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20/04/2025

03/04/2025

Macclesfield Cancer Help Centre is looking for additional reflexologists and other complementary therapists to join our team of dedicated volunteers. You must have a level 3 or level 5 qualification, including training in cancer and palliative care, and ideally, experience of working with clients affected by cancer.

We are a non-medicalised drop-in centre for cancer patients and their carers. We offer various 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 offer support every Tuesday between 10am and 2pm to people of Macclesfield, Congleton and surrounding areas.

If you would like to join us and can donate your time and skills once or twice per month in this rewarding and enjoyable role; we would love to hear from you. In the first instance, please call the Centre on 07981 899526. More information can be found by visiting https://www.macclesfieldcancerhelp.com/

Thank you 🙏

Macclesfield Cancer Help Centre (MCHC) opened its doors in September 2004 with the aim to provide friendship, help, information and support, and a range of complementary therapies for our visitors. We would like to be inclusive of those who may be living with cancer or who are in remission, whatever...

30/03/2025

Thinking of you all today on Mothers Day 💖

13/03/2025

This popped up on my timeline Heather Glover , you are a true warrior woman who I have the privilege to see and work with. I can’t believe this was 5 years ago and who would have imagined what was just around the corner with lockdown approaching at that time 😳 you are an inspiration xx

11/03/2025

Link to the paper :
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40034721/

08/03/2025

Happy International Women’s Day, to you all you amazing women out there xx

06/03/2025

As a genetic scientist as well as fertility reflexologist I find this so fascinating - everything is connected

During pregnancy, fetal cells migrate out of the womb and into a mother’s heart, liver, lung, kidney, brain, and more. They could shape moms’ health for a lifetime, Katherine J. Wu reported in 2024:⁠ https://theatln.tc/wpcelUjO
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The presence of these cells, known as microchimerism, is thought to affect every person who has carried an embryo, even if briefly, and anyone who has ever inhabited a womb. The cross-generational transfers are bidirectional—as fetal cells cross the placenta into maternal tissues, a small number of maternal cells migrate into fetal tissues, where they can persist into adulthood. ⁠
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Genetic swaps, then, might occur several times throughout a life. Some researchers believe that people may be miniature mosaics of many of their relatives, via chains of pregnancy: their older siblings, perhaps, or their maternal grandmother, or any aunts and uncles their grandmother might have conceived before their mother was born. “It’s like you carry your entire family inside of you,” Francisco Úbeda de Torres, an evolutionary biologist at the Royal Holloway University of London, told Wu.⁠
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Some scientists have argued that cells so sparse and inconsistent couldn’t possibly have meaningful effects. Even among microchimerism researchers, hypotheses about what these cells do—if anything at all—remain “highly controversial,” Sing Sing Way, an immunologist and a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, told Wu. But many experts contend that microchimeric cells aren’t just passive passengers. They are genetically distinct entities. And they might hold sway over many aspects of health: our susceptibility to infectious or autoimmune disease, the success of pregnancies, maybe even behavior. ⁠
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If these cells turn out to be as important as some scientists believe they are, they might be one of the most underappreciated architects of human life, Wu writes. ⁠
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Read more: https://theatln.tc/wpcelUjO

03/03/2025

The lovely Maui wanted first dibs of Reflexology, before treating my client last week , apparently showing his tongue means he is feeling very relaxed 🐾 👅

03/03/2025

Special moments today for this new mum receiving facial reflexology, incorporating shoulder neck and head massage, while her baby girl was sleeping.

The focus was on releasing tension across the shoulders .

Photos taken during and after treatment.

It was especially special to meet this beautiful baby and have a cuddle after treating mum before and throughout her pregnancy 💖

27/02/2025

Lovely when clients share that they’re enjoying reading your latest magazine article 💖

08/02/2025

You can find my Bach Flower Registered Practitioner listing here : https://bachcentre.com/en/contact/practitioners/

This enables me to carry out remedy consultations in person or by phone or zoom and post remedies to you.

