Fife homeopath - paula millwood

02/12/2025

It feels like the foundational ‘befriending the wolf within’ landed well. It was oftentimes surprising and I learned so much from the group too. Soul Pelt with Nicki Wilkins and I are hoping to embark on a new adventure with the Bone Fire Year in 2026. This being our first foray as an extension of the space we hold for women, then it’s really created and crafted to support women in mid life. But my longing is for this creative adventure to be available for everyone. Bear with us if you’re male and feel curious!

WE THINK IT’S TIME FOR A NEW STORY TO EMERGE
ABOUT WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE

🔥You know how women in midlife know they are transforming at the cellular and soulful level, but because our culture doesn’t celebrate the sacred genius of this life-stage, we feel ungrounded, reactive, and lost?

🦴What we do is guide women on a year-long
mytho-creative journey to help them discover:
their ripening wisdom,
sharp intuition,
and authentic voice.

🦴We know that when a woman starts making decisions from her
wholeness, the world shifts.

🔥The journey officially starts in January 2026.

🦴There are two options:
In-person (Fife, Scotland)
or online.

🔥If you’re feeling the fires of inner transformation,
contact me and we can have a chat about
whether this journey is for you.

Bone-Fire blessings,
Nicki + Paula

02/11/2025

We gather together again on Friday 21st November at Monimail in the third of our Befirending Your Wolf Within series.

The stories we have worked with so far have opened up some allies and tools to support us on the journey to the wild wolf archetype within. The birth, death and rebirth symbolism will run throughout. The symbolism of the basket and time especially, offer a very personal map to help deepen our relationship with the Wolf archetype with in us. And realise where we each are in relation to the Wolf in our cultural structure?

Join a circle of women with me and Pelt with Nicki Wilkins, in the Blue Room at Monimail Tower on Friday 21st November, 6.30-8.30pm for the third and final of our Wolf stories. £18 if coming just for the one session.

We will be hearing one last story and journeying with the homeopathic remedy prepared from wolfs milk (lac-lupinum) through a guided meditation with our pack or women. And taking time to each write our own Wolf story.

There is no obligation to take a remedy in order to meditate with it.

Please contact Nicki to confirm your place:
nwilkinsmentor@gmail.com

13/10/2025

We gather together again on Friday 24th October at Monimail to sit with the Grimm brothers fairy tale - The Wolf and the 7 Little Kid Goats.

This story is full of symbolism and offers a very personal map to help deepen our relationship with the Wolf archetype with in us. And realise where we each are in relation to the Wolf in our cultural structure?

Join a circle of women with me and Soul Pelt with Nicki Wilkins, in the Blue Room at Monimail Tower on Friday 24th October, 6.30-8.30pm for the second of our Wolf stories. £18 if coming just for the one session.

Preparing for our journey with the homeopathic remedy prepared from wolfs milk (lac-lupinum) in November to befriend the relationship with our own inner wolf.

Please contact Nicki to confirm your place:
nwilkinsmentor@gmail.com

10/09/2025

BEFRIENDING THE WOLF WITHIN:
Exploring the archetype of the wolf through story and intuition, before we run with them..

Why are we holding this space?
Many women identify with the ‘Women Who Run With The Wolves’ by Clarissa Pinkola-Estés, but this is a book that is often [intentionally] tricky to read from cover to cover. One of the difficulties in accessing the material in such a book, is that we often don’t recognise or acknowledge the wolf within ourselves.

Offering:
Nicki Wilkins (transformation coach & midlife midwife) and Paula Millwood (homeopath & psychotherapist) love to work with folk stories and myths, both as map and medicine. Creative prompts and responses will follow each story telling. By paying close attention and learning to discern the symbols (representations) that reveal themselves in the stories as messages (guides) from deep within our soul (psyche), we hope to guide you towards greater awareness of your position in relation to the wolf archetype. A journey with homeopathic wolfs milk (lac-lupinum) in the third session is intended to enhance the healing capacity of wolf as medicine.

This 3-session introduction is stand-alone and/or precursor to our facilitated year-long journey, THE BONEFIRE YEAR where we will come together in a group [pack] to further explore the ideas in the book.

To prepare for our time together, we suggest having:
• A5 or A4 notebook that you can dedicate to the journey
• Some coloured pens / pencils that feel comfortable to work with
• Your own copy of the Women Who Run With The Wolves – even if it's just sitting beside your bed!

Journey Outline:
26th September Red Riding Hood
24th October The Seven Little Goats and the Wolf
21st November Wolf Skin and an intuitive meditation with the homeopathic remedy, lac-lupinum (wolf milk). A deep immersion with wolf medicine as a pack to resonate with the energy of the Wild (Woman) Wolf within.

