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GloJo, Leigh-on-Sea (2025)

29/11/2025

Health starts at Home……💫
Ever opened a delivery and thought, “Why do I suddenly feel weird?”
Same. And it turns out… it’s not just us being delicate little flowers — it’s the box.

Yep. Cardboard.
The so-called “innocent” box that shows up like,
“Hi, I brought your parcel… and also a bonus histamine spike.”
Cheers, babe.

And with Christmas coming — aka that time of year when cardboard tents practically set up camp in your living room — our bodies get even more to deal with.

Here’s the stuff most people never hear about:
📦 Cardboard absorbs VOCs during manufacturing.
📦 It soaks up fumes + warehouse chemicals like a sponge.
📦 Recycled fibres = extra mystery contaminants.
📦 Dust, mould spores, diesel residue… the whole party.
📦 And if you’ve got a sensitive system? Your body feels every bit of it.

That “why do I feel off when parcels arrive?” moment?
Not in your head.
Not dramatic.
Not you being “too sensitive.”
It’s your body going: dude what is THIS?

A few tiny tweaks make a big difference:
✨ Open boxes by the door
✨ Break them down immediately
✨ Don’t let them linger indoors
✨ Wash hands after touching packaging
✨ Keep your air as clean as possible
✨ Wear gloves and a mask when opening
✨ Create a low-tox home your nervous system can actually relax in

Tell me I’m not alone…
Have you ever felt unwell opening a delivery?

Big love
Jo
💚💫

26/11/2025

The gift of a chronic health condition……
I get ridiculously excited about sunrises and anytime I am outside in nature. Not just because they’re magical and pretty (even though they are), but because for years I couldn’t even get outside to see them.

When M.E. hit, I went from super fit and hyper energy to bed bound… couldn’t shower… terrified about what was happening to my body.
I missed springs.
I missed Christmases.
Birthdays.
Gigs.
Whole seasons of my life passed without me being able to step outside and feel the world.

So now?
Every single morning my body lets me walk — even a little — it’s a gift. A privilege. A miracle in motion.

If you’re in that place right now, I want you to hear this with your whole heart:
Find a way. Never give up.
Find a way, never give up.
Find a way, never give up.

The path back to better health is rarely straight. It’s messy, crooked, challenging… but there is a path.
Keep going.
You’ve got this.
Truly. ✨
Love
Jo
💚

23/11/2025

🌹Artificial fragrance isn’t just a harmless “nice smell.”
It’s a chemical cocktail made from petroleum-derived ingredients, solvents, fixatives, preservatives, and endocrine-disrupting compounds… all hiding behind one harmless-looking word: “fragrance.” And promoted and sold to you by beautiful billionaire pop stars. Who really should know better. And do better! Anyway….. 🫠

Brands don’t have to list what’s in it.
So that one word “fragrance”can contain dozens—sometimes hundreds—of chemicals linked to:

✨ Headaches & migraines
✨ Skin irritation & allergic reactions
✨ Hormone disruption
✨ Nervous-system imbalance
✨ Asthma & respiratory issues
✨ Fertility impact
✨ Gut disruption
✨ MCAS flares & histamine chaos
(And overall toxicity which can lead to much bigger diseases…..)

And the problem?
These chemicals get into your home, your skin, your clothes, your lungs — and your body has to deal with all of it.

When you’re sensitive, healing, or just want to reduce your toxic load, ditching artificial fragrance is one of the fastest, most impactful changes you can make.

Ditch the poison — switch to nature.
Your body will thank you. Your home will breathe again.
And your nervous system will FINALLY stop fighting invisible battles.

If you want clean scent options without the chemicals, my GloHome blends are made for sensitive souls and don’t compromise on gorgeousness.
🌿 Room • Body • Mood
🕊 Scents for the Soul

Have you made the switch? Let me know?

22/11/2025

⚡️If you have M.E, POTS or Fibromyalgia- have you looked at histamine overload? And how it could be driving a lot of symptoms? Or maybe you are already tangled up with histamine overload or MCAS and can’t work out what’s best to do.

Are you fed up with the push–crash cycle?
Tired of mysterious symptoms that suck the joy out of life — the fatigue, flushing, itching, heart palpitations, food reactions, and “why is my body doing this?!” moments?