A consultation consists of exploring the specific emotions you are feeling, in relation to events or situations, relationships, anxieties, worries or concerns or from past trauma and grief that you may be holding.

This process in itself is validating of your experience, allowing you to feel acknowledged and heard, in a non judgemental safe space.

🇬🇧 Lets face it the great British stiff upper lip “keep calm and carry on” culture, that once serves us during the war years, has not been the best at speaking about feelings or even recognising or allowing them within themselves, let alone anyone else. The science now shows us that this culture of bottling up and not acknowledging feelings, maybe for fear of being shamed or judged, can lead to long term chronic physical and mental health conditions, as well
impacting on relationships.

Specific flower remedies are selected for a personalised mix of up to 7 remedies, addressing emotions felt, to allow them to be gently supported, to dissipate and release, bringing about a sense of calm.

They are gentle, safe, non addictive and don't interact with medications, suitable for anyone, including in pregnancy, palliative care, for infants and elderly alike.

The calm that they help to bring about is like a coming home to our natural, best self and fullest true potential, feeling contentment. At an extreme, they can and recently have been used, to help others who have even felt so desperate, that they have wanted to end their lives.

They can also be used for infants and pets, where the effects can be witnessed, demonstrating, that they are not simply a placebo effect.

Just recently, I had the joy of making a remedy mix for a 2 year old who really wasn't his usual buoyant self and was being quite fractious.

His mum, a fertility and maternity client, 2nd time around, was days away from giving birth to her overdue 2nd child and the toddler was no doubt sensing imminent change and feeling unsettled.

His mum reported that after taking the remedy, he was like a different child and back to his normal self, ready to welcome his little sister with joy and happiness.

It was so wonderful to support this toddler and family, by reducing the effects of trauma that he might otherwise have felt, during such a big transition in his little life, such as separation anxiety, that we know can impact on their future life and relationships.

Additionally, mum was supported with reflexology and flower remedies during pregnancy to minimise stress , since it is known that stress signals picked up by the foetus from mother when in utero can impact on stress and anxiety levels in the infant and in fact throughout their life, due to epigenetics - emotions and energy are the only language that a foetus and infants really know for the first few years of life.

These Remedies really are the perfect complement to Reflexology and Foot Reading.

Congratulations to this lovely family

Find your closest Practitioners: Where they are based, what they are called & their contact information - Discover more here!

03/02/2025

It is so important to be aware of environmental toxins - in this case hormone mimicking parabens and phthalates, uses for preserving and in plastics - only tiny micro dose amounts can have an impact - avoiding them can reduce and even reverse risks of hormone driven cancers

BREAKING RESEARCH: Study shows avoiding the preservatives parabens & phthalates reverses cancer-related changes in breast tissue.

And the changes can be seen in just 28 days. The study was published in Chemosphere.

Researchers analyzed breast tissue samples before and after a 28-day period, revealing significant reversals of cancer-associated phenotypes. These changes included alterations in key cellular pathways such as PI3K-AKT/mTOR, autophagy, and apoptotic signaling, which are all linked to cancer development.

The study suggests that even short-term avoidance of these chemicals may have a measurable impact on breast tissue at the molecular level.

Parabens and phthalates are widely used as preservatives and fragrance enhancers in cosmetics and personal care products, but they also act as xenoestrogens — synthetic compounds that mimic estrogen in the body.

Since estrogen plays a role in breast cancer development, reducing exposure to these chemicals may help lower the risk of cancer-related cellular changes. This research underscores the importance of choosing products free from harmful endocrine disruptors and highlights a potential preventive strategy against breast cancer.

Learn more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36746253/ #:~:text=Breast%20Cancer%20Over%20Time%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA%2C,USA.%20*%20PMID:%2036746253.%20*%20DOI:%2010.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138014.