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Three-day plan to navigate the more challenging moments of Christmas
No doubt navigating the Christmas period can have its challenges find how you can navigate the three most challenging days with more ease.
Natural Edge is five today and here’s 5 things we have learnt along the way
Celebrating our fifth birthday today and sharing five things we have learnt along the way. It’s not easy acknowledging your own achievements. I frequently speak to clients about this, knowing how hard it is in practice,…
Are you afraid of the light as we emerge from the safety of the dark?
Darkness is usually something we fear. But as the easing of lockdown beckons us into the light, I’ve been contemplating how there’s a real sense of anxiety brewing and how we might navigate it.
Is gentleness weakness?
Is being gentle weak? Sometimes it’s all a bit much right? The wider world looks like a child’s crayon mess, your own world is seemingly physically shrinking, and the everyday stuff still needs doing! Right…
Micropause: Colours, patterns, movement
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Micropause: Gentle stream flow
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Micropause: Exploring sense of touch
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Micropause: Wisdom within the Hawthorn
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Micropause: Sense of smell
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Eight easy ideas to strengthen your child’s connection with nature
A practical help during a challenging time. Eight easy ways for your child to strengthen their natural connection with nature. Download1 MB
Nature connection apps
There are a lot of really good apps that can help deepen your connection with nature. Here are a few to try for yourself: The Wildlife Trusts: Nature Finder With a map of more than…
Jack Radio: Wellness hour
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Micropause: The curiosity of play
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Go Wild – Nine nature conscious festivals
Something exciting to look forward to, plan your festival experience for the future. 1. Timber Festival Set in the spectacular National Forest in the Midlands, this festival brings together activists and makers in a joyous…
Reading List
Here are ideas for a good nature read. Some very recent publications and other classics which might lift your spirit and encourage a few moments or more outside. Happy reading
What can we hold onto in relentless change?
Change, transition it surrounds us in life constantly – we all know the one certainty in life is change. But right now during lockdown-life and beyond the amount of change is becoming a trauma all…
Micropause: Awaken the senses
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E-book: Ten ways to welcome more nature in your life
I am really excited to launch my FREE ebook during #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek [13-19th May]. This guide offers ten ways to welcome more nature into your life and is packed full of ideas, motivation and further resources. Nature is…
Podcast: Setting intentions
(30 min listen)
He chose me, a ‘tail’ of love and loss.
He chose me, a ‘tail’ of love is a short story in memory of my beloved Ben. He chose me, my Ben. He came to me at a turbulent time, I had just lost his…
Do you feel all the New Year feels?
Right now I am feeling all the new year feels. What does that mean? I guess it means today I leant into all the feelings that this new year turning is offering me. What feelings…
Completion is just the beginning
How often do you get to complete something and realise that the completion is just the beginning of the journey? This time last year I was bugging the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and…
What is Forest Therapy?
I was recently asked to comment on a few questions for an article in Sheer Luxe online magazine regarding the following; What is Forest Therapy? Who is it for? Why bother? and How to begin? You can…
Winter messages – are you listening?
Winter is not a season relished by many, with its dark, short days and chills. Winter often gets a few bad words offered towards it. We tend to forget the hidden messages winter holds for…
The journey continues to certified guide
Some of you know I am a Forest Therapy Guide in practicum with the Association of Nature and Forest Guides and Programs (ANFT). To become a fully certified guide, I will have completed a very…
How to manage living in two countries – UK & Denmark
A year ago, I ran through Stansted airport with two kids in tow, piling into a never-ending queue, squished up like sardines. Filled with a mixture of apprehension and excitement, we boarded the plane and…
Babes in the woods
Two days in to training as an Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT) Guide and it already feels like I have been here a month. The amount of new information, connection, insight and kinship…
#balanceforbetter – it starts with you
March the 8th is here again. International Women’s Day – the stake in the ground and the platform to highlight and celebrate all the incredible, empowering stories of women around the world making a difference and…
They say it’s all about the journey
Life is a journey, right? But sometimes there are specific ‘mini breaks’ that stand out – and one of those has just begun. As I type from the train, I can honestly say I have…
Off she goes to the forest…to bathe?
I am about to embark on an incredibly exciting journey to become a certified forest therapy guide. I will be bringing these techniques into my coaching approach and look forward to developing exclusive forest experiences,…
Self-Awareness and Limits Are Your Answer!
Do you get hooked in? Picture the scene, you bump into a friend and they immediately begin off-loading on you about how very busy they are, with work, kids, family and how everything sucks in…
Making some sense of a fraught transition to motherhood
It took 10 years, eight pregnancies and six miscarriages to become a mother of two. Eight years on from the birth of my first child, it’s only now that am I beginning to make sense…
Fear of failure big or small, it matters to you!
My fear and apprehension was real to me. I had disturbed sleep for a few days prior, I wasn’t being fully present with my family, they were starting to get narky. I was anxious for…
