Hummingbird Holistic Therapies

Sorry - long post incoming!

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/FABCamp2024

This year will be my 3rd year volunteering with FAB Camp - Families' Activity Breaks for bereaved military families.

As a volunteer therapist, my place is funded by the charity, which includes food, accommodation, transport while onsite, and access to all the activities.

The price per person is just over £1000.

My goal this year is to fund my place and raise the profile of this incredible charity so that more families can access this much needed service.

No family wants to be a member of this group, where a loved one has died while serving in the Armed Forces; but this charity connects those families under the love and care of currently serving or veteren service men and women, creating an invaluable and unique support network for them.

To raise this money, I am doing presentations, and providing treatments for donations towards FAB, but I still need some help if I can raise enough money to make my place cost neutral to the charity.

I'd be so grateful if you can give what you can!

Please let me know if you would like any more information, or if your company is interested in sponsoring a place for a family, activity, or mini bus hire.

Love and gratitude.
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Of course I said yes!!! 💍🤩❤️🥂🫶🥰🤩

Talking to students about health and well-being at Rossett!

New treatment room in Knaresborough! Can’t wait to see you all here sooooonnn…!

Calling all friends who are self-employed/run their own business, or want to support small businesses! It's interesting to see the variety in our extended circles. Especially with the festive season fast approaching 🎄🎅🏼🎁
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Here we go!

A rare smile while training.. skyscraper challenge commencing in T-7! This time next week I’ll be on my starting blocks 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🏙️ 🧗‍♀️

10 days to go… 2 more training sessions of running up 78 floors in the training building. So nearly there. Feeling ready for the London Landmark Skyscraper Challenge for MS Society!

Crikey - it’s all very real now! The training is going really well and am getting ready to get on and do it!

FAB week done - my favourite week of the year. 30 treatments done in 4 days. Am absolutely shattered, bruised, and emotional, but wild horses wouldn’t keep me away. Maybe that’s an idea for next year since skiing backwards downhill wasn’t daredevil enough…? 🤔

A month ago me and the team raised over £500 at the coffee morning for MS Society. The training is in full flow now for the Skyscraper Challenge! Can now complete 36 floors without falling over!

£518.69 raised for MS Society today at the fundraising coffee morning!
Blown away by everyone’s generosity and by how many people came for a cuppa!
Incredible ❤️ a huge thank you to everyone.

And of course a massive to the “service team ❤️ Jill Walters Mollie Woolliscroft Thelma, Rob, and my ”Fundraising Manager”! ❤️❤️❤️

Spot the excitable, self-appointed “Fundraising Manager” for the coffee morning this Saturday!

See you all at Christ Church between 10:30-12:30 to raise money for my charity challenge supporting MS Society.

See you on Saturday! Christ Church Parish Centre 10:30-12:30 🍰🧁🎂

**Saturday 24th June - 10:30 - 12:30**

Please join me for a fundraising coffee morning at Christ Church Parish Centre.

I am raising money for by completing the

I need to raise £950 to complete the challenge. This includes up 42 floors in the then over 200m down the outside of the skyscraper.

Come to the coffee morning to find out more and help me hit my fundraising target!

**Saturday 24th June - 10:30 - 12:30**

Please join me for a fundraising coffee morning at Christ Church Parish Centre.

I am raising money for by completing the

I need to raise £950 to complete the challenge. This includes up 42 floors in the then over 200m down the outside of the skyscraper.

Come to the coffee morning to find out more and help me hit my fundraising target!

Often clients come for a treatment as a form of protecting their own time, identity, and engaging with self-care.

Sometimes we need someone to reminder us that we need to reinvest time in ourselves.

I spend most of my working week, gently reminding clients that they deserve to feel better, cared for, and are worth prioritising.

As I say, you should always put your own oxygen mask on first before helping others.

But even I forget to care for myself.

It took a loving intervention and (and let’s be honest, Gin, lasagne, and pyjamas) from one of my closest friends to realise that I was neglecting myself. She gently reminded me to take some time for myself to relax and that I don’t have to work so hard at life all the time.

A big believer in paying things forward, here is your Saturday reminder to do something for yourself. Just you.

Reflection. This is something I definitely something I need to work on. Being a busy fool helps very few people and only serves to lead us to burnout. As some of you know x

Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side.

Because Love needs to rest, so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal itself in other forms.

Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive, no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.

Solitude is not the absence of Love, but its complement.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Therefore, blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

Open and non-judgement conversations are equally valid elements to any treatment. Creating an opportunity to process, adjust, or release a pressure valve is valuable. For some people it’s a point of illumination, for others it’s a growth point on their journey. If we are silent, how do we develop and learn?

Spring is a magical time of the year - but no one knows what to wear! Is anyone else still wearing bobble hats and thick scarves?

When you get to that stage in a practitioner-client relationship when they start to take the p**s out of you… absolute magic! The release of endorphins from physical touch paired with a proper giggle to release even more feel good hormones makes for one wonderfully uplifting treatment!

Some days we feel anchored in the past and are perhaps blinkered, ignoring what is to be grateful for right in front of us.

While unrealistic to always “be happy” and keep focussed on the now; this quote might help to reset yourself to reconnect with hope.

The world can be a beautiful place, with even more beautiful people in it.

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You’ve been warned!

The latest blog by Hummingbird explains how Reflexology can help reduce anxiety and stress. Sometimes life feels heavy and unmanageable. It’s at this point we need to take stock and step up self care.

Love this! I’m all about a small habit that over time creates big change.

My latest habit it doing one self care activity per month, just for me, to help keep my mental and physical health… in tact!

Because I’m rubbish at building in time everyday and I’m not at the point to effectively meditate or be mindful on my own, booking an activity ensures that that is a non negotiable hour for myself. Even if it is just once a month.

So far I have:
- been to the Turkish baths (first week of Jan)
- had a haircut (last week in Jan)
- spent time in a hot tub (over the weekend just gone)
- book a massage treatment (hopefully in the next couple of weeks)

Personally, this gives me something to mentally latch on to and look forward to.

If like me, you find it hard to create self care time, book something in and give yourself a lift.

Message me or book online to find a time to suit you for some self care time at Hummingbird 👇

https://hummingbird-holistics.co.uk/booking/

The gorgeous Jess also helped to keep us in the moment

Break away this weekend with my gorgeous famalam. Just about recovered after burning out at Christmas. Spending time with my family, especially my incredible big sis, makes my heart sing and raises the vibration of my soul. Feeling restored. ❤️ thanks .radar for some epic photos and I hope the first holiday with the walters clan wasn’t too intense!

Hello! Here is the latest blog all about how Reflexology can be helpful for managing anxiety and stress.

If you are are looking for a natural and non-invasive way to include self-care practise to manage stress, anxiety or improve overall mental health, please send me a message :)

https://hummingbird-holistics.co.uk/can-reflexology-help-with-anxiety/