t go to soft play parties or do sports or sit on the floor in school assemblies - always on a chair next to a teacher. I was tired most of the time and looked forward to a 7pm bedtime where my friends begged to stay up.

But next to the other kids with arthritis … I looked normal.

As time passed, we started noticing how their limbs weren’t growing properly - many of them had shorter arms, or how their joints were becoming deformed, how short they all were, how their faces were round and puffy, their digestives systems not working properly, they got every virus going. Many of them started having surgeries for joint replacements; many of them ended up with secondary conditions; as we reached our teens, a lot of the girls didn’t get their periods. And, as I reached my late teens and early twenties, sadly, some died from complications from the many drugs they were now on.

But me? I may have had a few flare-ups a year, I may have been in pain, and I may have been tired, but I looked normal, my body was growing normally, I had normal (thick!) hair, my immune system was strong, and in times when I wasn’t in a flare, I lived a relatively normal life.

All this gave Mum the push she needed to keep going.

When she made the decision to say no to the steroids 10 years before, she had been told she was a bad mother, that I’d end up with irreversible joint damage if we didn’t halt the disease with the steroids.

Turns out her instinct had been 100% correct. And though it took a decade to start seeing why, we did see it.

And you know what else? That top paediatric rheum who suggested that high doses of steroids was the way forward? She had to issue an apology 15 years later, because they now had the living proof they needed in these poor children whose bodies had been irreversibly and irrevocably damaged. Science is constantly updating itself with the latest information, which means that what you are told today will be proven wrong in 10, 20 or 50 years. But your body? It’s a masterpiece. An organism with intelligence like no other whose primary purpose is to heal and regenerate, and with the right approach, when you balance out every part of the self - physical, mental emotional and spiritual - the body can heal.

And the soul? It always knows our path. We just have to stop the noise for long enough to hear the guidance.

And this is the lesson on trust and intuition.

Though my path was not easy, and I ended up becoming severely disabled by 18 (which, again, I speak about here), once I took the baton from Mum and started researching and learning about holistic options, I was able to heal.

Why?

Because no irreversible damage had been done as a result of the steroids.

Irreversible damage had been done in other ways; the back of my knee being damaged by the needle going in too deep during one of the fluid draining procedures, the steroid eye drops damaging the lens in my eye resulting in it having to be removed and me being left with no sight in that eye, the chemo-based drug I took causing many issues (that I still managed to heal).

But I didn’t have deformities or secondary conditions. Autoimmunity can be healed. Deformities in most cases cannot be reversed, and secondary conditions add further complication to healing. What a blessing that, as a young woman, I didn’t have this to contend with.

For anyone reading this who does have this to contend with, I can only send you deep love and compassion. I write this for the parents currently in the thick of it, making decisions from a place of fear, so that they can have the validation they need right now to follow their own intuition.

The above picture is me and Mum today.

I took her for lunch a few weeks ago. We got the train, walked up the stairs in the station, walked around London for hours, I paid for our meal with the money I make from the business I’m able to run.

All the things I never thought I’d do, but she knew I would. Because she believed.

Her faith - not just in my healing but in her own guidance - is what has meant that I can live a full life, that at 42 years old I run a thriving business teaching other women how to heal and live holistically, that I have 2 healthy children, that I travel and work and walk and exercise and have energy and, quite frankly, look bloody great for a 42 year old who was once disabled!

If you are navigating similar right now, whether with your child or yourself, I hope my mum’s lessons have inspired and motivated you.

The lesson is clear:

Whatever decision you’re being guided to intuitively is the right one.

No right decision can ever be made from a place of fear.

So, I urge you to take a leaf out of my mum’s book, and take a step back, spend some time learning how to tune into your intuition, then come back to your decision.

Mum and I recorded this episode together on my podcast. If you’re going through something similar, no matter what stage you’re at, this will help you.

Feel free to leave comments below with questions, and I’ll make sure to answer them all.

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Every person who owns a phone and calls themselves an influencer can use a filter, so it’s no surprise that Botox has become increasingly popular these past few years. Our expectations of “beauty” are simply unrealistic.

Influencers and beauty editors alike are justifying their use of it with lines like (and I’m actually quoting a well-known beauty editor here): “I make no secret of the fact that I have Botox; why wouldn’t I want to age gracefully if I can?”

And that is potentially one of the most irresponsible things I’ve ever come across.

Because, as a woman in a position of power, who has millions of women of all ages listening to her advice, she’s just convinced a bunch of them to trust her, because, you know, she’s a beauty editor so she must know what she’s talking about and why would anyone with her profile promote something that’s dangerous?

Well, anyone who has ever remotely researched health knows that most of the things readily available to us that claim to help our health are not, in fact, always that good for us.

And Botox is up there with the worst of them.

If you’ve read this far and can sense this article going in the direction it’s going, hoping I was going to give you an unbiased view of it so that you can make an “informed choice” … I am, but know that all the research points to Botox being one of the most harmful things a woman can do to herself.

That’s not my “biased opinion”. It’s fact, and, if you’re going to inject something into your body, it’s pretty darn important you know the facts. So, keep reading, and then make your choice.

Especially because we live in an age where anyone and their wife can call themselves an influencer and market something just because it “works for them” (or, most likely, because someone is paying them good dollar to say it).

Why am I going to the effort of sharing this? What do I have to gain here?

It should not be ok that something that is quite literally a poison is being promoted by influencers so that it becomes normalised and women start thinking it must be ok.

BOTOX HAS NOT BEEN AROUND FOR LONG ENOUGH FOR US TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE LONG-TERM DAMAGE ON WOMEN IN THEIR 60S WHO HAVE BEEN HAVING IT SINCE THEIR 30S. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT.

And in response to those influencers promoting the clinics that pay them to promote by saying things like, “We only get Baby Botox which is harmless and preventative”…

It’s not; harmless, nor preventative.

Botox is not just a beauty treatment. It’s a neurotoxin. And it’s not the answer to vibrant, healthy aging.

I am a holistic health coach and holistic health has been my entire life these past few decades. If I didn’t take it as seriously as I do and research as much as I have, I wouldn’t have been able to heal from lifelong disability and autoimmunity, nor would I be able to maintain my remission.

So when I speak about anything like this, it comes from a place of understanding what really creates vibrant health, and what prevents or harms it.

What Botox Really Is

Botox is short for botulinum toxin - yes, the same bacteria responsible for botulism, a rare but serious illness that attacks the body’s nervous system and the reason we don’t give honey to babies under one year old. It works by paralysing muscles to smooth out wrinkles, essentially freezing parts of your face. While it may provide temporary aesthetic results, the reality is that you are injecting a highly potent neurotoxin into your body, one that was originally developed for medical conditions involving muscle spasms, not cosmetic enhancement.

Even the plant where it’s manufactured in Ireland filters the air over 200 times per hour because of its extreme toxicity. That alone should make us pause.

Baby Botox? It’s the same toxin guys, just in smaller doses. Lower dose doesn’t mean no risk. Cutsie name for clever marketing doesn’t mean no risk. You’re still introducing a synthetic, nerve-disrupting chemical into your body, and the long-term effects - especially with regular use - are only just beginning to be understood.

The Hidden Risks of Botox

• Nervous system disruption – you’re interfering with communication between nerves and muscles, which may trigger issues in people genetically prone to autoimmune or degenerative conditions. The influx of people being diagnosed with POTS, and people suffering with anxiety? That’s not just down to busy, overwhelming lives. It’s an interference with the central nervous system…

• Cumulative toxicity – Botox needs to be re-administered every few months, and the risk of side effects grows with each session as the poison builds and accumulates in the system.

• Common side effects include: migraines, droopy eyelids, nausea, flu-like symptoms, pain, and bruising.

• Severe risks: central nervous system toxicity, brain inflammation (which can lead to epilepsy and encephalitis), difficulty swallowing or speaking, and in extreme cases, coma or death.

Botox also thins the skin over time, reduces facial expressiveness, and ironically, can result in an aged, unnatural appearance when used frequently. The very thing women are trying to avoid becomes more pronounced in the long run.

You see your lines and think, well, there’s a quick fix to this, but do you ever notice the women who have been doing it for years and are in their late 40s or 50s and now look haggard, aged and like anything but a youthful version of themselves?

So what’s the alternative?

Aging isn’t something to “fix”, it’s a sacred, powerful journey and an initiation for every woman through the feminine cycle of Maiden, Mother & Crone (a word we fear but is simply the phase in our lives where we are the wisdom holders - I say this with compassion, but would any of us trust a woman with a plastic, leathery face and ballooned lips to hold all the wisdom?).

If you’ve started getting Botox, you can stop, you don’t have to be that woman. you can come back to yourself and your Truth, and your innate beauty - the part of you that people won’t be able to access if you continue hiding behind something that isn’t yours. You can come back to a place where you build on your feminine wisdom and be that wisdom holder.

And from a holistic perspective, when we support the body holistically, the skin reflects that inner vibrancy and vitality.

I’m often asked on my videos to prove that I don’t use Botox because my skin is pretty good for 42. I’ve never once used an injectable and never will, but perhaps the terrain of my body based on what I offer it daily, is reflected not just through strength and good health, but through my skin. That doesn’t mean I don’t have any lines - I do, because I’m 42. I’m meant to.

Non-toxic ways to keep your skin glowing, youthful, and full of life, without compromising your health or integrity:

1. Clean, Non-Toxic Skincare

Choose natural skincare products that are free from parabens, synthetic fragrances, PEGs, and hormone-disrupting chemicals. Ingredients like:

• Cold-pressed organic oils (rosehip, jojoba, sea buckthorn, castor oil)

• Aloe vera

• Bakuchiol (a natural retinol alternative)

• Vitamin C (from whole-food sources)

Check ingredient lists like you would your food. If you can’t pronounce it or wouldn’t eat it, don’t put it on your skin.

I love Evolve Natural Beauty, By Sarah, Froya and Living Libations - I’m not linking them because I don’t want this post to seem like it’s me trying to make money from this info - I want you to WANT to seek out this way of living and use cleaner brands, even if it doesn’t come with a discount code :)

I also often post homemade skincare product recipes on my Instagram.

2. Red Light Therapy

Red and near-infrared light therapy promotes collagen production, reduces inflammation, improves skin tone and elasticity, and enhances cellular repair - all without toxicity. Just a few minutes a day can create real, lasting change in skin health. You can read my full article on red light therapy and how it works here.

I sit in front of my red light at least 4 times a week - not just for skin, but it helps!

And this is my recommendation for red light therapy machines, because you do need to get the right ones that actually work, not the cheap versions that a lot of influencers are promoting as they simply don’t have the right bulbs for the red and near-infrared.

