Metamourphosis

It's 30c in London today. Don't avoid the sun though. Get out early and late avoiding the midday. No sunglasses or suncream! Just cover up 11am-3pm. Full spectrum sunlight is essential to our circadian rhythms, eye health, vitamin D levels and more. It's actually too much indoor light and blue light from screens that is harmful to our health.

The best way to get your Vitamin D levels up is skin exposure to the sun, but not so you burn. A hat is better than sunglasses as these actually block the messages your eyes and skin need to tell you how hot it is outside. Sunglasses and suncream will make you more likely to burn and this is what can lead to damaged skin cells.

Early morning light sets up you whole system for the day, it will ensure your metabolism is efficient, that's why weight management works best if you eat during daylight hours and not after dark!

Even if it's not sunny outside it is better than staying inside all day. Late sun is actually very healing for the skin too. The sun is your friend, sunburn is not!

Get outside and enjoy the sun. Vitamin D is essential for the immune system and helps create healthy bones.

Just had a client say our session was life changing! So happy for her

Although this is a worrying trend for parents, it is not a fait accompli, so lets look at ways forward. I used to sell mobile phones in the 90s and nobody wanted them! We can't go back to those times, and let's acknowledge that smartphones can be of benefit. In this article they highlight 4 areas that are impacting children and young people the most:

1.social deprivation,
2.sleep deprivation
3.attention fragmentation
4.addiction

Generally we as parents can put off buying a smartphone for our children. Once they are about 14 though, I'd say they are becoming autonomous, so hard rules don't necessarily apply, or work. However, it does make sense to have boundaries, limits and schools do need to step up.

We are, of course, the role models and therefore it is imperative to show, not tell, children how to behave.

Are you able to leave your phone unattended? We don't have phones at the dinner table or look at them when talking to each other (or guests).

When you're out of the home, or engaging in any other activity, are you spending the time on that one pusuit, mindfully. Or are you multi tasking?

When your child is engaged in a task are you interacting with them or distracted by social media or other phone tasks like emails?

We teach our children how to enage with others by how we engage with them. It is very easy to let a teen withdraw and rather than deal with our feelings of rejection, to slip into teen behaviour too.

Do you have a bedtime? Do you turn the WIFI off and wear blue light blocking glassess? Maybe now is the time to draw some boundaries for yourself so your children see how it works.

It is so easy to get distracted. My daughter and I both have all our notifications diabled. We realised how stressful it was getting pings constantly. Chose when to check your phone rather than letting it rule you.

I choose to meditate, drink tea, write and exercise in the morning before going on my phone. I also get morning daylight before the blue light kicks in and have found my sleep much improved.

Where else can you and your child get their dopamine and serotonin fix? Exercise, nature, Omega 3 from fish oils, meditation, sunlight, essential oils, goal setting and achievement, trying something new, a hug and certainly a face to face chat will all give you a boost. Encourage these for your children and add them in for yourself.

We can create something different than an internet obsessed, mentally unwell society. It will take focus, willpower, discipline and modelling. No generation is a right off so let's put more effort in to other activities and rely less on our phones. We've done it before and we can do it again. Remember what pursuits you enjoyed before you had a smartphone. Rather than focus on taking the phone away from your child add in other activities so they have to take a break from it. And if it really is ruining their health it's ok to take it away for a time out. It's a tool. Use it. don't let it use you.

Therapy is helpful in healing addictions and it works face to face or remotely. If you are concerned about your child and would like to talk please message me or another professional.

Screens and teens: How phones broke children’s brains A mental health emergency is hitting young people around the world, according to a new book. Helen Coffey asks whether smartphones, social media and tech are really responsible – and how the damage can be undone

How we start and finish the day are an important factor in controlling our life. Often we try and control externals but we really have control of our internals.

What are you doing for your internals (those will be mind, body, soul btw)?

I make sure to not look at my phone first thing on waking. Not only does it drag you into an external world before you’ve set your internal space but the blue light disrupts your circadian rhythms too.

I like to get daylight first thing (and if like me you don’t have a garden and work from home stick your head out of the window for a few minutes)!

Next it’s tea and morning pages, followed by some Block Therapy, stretches and meditation.

I’m still working on my nighttime routine and getting some severe insomnia under control. I’ve got the blue light blocking glasses and all the other paraphernalia but really this is about winding down from the day.

