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27/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming - Day 8✨🌕

Last week, we created space - we released, we noticed, we told the truth.

This week, we turn toward what fills that space with life - the energy, passion, and joy that make us feel deeply ourselves.

Not the things we do out of obligation - but the things that spark something real inside us.

🖊️ Day 8 Prompt - What brings me alive in ways I’ve forgotten or ignored?

Write about what lights you up - even if you haven’t made time for it lately, or you think it impractical, or you're not sure why it matters.

If you feel drawn, share a single word that captures what brings you alive 💜

26/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming - Day 7 ✨🌕

We’ve spent this week releasing, remembering, and reclaiming parts of ourselves.

Today, we open the door a little wider and look toward what feels expansive.

🖊️ Day 7 Prompt - What does freedom mean to me right now?

Write from the present moment - not from ideals or shoulds.

After you write, take a breath as if you’re already living that freedom. Notice how your body responds.

If you feel called, share one word that represents freedom for you today 💜

25/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming - Day 6 ✨🌕

Control can feel like safety - a way to protect ourselves from the unknown. But sometimes, holding tight keeps us from receiving support, ease, and new possibility.

Today, we explore what comes up when we imagine loosening that grip… even just a little.

🖊️ Day 6 Prompt - What emotions or stories arise when I imagine letting go of control?

Whatever comes up is welcome.
There’s no right way to feel here - just honesty.

If you feel comfortable, share a word or emotion that surfaced for you 💜

24/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming - Day 5 ✨🌕

As we make space for more of our true selves to emerge, it’s natural to notice the places where we still shrink, hesitate, or hide. Today we gently shine a light there - not to judge ourselves, but to understand ourselves.

🖊️ Day 5 Prompt - Where in my life am I still holding back out of fear of judgment?

Let your words be honest and compassionate.
You’re simply observing what’s true in this moment.

If you feel open to it, share one word that describes the part of you that deserves more freedom 💜

23/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming - Day 4 ✨🌕

As we move through this journey, we’re starting to reconnect with parts of ourselves that may have been quiet, hidden, or put on hold.

Today is about allowing space for more of who you are to be seen, even if the first step is simply acknowledging it on the page.

🖋️Day 4 prompt - What part of myself am I ready to give permission to fully express, without apology or limitation?

Afterwards, notice how it feels to honour that part of yourself.
Does it feel exciting? Tender? Scary? Empowering?

If you feel brave, share one word that captures the part of you that’s ready to shine 💜

22/11/2025

✨ Retreat Magic Already Unfolding ✨

Last week I visited the beautiful Hill House - the home of The Stillpoint Within retreat next April - with the lovely Mathilda Jane Bowen who owns this sanctuary and will also be creating the most nourishing meals for us throughout the weekend. 🌿✨

The moment you arrive, there’s this soft sense of exhale… like your whole being recognises you’re somewhere safe to rest.

While we were there, we pulled some cards for the retreat and… look what came through:

✨ Creator Alchemy
🎨 Feed Your Artist
🔥 Rise

Honestly, the most perfect confirmation for what we’re co-creating together. This retreat isn’t just about silence… it’s about the inner reawakening that happens because of it. The creativity, the clarity, the remembering of what has been waiting inside you.

Mathilda will be weaving love into the food in the same way I’ll be holding space for the inner work - a true collaboration of nourishment from the inside and out. 🥣💛

The Stillpoint Within
17–20 April 2026 | Sussex
Early Bird now open ✨

https://dragonflytherapist.uk/silent-retreat

If this feels like a whisper in your heart… I’d love you to join us💜

22/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming - Day 3 ✨🌕

Sometimes we tuck away our deepest dreams because they feel too big, too unrealistic, or too different from who we’ve been told we should be. Today, we gently invite those dreams back into the light.

🖋️Day 3 prompt - What hidden longings or dreams have I buried, believing they weren't "realistic"?

Let yourself write honestly - even if the dreams feel wild, impossible, or far away.
After writing, pause and notice - how does it feel to acknowledge these dreams again?

If you feel comfortable, share one word or theme in the comments 💜

21/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming - Day 2 ✨🌕

Yesterday we opened the pages of our journal to release what no longer serves. Today, let's focus on what's real and present in your life right now.

Mercury retrograde is amplifying reflection, and the Scorpio New Moon is inviting honesty. Thoughts, memories, and subtle nudges from your soul may be rising to the surface. It's time to pay attention to these patterns that are influencing your day-to-day life.

🖋️Day 2 prompt - What thoughts, habits, or patterns am I noticing in my daily life that no longer serve me?

Write freely - focus on what you can see and feel in the here and now. After writing, pause to reflect - what felt obvious, what surprised you, and what small shift can you make?

If you feel brave, share on word or insight in the comments 💜

20/11/2025

🌕✨28 Days of Becoming ✨🌕
A New Moon Journalling Challenge

Over the next 28 days, join me as we explore the quiet spaces within - where clarity, courage, and possibility live.