3. Face Yoga & Gua Sha

Facial muscles, just like body muscles, need movement and circulation. Face yoga strengthens and tones, while gua sha and facial massage stimulate lymphatic drainage and release tension, promoting a naturally lifted, glowing look over time.

I recommend Firefly Facelift membership with Carelle Rose. I’ve been doing this with her for about 2 years and I do it for about 7 mins every night, and I feel those 7 mins make a huge difference. Genuinely my face has never been more sculpted.

4. Nourish From Within

Skin is a reflection of your internal health. A diet rich in whole, organic foods, especially healthy fats, wild-caught fish, bone broth, leafy greens, and colourful vegetables, will flood your body with the nutrients it needs for optimal skin health.

5. Hydration & Clean Water

Cellular hydration is crucial for glowing skin. Invest in a high-quality water filter, drink mineral-rich water, and stay consistent. Your skin cells will thank you.

6. Nervous System Support

Chronic stress is a major contributor to aging. Practices like breathwork, meditation, grounding, and quality sleep all help regulate cortisol, reduce inflammation, and improve overall skin radiance.

My RISE Membership is there to help women find this place of balance in all areas of their life. (Subscribers can use code RISEIS60 for a discount!).

Final thoughts: honour your body

The pressure to look a certain way is real, but so is your power to choose differently and model wholeness and authenticity to the children around us, as well as other women around you - be the pioneer.

Instead of silencing the body’s wisdom with toxins, we can return to a place of deep nourishment and self-respect.

You don’t need Botox to be beautiful. You need wholeness. And from that place, your radiance becomes unmistakable.

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I hoped to get this out on 7/7 but … life be lifing, as the kids say. However, it’s still just as relevant and will help you in this transition month between 7/7 and 8/8, so get your notebooks out, friends!

I’m not an astrologer - I think I may have prefaced that before - but I do feel deeply the shifting of energies as the planets move, the moon cycles change, and big portals open.

For me personally, for the last 3 years the Lion’s Gate portal on 8/8 has felt monumental. Each year I feel it more profoundly, but it has been something I’ve been acutely tuned into these past 3 years and I’d say Lion’s Gate 2025 - as I sat at the water on the southern tip of Spain for 3 weeks - may be up there with times I’ve felt most energetically aligned and connected. I wrote this article right after about human upgrades, extinction and the great awakening, and it was all channelled through me during that time.

My monthly coaching call with my RISE members this month happened to fall on 7/7 (this past Tuesday), and before our main topic (which was about spiritual tools to move out of fear and into your highest self ), I led my ladies through how best to connect with the 7/7 portal.

The window between 7/7 and 8/8, I believe, is the most energetically potent month of the whole year. There are themes coming up of restlessness and longing right now, like something is trying to grab your attention or get you to notice… this is the portal doing it’s magic - giving you that intuitive nudge on where you’re meant to be heading and how to capitalise on the power of this portal to help birth it.

Let me explain what’s actually happening.

The 7/7 gateway

Seven is the number of awakening, inner wisdom and intuition. We all have our numbers that show up for us when we need a sign (mine is 3), but 7 is what comes along when we’re REALLY listening, when we’re open, when we have stopped sleepwalking through the matrix and started paying attention. So when we get a day where the sevens double up - 7/7 - we’re being handed an amplified dose of exactly that energy: wake up, go inward, trust what’s coming through.

The numerology of this also connects (as it always does!) with the astrology… 7/7 sits at the peak of the Sirius portal, that brief window each year when Sirius, the brightest star in our sky, returns to the morning sky just before sunrise after weeks of being hidden. The ancients built entire calendars around this moment. The Egyptians timed the flooding of the Nile to it... to them, Sirius rising meant renewal, fertility and the start of everything.

The themes of this portal are reflection, renewal and revelation; it dissolves illusion, which sounds beautiful and whimsical until you realise what that actually means in practice: it’s the letting go and shedding of anything that is no longer in alignment … the stories you’ve been telling yourself can’t hold up anymore. Anything based on conditioning and fear (and comfort and stagnation) has to fall away. This specific month each year pushes that energy through…

The longing is the point

That longing feeling? That’s your intuition guiding you to where you need to be. Please don’t numb it! Feel it and channel it, because it’s showing you exactly where your next level lives.

Here’s the practice I gave my RISE ladies this week:

1. Write down 7 beliefs you’re ready to release

2. Write down 7 truths you’re choosing instead, and write them with gratitude, as though they’re already yours IE: “I’m so grateful for the money I make through the career that I love”

3. Then make a CHOICE. The biggest lesson I learnt through my insane journey from disability to wellness: if you want something to happen that seems on the outside to be irrational or impossible, you gotta make a CHOICE that it will happen and that there is no other alternative. Not a wish, not an intention - a decision. Period.

Why this month matters - the whole month

This entire month is essentially the opening of a build-up. Between now and 8/8, the Lion’s Gate, we’re in a month of huge activations... and the two portals have very different jobs.

7/7 is the portal of awakening. It’s preparation energy: reflective, revelatory, clearing the ground. The Lion’s Gate is the fiery one, and what you do NOW determines what that fire has to work with.

So this is the month to really anchor into your next-level timeline. To commit fully, to make that choice. It’s happening and that’s that. I’ve decided (that’s the energy).

The window is open, but you have to be emphatically clear about what you want, and how determined you are to make it happen.

Lion’s Gate Portal 8/8

Where 7/7 opens the portal for us to tune in more deeply and get clarity and awaken our inner knowing so we can prepare for what’s next and be ready for it, the numerology of 8/8 represents immense abundance, infinity and power.

What I’ve learned through my own experience with Lion’s Gate over the past 3 years of being deeply tuned into it, is that it offers amplification energy more than any other time in the year.

Whatever you are creating / bringing forth has the potential to be amplified x100.

It was this time last year, sitting by the water, when I first tuned in with Lemuria. While everyone else on the complex where we stay in Spain was by the pool or on the beach of the complex, I took a deck chair and umbrella - my husband nicknamed me Carmen - and sat right away from everyone, and for literally 3 weeks I didn’t move. I was so tuned into the water and the energy of the portal that it was like I could see that portal with my third eye, and through the water below (though I believe Lemuria was in the Pacific), I saw myself in Lemuria in a past life and tuned into the frequency of it and started downloading the ancient Lemurian water codes. Those codes were what enabled me to channel what was happening with the portal, where I started seeing how the amplification energy of 8/8 works with manifestation. (I was merging the portal above in the skies, with the portal below in the water).

Though this may sounds pretty esoteric, that’s the point. This isn’t “write down your intention and say some affirmations” kind of spiritual work. It’s offering depth and genuine, actual, 5D connection to Self/Source.

Which means it’s not completely easy to describe how to tune into it, but I’ll do my best because I want you to access this too, because it brought me such abundance afterwards!

The abundance it brought me…

A month later (to the day) I got signed by my literary agent, and my business doubled its income. Let me be clear… I have NEVER said anything like that on social media or otherwise before. I’ve seen people say things like that for years and (if I’m being honest) I rarely believed the people writing it. I was never the person that things happened very easily for. I’ve been a “graft till you get it” kind of person.

But I let that go and had to spend 3 years learning HOW to let go and let in - I was dedicated to learning how - and eventually during that portal last year, it just clicked. And it all fell into place.

There are still things that are not in place, of course. Life isn’t perfect and anyone trying to teach you manifestation telling you they have it all worked out is lying to you. But life isn’t meant to be linear. There are reasons why we face challenge. The trick is to face the challenge with trust and surrender and grace and keeping your vibration high, no matter what.

Manifestation isn’t a series of to-dos, it’s an energy and a vibration. And that’s literally all you ever need to know.

How to capitalise on the Lion’s Gate Portal

I’ll lead you through the best way to do this…

• Sun water: Sirius is still up there and potent right now; so let’s do some sun water. Leave a jar of water out under the sun for a full day and night, setting the intention over the water (which listens to you) for it to be infused with the intelligence and power of Sirius, the merging portals, and our Papa Inti (the sun)

• Meditation. Meditate every single morning from now, no exceptions. If you can do it in nature, amazing. If you can do it by water, even better! Do not do this thinking you’ll do it for one month so you can get what you want. It won’t work. Meditate with the intention of tuning in more deeply, aligning yourself with your Higher Self, and offering gratitude for everything you have to be grateful for (everything). If you have to meditate inside that’s also fine, just make it intentional. My meditations when they’re indoors (most mornings) are at my altar. Every morning before you start, hold your sun water in your hands, set the intention to imbibe all the power it’s infused with, and drink a few sips, allowing yourself to feel it infuse your cells with the higher power of what is contained in that water.

  

• What do you want?! Get CLEAR on what it is you’re calling in. See it, visualise every part of what it looks like when you have it, and FEEL the emotions you’d feel when you have it. The trick: don’t see it as in the future, see it as happening now, to the you you are today, but 1. you have to be that you NOW (IE identity work, the cornerstone of what we do on RISE), 2. give gratitude for the thing as if it’s happened, because there is a timeline in which it has already happened… you just have to be meditating deeply enough to bring that timeline into this one. Do this all in your daily meditation, but continue focusing on it throughout the day.

  

• Write it down. Write down every part of what your life looks like when you have this thing in your journal or on a sheet of paper. Feel yourself getting excited while you’re writing all these things down. use colour and doodles and anything that brings it to life. Make it look sexy to your Higher Self. FEEL it. Look at it every day before your meditation and give gratitude for it.

• On 8/8… on 8/8 itself, try and see if you can carve out time, in the morning and the evening, for a long meditation outdoors. If you can be near water even better, but you can be anywhere. You do need to be consciously tuning in. There’s no way for me to tell you how to do this. you just have to be outdoors, allowing yourself to open your third eye, activate your pineal gland, and FEEL and SEE the portal opening, and bring forth its amplification energy into your own being - that’s literally it, you just gotta be IN IT. You can also make a mandala to honour the portal, like I did on the beach last year…

  

I’ve made this post open to anyone, so if you have any more questions, feel free to post them in the comments and I’ll answer them as much as I can. of course, if you want to actually work with me on this stuff, you can join us in RISE where you’ll have direct access to me and all my teachings. I always extend the RISEIS60 discount code to my Substack-ers!

Are you feeling the ascension symptoms?

Alongside the amplification energy that the Lion’s Gate portal brings every year, the intensity of energies as the planet keeps shifting further into our Great Awakening means that our bodies often find it hard to adjust, because our bodies are in the 3D, so as 5D things are happening more frequently, the body is trying desperately to keep up, and sometimes it takes time for it to catch up.

