GloJo

31/12/2025

🐍 Lesson of the year. What’s yours?
The highlight of my year was turning 50. I recorded this as I was leaving my cabin in the woods where I had spent the last couple of days marking it. The lesson that has bounced back to me again and again (and did this year too) living in a body with a sensitive system is that…..

ENVIRONMENT IS EVERYTHING. 🌿✨
Especially when your nervous system is sensitive and your body is constantly scanning for safety.

I’m making a big change and moving somewhere I can get my feet on the earth every single day… and be in more peace and quiet because our surroundings shape our health far more than we realise.

But you don’t have to move home to shift your environment.

Start small.
Look around your space and ask:
• Is there clutter that’s silently draining you?
• Is there a corner that needs clearing?
• Are you still holding on to things that belong to an old version of you?
• Do you need someone to help you restore order and calm?
• Could you give five minutes to tidying one area… just to get the energy flowing again?

And let’s be real — the products in your home matter too. Reducing harsh chemical cleaners and artificial fragrances is one of the simplest, most powerful ways to support a sensitive system and create a cleaner, calmer space to heal in.

Your environment can either soothe you or slowly wear you down.
Choose the one that supports your future, not your past. 💚

25/12/2025

✨ Turning 50 this year has genuinely been the best birthday I’ve had since I was nine and got three ducks for my birthday. 🦆🦆🦆

I’ve never felt more grounded, more powerful, more sassy, more authentically myself than I do right now. It feels like waking up on Christmas morning with a brand new lease of life… wiser, clearer and so much more aligned.

There was ALOT of clearing that had to take place before hand. People. Habits. Clutter. Holding on to old narratives. Etc. All necessary to make space and put a stop to things that no longer served me.

For me, hitting 50 was like gaining some kind of magical superpowers. The clarity and energy of it was and is unbelievable. And I know lots of my pals who felt the same this year.

The people-pleasing falls away and a beautiful veil lifts and you start seeing the world, and your life, through brand new eyes.

I feel deeply at home in my own skin.
And I’m absolutely ready to begin again for the next half.

So if you’re heading toward 50 and feeling nervous… brace yourself. You’re about to unlock superpowers.
The best is still to come. ✨

Oh. Ps. Merry Christmas
Big love to you all 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

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22/12/2025

Don’t be a Dick. Like me. 😵‍💫😌😁
Other health practitioners - send me any posts you’ve done on navigating Christmas with a chronic health condition and I shall share!!!
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21/12/2025

Today is the Winter Solstice — the longest night of the year here in the UK. A day that reminds us that darkness is part of the cycle of life… and so is light. 🌑✨

When my body went through its toughest chapter with M.E. and PoTS, it often felt like everything familiar disappeared. Life shrunk. Certainty shrunk. Trust in my body shrunk. And yet… something else quietly grew.

I began learning how to look for light in dark places.

Not fake positivity. Not pretending everything was fine. Not bypassing reality. Definitely not gaslighting myself!

But choosing to notice what was still working.
What was still supporting me.
Where my body was showing up for me, even when it felt like everything was fu**ed.

Some days it was tiny things like, “My hands still move beautifully.”
Or… “My lungs are breathing — that’s worth honouring.”
Or… “My nervous system is trying its best to protect me, even when it feels chaotic.”

And a really big part of this was the language I used about myself.

I stopped speaking about myself as a “sick person.”
I stopped labelling my body as broken.
Instead, I began using neutral, compassionate language:

✨ “My body needs a slower rhythm today.”
✨ “I’m experiencing some fatigue.”
✨ “This phase requires adjustments.”

Language matters. Your brain hears it. Your cells hear it. Your nervous system hears it. This isn’t about mindset ‘fixing’ everything — this isn’t “it’s all in your head” (if only it were that simple!), but the brain is powerful and it shapes how we meet our reality. The way we speak about our body can either keep us stuck in fear… or create safety, steadiness, and possibility.

The dark times shaped me.
They taught me reverence.
They taught me self-respect.
They taught me to stand beside my body, not against it.

And that’s why I love the Solstice. It reminds us: darkness is not the end. It’s a place of depth, reflection, recalibration… and eventually, returning light.

If you’re in a “long winter” in your health journey right now, hold on. Light always finds its way back — slowly, quietly, bravely.

You are not alone. And you are more powerful than you’ve been led to believe. 🌒💛
Big love
Jo 💚💫💚

20/12/2025

✨ Morning light = medicine for your nervous system, hormones and energy.
And you don’t have to hike a mountain at sunrise to get it. If you’re housebound, low-energy, or simply don’t have the capacity to go out… there are still ways to get the benefits.

Sit by an open window.
Sit on your balcony.
Stand in your garden.
Sit in your conservatory.
Just find some way — where you are — to let natural morning light reach your eyes.

4–10 minutes of morning light exposure helps:
• regulate circadian rhythm
• support sleep quality
• stabilise energy
• influence estrogen + testosterone regulation
• support mitochondrial health (your cellular batteries)

Andrew Huberman talks about morning light as one of the most powerful, natural hormonal regulators we have — and it costs nothing, is gentle, and is accessible even if life is limited right now.

Tiny habit. Big payoff. Start where you are. 🌞
If this helps, save this for later and share with someone who needs hope.

18/12/2025

I’ve lived in a body that didn’t cooperate.
A body that punished me for trying to move and exercise.
A body that kept me in bed while my mind replayed dreams of running, strength, fitness — freedom.

So when I see people say,
“I just can’t be bothered to exercise”…
I’m going to be honest - I maddens me.

Because somewhere, right now, someone is lying in a bed, praying for the body you have.
A body that moves.
A body that recovers.
A body that doesn’t bite back.

This isn’t about guilt.
It’s about perspective.

If your body lets you walk, lift, stretch, sweat, run —
use it.
Respect it.
Thank it.

You don’t have to train like an athlete.
You don’t have to punish yourself.
You just have to move — because you can.

And that…my darling peeps
is the only gift you need. At any time of the year.

Big love.
Jo 💚💫💫

15/12/2025

14/12/2025

Unless you’re driving into blinding glare or genuinely need them — your eyes want that light.

Winter sun isn’t trying to tan you.
It’s trying to talk to your hormones.

Morning and daytime light through the eyes (no glass, no lenses, no sunnies) is how your body knows:
• it’s daytime ☀️
• cortisol should rise gently (energy, not stress)
• melatonin should be saved for tonight 😴
• circadian rhythms can stop being confused toddlers

Block that signal with sunglasses and your body gets mixed messages:
“Is it night? Is it day? Are we a bat?”

Result?
Sluggish energy, wonky sleep, off-key hormones, and that “why do I feel jet-lagged in my own life?” feeling.

Winter light is LOW and precious.
Let it in.

✨ Eyes are endocrine organs.
✨ Light is information, not just brightness.
✨ Your hormones are listening.

So yes — hat on, coat zipped, sunglasses off.
Let the sun clock you in for the day.

Your nervous system will thank you.
Your sleep later will high-five you.
And your hormones? Finally got the memo.

Save this. Share it. And next time the sun pops out in Winter — don’t shade it out of habit.

Big love and allllll the light
Jo
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