Netflix isn’t going to cut it if you’re watching an action movie and your nervous system has gone into overdrive.

I was prescribed comedy by the TCM doctor. Plus stop eating a good few hours before bed, drink less and consider some supplements like magnesium, tryptophan and GABA. Trudy Scott Antianxiety Food Solution is a fab place to go for more on these.

The more out of control you’re feeling right now the more important it is to go within.

Turn the news off
Up your self care
Take charge of your internal state
Create the life you choose

Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness morning writing.
https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages

Could totally tell the new Google building had been feng shui’d when I saw it was a dragon. Just realised it’s also obviously been timed to complete in the year of the dragon too 🐉

Big businesses usually make use of feng shui, whether Eastern or Western.

As a feng shui consultant walking around Central London I enjoy noticing the various designs and how they are tapping in to the ancient metaphysical techniques of feng shui.

Clear the clutter and allow new energy to come in!

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone welcoming in the Year of the Dragon. 🐉 🎊

祝大家龙年新春快乐!

If you’d like to capture the energy of todays monumental 20 year Feng Shui shift get your compass out and find North East.

Between 4.29pm and 11.59pm sit with your back to the NE.

Imagine your dream life, what it feels like, walk through each area of your life like you are in it now. Money, career, relationships, health, home etc.

Where are you?
What activities are you doing?
Who are you with?
How much money?
What kind of house/car?
What does your body look and feel like?

Once you come out of the visualisation take one small action.

It could be signing up for a course. Booking a holiday. Calling a friend to make a plan to go and have some fun. Posting on your business socials. Reading a personal development book or listening to a motivational podcast. Drawing, writing, dancing.

What energy would you like to create, generate and actualise for the coming years ahead?!

Go for it!

Today is a once in 20 year feng shui shift of energy from earth 🏔️ to fire 🔥

It’s been awhile! I’ve been deep in some major processing but today I’m guided to share a little process. I learnt this during the 10 years I studied and facilitated with Energetic NLP training sessions.

It’s a soul spa treatment. The premise is that the soul is quite impacted by the 3d earth based energies (as opposed to the higher realms of the spirit). So give it a go.

Get into a relaxed space, close your eyes, take some deep breaths and ask your soul to show up (mine shows up as a turtle). It may be a ball of light, an image, even a whisper and not a visual. Just trust it’s there whether you can see, hear, feel it or not.

Then put a bowl of water like energy out for it to bathe in. Again you don’t have to see anything, just pretend. Once it’s done pour that energy away and allow it to be transmuted back to pure energy. Just set the intention for this to happen as your soul and spirit know what to do.

Then put out another bowl with thicker energies like jelly and let your soul bathe again. Repeat the process whereby you release the energy back to the light when done. Ask and it will happen.

Repeat the process with a ground up crystal-like substance. Then lastly with a healing light-white, purple, green, gold. Whatever wants to show up to support your souls highest and best.

Integrate your soul back into your body and energy field when done and let it expand out. Spend a few moments breathing and relaxing and enjoying the sensations. Notice how you feel. Let me know in the comments how this was for you.

If you’d like to go deeper with this work get in touch for a healing meditation session. There is a lot that can be cleared to lighten up your load.

Is anyone else aware of the shadow side of spirituality being revealed in an intense way right now? Who can you trust? Yourself!

Happy Equinox!
Ready to start something new?
Come join the Artists Way bookclub (link in the comments)

I will begin a 12 week bookclub on The Artists Way at Equinox. If you'd like to join drop a comment below

As a therapist I have many tools at my disposal to retain healthy boundaries, heal my triggers and clear other peoples energy. That wasn’t always the case!

I used to work as a Special Needs teacher and thankfully I had supervision, BUT once I became a manager, and had to deal with safeguarding cases of abuse, I found myself taking the trauma home with me.

That’s where my hobbies and side hustles came into play as I was also teaching yoga and meditation plus studying healing modalities, like Reiki.

I know of organisations that don’t even give supervision to those dealing with safeguarding cases. I’ve also seen the damaging effect world news has on journalists. One I know dreamed of having children and now no longer wants to bring a child into such a damaged world.

Organisations like Facebook need to be implementing regular strategies for their employees to relax and release stress. That way they wouldn’t get sued!

