The Old Greenhouse Retreat

21/12/2025

My preferred choice of Christmas card this year is this beautifully apt greenhouse. I dream of having a real old greenhouse by my treatment room, one day. We do have the trees and the birds and the stars.

I found another green heart treasure for The Old Greenhouse Retreat, whilst shopping in today in . As you know if you visit me, my carefully chosen decorations are not just for Christmas, and this one sums up what you will find here. You come here as an act of self love, to find a safe space and to gift yourself an hour to experience the wonders of reflexology or maybe an Indian head massage, to relieve tension and help bring the balance you need.

Wishing all my clients and followers a peaceful solstice, Yuletide, Christmas, New Year. Nurture yourselves.

I would also like to say thank you, for your patience whilst my house project was underway this year. Interruption was minimal, but I still appreciate you continuing to book in. I have been quiet on social media and my website, but still busy in the background, but can share more of that in the new year.

I am now closed until 5 January, and look forward to welcoming you back, then. With love Annabel 💚

13/09/2025

When there is something BIG in your life, taking over your head, your time and your space, how do you rest between the next push?

Maybe you are preparing to launch your birds off to uni or a new job or other move that takes them away from home. Could it be a waiting game for health test results or treatment? Are you or a loved one going through surgery or treatment? Are you grieving? Do you have an ongoing project or projects, a looming deadline, a seemingly far out of reach unknown end date, a house move? How do you pause and recalibrate?

I have been quiet of late in my business, distracted by an exciting but overwhelming house project AND drawing to the close of a course I have been working on to offer more indepth support for my clients for fertility and general reproductive system health.

Both projects are intensifying at the same time and my head, my time and my space are 90 per cent taken up by both. I am hoping that my case study reports, at least, will be ready and posted off for marking before the weekend and I can relax and enjoy the Autumn Equinox with that goal behind me and enter the next quarter anew.

This week I have savoured the moments where my focus has been distracted momentarily by something beautiful and grounding. This one plant, a thistle globe, in the garden, attracting the most beautiful of insects, in this one space in time and forever embedded in my mind. A moment of calm. A meditative safe space to return to and to breathe.

Don’t forget, I am here to support you with the wonder of reflexology, through all your BIG things, to help you relax, release the tensions you hold in your mind and body, and feel restored to forge ahead. And in between times, I encourage you to take a moment to enjoy the stillness and beauty of nature to help bring you back to balance. Or find what works for you. It is important to notice, to take a moment, to breathe. 💚

01/09/2025

Hello, welcome to the start of the new academic year, which always feels like start of the year to many. including.
Big thank you to my clients for your patience over the summer as we have had some works at home, which have caused a little interruption at times. We are almost there and bookings are open.
Hope you have all had a fabulous summer and welcome to new beginnings. 💚

12/08/2025

Taking your basal body temperature when trying to conceive is the best way to determine accurate an ovulation point, particularly when you have a shorter or longer cycle than what is said to be the average 28 days. To find out more follow Association of Reproductive Reflexologists

Taking your temperature every morning might seem small, but it can have a big impact when you are trying for a baby.

Your Basal Body Temperature changes through your cycle. Tracking it before you get out of bed can reveal when you are ovulating.

One woman we worked with started charting her BBT alongside weekly reflexology. After 18 months of trying, her cycle became more regular and she conceived within 8 months. She is now a mum to a healthy baby girl 🥰

Sometimes, simple daily habits can lead to life-changing results.

01/08/2025

I can honestly say, as I’m using this product myself, that since applying it to my feet each night I have not wakened in the night, as I had started to do recently. Hope I haven’t jinxed it! 😀 but I’ve had the best consecutive nights sleep in a very long time, and this is the only change I’ve made.💚

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01/08/2025

Find out how reflexology can support you through menopause from Sally Earlam on Menopause Matters podcast. I love this podcast, exploring lots of ways to help you feel well.
If you are local to me, you may be interested to know, I completed Sally’s course Reflexology for Menopause a couple of years ago 💚. Get in touch if you feel this could be something for you. 💚

I was delighted to be asked to be a guest speaker for the Menopause Matters podcast. We chat through the theory behind how it can help with symptoms associated with the menopause, what it can help with, is it genuinely relaxing and how to find a reflexologist you can trust through the Association of Reflexologists Association of Reflexologists

https://shows.acast.com/menopause-matters-lets-talk/episodes/reflexology-are-your-feet-the-key-to-relaxation

09/06/2025

Reflexology Rocks! Book a treatment today https://www.aor.org.uk/custom/far-search/

07/06/2025

Wow, what a fabulous day! First of all, thank you to for introducing me to the event - The Health and Menopause Live 2025 organised by .menopausecoach
You managed to get me over my phobia and to a proper networking event for the first time in over 16 years! 🤣🙌
Of course, there was a big draw for me, the topic being menopause! Close to my heart for my own time of life and also to support my clients through
BUT I wasn’t expecting such a perfect combination of educational expert teachers and advocates, for where my current passions lie in the support of women’s health. Debilitating painful periods!
In the breaks I managed to meet and speak to two of the speakers:
1. raising awareness of endometriosis and offering support (I cannot wait to share with my clients, family, friends and colleagues) ; and
2. .wolstenholme educating children and young adults (and older adults) about their reproductive systems -
so that we can all be informed and know what is normal and what is not, so we can better look after our own health and be properly informed so we can fight for the best health care - armed with the information we need to ask the right questions.
And, apart from the health of me and my own family, invaluable information to help me better support my clients through reflexology and point them in the right direction for additional holistic care and support.
And how lucky was I to spend the day with the ladies with me in the last photo - fabulous menopause coaches and and amazing fitness coach 🤩🤩🤩

24/05/2025

Last night I had the privilege to be invited to offer taster sessions of reflexology at the wonderful Womens’ Wellness Event at Empire House, Slaithwaite courtesy of and . What a fabulous event! I met some beautiful ladies, both offering their skills and services and the (mostly) ladies attending the event. Such an uplifting, warm atmosphere. Women hold up the sky.
My good friend was also there offering oracle card readings.
Among the lovely ladies I met, was Rowena - thank you for the mention on your stories 💕💕 looking forward to finding out more about your holistic complementary therapies. Thank you to our lovely Wow Team ladies .coach and for supporting us (To find out more about Wow Team contact Clair or Juliet)
Thank you again to Vicky and Michelle for organising such a wonderful event bringing together such an array of beautiful heart lead businesses to support wellbeing, making connections to enhance our lives.
Please check out all the businesses attending the event, I would have loved to have gone to see every one on the night, but look forward to learning more about all the wonderful ways to support women’s health and wellbeing.
First stop - a proper bra fitting with 🥳

23/05/2025

24/04/2025

My lovely friend Juliet - who is herself a Life After Cancer coach, with her own experience of life after a cancer diagnosis - is joining others on a charity walk in the Lake District this weekend, to raise money to support the charity and to raise awareness.
If you would like to make a donation the link is https://life-after-cancer-lake-district-hike-2025.raiselysite.com/2-l-feet
You can find out more about how this charity can support you or your loved ones

17/04/2025

Today is the start of "National Feet Week" for more information visit https://nationalfeetweek.org/