Wild Hearts Belong

28/08/2025

Just a little musing for this morning… I did a meditation and it suggested to look for a sign that I had connected with the cosmos.

When I opened my eyes, my cat, who was upon my lap, suddenly reached out his paw and placed it on my clear quartz crystal.

Then, when I left my house for a walk, I was greeted by a rainbow 🌈

As I came towards the end of my walk, I noticed a beautiful, solitary chicory flower, blooming from a bed of sun burnt grass. 🌷

Chicory is sometimes used in meditation to purify the mind and heart, offering a sense of inner peace. 🤍

So homeward bound to brew a cup of dandelion, burdock, chaga and chicory coffee and go about my day with a sense of ease and serenity, knowing I am exactly where I should be.

I hope this blessing may gift you with hope and positivity, too. And a reminder that slowing down and getting quiet is sometimes the best medicine. 🍁

26/07/2025

I've been researching medicinal mushrooms again, and in fact, not only for my family but for my cat, too!

Chaga is one such medicinal mushroom that holds a special place in our hearts. We discovered wild chaga in the spectacular Scottish wilderness on our first holiday there last year. They grow on the sacred Birch tree, demonstrating the beauty of the tree and fungi's symbiotic relationship.

I plan to extract its marvel benefits this weekend and bottle it in a tincture - we already enjoy chaga tea, but when it is double extracted, it gains both the water-soluble benefits (begta-glucans) as well as the alcohol-soluble properties (antioxidants).

And did you know that the chaga mushrooms is one of the most antioxidant rich foods in the world? (Second to cacao!).

For now, I shall go and brew myself a nettle and chaga tea. I will share my article on chaga when I have uploaded it to my website. :-)

Any questions? Just ask... 💜

24/07/2025

Health and healing aren’t just about what we eat or drink - they are so much about what we speak and think, too.

I've had some life-lessons of late and I have realised that when things aren't right in our bodies, rather than just treating the symptoms, we can look deeper than the surface and ask ourselves some questions, like...

+ Have I been under stress recently?
+ Have I experienced loss and grief?
+ Have I been taking care of myself?
+ Have I been lost in my head with thoughts?
+ Have I taken a break recently?

A real-world example is my daughter and I contracting a fungal skin infection from our cat! All of us have been through a lot of stress and worry and heartache over the past six weeks.

Our elderly cat died, then we adopted a kitten, who, it turned out, was not well, and she ultimately died, after so much effort and TLC from me - I'm talking sleepless nights, constant researching and care - BUT, not even that was enough, and I am the Queen of Cats!

And I was so hard on myself that she didn't live. And this is a big patten that I repeat on cycle!

I was really so broken from it, but have taken this latest setback as a reason to look inward, to reflect on my pattens that really don't serve me, how I spend my energy - how much I gave to her and neglected myself in the process - and asked myself what parasites I could cleanse from my own mind? What can be released? What has to go?

So we have been enjoying lots of rest, nature, slowness, baking, doing nothing, napping, along with herbal remedy support and so much TLC - to ourselves and our gorgeous cat, Mr Col.

It has become SOOOOOO clear to me that whole body healing requires the whole caboodle to make a shift. And that our health and happiness is absolutely worth the compromising, the saying no, the effort of actually taking a moment to look deeper and ask some meaningful questions, and then doing the meaningful work.

This is when true healing happens. 💜

11/05/2025

I love Dr Christopher Hobbs - I was first introduced to his work through a wild mushroom webinar. For anyone who really knows my family and I, you will know we are passionate mushroomers!

That aside, the following post is quoted by him and related to fibre and how important it is to get enough for bodywide health.

Like Christopher, for years now my daily staple as a breakfast is oatmeal. Whether from jumbo oats or pinhead oats.

My current summer breakfast is evidenced below. I make us a berry smoothie and layer up yumminess with oats, puffed millet (high in protein + fibre), almonds, cashews, an omega-3 seed blend, dates, goji berries and more. So refreshing and light and nutritious to set us all up for the day.

"Hi Friends,
Just saw this NEW STUDY on the best kind of PREBIOTIC FIBER to eat daily!
The confusing aspect of dietary fiber is that different fiber sources vary in their health benefits. Here are some bullet points that highlight these important differences.
*Amount of fiber to eat daily.....experts say 25-30 grams but most Americans and Europeans only get about 15 grams!
*Those on a traditional diet typically get 40-60 grams/day, which helps cut the risk of premature death from inflammation-based illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer
*Highest sources of high-quality prebiotic fiber is (best first):
-Mushrooms (containing branched beta-glucans)
-Any beans or legumes (including peanuts)
-Oats and barley (containing straight-chains of beta-glucans)
The new study cited here found that among different fiber supplements (albeit in animals) like pectin, starch, wheat dextrin, and oat fiber, the beta-glucans worked the best for losing weight and producing beneficial breakdown products like butyrate that has many known benefits in the gut which are detailed in the article.
I've been consuming raw oat fiber in my diet (in the form of ground up oat groats and museli) for decades, and has worked perfectly to benefit my cardiovascular and immune systems and reduce systemic inflammation, as proven by my incredible cardiovascular health numbers and my overall health into my 70s.
I recently came back from Nepal after a 3-week trek to Everest Base Camp, hiking up steep mountains over rocky trails, 5-8 hours/day.
I was able to keep up with the younger folks well and came back in even better shape than when I left.
Bottom line takeaway....adding 20-30 more grams/day of high-quality prebiotic fiber is the single most important thing you can do to improve your overall health and longevity. Of course getting a good night's sleep with at least 1 hour of REM and 1 hour of deep sleep, along with walking 10,000 steps/day counts too!
I wish you good health!
Dr. Christopher Hobbs"

01/04/2025

I am co-hosting a lovely wellness day this Spring, including yoga, essential oils, natural skincare and discovering the art of foraging - plus sample my lovely teas! There will also be a nourishing lunch and refreshments. Come and join us. 💛

WILD AND WELL RETREAT DAY
Is back for SPRING 🧡💛🩵

Highbridge

Early bird offer till 1st April contact me to book your ticket 🤩

Make time in your week for
SUNDAY 18th May

Join us on this incredible wellness day.
Just 15 min from Weston s Mare at the beautiful Phoenix Tree. Junct 22 M5

Nourish your body through movement with hatha yoga with essential oils with me Fiona Griffiths Yoga 🧘‍♀️ ♥️

Nourish your insides with the amazing Jemima's Wild Hearts Belong 🌿workshop on wild nutrition and herbal tea blends.

Nourish your skin with lovely Sophie Garner
🏵🏵🏵
With her natural product facial care and self blended aromatherapy massage.

Long-lasting knowledge that you can carry forward.

For more information and to book your ticket, message me on 07929 492853





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17/03/2025

Anyone else find they need to decompress after work? Especially as a home educating mum.

I’m not complaining because I love working from home, but that also means dealing with mess and navigating children and their projects as well as doing chores etc - and so decompression is necessary for my nervous system.

What better way to do it than to rest with my cats! Their purring fur is always so soothing… 💜