In those instances, we get “ascension symptoms” or what my shaman, Don Xavier, calls cosmic altitude sickness.

I write this (in 35 degree heat) lying on my couch with intense body aches. They come for me every month and have done for the past 4 years now. It feels like the aches you get when you have the flu - in my lower back and legs - but then it passes after a few days. This is a typical ascension symptom.

Others include exhaustion, brain fog, inability to focus, blurry eyes, buzzy ears and more.

I won’t go into more detail about that here, as I already wrote a WHOLE article about this specifically which you can read here. If you’re experiencing ascension symptoms (and I guarantee if you’re the kind of person choosing to read this article and get this far into it, you will be), this article will help you.

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That’s it from me today. I hope this has helped you, and if it has, please comment below and let me know your thoughts - I love reading them and I answer each one.

In love & health,

As always, my vow to you is that nothing you read here will ever come from AI, because, what’s the point?! :)

I sit writing this with my bifold doors wide open into the garden, the pink hydrangea, bright pink roses and blue, red and yellow wild flowers in my eyeline, dog under my chair, and things feel really … nice!

I’m a writer - I’m not supposed to use the word nice, but that’s how things feel right now.

That’s not to say there are no challenges - there are many, because that’s life.

But I’ve realised on this bonkers journey of mine (more of that here) that that’s life. No one ever told us things will be perfect and that when things are perfect, that’s when we should be happy; it’s about finding the happiness, awe, joy and pleasure in whatever we can, whenever we can (which, subsequently, is partly what my book - I’M FINE! - is about: learning how to move out of a life of FINE, of stagnation and willing acceptance, and into what I call The Extraordinary Life, no matter the external circumstances. And yes, still hoping for early 2027 publication 🙏🏽).

To that end, I felt called today to go back to my Substack roots and write about the things that are making me feel good this week. If you’re new here, this Substack used to be called Things I Dip in Coffee, and was a place for me to speak about all the things that made me feel what calls enchantment, like how dipping pastry into coffee on a Sunday morning made me feel… (an example of one of those posts here). It’s evolved since then, but I felt like doing that again today, because actually, the things I personally enjoy reading on Substack and the posts I save to read when I’m sitting in a cafe are the ones that make me feel warm and gooey inside - “bubble bath reads” - a bit like how watching Downton Abbey curled under a blanket by the fire on a cold winter’s night used to make me feel.

So maybe you’re craving that today too, and who knows, perhaps I’ll make this a bi-weekly thing?! (Let me know in the comments if that’s something you’d enjoy).

And, because 3 is my number and I like working in 3s because it feels energetically resonant (not because I have a bizarre OCD thing around everything having to be in 3s), I’ll give you 9 of my fav things from this week.

Ok, 9 things making me feel good this week…

1. The pink hydrangea that grow out the front of our house. Romantic, writer-y fool that I am, I like looking at them against the white shutters and the brickwork. It feels like something my childhood self would have looked at and thought was a real grown-up, pretty house. Well, that’s my house, so that’s pretty cool and something to be happy about, right? (Speaking of my house, did you know my crazy husband is raffling our home?! If you haven’t seen yet, check it out here. You could literally win our home for £5 - and I promise this is real. Have a look at Daniel’s Instagram journey with it here).

   

2. Nostalgic children’s books - The Babysitter’s Club

   

   There are a few things that, grouped together, pretty much encapsulate the vibe of my childhood. They go like this: Take That, Michael Jackson, Jason Donovan (do you see a theme here?!), summers in Israel, winters in Suffolk, parties of my parents’ friends that smelled like whisky, Marlborough Reds, Azzarro men’s aftershave and barbecue, hospitals (unfortunately can’t get away from that one)… and books. Namely, Enid Blyton and The Babysitter’s Club. And guess what? My friend Sophie (of Take That obsession as below) found ALL of her old Babysitter’s Club books and, because she only has boys and they have no interest, gave them to me to read to Vida (secretly it’s more for me). We just got them and Vida insists we have to finish the Isadora Moon series first, but as soon as we do, I can’t wait to sink my teeth back in, 3 decades later. The covers alone, and the names of the characters, literally transport me through the portal of nostalgia, back to 1994 and it HURTS in that way that nostalgia does; does anyone know what I mean by the HURT of nostalgic things that felt good?!

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3. Speaking of nostalgia … I WENT TO SEE TAKE THAT!

   

   Take That were the first band I ever fell in love with and my friend Sophie and I (pictured) have been doing Take That together since we were 9 (1993!!!). Sad (pathetic)story: we were together when they announced their breakup in 1995 and we were going to school in Camden at the time. We found a phone box and called the Take That breakup hotline… we then did the reunion concerts together and got to go together last week, at the ripe old age of 42. Isn’t that nuts if you really think about it?! I feel like I’m still young, and that school wasn’t that long ago, but from 9 to 42?! That really is a long time and how incredible that a band can fill stadiums and still perform to that level after so many years. We had THE best time, dancing, singing all the songs by heart and watching as a rainbow emerged overhead during A Million Love Songs, a song that always makes me cry, every single time.

   

4. White cotton summer pyjamas

   

   If you’re just meeting me now, hi, I’m Lauren, and I love soft things and hot weather. I love everything about how I feel when the sun is out and it’s warm. In this instance, it’s soft, white, organic cotton summer pjs that are filling my soul with joy. I honestly can’t even remember where I got these, they’re that old, but I hope they live a long life - they make me very happy!
   

5. Evening pool time!

   

   We’re VERY fortunate. My in laws have a pool and they live 3 minutes from our house. So we’ve been spending a lot of time there, both on weekends and after school. Last week - during the hottest week of the year, we were lucky enough to be able to take all the people we knew who were melting into a puddle from the heatwave, and have a pizza and watermelon dinner by the pool. Real talk: I’m in Hertfordshire, not the Hamptons, but with days like this (pool days, watermelon, sandals, doors open, no hot water bottle at bedtime), it really feels like summer (please, England, please let it stay 🙏🏽)
   

6. Digging up my old recipes

   

   My friend Jacqueline hosted her annual summer “ladies night”, and Jacqueline doesn’t do things by halves (the woman has 6 children and is a barrister, for context). It was catered with the most beautiful spread of nourishing food and, can you believe it, there is such a thing as a naturopathic chef! Whattttt? Her name is Maria and you can find her here. I couldn’t not take her details and then share them. Funnier though, was the fact that Jacqueline introduced her to me with, “This is Lauren whose recipes you’re using!”! Jacqui has always used my website for recipes, even since I’ve stopped posting them so much, and a few of the sweet treats on the table were mine! The white chocolate matcha bark, healthy snickers and chewy cashew oaty bites!
   

7. Working from cafe terraces

   

   Summer, I just love you so much. In winter, I’m quite happy holed up in my cosy home office with a hot water bottle, or at the British Library where I try to go once a week to write, but in the summer, I’m drawn to cafes with big doors that fully open onto the street (great for people watching), good coffee and yummy food, and I’ll happily sit there from after my morning gym session until school pickup. If you find me, hoot me :)
   

8. Lying down IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. Yes, you heard me right. Again, this has a specific vibe in winter, when you feel drained and just need to lie down under a blanket in the middle of the day to save yourself from the day. But in summer? It just FEELS nice. I think it was 2 summers ago that I read Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance and it gave me that PERMISSION I needed as a must-be-high-achieving-doing-all-the-time person (Human Design Manifestor - anyone else?!) to just lie down when I need to.
   
   My bedroom gets the sun in the morning, so in the afternoon on a hot day, it’s the coolest room, and with the window open and a slight breeze on my cool sheets, I just lie down - often face forward and sideways on the bed, because why not - and just appreciate the simple comfort of it cool, soft, cotton sheets and a slight breeze on a warm body, even if only for 15 minutes. (I don’t have a pic of this I’m afraid, because I don’t stop to take any in those moments of deep bliss!). In I’M FINE!, one of the final chapters is called Have An Awe-some Day, and it’s all about learning to tally up all these little pleasures we often forget to acknowledge or appreciate, to remind ourselves that there is always goodness and joy to be found. Do me a favour, lie down in the middle of the day and upload a pic in the comments here, okay??
   

9. My kids’ passions.

   

   Ugh, might cry. I feel so filled with joy and gratitude that both my children know what they love and have done from such young ages. They’re SO different. Brax (10) is an artist, has always loved art, and has now discovered sewing and fashion design. Last week he did a fashion show with his sewing club and got to showcase a jacket, shorts and bag he’d made himself from scratch! We were so proud.

   

   Vida, on the flipside, is a gymnast. She’s given up pretty much everything else and spends 4 days a week at the gym - and asks to go more. This weekend we’ll have her club championships and in 2 weeks we’ll have the club champs for her second club.

   Having grown up with things I loved but never being encouraged in them very much, AND growing up disabled and unable to do any sports at all, I feel so much joy - genuinely deep down in my heart - to see my children so passionate about things they love.

I hope you enjoyed hearing about 9 things that make me feel good this week! What’s making you feel good this week? Tell me in the comments below!

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Wishing you a week filled with things that make you feel as good as dipping pastry into coffee on a sunny Sunday morning makes me feel…

NB: please read the whole article before skipping to “the protocol” - this is very important. This isn’t a quick 5-step TikTok protocol, and if you want this to work (because the only things that truly work are the ones that are here for the long game), you have to work through this whole article…

If you’ve opened this, it’s because you struggle with stubborn belly fat, and no doubt have for most of your life - though there may be a small percentage of you for whom this is a new, perhaps age-related, phenomenon.

You may look at pictures of me on Instagram and wonder what I’m talking about. But I promise you, this has been my struggle since I was 8.

Even as a qualified nutritionist and holistic health coach who lived extremely healthily, it didn’t go away. I’ll be honest, even as a 14 year old who stopped eating for a whole year and looked genuinely anorexic, there was still a belly pouch that wouldn’t budge.

I was blessed with height and a narrow frame, so I’ve always been able to dress to hide it. But it was always well and truly there … until I was 41, when I finally figured it all (mostly) out.

And I did figure it out. I found what I believe to be THE protocol that truly tackles excess fat that isn’t meant to be there. Which is what we’ll get to soon…

I was always taller than my friends at school, and I hated that my petite friends with naturally flat tummies could eat anything they wanted while I just had to look at food to put on weight - straight to my tummy. And if you came of age in the 90s like I did, you’ll know this was not a forgiving time for girls and our bodies. Everyone in the public eye was sporting Kate Moss’s “heroin chic” look, and the fashion was made for those bodies. I hated that I could never wear crop tops or low-rise jeans, and spent so many precious years despising my tummy.