The New Moon invites letting go, reflection, and re-evaluation. With so many planets in retrograde, the energies are amplifying this call to pause, review, and realign. It's a perfect moment to release what no longer serves and consciously plant seeds for what you want to grow.

🖊️How to journal:
~ There's no right or wrong way - only your way.
~ Write in a notebook, type in your notes app, voice record and transcribe later, even doodle and use colour - whatever feels right.
~ Let whatever arises flow onto the page without censoring or judging. Your journal is a personal, private, and safe space.
~ After writing, pause to reflect - what emotions came up? did anything surprise you? do you accept what you have written?

Now take a breath. Arrive in this moment. Let this be for you.

Here we go...

🖋️Day1: What am I ready to deeply release in this new lunar cycle?

Write until you feel a shift ~ even a small one.
And if you feel brave, share one word or phrase in the comments 💜

14/11/2025

🔥 Friday Flame – November 14, 2025
3 of Swords | 8 of Wands | Death (XIII)

With this week's heightened solar activity and intense planetary alignments, many of us have been feeling these shifts in our bodies, hearts, and minds. The external energies often stir what is waiting to transform within.

3 of Swords - Heartbreak + Truth Revealed
Old hurts may have resurfaced - a thought, a memory, a conversation that stung more than expected. This isn’t punishment. It’s clearing. The heart making room by releasing what has been quietly weighing it down.

8 of Wands - Acceleration + Sudden Clarity
Movement. A surge forward. Moments of insight or emotion moving fast, almost unexpectedly. Like the atmosphere itself is urging momentum. Once truth surfaces, it often refuses to be ignored.

Death (XIII) - Endings + Transformation
Not a grim ending but a truthful one. A cycle closing because it’s reached its natural completion. Something leaves so something new can breathe. This is the rebirth that follows release.

We don’t have to rush the next beginning. Let the shift settle. Let the rain soften the ground. This is both release and renewal.

💭 Looking back, what truth rose for you this week? What moved rapidly once you acknowledged it? And what part of you feels ready to transition into something new?

With love & flame,
Vanessa

07/11/2025

🌿 The Stillpoint Within: A 3-Night Silent Retreat | 17–20 April 2026, Sussex 🌿

I’m so happy to finally share this…

The Stillpoint Within is a 3-night silent retreat I’ll be guiding next April - a gentle invitation to pause, rest deeply, and reconnect with yourself.

Held at the beautiful Hill House in Sussex, surrounded by ancient woodland, this intimate retreat (limited to just six participants) offers space to unwind from the noise of daily life and return to the quiet wisdom within.

Across our time together, I’ll hold a space for guided meditation, journalling, breathwork, gentle hypnosis, and creative reflection - all designed to help you soften back into presence and inner stillness.

You’ll be nourished with wholesome vegetarian meals, rest in one of five peaceful rooms, and be supported to truly exhale.

💫 Early Bird Offer - book by 31 December 2025 to save £100

If this speaks to you, you can find all the details, room options, and booking info here:
https://www.dragonflytherapist.uk/silent-retreat

And if you know someone who might love this, I’d be so grateful if you shared it with them. 🌿

A 3-night silent retreat with VanessaApril & October 2026 | Location to be announced The Stillpoint Within A Sanctuary of Silence and Soul RemembranceThere is a quiet place within you - a stillpoint beneath thought, noise, and story.It waits patiently, beyond the rush of daily life, calling you home...

07/11/2025

🔥 Friday Flame – November 7, 2025
Justice (XI) | The Tower (XVI) | The Hierophant (V)

It’s been a few weeks since I last shared a Friday Flame. After a quiet withdrawal - a necessary pause to listen and recalibrate - I’m feeling ready to return. And these cards could not speak more directly to that journey.

Justice (XI) – truth and balance.
Justice calls us into alignment - not perfection, but honesty.
Where have things fallen out of balance lately? Where have you been called to tell the truth, even if it shifted what you thought was solid?
This card reminds us that clarity often arrives through courage.

The Tower (XVI) – change and release.
The Tower shakes what can no longer stand. It’s the energy of truth cracking through illusion, clearing space for what’s real.
Many of us may have felt this lately - sudden changes, emotional upheavals, endings, or awakenings that felt disruptive but necessary.
The dragons remind us: destruction is part of creation.

The Hierophant (V) – wisdom and sacred structure.
After the storm comes grounding. The Hierophant invites you to root your learning in something sacred - your practices, your inner truth, your connection to Source.
This is integration - rebuilding not from the mind, but from meaning.

💭 Looking back on your week:
~ what truths have surfaced for you?
~ what structures are crumbling?
~ and what wisdom is asking to take their place?

✨ For me, this reading lands deeply. After my own quiet retreat, I can feel how these energies mirror my path: releasing old forms, honouring truth, and stepping into something more intentional. It feels fitting that this week also marks the launch of my upcoming Silent Retreat - a sacred space to listen, restore, and return to what’s real.

If this reading resonated for you, I’d love to hear your reflections. What part of this week’s flame spoke to your own experience? Feel free to share in the comments - your words might spark something for someone else too.

With love & flame,
Vanessa