Tara Shotton Holistic Therapies

22/12/2025

A beautiful heart felt healing meditation 💖

15/12/2025

Wonderful ways of dealing with anxiety

13/12/2025

Winter: A Season of Rest and Restoration

By following the cues
that Nature generously provides,
we set the tone of our days
and discover,
in each unfolding season,
a gentler pace
and a softer rhythm in our lives.

Winter arrives,
whispering softly of the need for rest,
inviting us to slow down,
to breathe,
and to savor the solace
that drifts softly, like silent snowflakes across our hearts.

In this season of stillness,
we withdraw
from the hurried tempo of our days,
from the busyness that tugs
like constant and restless winds.

Here, in the quiet,
we find shelter,
a place to dream,
time to pause,
and space to imagine
all the plans and possibilities
preparing to bloom
in the next season of our lives.

And when the world stirs again,
we emerge
with renewed grace and resilience,
feeling rested and restored,
ready for whatever may lie ahead.

~ 'Winter: A Season of Rest and Restoration' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Elaine Bayley Elaine Bayley Illustrations

12/12/2025

From my heart to yours 💕🪷

Blessings for Anyone Who is Having
a Hard Time This Holiday Season

I don’t know you personally,
but I am thinking of you.
And I am sending you
the warmest light I can hold.

If this season feels heavy,
may a soft moment find you,
a memory that feels gentle instead of sharp,
a little warmth that settles on your shoulders
like a quiet reassurance.

If you are alone,
please know you aren’t alone in my thoughts.
You are held with care,
even across distance,
even in silence.

If you’re missing someone,
I hope their love reaches you
in a way only your heart can recognize,
a familiar feeling, a small comfort,
like starlight finding you after a long night.

And if grief is sitting beside you,
may it soften,
even just a little.

You are dear to me.
You are remembered.
You are worthy of light, comfort, and peace,
today, and through every season still to come.

✍️ Rivers in the Ocean

29/11/2025

Gratitude softens us.
It opens something quiet and bright within us…
and from that space, more light always finds its way in.

May today remind you how supported, guided, and held you truly are.
Even the smallest moment of thankfulness can shift your entire energy.

Happy Thanksgiving, friends. 🤍

❤️ Bill

10/10/2025

Here are some of our support options available for you this World Mental Health Day 💙

23/09/2025

Do you have some spare time for a very good cause?

Are you looking for an enjoyable and rewarding volunteer role?

Macclesfield Cancer Help Centre is looking for a Secretary to join our team of dedicated volunteers. The role includes assisting at Trustee meetings, compiling an agenda and recording and circulating the minutes.

We are a non-medicalised charity supporting cancer patients and their carers. We offer various activities and complementary therapies in an informal setting, where our visitors can socialise over coffee and cake, or have one-to-one time with a qualified practitioner. We are based in Prestbury and are open every Tuesday between 10am and 2pm to people of Macclesfield and surrounding areas.

If you would like to join us we would love to hear from you. For more details about the role and to register your interest, please call the Centre on 07981 899526.

More information about MCHC can be found by visiting https://www.macclesfieldcancerhelp.com/

07/09/2025

A beautiful mantra to go along with your full moon releasing

Beautiful Chorus · Mantras in Love · Song · 2015

07/09/2025

It’s going to be a beautiful full moon eclipse this evening. Get your crystals ready, put your glass bottles full of water outside ready to be cleansed and charged by the full moon.
Full moons are all about releasing - what are you ready to release?

09/08/2025

✨ Aquarius Full Moon Magic ✨
One of my favourite places – The Crystal Castle in Australia – always reminds me of the beauty of slowing down and tuning in.

Aquarius Full Moon..

A beautiful time to reflect, reset, and notice what’s starting to shift.
This moon shines a light on community, connection, and the courage to do things differently.
Some patterns may feel ready to fall away. Some dreams might feel a little closer.

However it lands for you, it’s a moment to simply be 🌕

07/08/2025

As we approach the Full Moon on 9th August Mercury is in its last few days of its retrograde, turning direct on 11th and Mars has just changed signs, entering more harmonious and peace-loving Libra, which is naturally the home of its feminine counterpart, Venus. At the beginning of this sign, over the next few days it is Mars’ turn to connect with and activate the outer planets which are in the early degrees and these activations occur either side of the Full Moon. 8th August is known as the peak of the Lion’s Gate Portal and is a potent day in itself and this year’s potential is amplified with Mars making a very helpful trine with Uranus, newly in Gemini.

This shake-up planet promotes change and is always encouraging us to be our authentic selves, and in order to do that we have to discard what is inauthentic! This adds to the Leo (Sun) energies of personal expression, of shining our light out into the world without fear nor dazzling others. With Mars being the planet of courage, motivation, action and will this combination is stimulating and lighting a gentle fire within to improve our world and to find more peaceful solutions. Mars’ natural dynamism is somewhat softened in its new Libran home which is more about love and peace than Mar’s naturally confrontational and competitive warrior nature. When the Libran scales get tipped out of alignment Libran energy naturally wants to rebalance it but this can lead to people pleasing and negating one’s own needs.

Children who are brought up where there are never any disagreements can struggle when conflict arises, not knowing how to handle it and can lack, through having had no example, the skills to express themselves and their needs, to debate and find resolutions and compromise and can be fearful of upsetting the peace.

Follow your intuition, any sudden urges to do something different, innovative or even radical that might shake up inner or outer peace or supposedly balanced energies, as keeping the status quo does not allow for positive change or for positive skills of discussion, diplomacy and compromise to develop.

Early on 8th, a few hours before the Full Moon, Mars will move on to oppose retrograde Saturn and this is where old fears are likely to arise, especially if the previous Uranus connection has emboldened us to do something unusual or unexpected. The fear could be about the reaction of others, if we have done ‘the right thing’ (Libra can be very indecisive) or, if we initiated something we might now doubt ourselves and whether we have the courage and/or the ability to see it through.

Mars goes on to then oppose retrograding Neptune a few hours after the
Full Moon, finishing its series of activations of the outer planets with another lovely trine with Pluto on 10th, so, as with all these series of activations we are currently experiencing, the energies evolve from the first activation with each subsequent connection

09/07/2025

Another few more fantastic reasons to get outside and walk in the woods 🚶‍♀️🌳🍃