Having kids didn’t help either. I was “all bump” during my pregnancies, but seemed to balloon the second they arrived, and it took me a long time to lose it.

So, if you’re coming from this same place and have similar experiences and emotions around it, know that I GET YOU.

This is important…

Before we get to the protocol, a few things worth saying, because this won't be like any protocol you're used to. I healed myself of severe disability holistically, and so everything I do takes the whole person into account. That's where we start.

Expectations

The women you know whose bellies have always been naturally flat, even after kids? That’s a genetic and ancestral reality. They didn’t do anything to get those bodies, and there’s a whole dimension of this experience they simply know nothing about.

Those of us prone to holding belly fat no matter what we do? That’s also genetic and ancestral. And it’s worth taking time to sit with the fact that unless you’re training seven days a week and eating only protein - which I do not recommend - it will probably always be there a little. The protocol I’m sharing will shift the stubborn fat that genuinely doesn’t belong to you, but I don’t want you to expect a washboard stomach. That’s not what this is about.

When to reach for acceptance

At 42 I’m in the best shape of my life, but my tummy will never be washboard, and I’ve made peace with that. I’m a woman, I’ve had kids, and it’s simply not in my genes.

What I was always trying to achieve was a way to feel like any fat I was holding was genuinely my own. The fat on my tummy often felt foreign, like it was there for a reason and didn’t fully belong to me, which is why I couldn’t accept it. Trying to embrace something that felt like it shouldn’t be there wasn’t body positivity, it was toxic positivity. And it turned out I was right. When I found the missing pieces, there were things happening in my body that were causing me to hold onto fat that had no business being there.

If this resonates, this protocol is for you.

I want you to love your body no matter what. It is extraordinary, and as a cosmic being who chose to inhabit it, that is everything. But I also know what it’s like to feel like it’s not fully yours, and I want to help you with that too.

The protocol…

With all that taken into account, here is the actual protocol I believe most women need in order to shift that stubborn belly fat that can actually go…

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I’ve always been drawn to ritualistic living.

I think we all are, actually. It’s how humans have always lived.

We’re just so busy that we no longer have time to plan rituals, and, though I do live very ritualistically, I want you to know that I struggle with this as much as anyone else; the juggle of wanting to be the mum who continues to make magic through spiritual and ritualistic living, while still very much managing the same 3D logistics as everyone else, trying to fit everything I need into a day/week/month.

Having lived this sort of lifestyle for most of my adult life, though, I’ve realised that raising a family with a spiritual approach doesn’t have to take up huge amounts of time and be overwhelming, we can just integrate certain rituals into our lives, and eventually, they become part of our familial identity and it’s just “something you do”, like Christmas.

It all comes down to identity, which has become the cornerstone of my work, and what my upcoming book - I’M FINE! - is about. If you exist from the identity of the person who lives ritualistically, it will naturally start to integrate.

The best way to get started in bringing ritual into your home, I think, is around seasons and special events: if you start with Christmas, Solstices, birthdays etc, and have specific rituals you engage in for each one, it will start to flow more freely, and each time they come around, you’ll know what you’re doing and will be prepared ahead of time.

I wrote this article for Cherubs magazine a while back, about creating rituals for your family, and that might help guide you.

Summer rituals

In terms of summer rituals, none of these even feel like a very big deal, they’re just things I like doing over the summer.

What practices like these do is ground and root us into the moment a bit more, allowing us to truly make the most of the summer and remember it once it’s passed, as opposed to it being yet another mash-up of days where we’re trying to work around the kids being home, organise camps, get some day trips in so it feels like we’ve done something fun, and count the days until school starts again.

You know when you read a novel that’s set over one particular summer - one that the characters will remember for the rest of their lives? I’m not saying you’re going to have a life-affirming teenage summer romance each year (at the ripe old age of 42), but I am aiming for that level of memorability through these rituals.

These simple, sweet rituals - some rooted in spirituality and shamanism, some just simply family or singular experiences - allow us to be fully anchored into the summer and create special memories, and, of course, the more intentional you make it, the more the rituals will flow and feel effortless, and the more everyone will remember them.

My kids love feeling the ritualistic nature of things we do - the more “spiritual” or witchy the better for them - and they love the parts that also feel like annual or monthly rituals that they look forward to, as you’ll see below.

1. Stay up to watch the Summer Solstice sunrise (or any sunrises over the summer)

The summer solstice (the day I sent this) marks the sun at its most powerful point of the year - the day ancient traditions across the world considered a threshold, the veil at its thinnest. Stonehenge was built to capture this exact sunrise.

Yes, it’s a symbolic moment and a ritual you’ll remember, whether you do it alone, with your kids or with your partner. But it also has many other benefits.

Sunrise light is one of the most powerful pineal gland activators available (and you’ll know how I feel about pineal gland activation if you’ve ever read any of my other articles, like this one), resetting your entire hormonal cascade and circadian rhythm for the day - doing this at 5am will actually impact how well you sleep at 10pm!

On the solstice, you’re catching this magic at the year’s peak solar power.

It’s also the turning point of the year. From here, the days begin to shorten. Use it to mark your own pivot: what you’re releasing from the first half of the year, what you’re calling in for the second.

Ritual: arrive before the sun appears, no phone, bare feet. Speak an intention as it starts cresting. Journal whatever comes through in the stillness after.

2. Craft something out of summer flowers

At my Summer Solstice women’s retreat last week, one of the exercises I wove into the day was feminine crafting, led by my friend, priestess and womb healer, Rhia Pratsis.

Women have gathered in circle to weave flowers and herbs together for as long as there have been seasons to mark; with our hands busy, our minds engaged in creativity, and eye contact minimal, we share what’s on our hearts more freely, something that, as women, helps us to heal more deeply.

At our retreat, we made flower crowns from what we’d gathered that morning, both from our gardens, the woods and from my favourite Willerton’s Flower Farm in Elstree - all organically grown - and it bonded those of us who knew each other, and those who didn’t, instantly.

It’s a way for us to connect with the beauty and majesty of nature in summer, and is just as magic with your children, teaching them, wordlessly, that beauty is crafted slowly and nature is something to be in relationship with.

Try it: gather what’s flowering nearby and make a crown, posy, or pressed bookmark … in circle if you can.

3. Go on evening foraging walks

As with #2, connecting with what’s growing and available during this time helps us to feel closer to nature, remembering that everything we eat has to come from nature in some way, so why not try and gather what we can ourselves, whether for food or medicine (gathering herbs to make potions and tinctures is something my kids LOVE), to remind us to be grateful for every last thing we consume.

It also reconnects us to the seasonal rhythm as you can’t forage out of season, so it teaches us patience, presence and gratitude.

Seek: try looking for elderflowers, damsons, blackberries and nettles - all of which can be made into medicines.

4. Read a book a week

Reading is my medicine, my most treasured hobby and favourite pastime. I love it so much, and one of my life’s biggest fears after something happening to my children, is not having enough time in my life to read all the books I want to!

Even if you’re not going on holiday (often a time when people commit to reading more than others), try and commit to reading a book a week.

Once the kids are in bed, sit in the garden with a tea (maybe a tea made using something you foraged!) and read in the late, dimming light.

Let me know: either in the comments below or on my Instagram, let me know which books you are reading this summer - this may well be my favourite kind of conversation!

5. Do a movie night in the garden or find a local outdoor movie night

I have to be honest, I’ve never done this in my own garden yet, because we don’t really have the space, but we do try and seek out outdoor movies each year. Last year we did it on the canal at King’s Cross, and this year we’ll be visiting our local park that is having summer movie screenings.

Is it witchy? Not necessarily.

Is it a beautiful summer activity that doesn’t have to cost much and that the whole family will remember? Absolutely.

And hey, we can always make anything more witchy and crunchy by taking our own homemade cacao in a thermos, homemade popcorn and other healthier and more nourishing, less-processed snacks. This is my vibe - far more enjoyable than all the rubbish-filled snacks available at these places and it’s something you and the kids can prepare together ahead of time.

Prepare: prepare a thermos of cacao ahead of time and infuse it with love (and essential oils such as lavender for extra love!).

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6. Commit to a daily nature meditation

Meditation & silence are my top daily priority. If I had to give up every other practice and just choose one, silence would be my one.

Giving your brain 20 mins of quiet time, your body time to just “be” and your Higher Self a moment amidst continuous chaos to reconnect, is self-care in its truest sense.

Meditating outdoors regulates your nervous system faster than meditating indoors - natural light, birdsong, and moving air all signal safety to the body in ways a quiet room can’t replicate. Nature also has its own rhythm of subtle, non-threatening stimulation (rustling leaves, shifting light) that keeps the mind gently engaged rather than fighting total silence, which makes stillness easier to drop into.

There’s of course something about rainy days in the forest, but there’s nothing more beautiful and ethereal than meditation in nature during the summer: effortless warm mornings, long evenings and golden hour light all invite you outside without trying.

Try it: take ten minutes barefoot on the grass each morning this summer, eyes closed, just breathing. If you have a deeper practice, engage it here, but if not, just breathe, ground into the earth, and let your senses take in the smells, sounds, sights and feels of nature in full bloom.

7. Plan a garden or park picnic

There’s something whimsical about eating al fresco, on the grass, with a basket full of yummies you made yourself.

My kids love Enid Blyton books, as I did when I was little - these were the books that made me love reading (I read them non-stop and wish I had a picture of me as a child reading them!). When I now read them to my kids I’m always drawn back to the simplicity of picnics in simpler times (these books were written in the 30s and 40s) - jam sandwiches, homemade lemonade, some fruit and a homemade cake of some sort.

These are the kinds of picnics we prepare - often using our homemade bread. Nothing too fancy, no stopping at M&S to do it for us (though if this is the only option, do this by all means!).

Eat & play: Take a big blanket, the dog, a ball and maybe even a game. Sit, play, talk and engage with the nature all around you, grounding into the joy of this simple but beautiful moment. You can even go searching for fairies and fairy “doors” in trees!

8. Swim in natural waters

There’s a different kind of alive that happens in open water that a pool will never give you. It’s not even about “cold water swimming” as a therapy. This is about connecting with the God intelligence that is natural water in its purest form and bringing joy into it.

There’s real joy in seeking out new waters too… a hidden cove, a river spot a friend has mentioned, a lake you’ve never tried. Each one has its own temperature, its own current, its own personality, and finding them becomes its own small adventure, summer after summer.

Recently I’ve been reading lots of books about water - Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, The Flow by Amy Jane Beer, and How to Read Water by Tristan Gooley - the latter two being the epitome of nature reading that has become a new-found love - and I’m learning so much about water and how to read and honour it.

Try it: find one new swim spot this summer. Go in slowly, stay present, and let the water do what it does.

