Tina Gibbons: Centred in Nature

11/08/2025

💚 You won’t find spiritual performance with me 💚

On my own journey to soul - my return to land, my return home - I discovered that even in the realms of nature-based spirituality and soul growth, there’s a tangle of shoulds. Not always spoken aloud, but rooted deep in me: my own projections and the echoes of a culture that tells us what “real” soul work and nature connection should look like.

That I must mark every seasonal festival with ceremony.

That I must always be communing with trees and plants when in their presence.

That I must show up as wise, reverent, and serene in every encounter - as if constant bliss and deep devotion were the true signs of a woman in touch with the Earth.

And that if I didn’t meet this standard, I was somehow falling short.

Phew. What a load for the soul to carry.

The truth is, that’s not the way of soul at all.

Soul asks us to slow down. To create space for the ways of connecting that feel solid, embodied, and true for you. Not ticking boxes on a sacred to-do list. Not curating the “right” image of a spiritual life.

In the descent to what’s real and in the gentle emergence that follows, we meet the layers of “shoulds” and the wounds beneath them.

In The Art of Blossoming, there is no performance, no “right way.” No rituals to memorise, no banishment of the parts of you deemed unworthy.

Instead, there are gentle invitations - small, spacious moments that help you deepen your relationship with the land beneath your feet and the soul within your skin.

Only space. Time. Companionship.

A gentle tending, as you lean into the shadows and compost what you find there. A tender re-weaving, as you rise again - soulfully intact, rooted, and real.

08/08/2025

💚 Fear, Roots, and the Seasons of You 💚

Last time I shared why I no longer try to talk myself out of fear.

Instead of forcing it to change shape, I’ve learned to meet it like you might meet a sudden storm in the woods, by pausing, steadying your breath, and listening.

In nature, fear has its place.
It’s the fox’s stillness when it senses danger.

It’s the seed that waits beneath the soil until the conditions are right to sprout.

It’s the body’s way of saying - something here matters.

In The Art of Blossoming mentorship, we work the same way nature does.

We don’t rush the seed before its time or try to banish the storm.

We listen for the deeper wisdom beneath the fear, and we let your roots grow strong enough to meet whatever season you’re in.

And from there, change begins to unfold naturally, not through force, but through alignment with your own rhythm.

If you’re ready to explore your own seasons with nature as your guide, now is a beautiful time to begin, we’ll start where you are and walk together toward the next turning of the year.

Message me to explore joining The Art of Blossoming mentorship before the Autumn Equinox

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14/07/2025

I love the salt marshes of the North Norfolk Coast… when pondering on a theme for this months lessons from nature, it was my visit to the marshes that was most potent for deeper reflections and sharing…

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13/07/2025

What are you saying YES to and where do you say no - without realising?

This morning I planned to go to but as I felt into my diary for the week I wondered whether it was wise… whether creating more space today would be better.. it’s been a whirlwind few days and we’re heading off for another 10 days of fun and adventure on Wednesday…

Often at points like these - it brings ease and lightness to my sense of being to reduce my schedule and create more breathing space… as I pondered on doing that today though - everything felt tense and constricted… my whole being wants to go to the ball today - so I’m saying YES… even though it’s probably totally impractical on this occasion…

Have fun on this sunny Sunday and say YES to your heart and soul 🥰💚

09/07/2025

Fun fact: learning to scuba dive taught me to slow down and appreciate what beautiful things can emerge when we become more still.

If you swam rapidly around a dive site you may have had a tour of a pretty coral reef, but the majority of marine life will have shot into hiding and some of the greatest marvels were super tiny or super camouflaged…

it was only when you stopped, with neutral buoyancy holding you in a suspended position within the water, your breath being essential to your position and potential for staying still… that the marine life started show itself…

I used to guide people underwater and whilst on the surface it seems irrelevant to my work today, I can see so many synergies.

The need to slow down and regulate in order to be still enough within yourself to see what’s rising and be present as it unfolds..

The need to slow down and allow life to show itself in order to witness the beauty before us fully 💚

When I came home to the UK I switched the coral reefs for hedgerows and realised there had been so much beauty here, around me and under my feet, all along…

What helps you to slow down and appreciate what’s right in front of you, that you don’t notice when hustling through the day?