You’re not crazy, and you’re not broken. The missing puzzle piece might be histamine overload.

I created The Histamine Handbook to help you finally connect the dots. Inside, you’ll find:
✨ Calm, doable, evidence-based steps that actually make a difference
✨Practitioner insights and frameworks
✨ Real insight into how histamine affects energy, hormones + nervous system
✨ Practical tweaks you can start today — no fear tactics, no fluff, no overwhelm

It’s everything I wish I’d had when I was stuck in survival mode — a clear roadmap to help you take back control of your health, one week at a time.

💚 This weekend only: get £10 off with code THANKYOU10
Investing £20 in your health could save you months (or years) of confusion, frustration, and wasted energy. That’s health economics done right.

👉 Grab your copy via the link in my bio or just ask me in the comments and I’ll send it to you! 💚💚💚💚💚💚

Big love
Jo
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Peace, love + health,
Jo 💚✨

21/11/2025

Sunshine. Get in it. The End. ☀️
Muchos love
Your sun lizard
Jo
⭐️💚⭐️

19/11/2025

🪫 If you’re in an M.E crash, here’s what I have personally found useful. Not prescriptive. Not advice. Just lived experience + what the research hints at. (Loads of you have fed back to me on this that it’s helped so resharing!)

💚Comment below and I’ll send you the link for my preferred brand. Not an affiliate or ad! Just sharing what I love and rate.

The detail!
🔋 When your body bottoms out, you’re dealing with an ATP shortfall — the cellular energy currency you burn just to stay upright. In a crash, ATP production slows, demand spikes, and everything feels like hard work.

⭐️Why D-Ribose .works may help:
It’s a simple sugar your body uses to rebuild ATP. Some studies show it can support faster energy recovery when the tank is empty. It’s not a miracle — but for some of us it softens the crash.

⚠️ Most D-Ribose is corn-derived — MCAS/histamine sensitive folks, keep an eye on that.

Alongside that, stick to the basics that genuinely move the needle:

• Quiet + rest — nervous system downshift first, always.
• CoQ10 — supports mitochondrial energy pathways.
• Magnesium — calms tension + supports cellular energy processes.
• Vitamin C — gentle support for repair and stress load. Acetyl L carntine and Niacin (B3)

Check out the work of Dr Sarah Myhill for more on this…….. Her book is my numero uno recommendation!!!

And the big one people overlook:

OPTIMUM nutrition.
Crashes make you crave comfort food, but that’s the exact moment your body needs the cleanest fuel.
Think race car — you wouldn’t pour cheap petrol into a high-performance engine mid-race.
Same principle here. Give your cells what they need to rebuild, not more inflammation to fight.

None of this is a directive.
Just what helped me climb out of the hole faster — shared in case it brings clarity or direction for your own exploration.

💚

18/11/2025

🚿 Most people who are health centric know the deal with tap water and filter what they drink…
But what about what we shower and bathe in?

Honestly. Your skin and lungs would like a quiet word…. And they’ve sent me to be the messenger.

Tap water isn’t just “water”. It carries chlorine, by-products, and all sorts of bits we don’t need marinating into our skin or steaming into our faces first thing in the morning.
And if you’re sensitive like me, that chlorine steam? Absolutely not. My body said “nope” years ago.

So I filter my shower water.
Simple. Affordable. Zero drama.
I use the Water2 filter — not an ad, not an affiliate link, nothing to declare. Just what I personally use because it makes a noticeable difference and also makes me feel safe in the knowledge that the steamy water Im surrounding myself in isn’t another chemical cocktail to contend with!! God knows us sensitive souls have enough to contend with!

If you’ve never tried filtering your shower before, consider this your sign.
Your skin is your biggest organ. Treat it like the queen she is. 👑🚿

Let me know if you’ve tried a shower filter too and how it went……

Big love
Jo
💚⭐️💚

17/11/2025

I am ALLERGIC to the cold. 🥶 But. I live in the U.K. and it’s autumn - almost Winter and so I have to try and roll with it and find ways to work with it.

At this time of year, I prioritise getting as much of my skin into the sun as humanly possible. If there’s a rare British sunbeam, I’m in it like a lizard on day release.