9. Create a summer pleasure list

At the very beginning of summer could you write a list of all the things you’d like to do or try this summer, kind of like a bucket list but one dedicated just to this summer, things you’d like to have experienced by summer’s end?

Ideas:

• Daily meditation outside

• A daily coffee outside, or seeking out lovely coffee places

• Finding random stops off the motorways that sell fruit from nearby orchards, or seeking out fruit farms

• Visiting flower farms

• Daily barefoot dances

• Swimming somewhere new once a month

• Daily / weekly outdoor yoga

• A trip to somewhere you’ve never been

Or whatever fills you up personally.

Write: get your journal and write your summer pleasure list and see how many you can tick off..

10. Annual back-to-school ritual

Every year just before school starts I do a special back-to-school ritual with my children. They genuinely treasure this moment and often spend all summer asking when it’s time for our ritual.

You can watch this Instagram reel to see what we do in our ritual, but essentially we bring our oracle cards, favourite crystals and other amulets (my son loves bringing his protective dragons), as well as their new stationary and bags. We light a candle, pull cards for guidance, speak about all their excitement and worries for the next school year, ask for guidance, and just give this threshold moment its own moment to unfold.

I’d recommend it more than anything. Your children will remember it always.

11. BONUS: Daily barefoot dance parties

A little bonus I’m going to throw in as it really brings summer to life with joy and laugher is daily barefoot dance parties.

Whether outdoors or in your garden, put the speakers on, choose yours and your children’s favourite songs, and spend 5-10 mins each evening (or morning!) dancing barefoot.

It really will be something you all remember in years to come.

Make it your own

I hope you enjoyed this post. Don’t just follow my tips, make this summer magical and memorable by making it your own. Create your own special memories and rituals and share them with me below - I’d love to hear how you magicked up your summer!

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P.s. as always, please know that my work will NEVER be created using AI, otherwise, what’s the point!

I actually hate the term “woo woo” - it implies that spirituality is inferior to science-backed stats.

The deeper I go into both my science-led research and my spiritual journey (5.5 years on a shamanic apprenticeship now), the more I realise that science literally cannot prove most of the stuff that actually makes a difference.

And that’s by design.

You know what, it’s not even that “now I realise” - I’ve always believed this. It’s why I started this journey of holistic healing 24 years ago, at 18, head-to-toe disabled, having been let down by the medical establishment and all its “research-backed studies” that had led me to take a “research-backed” chemo drug that nearly killed me and left me with half a head of hair, a damaged liver, and no use of any joint in my body, with the rheumatologist having nothing else to say about it other than “this drug has been proven to work for 70% of people so you just fall into the other 30%”. Excellent.

Thanks, “science”.

But isn’t that the problem? That we view “science” in as linear a way as we view everything?! Nothing is black and white, people!

Weren’t Tesla and Burr and Emoto scientists? Aren’t Joe Dispenza and Bruce Lipton and Lisa Miller and Rupert Sheldrake and Lynne McTaggart?!

Yes. And they all proved things like the body’s electromagnetic field, or how our cells listen to our thoughts, or how meditation can influence gene expression, or how faith and spirituality make us less likely to become sick or depressed…

It’s time we got off our high horse about what “science” has or hasn’t proven and understand that, though these amazing “bridge” scientists can and are proving things that no one previously had, this shows us that there is much still we don’t know. Do we think 2026 is the last time any scientist will find out anything new?

If not, then we must believe that there is a lot we still don’t know, but that when we follow our intuition and listen to ancient wisdom and guidance, there are many ways our lives can be enriched.

I also believe that no matter how “intelligent” we get as a species, there are some things we can never know, or cognise, with the current iteration of the human brain, and maybe we’re not meant to.

So, here they are. The ten practices that sit at the intersection of ancient wisdom, quantum science, and what some will call “woo”, and I’ll just describe as lived truth. Some have scientific backing. Some have emerging research. Some have nothing but centuries of human experience. Some just have my own unwavering belief.

All of them work.

1. Muscle testing

The body knows before the mind does.

Muscle testing - otherwise known as applied kinesiology - operates on the principle that your body is a bioelectric field, and that field responds to truth and falsehood before your conscious mind has had a chance to weigh in. A strong muscle response means yes. A weak one means no. Simple as that.

I first came across this at 19, when I moved to Israel to work with a holistic doctor we’d found when I was wheelchair-bound and on my knees (except not literally because my knees didn’t work and there was no way I could kneel down). He practiced something called IPEC Therapy, and, after 5 months with him (going to him twice a week every week - I lived there for 6 months for this), it was the first thing to bring me back to life after the Methotrexate nearly killed me.

The doctor - Ady Shanan, someone I still hold very close to my heart as a result of how he helped me and how much he taught me in those 5 months - performed kinesiology on me in front of my parents, and we could not believe it. If the answer was no my arm would drop and if it was yes it wouldn’t budge, no matter what I did. He used this to ask my body everything from what it needed to what it didn’t like and what emotions were trapped.

Today, I use it for everything: supplements, food, decisions, navigating anything at all. In the last 2 years, I’ve been using it with my son to work through the Emotion Code, identifying which trapped emotions he’s carrying and where in the body they’re stored, so we can release them. This approach makes my kids feel empowered. They know their bodies are intelligent and can use a language they don’t need to find words for. Profound for parenting.

The science behind it isn’t mysterious once you understand it. The body’s nervous system processes information faster than conscious thought. Muscle testing is essentially a way of querying that system directly, bypassing the filter of the analytical mind. Whether you call it biofeedback, energy medicine or something else entirely, the mechanism is real.

In Dr Bradley Nelson’s The Emotion Code book, he talks you through all the methods for muscle testing, from the arm one you see here, to swaying (which I actually prefer!).

2. Crystal pendulum dowsing

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My own journey from disability and severe autoimmunity to wellness taught me many things (you can read about that journey here), but one of the most important lessons it ever taught me was to take full responsibility for and ownership of my wellbeing, to never outsource my wellness to someone else, to know that I have everything within me to heal… knowing that while I was relying on others to make it happen, it didn’t happen.

In the age of convenience that we live in, mothers have, unfortunately, been steered away not only from the intuition we’ve been gifted to guide us through motherhood (nothing is as powerful as a mother’s intuition and I believe this is the reason the human race has survived), but also away from the many tools, herbal remedies and other natural options that support our bodies when we’re in need of healing.

Thankfully for me, I came to motherhood many years into my holistic healing journey, so already had many of these tools at my disposal, and, more importantly, the wisdom around the importance of taking ownership of our own wellbeing.

When I journeyed into motherhood, I knew that I would always make sure my children knew how powerful they are, how nature has everything we need to heal, and how, if we arm ourselves with the right arsenal of tools, we rarely need to involve anyone else.

What this has meant is that, other than broken bones, my kids have (thank God), never needed any medical or pharmaceutical intervention (other than one time when we thought Brax had periorbital cellulitis when he was 2).

And it’s not because they’re “lucky”. `Just like my own healing, or my births, weren’t out of luck. I put a lot of effort into their wellbeing and our holistic approach to our lives. It’s not the easy option. Holistic living / healing is the far less convenient option, but it pays dividends in the long-term.

We treat fevers completely holistically, for example - I NEVER medicate a fever with pharmaceuticals as it simply traps the toxins back into the body and stops the body from moving through its very intelligent process to burn off the virus. That doesn’t mean I sit back and do nothing while they suffer, quite the opposite. If you’d like me to write an article about my whole process, comment below and let me know…

And we have tools for pretty much everything else.

Many of my kids’ friends go to hospital and end up in splints and on medications for sprains, or at the GP and on antibiotics for colds and coughs.

My opinion of the medical institution is that it is obsolete 95% of the time.

We can prevent many of the illnesses we need doctors and medications for, and we can treat most of the things that come along ourselves, if we spend time and effort priming our kids’ bodies from the start (but wherever you are now, that’s ok, start there!).

(I don’t like doing the disclaimer thing but I’ll do it here briefly: I’m aware that there are those who need medical treatments, but having been in the system since infancy, and bringing myself out of it, and having a deeper spiritual understanding of the medical institution, I do believe we can prevent or heal most things holistically, but this is no judgement around anyone doing anything differently - just my take.)

There are many, many tools and remedies we have at home, but here I’ll list the 6 top ways my children already know how to heal themselves at only 10 and 7…

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I’m not going to lie; I did not grow into the deliciously unbothered woman as part of my nature in my 20s (or even 30s 🫣).

I was quite the opposite: highly-strung, controlling, over-efficient, over-productive (perhaps a by-product of growing up with a dis-ease that could strike at any minute - and often did - so I would get as much done as I could in the times between flare-ups. Read my story here if you haven’t yet!).

I actually used to judge the unbothered woman: lazy, unproductive, inefficient, etc. Until I realised that’s not what unbothered women are at all.

Unbothered women aren’t lazy, they just trust in the process, they let life flow for them, they let things unfold, they don’t chase, they attract by the very fact that they’re, well… unbothered!

Quantum resonance 101!

And then I began envying them and having to figure out how to change my entire identity and character from the aforementioned, to something quite the contrary.

Oh, but did I…

I decided that I wanted to maintain my ability to “get shit done” (because I’ll be honest, the fact that I’m organised and cognitively sharp makes life far easier, and it’s something I’m grateful for - and hey, in an age where no one has told you for 5 years anything other than the fact that they just got “diagnosed with adult ADHD”, isn’t it even a little bit refreshing to hear me refer to myself as organised and cognitively sharp?! Don’t let it trigger you; use it as expansion!), while at the same time learning how to be deliciously unbothered.

I wanted to keep that beautiful dance between the masculine energy of DOING and the feminine energy of BEING, but balance it much more into the feminine.

I started finding women I could use as expanders: a term used in quantum psychology that refers to people who embody characteristics we would like to embody - we don’t copy them, we just use these characteristics to both encourage us into these behaviours, and to support the belief that if they can do it, so can we.

So, over the past few years years I’ve paid close attention to the women who move through life with this particular kind of grace; the ones who seem genuinely unaffected by the noise. And what I’ve noticed is something I believed from my own journey but just wasn’t implementing it in this area of my life: it’s not that they’re lucky or are dealt a different set of circumstances to you or that their lives are easier.

I’ve spent time weaving these observations into the practices I already embodied as part of my own spiritual path and identity work and the combination has really, genuinely changed my life. Here’s what I’ve collected.