Venue: Blue Room, Monimail Tower, KY15
Cost: £55 for all 3 sessions

To note your interest and for more information - message Paula directly on 07956 653177 or email Nicki - nwilkinsmentor@gmail.com

19/05/2025

Just in case you were looking….😉

Spell Songs is a musical evolution of both The Lost Words & The Lost Spells books by acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane and award-winning illustrator Jackie ...

19/05/2025

A very special evening of Spell Songs in Edinburgh yesterday inspired me to share some of the words to the Lost Words Blessing. I urge you to go and listen even if folk music isn’t your gig - the words are beautiful.

The archetypal animal creatures (and plants!) found in stories are also found in homeopathy. There is a beautiful resonance here.

Many people coming to work with me are feeling a sense of despair and hopelessness in response to unsettling events and changes in the world. Being present with the grief seems to be an unavoidable part of our unfolding cultural and societal story. And while the story is not a new story, I am more and more drawn to myths and folk/fairy stories as essential maps to navigate turbulence in what ever way it shows up in our world. I’ve witnessed how homeopathy prescribed this way, meeting like with like, has reached into the deepest stories and risen up to the surface in the form of resilience, ease and peace.

Artist, Jackie Morris painted the raven (jackdaw, crow) during the final blessing by Spell Songs and gently invited the audience up to meet the perpetrators of harm, with beauty, song, story and hope.

I’ve been studying Raven as a remedy as well as the ones that inhabit the land close to where I live and the ones that appear in stories as harbingers of both knowledge and wisdom. Raven (Corvus Corvax) is a remedy which calls us home. It is a remedy of contrasts: light and dark, right and wrongs, good and bad, dissociation while seeking to connect. It was lovely to have this mirrored back to me.

I’ll put out another post, with details of a what this might look like for anyone who is interested. Nicki and I are going to host a wee event at Monimail Tower in Fife at the end of June focusing on a folk tale, The Selkie.

22/01/2025

In collaboration with Nicki Wilkins, we are excited to be gathering women together, to go on a brief, fairy-tale adventure into the psycho-spiritual and soulful dynamic of menopause and beyond.

Working with stories is a Jungian concept that enables us to make the unconscious, conscious. The characters, the nature of their experience, and the meaningful symbols in fairy tales and folk tales will resonate differently for everyone. But coming into a personal relationship with these archetypes can open us up to what is needed on this path to embracing elderhood.

During our menopause years, the deep longing to rest, slow down and take stock can seem at odds with a growing sense of urgency and busy everyday demands. These sessions are intended to resource us to have a foot in both worlds – celebrating the whole of ‘what was’, ‘what is’ and ‘what is yet to come’.

3 consecutive Tuesday evenings in February from 6-7.30pm at eden therapies in Cupar.

• Tuesday 11th Feb: Red Riding Hood
• Tuesday 18th Feb: The Selkie
• Tuesday 25th Feb: Baba Yaga and Vasalisa

To join us for these in-person sessions, please contact Nicki by emailing nwilkinsmentor@gmail.com. Places are limited to 8.

24/11/2024

Wow! Back in Fife after spending a few days at the 100th Faculty of Homeopathy conference in Edinburgh with a large gathering of inspiring humans who speak my language! Head bursting with influx of thoughts and new learnings.

Oestrogen (follicullinum) is a remedy I use frequently when a client present with hormonal imbalance and feels lost - lost in relationships, lost sense of self, living out other people’s expectations, confused about sense of purpose and their place in the world.

And yesterday, I learned about a relatively new addition to the homeopathy pharmacy, testosterone. We see how it brings in the ‘yang’ aspect when a person feels out of alignment, not in their flow. Also with a need for purpose, testosterone is indicated where the masculine care and support from father is absent or lost. Unsurprisingly, it is suited to both male and female clients, where the themes centre around function in work and a need to provide and take care are also present alongside physical presentation.

The remedies prepared from human hormones are called sarcodes and many times I’ve witnessed the restorative ‘coming back to self’ when I’ve prescribed them. Excuse the pun, but really excited to have testosterone in the bag now too!

24/10/2024

Compassionate conversations about dying, death and grief in Cupar at YMCA - 4 Tuesdays in November.

This is an in person gathering for ANYONE who would like to feel more brave, secure and confident to have, what can feel like difficult, conversations around death and dying - from care plans and wills to what dying is like and the impact of loss and grief.

For online courses, you can link in to the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care https://www.goodlifedeathgrief.org.uk