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Wellbeing activities at High Grange Devon including yoga, reiki, breathwork, talks and retreats.

09/10/2025

Our garden is absolutely full of acorns and conkers this year and this is because it’s a ‘mast year’.

So nut and berry making trees like oaks and chestnuts produce excess quantities to overwhelm those who eat them, squirrels and such, to lay down new trees to grow. They only have energy to do this every few years and this is the year, helped by a warm and wet climate.

And do you know what is even more weird? They are doing this all over the UK right now at the same time. And why?

Because trees talk to each other. They communicate through chemicals and energetic impulses that go through the air and through fungi and their complicated root networks in the soil.

Trees are absolutely fricking amazing. And I have loads of conkers if you want any (kids just don’t play with them anymore!).

02/10/2025

I’ve enjoyed revisiting hyyge recently.

‘Light candles & wear cosy socks’ came to mind but on re-reading I discovered some lovely Scandinavian thoughts on the colder months:

🌲being outside and around nature as much as you can

🥒 nourishing meals

🧶 comforting cosy materials to wear and warm blankets

🍴small, intimate gatherings of friends to enjoy food

🕯️maintaining subtle lighting through lamps and candles, and lighting fires

⚪️ natural materials, colours and fabrics

📚 taking time for cosy rituals - reading a book, a cup of tea

🕰️ mindfulness and slowing down.

As our bodies tire and the weather turns, there is so much joy in these simple pleasures. How do you hyyge?

14/09/2025

Wow, the world is a lot right now. The fear of war, financial collapse, and the total polarity of political opinion with hatred on all sides. It’s a lot to deal with.

Here’s 5 simple things to help you from living in fear and trauma about what’s happening:

✨ Practice EMDR style eye movements to help your brain process stress and trauma - that’s up and down, left and right, or a figure of 8 up and down.

✨ Creativity helps relax your body and brain - I am loving doing pottery, you could look at local groups or start your own craft circle. I’ll post some ideas over the next few weeks.

✨People can feel really scary right now but it’s important to feel the good in humanity. Every day spend a few minutes trying to see the good in people around you.

✨ Turn off your phone and switch off the news when you need and bring on your Autumn hyyge - fires, candles, warming soups and stews.

✨ Find gentle somatic release - this could be singing, dancing, shaking or running, anything you find cathartic.

12/09/2025

Very lucky to have Blossoms, this beautiful well-being space near me with some wonderful practitioners.

A return visit to the brilliant Gemma - I love the mix of talk therapy with hands-on somatic release - deep massage and slow gentle movements, with a recognition of our past trauma, ancestral trauma and our burdens as women. Gemma is a non judgemental, deeply empathetic space as well as a pioneering feminist. I needed to release some s**t that’s got stuck and she helped.

I arrived a Titan holding the weight of the world on my shoulders, and left a Queen sitting in my power. Thank you lovely Gemma!

05/09/2025

Gorse & Heather = making this Scot in Devon feel very at home!

Beautiful late Summer colours.

31/08/2025

Holiday aesthetics.

I love shopping for the frivolous relaxed carefree holiday me, but I also think of in her Sunday Times Style article reminding us that tie dye and white cotton beach dresses may feel perfect on vacation but might not suit the London tube or a day at the office (just as my Guatemalan pink rug has never fit a UK home…)

This year I’ve loved 1960s style sun dresses (this looked better in the UK before I ate my body weight in pastal de nata) and black jersey fabrics. I’ve been inspired by the beautiful colourful tiles and pottery of the Algarve, the olive and bouganvillea trees, and a nice dose of hippie surf chic.

Dresses
Wild pearl jewellery at
Pottery in Lagos
Sandals
Sun hat
Sunglasses
Rattan beach bag from San Sebastián

28/08/2025

Book club rec!

I read a brilliant article in Red magazine by about mothers so I bought her first book What A Shame.

It’s a fascinating look at paternal wounds, addiction and shame, as well as female friendship, generational trauma and romantic relationships. It reminded me of flat sharing in London (although my days there had less matcha lattes) and made me think how we purge pain - what different ways we can get rid of toxic wounds inside us.

A lovely thought-provoking holiday read.

26/08/2025

Holiday!

And with it a new direction for this Instagram page - more on that shortly! Hope you’re having a good one wherever you are xx

16/08/2025

I have had a beautiful couple of weeks off social media.

A friend of ours mentioned that he’d had much more mental health benefits from time off social media than he had from giving up booze and I was intrigued.

My nervous system was completely overwhelmed from working long hours with kids running around, my senses were over stimulated and social media’s constant invasions of war, anger, perfect seeming holidays and lovely days out felt like they were kidnapping my emotional safety in a negative way. I was beginning to compare and feel my irritation rise. And that’s not who I am.

So I deleted all social media (except LinkedIn - I’m finding more and more it’s full of interesting and insightful information and people don’t tend to be dicks) and it has been truly truly wonderful!

Here’s some benefits:

❤️ I’ve been cocooned in my own little bubble of my lovely little family

❤️ Rather than looking at the lives of people I often don’t know well - and this might be coincidence - I’ve reached out more to good friends & planned some lovely get togethers.

❤️ I’ve focused more on the positives in my life rather than comparing it to the curated showmanship of others.

❤️ I’ve been on my phone way way less.

❤️ I’ve protected my soul from anger and aggression but I’ve still kept up with the news. I can consider my own opinion without being bombarded by others.

I’ve come back on it now - it takes minutes to add it back to your phone and log in again - and I realise part of my self care routine has to be deleting it regularly when I need.

How do you find social media today and would you benefit from a break?

07/08/2025

Yoga with a view. I needed this gentle evening yin so much.

Thank you .

06/08/2025

One of my children taught me something very important tonight and I thought I’d share it.

While I’ve been moaning about not doing anything during the summer holidays (on my stories), I had forgotten about the blessing of stillness and rest and it is this - it allows us to feel sad.

When we slow down and stop the endless hamster wheel of modern life, we can sometimes feel a great sadness. Which is why we often try to distract - with activities, phones, media.

And if someone is playing up - angry, irritable - the likelihood is that this is a secondary emotion, easier to deal with than the pain they feel. But when we slow down and finally face it, the uncomfortable truth of sadness can be released.

There might be something specific that has caused us to feel sad. But often it’s existential sadness - that we will all die, that we lose the people we love, that we lose touch with friends and our hearts get broken by love, that the ache of missing a person or a place can cut deeply, that there is violence and disease and injustice. And children feel that too even from a very young age.

And when we allow ourselves to feel sad, it can feel overwhelming but also liberating. It’s a blessing. Because once we feel it, it is able to finally pass.

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High Grange, Burrow Knap Way
Axminster
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