Yes, sunlight helps you make Vitamin D… but that’s honestly just the headline act. The sun is basically nature’s full-body charger, and it gives us WAY more than one nutrient.

🌞 Nitric oxide – helps with blood flow, vascular tone, warmth, and that lovely “my body’s actually alive” feeling.
🌞 Infrared light – supports mitochondrial energy, reduces inflammation, and helps your nervous system calm down.
🌞 Circadian rhythm cues – your brain literally uses natural light to regulate hormones, immunity, and mood. Winter can knock this off, so sunlight is like hitting the reset button.
🌞 Immune modulation – sunlight nudges your immune system into a more balanced, less reactive place.
🌞 Serotonin boost – hello mood lift, goodbye seasonal slump.
🌞 Keeps microbes and fungis in check. Get sunlight on your stomach area to help with your gut health during winter!

So yes. I’m allergic to the cold. And having autonomic dysfunction - it is not good for me to get cold. But I live in the UK — it’s basically cold 9 months of the year — so we have to work with it instead of fighting it.

when the sun appears, even for ten minutes, I treat it like medicine. Skin out. Face up. Letting my cells remember what “warm” feels like.

The plus side is for those of us with MCAS, we can tolerate the sunshine more in winter.

Your body notices these tiny rituals more than you think.

Get your glow where and when you can ☀️

13/11/2025

⛑️ I have definitely gone to many GP / hospital appointments expecting them to tell me what was going wrong with my body and hand me the answer on a silver platter. And quickly!! I did that at the start of my journey. Begging them to tell me what was wrong and how long it was going to go on for.

I did get my diagnosis of M.E and POTS. And then MCAS. But no treatment plans or how to heal.

This lead me to feel drained, frustrated, and going round in circles.

Here’s the truth:
The modern medical system is what it is.
It has its strengths, but it’s not designed for complex, multisystem dysfunction. Medical science simply hasn’t caught up yet. And expecting a GP to solve something the textbooks don’t yet fully understand? That’s a fast track to disappointment.The NHS essentially offers three routes: meds, surgery, therapy. That’s the model. Anything outside of that — nutrition, root-cause work, functional approaches, quantum health, lifestyle — lives beyond the standard pathway.

And that’s where your power comes in. ⚡️

The day I stopped bouncing around the system waiting for someone to “fix me,” my trajectory changed. I realised I had to become my own medical detective — grounded, informed, and in the driver’s seat.

✨ Do your research. Go to BMJ, The Lancet, PubMed. Understand the basics of what you’re asking for.

✨ Go into appointments with intention.
“What’s the one thing I want from this today?”

✨ If you want to try a medication, arrive prepared.
Know the dose range, the evidence, the rationale. Your GP can only prescribe within what’s evidence-based — help them help you.

✨ Collaborate, don’t hand your power over.
Work with your GP. Partnership beats passivity every time.

✨ Accept the system for what it is.
When you stop expecting it to be something it isn’t, the frustration melts away, and you actually start getting more out of it.

💚 All said with love — and hard-won experience from someone who spent years bouncing through the system. I know how hard and challenging it is. But you’ve got this. FAW&NGU*
*Find a way and Never Give Up
Big love
Jo
💚💫💚

12/11/2025

🚙 A younger version of myself would have reacted to my car failing it’s MOT. It would’ve sent me into a spin — the stress, the money, the drama of it all. The unfairness. Why why why! Yes. Very dramatic!

Now? I just sighed, had a cup of walk through the park and thought: well, at least it’s not my body.

When you’ve lived with a health condition for over a decade, you get perspective — real, grounded, unshakeable perspective.

You stop reacting to life’s smaller fires because you’ve already walked through the big ones.

The gift (yes, gift) of long-term health challenges is that they recalibrate your sense of proportion.
Car fails its MOT? Annoying, not tragic.
Day goes off plan? Fine, we adapt.
Someone cuts you off in traffic? Whatever, maybe they’re having their own ‘MOT fail’ kind of day.

When you’ve rebuilt yourself piece by piece, nothing external holds quite the same power.
You just crack on.
Stoic. Grounded. Calm.
Because the things that used to break you… don’t even make a dent anymore.

And responding rather than reacting is a key part of the healing journey!

Can you relate?

Big love.
Jo
💚💚💚💚

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