This is the sort of deeply life-altering identity work I do with my RISE members. If this is the kind of thing you’re after, we’re here,

Here are the 15 things that have slowly started turning me into the unbothered woman…

1. I no longer explain myself. To anyone.

I don’t fight back. I don’t justify. I don’t perform elaborate defences of my choices. I don’t - as my favourite author says in Big Magic - “conduct autopsies on my emotions”. If you don’t get it, you’re not meant to get it. Unless you ask me, I’ll step back and be ok with you not getting it.

The urge to be understood is deeply human. But there’s a version of explaining yourself that comes from a grounded and compassionate place: I want to share this with you, and a version that comes from fear and is usually a trauma response of some kind: please don’t think badly of me. The unbothered woman has learned the difference. She explains when she wants to. Not when she needs to.

2. If it’s not a full body yes, it’s a no. That’s all.

Not a “maybe if I think about it.” Not a “I’ll see how I feel.” If the answer isn’t being felt in my body as a clear, warm, expansive yes, it’s a no.

This is one of the most spiritually aligned habits I’ve adopted. Your body is a sophisticated guidance system guided by intuition - your most sacred gift. It knows before your brain does. Honouring that knowing, even when it disappoints people, even when it’s inconvenient, brings you to a place of self-mastery and authenticity quicker than anything else.

3. If you don’t enrich my life, you’re not in it.

Bye Felicia.

I know this sounds cold, but I learned it the hard way. When the Universe interjects enough times to remove people from your life (IE they hurt you!), you eventually realise 2 things:

1. There’s a reason you’re meant to do this, and you don’t do it because it’s been done to you, but you realise when it feels like you should, you can, and should.

2. We quite literally bleed our life force out through relationships that deplete us.

The unbothered woman isn’t unkind. She doesn’t act without compassion. She’s just intentional. She understands that energy is sacred. It’s her life force. If someone isn’t in alignment with her energy, her life force gets drained and she can’t be magnetic.

It’s not personal.

Well, I guess it’s very personal. But that’s also ok if it’s done with compassion…

4. I don’t get back to people immediately.

As someone who has always been allergic to unread notifications and needs my phone to look like everything was just installed in order for me to get through my day, this one took real practice. The anxiety of a little red number. The compulsion to close it out.

But constantly meeting everyone’s needs instantly is a form of self-abandonment. It trains people that you are always available. It signals, both to others and to yourself, that their timeline takes priority over your state of being, and that you can be available for them anytime. You can’t, and even if you could, you shouldn’t.

I respond when it works for me. I don’t apologise about it, and I keep reminding my brain that IT’S OK TO HAVE UNREAD NOTIFICATIONS! WE’LL LIVE!!!

5. Not everything needs a label, diagnosis or explanation. Some things just are.

Can’t we just understand ourselves because we KNOW ourselves?

We live in an age that is obsessed with categorising experience. Naming it, diagnosing it, finding the framework that explains it.

Sometimes something just is. Sometimes you feel the way you feel. Sometimes a phase of your life doesn’t need a clinical name or a five-step healing protocol. The unbothered woman has made peace with mystery. She can sit with the unexplained and not spiral.

6. I stopped worrying about how much there is to do during leisure time.

Previously I would work anywhere I could squeeze it in, because I manage my business (and all the many facets of it: 121 clients, membership program, writing, talks, podcast etc.) around my kids, so it’s always quite fragmented and I’ve learnt to jump on and “get shit done” (there it is again) whenever I can. On trains. In waiting rooms. During lunch. The hamster wheel of productivity that never actually winds down because … there is always going to be more to do. Like seriously, does ever end?!

I don’t remember what it feels like to be bored!

Now? You will not find me working on a train. My head will be in a book. My leisure time, my joy, my pleasure are not rewards I have to earn. They are part of my wellness protocol. They are non-negotiable medicine.

7. I don’t worry about money.

This might trigger people. I get that financial anxiety is a thing; I’ve soooo been there. But I’ve learnt through my shamanic work that money worry isn’t practical, productive or effective at all in making more money come to us; it becomes a learned behaviour and thereby a chronic frequency, a low hum of lack that follows you everywhere, and one that will determine you remain in the low vibration of lack, and call in more lack.

I live my life. I trust it to flow through when I need it. I stay in my highest vibration and I do my work and I release the grip. The women I’ve observed who have the most ease around money aren’t necessarily always the wealthiest. They are the ones who stopped white-knuckling it, and somehow random opportunities just arrive in their lap and they get by in life beautifully without worrying about it.

I like that. I want more of that.

8. I no longer chase opportunities.

I trust that my high vibration will ensure they find me.

There is a difference between inspired action (the masculine) - moving toward something that genuinely calls to you - and chasing, which is usually fear dressed up as hustle. Chasing comes from lack. It says if I don’t catch this, there won’t be another. That is never, ever true.

Do your work, do the action, but exist from the intention, raise your frequency, hold your vision. Let the right things arrive.

9. My boundaries are sacred. Whether you’re my friend, client, mother or mother-in-law.

Proximity does not exempt people from your boundaries. Neither does longevity. Neither does love.

In fact, the closer someone is, the more important it becomes, because those are the people with the most access to you, and therefore the most capacity to either honour or erode your sense of self.

Sacred means sacred. No exceptions.

And wow, the liberation that comes from choosing this!

10. There is never any scarcity or competition.

There is space for everyone to succeed. The women I most admire are the ones who clap for you every single time you win. Who big you up in rooms you’re not in. Who celebrate your growth without making it about their own. Who see the best in you and bring out the best in you and WANT the best for you.

I will always do this (and have always done this, it’s always been my default). And I will only surround myself with women who do the same.

Scarcity thinking is a cage, and abundance is a choice that is nurtured through giving.

11. I let people go really easily now.

I didn’t used to. I used to hold on. I used to try to fix, salvage, understand, and overextend myself to make it work. The idea of losing someone from my life felt like a blow. It was inner child wounding at work and took a long, long time to heal.

But I’ve come to understand that some connections simply have a natural end point; the Universe is always guiding this and you have to trust it. Even the ones you don’t believe will ever have an endpoint, even your best friend in the world. If the energy stops aligning for whatever reason, if I’m not being valued, if I leave every interaction feeling smaller, if I’m being judged instead of loved, I am now genuinely okay with saying goodbye.

I used to stew in the hurt of it. Now I genuinely just say, Thank you for what you gave me. I’m grateful. No drama, good luck, and goodbye.

12. I quite literally say “I’m sorry, this conversation is draining my energy.”

Look, this one takes some getting used to. It can come across rude.

But honestly, I’m at a point in my spiritual development that it literally hurts my head to be in a conversation that drains me, so I really will say this to people (much to my husband’s dismay).

And then I either redirect it or I walk away.

I don’t want to politely endure anymore, to smile and absorb and process everyone else’s opinions and traumas and boring takes on politics.

So I just don’t anymore.

13. I buy myself pretty things. I book solo weekends in cabins in the woods.

Because I deserve things that make me feel good. Because time alone with myself is a gift, not a consolation - and a gift I NEED if I’m to continue serving others.

I need time and space to clear my energy … often. Even if my husband isn’t best pleased to do all the weekend club drop-offs.

Isn’t there just something revolutionary about a woman who doesn’t wait to be taken care of? Who doesn’t defer her own pleasure until someone else makes it happen? Who treats herself to the beautiful, organic body cream, books the trip, orders the good thing because she has decided she is worth it without needing to justify it to anyone?!

14. I don’t care who thinks what about me.

Think away, babes. Because while you’re expending your energy doing that, I’m over here healing others, taking a long essential oil bath, or having an orgasm.

Other people’s opinions of you are genuinely none of your business. They are a reflection of their world, their wounds, their projections. You do not have to carry them. You are allowed to set them down and go LIVE YOUR LIFE.

15. Sometimes I just lie down… IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY!

In the middle of the day. Whattttttt??

No explanation. No guilt. No “I’ll just rest for twenty minutes and then I’ll be more productive.” Just… horizontal. Still. Existing without output. For ONCE in this era of over-optimisation, over-productive, over-stimulation. No output.

This might be the most radical habit on the list. In a culture that has monetised and optimised every moment and turned rest into laziness, choosing to simply be in your body, without doing anything, is an act of badass sovereignty.

The unbothered woman knows when to stop. And she stops.

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The common thread through all of this? She has decided - truly decided - that her inner world is the most important real estate she will ever own. Everything else flows from that.

Which of these do you want to get better at? I’d love to know in the comments.

In love & health,

Let me start with something that you’ll think I’m using to hook you but is just a truth that will hopefully encourage you to look at holistic living as a non-negotiable (also, I don’t say anything to “hook” people, I just write what’s on my heart)…

This isn’t one of those “stop them in their tracks with reverse engineering terminology for maximum effect” Instagram posts.

I’m writing this to support the many people I know are out there suffering with hayfever. A number that seems to increase every year.

It doesn’t have to be like that.

But you do have to want to understand the mechanisms of what causes it, and be willing to make changes to help yourself.

Every year, without fail, the conversation starts up again… The pollen count is high. The season is bad. The trees are particularly aggressive this year. I’m allergic to the sun’s rays.

And other comments to that effect.

And every year, I think: are we really still doing this? Are we still believing that there’s some fundamental flaw in nature that has affected all humans since forever and that we just need to learn to live with it?

I promise you there is no flaw, and humans have never lived like this.

For anyone reading this who may not know where I’m going with this, I’m going to go in gently but truthfully right away…

I ask older people around me and they tell me they never had hayfever and never knew anyone who did. A bit like nut allergies (a bigger conversation for another day…)

So, instead of asking which antihistamine we can take to suppress the allergy, let’s look at WHY we’re all suffering with allergies in the first place, because if you can figure out the root cause of anything, from my experience, you can heal it.

What is causing so much hayfever?

When your liver is overburdened - when the sheer volume of what your body is being asked to process exceeds what it can handle - your immune system goes into a kind of crisis mode. It becomes hypersensitive. Reactive. Just like with any autoimmune condition.

Once the liver gets to the point that it is so overburdened that it’s no longer able to filter out the many toxins constantly bombarding it, it goes into what I call toxic overload, and this is where the conditions you’re genetically predisposed to are triggered.

It’s not that the autoimmune condition or allergy or hayfever is “in your genes”, it’s that whatever you are genetically predisposed to will be triggered if there are enough things in your lifestyle to trigger a response to it.

Epigenetics 101…

To add to it, if you’re sensitive to histamine, you likely have weak mast cells. There is a term called Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), but I don’t love bolting diagnoses onto myself or others so I try to use different terms, otherwise we start existing from the identity of the condition, when I don’t believe the condition itself is the problem; it’s the imbalance that caused the condition (btw, I believe this about all conditions, which is why, though sometimes understanding the condition you have helps, in others, the fastest route to healing is simply addressing the imbalance, regardless what the condition itself is presenting as). You can listen to this podcast episode I recorded with Dr Tania Dempsey about MCAS to understand more about that specifically.

