Sophie Benge - The Art of Being SHE (2026)

20/05/2025

Always happy with a hug - especially from a soul 200 years my senior!

Then there’s the science: all those ‘phytoncides’ - naturally oily compounds that trees give off and we breathe in to make us healthy and relaxed!

Happy days with Mama Cedar 🌲 !

10/03/2025

Celebrating 26 years of this ray of sunshine ☀️ on a special mums and daughters birthday weekend for DAISY 🌼 in Copenhagen. Wishing you a wonderful year, my Bunny 🌟🌟.daise

10/01/2025

💕January Workshop Alert 💕

If you’d like to embrace what it actually feels like to reconnect with your true feminine self, join me for this evening, in-person salon. I like this word: it conjures up creative connection in a special, private gathering … which is what this will be.

In a cosy, elegant ‘salon’ in South Kensington, we’ll talk about tapping into our sensual energy for making us feel more grounded and less scattered.

I’ll guide you through some simple practices so that you can experience this in your body.

Then we’ll talk about sexual energy. I find so many of us are disconnected from this vital energy source. We’ll meditate, visualise, gently move and learn about the beautiful potential of our ge***al anatomy.

Cultivating a deeper relationship with our bodies reminds us that she is our go-to source of trust and pleasure. It helps with our intimate relationships too.

We women learn so much from each other’s sharing. We’ll enjoy snacks and drinks and I’ll give you a gift, for your own self care.

We’ll be joined by renowned psychotherapist, Victoria Beecher, who has kindly lent us her elegant space.

I hope to see you for a Feminine Night Out to bring a glow to the dark heart of January 💕

Click the link in my bio or DM for more details.

31/10/2024

I start most days lying naked on the floor in a red glow, in front of my red light panel … in the belief that the red and near-infrared light waves are zooming deep into my breast and boosting the energy production of the mitochondria in my cells….

… Because I believe in the 100-year-old theory from Nobel Prize winning scientist, Dr Otto Warburg that a cancer cell is a cell with damaged mitochondria, or a cell that is metabolically defective, or injured and in need of repair.

Though my tumour was, blessedly, ‘completely excised’ by surgery I continue to boost my cellular metabolism, with a 15-minute daily date with my panel. A morning ritual along with meditation and Wim Hof Breathing.

We can all benefit from red light to detox our cells, boost our energy levels and decrease pain and inflammation. And apparently, help our eyesight.

The LED panels and the fluorescent tubes in the big beds (2nd pic) both emit a little radiation but I’ve concluded the benefits far outweigh the risks. And many people everywhere are now investing in an at-home ‘best red friend’ !

Officially termed :

28/10/2024

This is the residue in London tap water, in my distiller. Shocking!

Detoxing and hydration is key to all healing. But not all water is created equal. Some public drinking water contains ‘forever’ chemicals, purportedly prone even to cause cancer. Googling puts London tap water in this bracket.

Plus all the other pollutants such as anti depressants, hormones, chemo agents, heavy metals ….

Plastic bottled water tends to be acidic and contains phthalates and inflammatory xenoestrogens …

All to say it was an easy decision to buy a distiller. It would be better to buy a hydrogen water or reverse osmosis machine but they’re expensive.

My distilled water is so sweet. Tap water now tastes foul. But I take electrolytes to replace minerals.

Water seems a simple thing but really it is not.

26/10/2024

Plugged in, hermetically sealed, ears popped … and gassed under pressure for more than hour, two or three times per week.

Yet I find this the most serene way to spend time. And heal.

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - HBOT - is one of the most lauded integrative cancer therapies because, simply, unlike healthy cells, cancerous cells dislike oxygen. Indeed they grow where O2 supply is low.

Conversely HBOT delivers O2 to the body at high pressure to oxygenate red blood cells and turn them into plasma that is thinner than blood and therefore able to travel deeper into cells, organs and tissues where regular circulation cannot reach, encouraging ‘apoptosis’ (cancer cell death).

My books tell me HBOT has more physiological benefits:

: reduces blood sugar levels
: decreases inflammation
: releases stem cells
: regulates our immune system
: boosts ATP - the energy currency in the mitochondria of our cells … crucial for good health.

Unzipped, unplugged, I float out of the ‘tent’ feeling light, calm and smiley.

This treatment is the most expensive of all that I do.

I’m sharing aspects of my personal cancer journey this month, as inspiration for others. I’ll share full details, resources, practitioners etc. shortly. If anyone would like to read it, sign up to my newsletter on my website via the bio link.

20/10/2024

Diet is the oldest form of medicine, and while there are many anti-cancer diets, I choose KETO.

It’s a huge science, understood by many, far better qualified than me. In a nutshell:

High-fat, medium-protein, low-carb and no-added-sugar eating helps the body to wean itself off glucose as its primary fuel source so that our liver can burn ketones for energy.

Simply, ketones come from fatty acid breakdown and from our body fat. When we reach ketosis, cancer’s favourite food supply: glucose/sugar is cut off. And we have more energy for longer.

Organs, specially beef organs, are complete proteins and contain a rainbow of B vitamins, many more than in muscle meat cuts. Bs are vital for converting our food into energy as well as the process that directs our helpful gene expression.

So… I took a deep breath, and followed my top organ chef and farm(his)-to-fork friend, David, for sheep, heart, kidney and liver suppers - in this case flambéed with cream and Cointreau! Remarkably, more-than-ok; delicious, even.

I now add chicken, calf and lamb liver and kidney (I still can’t face the heart at Saturday’s farmers’ market!) to my diet in my bid to support my body’s own healing mechanisms. Cost-effective and cancer-hating, as long as the meat comes from grass-fed animals.