01/07/2025

What if you finally surrendered to your longing to slow down?

What if you chose to make space to pause and be with the real truth of who you are underneath the roles and responsibilities of every day life?

What if you unravelled, came undone, and surrendered to the marshes of your soul - where one life ends and slowly, out of the mess, from the depths of the mud, another starts to take shape and you emerge, with clarity, with courage and with nuggets of golden wisdom gathered in the depths as you strengthen your sense of wholeness… ready to blossom once more… this time more rounded and grounded, more rooted in the earth, more aligned to your soul..

The initial surrender can feel frightening but with guidance and support it turns into a homecoming, a softening, a celebration even as your body, heart and soul exhale with an enormous ‘at last’…

I’m honoured to be able to open up 5 spaces on the full journey through all phases of The Art of Blossoming..

🍂 Surrender

🌙 Restore

🌱 Emerge

🌻 Blossom

If you’re hearing an inner whispering saying ‘it’s time’, let’s talk ~ I’d love to give that whisper space before she shouts.

If she’s shouting already - trust me, taking a step to listen deeply will make her heart sing - and I’m here for that too…

Comment or DM, ‘I’m listening’ to learn more about the mentorship programme with me in The Art of Blossoming 💚

Root deep and blossom well beauties xx

Tina xx

27/06/2025

🍂 You don’t have to navigate this alone 🍂

The surrender phase can feel like a freefall - disorientating, uncomfortable, heavy with unspoken grief.

We rarely recognise the wisdom in it and we’re not supposed to. That only comes when we’re ready.

In The Art of Blossoming, we don’t rush toward meaning. We learn to be present with the difficult feelings, to surrender to them and meet ourselves tenderly in the unraveling.

This is the descent.

The moment when old structures fall away, but the new hasn’t yet formed.

A quiet threshold where we are invited to soften, listen and begin to allow life to hold us, just as we are.

Through deep listening, nature connection and flower essences, I offer companionship through this tender phase - not to fix - but to witness - to honour.

If you’re in this space now, suspended and unsure… you’re not alone.

This too belongs…

25/06/2025

Collapse as a threshold..

It’s hard and frightening when everything looks as though it’s falling part..

Even when we want change, we can still find ourselves clinging to what once was…

Unsure of what lies beneath us, surrendering to the fall can feel like an impossible idea.

The certainty of the familiar, even when it no longer fits, can seem more peaceful and comfortable…

But it’s not… not really is it?

Still something stirs inside
Because we are meant to change.
To blossom
To withdraw
To rest and reemerge, before blossoming again.

The edge of collapse is a threshold to something new.

This is the surrender phase - the softening, when structures fall away and the soil receives what is ready to compost.

And if we don’t listen… sometimes life guides us there anyway…

What have you surrendered to or been quietly asked to lay down?

22/06/2025

Thank you sun for bringing light to dark, every single day

For bringing day to night ~ again

For bringing spring to winter and summer to spring

For bringing warmth to cold

For bringing colour, colour COLOUR

For teasing shoots from the earth as they reach to your light and warmth

For enlivening and activating every single cell in every living being

For teasing the tightly packed buds compelling them to open into radiant blossoms

For raising vibrations and drawing life into its own perfectly imperfect harmonic crescendo

Thank you sun on your strongest day…

I remember - I notice - I am grateful

P.s I’m very grateful for this daily remembering as offered by Annie Spencer during her Art of Ceremony workshop last year … I have listened - I have remembered and I have practised.. today, seemed like the second perfect day (yesterday I was immersed in nature) to share this wonderful honouring of the sun that Annie invited us to participate in each day at sunrise… I haven’t been there at sunrise, and I have missed the odd day here and there. But after almost a year of consistent honouring and remembering, I’ve only become more grateful…

There are many small and simple rituals we can weave into our lives to help us deepen our interconnectedness with the natural world ~ greeting the sun each day and remembering the part this magnificent ball of fire and light plays in orchestrating the wonder around us is a great place to start…

Root deeply and blossom well lovely friends
May the sun shine brightly and lightly on your face and draw your radiance into being

17/06/2025