I’m not going into detail here about the ins and outs of autoimmune responses and MCAS, because I’m not sure that’s what you’re here for, so I’m leaving the big sciencey bits out and going straight in with what’s happening and what you can do about it but, again, you can listen to the podcast episode above or any of the many other podcast episodes I have that talk about holistic healing.

Either way, if you have genetic predispositions to histamine sensitivity and autoimmunity, it’s likely that something in your lifestyle will trigger the response that will initiate onset of symptoms.

And at this time of year, when pollen is circulating, that becomes the trigger your body latches onto. But remove the pollen and something else would trigger it. The pollen isn’t the issue.

I say this not as someone reading it from a textbook, but as someone who has spent years navigating autoimmunity and learning - the hard way - what actually moves the needle and what simply manages symptoms while the root cause continues without us even beginning to question WHY.

The rise in hayfever is not because pollen is getting stronger, which is the narrative the mainstream prefers (it’s easier to blame something we can’t change, far more convenient).

The rise in hayfever is directly linked with our toxic exposure getting higher, year on year, and our bodies are struggling to keep up.

What is actually driving that toxic load?

Here are some of the ways we’re being over-exposed to toxins:

• A diet high in processed, non-foods that the body doesn’t recognise and struggles to eliminate, filled with things like glyphosate, seed oils, antibiotics, growth hormones, steroids, preservatives, additives and more.

• Overuse of pharmaceuticals that suppress symptoms back into the body rather than addressing why those symptoms are appearing in the first place.

• Chronic exposure to environmental toxins, including high-level EMFs that we’ve normalised entirely.

• A profound disconnection from nature, which has always been one of the body’s most powerful regulators.

• Chemicals being sprayed into the air that are increasing year on year, making it literally impossible for us to avoid toxins.

• Increase in vaping, Botox, artificial fragrances and other toxins we actively choose, that very easily send our bodies over the edge of toxic overload to trigger a response.

• As well as alcohol, etc.

I know it might be hard to read that and you may be thinking, well shoot, do I change my whole life to accommodate hayfever or do I just take Piriton and done with?

The thing is, the antihistamines themselves add to toxic load, so the symptoms will just get more and more unmanageable as time goes on.

The truth for me is always that the easy, convenient option usually isn’t the one that promotes long-term wellbeing, and my priority is always with long-term wellbeing.

So what do we do to mitigate both the trigger and the histamine intolerance? Here’s what I do…

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Every month I send my full moon newsletter out to my main mailing list, but so many of you have now found me here, and the spiritually-centred posts are being so well-received that I thought I’d bring my reflections on tomorrow’s full Blue Moon over here so you get a taste too, and offer it here with a little twist on how I present it to my mailing list, you know, to make it Substack worthy.

The intention of my full moon newsletters that go out to my mailing list are to offer my downloads on the upcoming full moon the day it’s happening, with ritual ideas and ways to connect to and harness the energy, as well as to give updates on what’s happening in my life, where I may be speaking or appearing that month, events I have on, and I offer a recipe and wellness product of the month, and talk about what I’m currently reading.

Here, I’ll dive straight into the full moon and any frequency shifts we may be experiencing, and keep it at that (should you want to be added to my list for the other stuff, feel free to reply with your email), so we can really take a deep dive into shifting energies, frequency alignment, and any particular downloads I’m getting around the time of the full moon.

I have never studied astrology (though I’d like to), but I am fascinated by it, and have worked with many astrologers over the years and still do (shout out to my good friend whose Substack is beautiful, and the incredibly knowledgable Michelle Van Straaten with whom I’ve worked this past year). Anything I write here is not from something studied. It’s guidance from teachers, alongside what comes through to me in meditations and the shamanic dreamtime work I do with my Toltec shaman, Don Xavier, with whom I’ve been in training for 5 and a half years.

Ever since last August’s Lion’s Gate Portal, I’ve found myself a completely open vessel for receiving this knowledge, so I do hope you enjoy receiving it as much as I enjoy sharing it.

The rituals I offer a bit further down are for my paid subscribers. If you enjoy this sort of guidance, please consider upgrading to paid (it’s only £6 a month) to continue receiving posts to guide and support you on your spirituality and holistic health journey!

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Current frequency shift

The past few weeks have had a particular quality to them, haven’t they? Like something is gathering beneath the surface, building pressure, ready to be born, or perhaps to die (I also wrote about that here). Solar flares have played a huge part, but a Blue Moon does that too, it’s the energetic wildcard of the lunar calendar.

For me personally, I had to take an entire week out while my energy aligned itself with the latest shift. It felt as if something had pulled my life force out of me and put it elsewhere. I rested as much as I could, had lots of Epsom salt baths, time in nature and silence, then, after a week, came back to myself, and when I put a message out to all my RISE members, it wasn’t surprising how many were experiencing very similar symptoms … ascension symptoms.

But aside from being thrusted into ascension whether we’re asking for it or not (again, read about that here if you want more info on ascension generally), the Blue Moon is also VERY energetically significant it its own right.

A Blue Moon is all amplification energy. The Blue Moon turns up the volume on everything: things that need to fall away, things that want to come through, intentions, emotions that aren’t yet processed, desire, things you want for yourself that you haven’t had the courage to say or even truly allow yourself to think…

And if there’s anything in your life that is off or misaligned? Sorry to tell you that you won’t get much of a chance to make a conscious choice on that. Expect it to become very clear, very fast. Blue Moon energy doesn’t do subtle. It does slap-you-in-the-face levels of clarity. It does course correction - whether you think you want it or not (whatever your Higher Self doesn’t like, it’s pushing you in the opposite direction. We’re in THOSE times now; comfort and stagnation have no place in this timeline).

Basically, the Blue Moon does the kind of realisation that hits you at 3am and won’t let you go back to sleep; it does undeniable signs and synchronicities (I’d love for you to leave me the kind that have been coming to you in the comments…)

This is your once-in-a-blue-moon moment, and I mean that literally - that’s where the term comes from! This is the time to take the leap you’ve been circling because this moon’s energy is a portal to harnessing co-creation / materialisation opportunities and will support those intentions.

The actual astrology

This Blue Moon falls in Sagittarius, with the sun in Gemini, and this axis is a pretty fascinating one, because it’s the axis of truth and meaning. Gemini gathers information, options, perspectives. Sagittarius asks: but what do you actually believe? What are you willing to stand behind no matter what?

Sagittarius is the cosmic seeker: expansive, freedom-loving, fiercely honest. It rules our belief systems, our bigger picture, our hunger for meaning and adventure. Under this moon, if you’re in any way connected (which if you’re choosing to read this I’ll bet you are), you’ll probably find yourself just done with anything that feels small, uninspired, limiting, or no longer true to who you’re becoming. Sagittarius doesn’t do comfortable mediocrity, it doesn’t do FINE. It aims higher. It aims for EXTRAORDINARY. Yay. Extraordinary is my jam, that’s why I’m writing a book called I’M FINE!

Basically, we’re in a rare, interesting threshold moment of equal OPTIMISM and REALISM, TRUTH and the COURAGE to follow the Path with Heart. Profound, because there’s rarely that level of balance.

Expect emotional clarity; heightened intuition; a pull toward expansion over contraction, and truth over comfort.

Shamanic & witchy rituals to harness the frequency of this full moon

These rituals, rather than being rooted in astrology, are rooted more in sorcery and shamanism (things I learn or download through my shamanic work) and I’d love to invite you to take part in them, with intention:

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I haven’t worn conventional sunscreen for over a decade (maybe more, I forget when exactly complete crunchiness took over!). The reason for that is because of the toxic chemicals found in them, and what they do to us as a result (spoiler: they’re certainly not protecting us).

Not to mention how they’re destroying our oceans.

I’ve since found much safer ways to be in the sun, as well as building on my understanding about the sun, safe sun exposure, what we need to know about being in the sun, how lifestyle affects sun exposure, and which sunscreens to use, so I thought I’d share that with you as we’re about to head into the summer months (and because we’re currently in the middle of a heatwave here in the UK so everyone is panicking and my DMs are filled with people asking for suncream recommendations!).

Please read this whole article to understand how to do sun the healthy, holistic way, and at the end I’ve linked my favourite non-toxic sunscreens for your ease!

Does Conventional Sunscreen Prevent Cancer?

Let’s start by ruling out the myth that conventional sunscreen (and our chronic overuse of it) prevents cancer.

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), skin cancer rates have more than doubled in the last 30 years, and this at a time when humans have never used more sunscreen, and never had less time in the sun. In fact, we’ve never spent as much time away from the sun as we do now.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) also states: “Rates of melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer – have tripled over the past 35 years. Most scientists and public health agencies – including the FDA itself – have found little evidence that the use of sunscreens in isolation from other sun protective measures prevent most types of skin cancer.”

In fact, a study in the Lancet in 2004 showed that indoor workers are twice as likely to get skin cancer than those who spent more time in the sun. It turns out that sun exposure (when done properly, which we’ll get onto soon), can actually offer protective measures against cancer.

Understanding Sunscreens

Not all sunscreen is created equal. There are chemical sunscreens (conventional, standard store-bought ones with nice tropical smells that remind you of your childhood holidays), and mineral sunscreens (natural options that can often smell and feel like chalk but whose ingredients don’t increase your risk of cancer – like I always say, we choose our hard!)

Chemical sunscreen uses chemicals to block UVA and UVB rays, while mineral sunscreen uses ingredients like zinc oxide or titanium dioxide – which are naturally broad-spectrum) to act as physical barriers.

Some of the toxic ingredients used in conventional sunscreens include:

• Oxybenzone

• Avobenzone

• Octisalate

• Octocrylene

• Homosalate

• Octinoxate

• Ethylhexyl salicylate

Many of these ingredients are known carcinogens (IE cause cancer) and endocrine disruptors (IE disrupt hormones).

In fact, the EWG have said in this article that oxybenzone is known to easily pass through the skin into the body and, on top of other issues, can block hormones and lead to birth defects. They recommend pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, and children, stay away from sunscreens containing oxybenzone.

NB: Some sunscreens claiming to be “natural” or “mineral” sunscreens contain some of these ingredients, so it’s really up to us to check the ingredients before buying.

Who Else is This Harming?

Hawaii was the first country to ban ozybenzone from sunscreens because of its effects on the coral reefs and sea creatures.