Whether it’s meditation, NLP, EFT, Access bars, Reiki or any other options, mitigating the effects of trauma creates a healthier world. That way we don’t need to escape it or limit ourselves and our choices. Instead we can created something greater!

Witnessing others pain and trauma can make us feel helpless. Not only can we take action to help others, we can take action to help ourselves too.

If you’re ready to take the next steps using any of the tools I’ve mentioned, please message me for a chat.

Or consider letting your doctor know and finding a more conventional therapy, such as counselling.

In my work I combine life coaching with healing meditations to clear limiting beliefs, blocks and barriers to your authentic self. This strengthens your inner sense of self and allows you to be more of who you truly are in the world.

Shine brightly on any darkness and watch it change!

What’s it like when your job involves wading through others’ suffering? I was left weeping and hopeless Psychologists call it ‘vicarious trauma’ – the result of witnessing too much misery, even if you’re not experiencing it first hand. And it can affect anyone, from war correspondents to legal professionals and interpreters

Two more chances to activate the new feng shui energy of the Water Rabbit year using Qi Men techniques.

1. If you’d like to activate your intuition on 6/2/23 between 7-9pm have your back to NE and face SW. Count backwards from 64-1 and as you do go inwards and ask your 3rd eye to open and to recognise the signs from the universe.

2. If you’d like more impact in 2023 on 7/2/23 between 3-5pm have your back to the west and face east. Count backwards from 64-1 and think about the top 3 things you want to manifest as your ideal outcome for the year.

Good luck!

Feng Shui enegy shifts tomorrow (sat 4th feb) and if you'd like to manifest a great year ahead then find a place to sit between 1pm to 3pm today (your time zone friday 3rd feb).

Look up East on your phone compass and sit with your back to that direction. So face West (if you're not sure, that's back to the rising sun and facing where the sun will set).

Write down your intentions/maifestations/plan for 2023 (up until Jan 2024).

-Visulaise how you will feel
-what your life will look like
-what you will do
-what you aspire to be, do, have
-picture your successes

After you have written this, close your eyes and breathing slowly count backwards from 64-1.

Then command the Chief (Qi Men deity) 'I command you to....' (read off your list)

Over the next couple of weeks observe ways in which the Universe is responding to your commands and write them down.

Express gratitude when the shifts come

Happy New Year!

I was just talking to a client about how her autistic son prefers a lot less cluttered home than she has currently.

Sensory processing is different for everyone and too much clutter can feel overwhelming.

This mum was asking for my help as she doesn’t know where to start. New year can be a great time to begin decluttering.

I usually spend January cleaning and sorting and fixing in time for the Chinese New Year and the feng shui energy shift in February.

Getting rid of clutter and enhancing beneficial energy (chi) and allowing it to flow through the home creates more harmony, peace, increases wealth and health.

Get in touch if you’d like a feng shui consultation for your home in 2023.

Hi folks,

I’ve been considering running a bookclub for ‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’ by Susan Jeffers. Then today someone mentioned it, so I’ve taken it as a sign!

This book was so helpful for me in the 90s when I was depressed, anxious and closing down to life.

I am considering running it from November to January. This would be a great time if you like making goals and have limiting beliefs stopping you from realising them.

If it feels like too much over the holiday season remember you can participate as little or as much as you like.

Let me know if you’re interested.

A timely reminder from a great man. He died in January 2022 and I was fortunate enough to meet him in 2012.

I have been looking after myself after finding out I’m severely anemic. I had been pushing myself to keep going to take care of my mum and keep working.

Thankfully I give myself permission to take my foot off the pedal. Years ago I created chronic fatigue by pushing myself as a single, working parent.

Where can you stop pushing past your limits? Are health problems cropping up to remind you to slow down and prioritise yourself?

I wasn’t sleeping for a whole month and couldn’t relax. I kept dreaming of a holiday to sort all my problems out. In fact I needed to take time for me in each day. Whatever it takes I’m choosing me in the present to be able to create the future I desire.

Travelling the world is going to mean a healthy mind and body!

What dreams are in your future and are you commiting to them with todays choices?

If you are feeling like there’s nowhere to turn know that reaching out will change everything. Energy healing work is one way to clear and heal deep, core wounds that seem like there’s no way up and out. There is.

Message me for a free coaching session

If you’d like more visibility in your life try this feng shui tip today. Add moving water and wood into the southeast sector of your home or business