I also take beef liver and beef organ supplements from

This is just a snippet of sharing when it comes to diet that helps my body-garden grow. High-fat and certain vegetables are key too. As is fasting, which is not so easy, I find.

- thank you for our organ evenings 😋

12/10/2024

Soft somatic class with heart 🩷

I still surprise even myself how rapidly we shift from feeling scattered to feeling serene and full of love when we drop into our bodies, slowly, sensually and somatically.

Final class for Awakening our Feminine Energy at on October 14th
8 am, Yoga Studio 🩷

10/10/2024

The magic of an infrared sauna comes from the combination of heat and the infrared wavelengths in the red light spectrum - the ones that we cannot see, that are longer and pe*****te deeper below the skin to do good things in our body! Which is why I added to my healing arsenal. On top, is the afterglow: the transformation from hot sweat to calm serenity and sound sleep.

There’s much science behind the physiological activity of this type of hyperthermia for it to be recommended by certain doctors as part of a healing cancer journey.

From my layman’s understanding of the reading I did the heat plus deeply penetrating light waves can:

🩸 cause damage to cancer cells who are more vulnerable to excessive heat than normal cells.

🩸increase the blood flow to deliver more oxygen and nutrients, which cancer cells don’t like.

🩸boost our immune response, to attack cancer cells.

🩸detox our internal organs, even kidney and liver, from heavy metals, pesticides and other chemicals.

🩸slow cancer cell growth.

🩸increase energy flow in our mitochondria (the energy engines for cellular respiration).

The lower humidity of these compared to normal saunas, makes them a bit more bearable. I manage 30 mins rising up to 60 degrees C. But people say a lower heat works too.

Result: feeling blissful, if looking beat! And glad that the lovely where I do mine, is in my neighbourhood.

As mentioned in previous posts, what I am sharing this month is simply my own personal experience as a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. I’ll share further resources, links and practitioners who helped me at the end of the month to any of my newsletter subscribers who would like them.

08/10/2024

I don’t believe that cancer is just bad luck or simply genetic. But that we are, largely, responsible for our health - both consciously and subconsciously. We may not be aware of possible detrimental effects as we go through our day-to-day.

I’m no expert but research led me to believe that cancer is a metabolic disorder coming from damage to our mitochondria, the energy engines in our cells. This damage occurs in response to how we feed and treat our bodies (and so our genetic expression as well) - physiologically and psychologically.

Over-simplistic science done … this image from Dr Nasha Winters, one of my heros on my journey, highlights some day-to-day carcinogens. Here are some more potential ones that I removed (and some I didn’t!) in my bid to support the tiny engines in my cells.

🧬 All nail varnish
🧬 OTC cleaning products (malt vinegar and bicarbonate of soda work fine)
🧬 Underwire bras - the metal can impede lymph flow. Someone told me too, that the metal can act as a conductor for damaging EMFs (?)
🧬 I never switched my phone to 5G. I switch off my home WiFi at night.
🧬 Exchanged all skincare for castor oil - everywhere.
🧬 Introduced organic makeup
🧬 Stopped deodorant and perfume (until I was recently gifted my favourite Chanel No 19!)
🧬 Plastic food and drink containers - for glass, as dark as possible
🧬 HRT - for another post

I still burn candles and palo santo (in my massages) but most are not pure. I still dye me hair but I’m going to go gracefully grey, soon!

Diet and lifestyle change and intervention are vital in this metabolic approach. For another day ….

05/10/2024

I credit homeopathy for leading me to find my breast cancer … early. It’s a huge healing modality - or disputed alternative medicine … depending on your point of view.

My fabulous homeopath gave me the multi-faceted, carcinosin remedy after quizzing me so deftly that my guilt, past emotional pain and long held fear of cancer- came out of my mouth.

I don’t fully understand the depth of … Very simply it works on a deep energetic level to shift the body’s chemistry. It proposes that disease starts in the emotional realms, that ‘inheritances’ or ‘miasms’ (the energy passed down from our ancestors) determines our gene expression and propensity for disease … and that the body has a hierarchy, cleverly pushing toxic parcels away from our vital organs to areas less vital - showing up as skin conditions, joint conditions and, maybe breast or prostate cancer. We can live without these.

It’s premise is also that ‘like cures like’ - that we can treat an illness with a similar symptom. And … that our bodies have innate healing capacity.

Homeopathic remedies are tiny pills of diluted substance in sugar water. After taking just 4 carcinosin pills, two weeks apart, I felt pain in my left breast. It led me to the doctors even tho no check was due. The tumour, though, was found in my right breast.

I believe the remedy triggered my intuition, my self care. And I am forever grateful for it and my homeopath. I continue to take different prescribed remedies from her, out of my sincere belief in this form of healthcare.

At the end of this month I will send a newsletter with more details, links, resources and practitioners who supported me in my cancer journey to anyone who would like it. See my first Breast Cancer Awareness Month post for more details about this.

01/10/2024

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and immersed in my healing journey, some women expressed interest in what I was doing to support myself. So I’ve decided to honour this Breast Cancer Awareness Month by sharing here, from time to time, some of the approaches I took.

A diagnosis is different for every woman and each of our reactions to it, vary too. I was lucky to have the best of a bad diagnosis and I received it as a lesson to embrace.

Those of us among the 1 in 7 women in the UK to develop naturally form a sisterhood. I hope my posts - a brief look at my personal efforts to bid farewell to my unwelcome visitor - may simply serve as information or inspiration for others on the path.

At the end of October I’ll send a more detailed memoir with links, resources, practitioners and preventative approaches to any of my newsletter subscribers who would like it. It is my “thank you” for this chapter.

Please subscribe on my website through the bio link if you’d like to receive it in due course.

Sophie Benge - The Art of Being SHE