According to Marinesafe.com, oxybenzone can have the following effects:

• Inhibits embryonic development in sea urchins

• Causes gender shifts in fish (male fish take on female characteristics and female fish have reduced ability to produce offspring – could this be affecting humans too?! Food for thought, I have my own views…)

• Carcinogenic activity in mammals

If this is how it affects fish and coral, why on earth would we want it on our children’s bodies?

What’s Happening When We Use Chemical Sunscreens?

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In the past year I have experienced more flow and ease than ever before.

I’m not going to lie to you - it did NOT come easily to me. Letting go is not something that comes naturally to me. It has been a learnt behaviour, adopted and cultivated over time.

As a recovering control freak, it took me a long time to really get the concept of surrender. I understood it cognitively, and even energetically - having been on a spiritual path for a long time, I GOT it - but it was so hard to really, genuinely root into it and let go into everything my intuition was guiding me to.

And I’m pretty sure anyone reading this understands what I mean; you feel something intuitively, something keeps pushing you to do it, but you don’t because it’s “illogical” or won’t make sense on paper, or to other people (which is usually what we battle with most).

Having spent much time thinking about this topic, I’d say that surrender IS perhaps spirituality; that if we arrive at a place of genuine surrender and trust in WHAT IS, that’s when we’ve arrived.

At what?

When we give into surrender, we arrive at the place of flow and ease that sparks the sort of magnetism in us that makes us resonant with all the wonderful things life has to offer; when life just happens FOR you and things flow in and out effortlessly.

The past few years, as my spiritual journey has accelerated and I’ve experienced noticeable upgrades and quantum leaps, I’ve found it easier to let go into this, and then it’s been a domino effect: the more I let go, the more things come with ease, or the more I see WHY I was meant to let something go even if it didn’t make sense at the time, and because it ended up being the right choice that time, I then trust my intuition the next time when it tells me something that seems illogical, and so forth.

The past year especially, I’ve put this into practice more than ever, even with things that felt big and scary, and the results have been:

👉🏽More flow
👉🏽More ease
👉🏽More ABUNDANCE.

So, let me tell you what things I chose to let go of this past year, despite it all seeming irrational to my 3D mind, and what happened as a result.

1. I put my successful podcast on hold … indefinitely

My podcast, Reconditioned, provided my second biggest income stream. I was fortunate enough to have secured sponsorship from day one, back in 2019, and I got to interview some of the biggest names in wellness and spirituality: Jay Shetty, Gabby Bernstein, Bruce Lipton, Dr Shefali, Gregg Braden etc.

I learnt so much, got to make friends with amazing people, deepened my own knowledge through putting out many solo episodes and really delving into the parts of my work that were truly helping others, and got a sweet little income from it - not huge, I wasn’t at the point of it paying all my bills, but it worked, and it worked well.

Not only that, but I had loyal listeners who would choose Reconditioned over every other podcast as their first resource for holistic health, self-development and spirituality, for the very reason that I wasn’t holding back on difficult subjects, and I was covering EVERYTHING that supports a human to be well: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual… it was all in one place, so it was easy for people.

My podcast was probably my biggest marketing tool, bringing listeners through to my RISE Membership when big-name guests would share it, or because they were listening to my solo episodes and wanted the kind of support only I could offer.

But for a while I was feeling pulled back by the podcast. As much as I loved recording the episodes, I’m not sure people truly understand what goes into the production of a podcast. Even when I was recording it in the studio with a professional team producing it, I was still doing a lot: scheduling guests (I run my professional life around my kids, so I like to manage my own diary, much to my PA’s dismay!), deciding which guests I wanted on (because it had to align) and listening for any errors in the edits and choosing which bits of each episode to use as clips for social media. I didn’t edit it myself, but it was a lot of work on top of running the main parts of the business and raising a family.

I was also making headway with my book and really wanted to plough through writing it, and I knew I couldn’t finish it while I was doing SO much. Something had to give, and my intuition told me that something had to be the podcast.

So I decided to pause it, saying that I’d do so until I finished writing the book.

I stopped worrying about the marketing opportunities that would be lost, or the guests I’d be missing out on, the loyal listeners I might lose, and I even let go of the income it would have brought me this past year. I knew I had to listen, really felt that I was being pushed to do this.

What was the result?

Within a few months of stopping the podcast, not only did my RISE Membership continue growing without it, but I got signed by my dream literary agent and we’re working towards a book deal.

For Reconditioned lovers, I WILL be back, I promise. But it has to happen when everything I am being guided to is in place.

2. I cut people from my life

I’ve learnt over the years that no matter how painful a friendship break-up, it is ALWAYS for the greater good. However heartbreaking, when I’ve made time to truly assess and observe it later - something I’ve been doing recently - I realised that after each friendship break-up there has been a monumental acceleration in my life, whether personally or professionally - sometimes both.

This past year I had to say goodbye to someone I thought was genuinely one of my best friends in the world, someone who would be in my life forever. This wasn’t my choice, it was hers, and it was painful. But previous experience taught me how to accept it very quickly (which is why wisdom comes with age and experience!), say thank you for all the beautiful memories and connection that elevated me at times when I needed it, and to trust that our chapter had come to an end. I trust this so deeply that when people have said “Maybe you’ll rekindle your friendship at some point”, my answer is No, that chapter is closed for me, no matter whether she changes her mind. I trust the guidance.

There were 2 other people I made a choice to step away from, and “smaller” friendships I decided to stop putting any effort into, because I give A LOT in friendship - female friendship is my sanctuary, it’s my therapy, so anyone who doesn’t operate in this way simply isn’t for me, and I didn’t want my energy being offered so freely to those who couldn’t keep the loop of reciprocity going.

What was the result?

As a result of being genuinely ok with shedding any relationship that didn’t serve my true authenticity, the ones that do have flourished in ways I couldn’t have imagined. I’m fortunate enough to have some very, very powerful female friendships and those have had space to grow now, and it’s truly enhanced and enriched my life more than any of the others could have done, but it’s only now that I can see that.

Even though I couldn’t see it earlier, I trusted it, and as a result it came right far quicker than previous times where I resisted the lesson.

I wrote this post about friendship breakups on my Instagram that might help you if you’re going through one now.

3. I stopped socialising so much

I have always loved socialising, but I’ve only recently realised that it’s not socialising I enjoy, it’s connection.

I do not in any way enjoy small talk. Not only do I not enjoy it, I find it actually challenging. My life force gets drained and I walk away feeling as though I’ve given away my personal power.

As someone who sees energy and takes on energy very easily, I have many practices to protect myself from this before I go out in public (something I do every day), but even this now feels draining if the social situation isn’t serving me.

This year I’ve cut many social arrangements that I just wouldn’t have cut before. I have cancelled or literally just said no to arrangements this year in a way I just wouldn’t have done in the past. No reason, no fake excuses. Just … No thank you.

I’m an introverted extrovert, I’ve realised, and a Human Design Manifestor, which means that I can be in social situations and manage it really well, but then I need time to decompress. So the social situations I now want are ones where I am forging actual connections, speaking about things that light me up, being around people who truly want to know me, people who get me, who I don’t have to censor myself for.

What was the result?

A bit like I said above in point 2, it’s meant that the connections that really do mean something to me have expanded. Energetically I’ve noticed what’s opened up too…

I get invited to lots of “wellness industry” events, and I realised that the ones I really don’t enjoy are the biohacking kind; people with lots of money and lots of ego talking about expensive products that “make them well”, usually inside some big convention centre or something equally uninspiring (occasionally they are in very nice, more natural venues, but the energy remains the same). Despite how the networking opportunities are often lucrative and worthwhile, I started saying no to a lot of these because I realised the people drain me. This isn’t authentic wellness to me and I don’t want to be around that.

Surprise! - energetically speaking, my choices initiated a ripple effect into the ether whereby I started being invited to more events that are in alignment with the genuine connection and grounding I enjoy, and through these events, I’ve connected with the people I really do want to socialise with or do business with.

After saying no to events I may have been asked to speak at, I got signed by a huge speaking agency. Wild.

4. I stopped doing things in my business that dysregulated me

I started doing what I do for work because I had an extreme and ultimately successful healing journey and I wanted to put everything I learnt that enabled me to heal, in one place, so others could experience the same level of transformation without having to spend huge amounts of money or seek out loads of different resources. A one-stop-shop for healing and self-development. That was my WHY.

I learnt early on that if you’re in online business, you are no longer a coach or an artist or whatever it is you’re offering: you’re a marketer.

I’m pretty good at managing my business: I’m fortunate that, though I’m Pisces sun AND Pisces moon, I am Libra rising, which gives me both the intuitive elements of Pisces (feminine) and also the practical elements of Libra’s balance (masculine). I would say I am naturally entrepreneurial and do enjoy that side of things.

But what I don’t enjoy is the noise around marketing; things like funnels. Kim who has worked with me on the growth side of my business since 2020 LOVES this side of things and that’s why she’s great for my business, but I was having to do too much of it.

Every time we moved towards a launch campaign to promote RISE, I would tense up and feel myself dysregulated and procrastinating at the many, many tasks Kim would highlight for me in her launch spreadsheets. The ones highlighted in purple were my tasks, and I was getting anxious at how much purple I was seeing.

After our last launch, I just said … NO.

I want to do things differently. I want to do things in a way that feels aligned with me.

What’s aligned with me? Well, anything that doesn’t make my nervous system feel unsafe.

So, as we’ve done many times in this business as a result of challenges that arise, we pivoted, found other solutions. Kim was sure we couldn’t run the business without live launches, but I said we would find a way, that it would flow when I felt aligned and peaceful.

What was the result?

As I’m sure you’ve gathered, the result is always going to be positive when you align yourself with your Truth. Since making a choice to stop live launches and funnels and all that noise, more people have found their way to RISE (because when something WORKS people talk about it and it grows), our retention rate is second to none - because why would anyone want to leave something that accelerates their growth and healing and offers them the community they’ve been seeking? - my Instagram has grown rapidly, I was signed by my dream literary agent, and a huge speaking agency, and I’ve even started getting paid Substack subscribers, adding yet another revenue stream.

I want you all to know I say all of this not to gloat - I hate that. I say it to serve as EXPANSION for YOU. If we see something is possible for someone, it fires off neurons in our brains that tell us it’s possible for us too. I have used the concept of expanders in my self-development work for many years and believe it to be hugely powerful.

So, all this from choosing to walk away from things I was told would bring the money.

As I said to Kim (who not only works with me but is now one of my closest friends) #fuckfunnels!

I hope this has inspired you to follow your intuition, even when it seems irrational or illogical, because, as my shaman Don Xavier says, when you follow the Path with Heart, it will always come right.

When you follow where your Higher Self is leading you, you become energetically resonant with the people and things that are trying to make their way to you, and everything shifts from that place…\

In love & health

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