Arras Healing

25/07/2025

I’m heartbroken by what is happening in Gaza and the preventable, unconscionable, and downright evil cruelty that is being inflicted on the people who live there. We are leaderless and we are being led by corrupt, immoral and undependable politicians and billionaires.

What is happening in Gaza could be ended in the space of a few hours. Yet it won’t be. Why?

None of these so-called leaders have our best interests at heart, not here nor in Gaza. Everything is about money and profit and greed. Whether it is taking disability payments from the most vulnerable people in Britain, whilst funding billions in arms sales to the Middle East — or whether it is intentionally starving men, women and children in a distant place on our TV screens and then making empty and desensitised statements in parliament about it. This is a tipping point for our species. We are the only species ever known to this planet which intentionally harms, assaults, abuses and tortures each other. We are a deeply wounded humanity.

Change begins by taking some small step in a different direction. By saying no to media silence, by saying no to our pathetic leaders, by saying no to global narcissistic control, by saying no to relentless growth and capitalism, by saying no to war, by saying no to manmade starvation, by saying no to the use of drones in conflict, by saying no to minefields, by saying no to conscription, by saying no to racism, by saying no to corruption, by saying no to liars, by saying no all day every day.

As a species our felt sense of NO has been controlled and corrupted for thousands of years, to the point many of us no longer recognise it in our bodies, and instead we blame ourselves for “being triggered” or “feeling emotional” or “being dysregulated.” When in reality the dominant culture has confused our sense of consent within our own bodies.

This plays out on a macro and micro level across our lives every day.

Keep saying NO. It counts, it matters.

Which hill will you die upon, they mock? So that we may not know ourselves.

Find your no and then you’ll find your conviction

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20/07/2025

When fear is present in our relations to others, it means there is less access to resourcing within and perhaps less access to grounding. We may feel destabilised, threatened or even offended. I have seen this played out in homeless hostels before, and in other settings such as cafes where a person with a learning disability has been deeply misunderstood by staff and asked to leave.

Inevitably, this causes the trauma of separation and "other-ing" to deepen in those marginalised individuals who are on the receiving end of it.

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03/07/2025

Like many people with some kind of online presence (however small), I have struggled to find anything helpful or useful to say over the last 3 years, as the world has unravelled more and more into bloody war

There is still little that I can say or do that will be of any help or consequence, but I continue to be devoted to healing war trauma in my soul and in my shadow, so that this may shift something in the collective

A few things I will say, centred upon this quote that I came across online, though I'm not sure of it's original source:

"We must love our children more than we hate each other."

Children are the sacred made manifest on Earth. And all of us were once children. All of us carry the child inside us, in our soul. Some of us have children

We are still children, and always will be
The child IS the soul

So when we march off nameless, faceless men to die on distant soils in Europe...

When we take funding from the most vulnerable and disabled people, to save a meagre 5 billion, when we fund that amount every day to the huge arms companies...

When we create the conditions for bombs to be dropped on helpless women and children and doctors and nurses...

When we allow our media and so-called leaders to distract us with clickbait headlines about small fry stuff to manipulate our minds and feelings...

We are not telling the truth...

We are sentencing our children to die
We are sentencing our men to die agonising, lonely, undignified deaths
We are sentencing our women to bear the trauma for the next seven generations

Only one thing can break the seven generations burden we are risking and that is love. Only love can make us lucid enough for a moment to break the spell of bloodlust, war p**n, and money greed

To stop the Telegram scrolling
To stop the flashbacks
To stop the bombs and bullets and drones
To end the wrongness of merciless killing

If we cannot love our enemies, can we love our children?

30/06/2025

Back in 2022, I shared about my new pair of grounding trainers from shoe brand Bahé. Since then I've continued to wear my .movement shoes to near-threads and have purchased several other pairs in different colours! If that's not an endorsement then I don't know what is

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Grounding is a go-to daily essential for me. I written more about this over the years, from the lived perspective of me – an AuDHD woman in long-standing recovery from complex trauma

To ground, we make direct skin contact with bare hands or feet with the surface of the Earth e.g. grass, sand, mud, soil, rock, gravel, stones or even concrete if it is not painted or sealed

Some Vitamin G enthusiasts also declare that water, such as wading in the sea or rivers, is grounding. This could be another reason why wild swimming is becoming so popular 🏊‍♂️

Grounding works because the Earth's surface is inundated with enormous amounts of free electrons

Such electrons, when conducted to the human body, result in favourable physiological changes. Previous research has demonstrated attenuation of the inflammatory response, decreased red blood cells RBC aggregation, improved heart rate variability, and a favourable impact on blood viscosity (Sinatra, et al, 2023)

Because we are electrical beings, the electrical currents in the Earth can interact with ours and bring many benefits to our health and wellbeing.

This is great news – and it's free!

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Nowadays, grounding tech is on the rise and you can purchase anything from earthing bedsheets to computer mats, to blankets and footwear. This is a fresh new market which is only going to keep building in popularity. Perhaps one day we will also see earthing cars and buses, and grounding smart phones! That would be fun

Bahé offer barefoot shoes and sandals, as well as their original running shoe (which is now on sale for an extra 20% off)

From July 7th they will be 30% off

You can still use affiliate code ARRAS10 for an additional 10% off on top of that, and spread the word about bare feet living!

~Candy

29/06/2025

A personal favourite of mine! If you need access to calm and regulation for your nervous system, or another grounding resource when working with clients or groups ~ try this simple Horizon Scanning exercise. You can add variations and add-ons to personalise it for your own practice.

Practise this in different environments to build reliable somatic embodiment and to start to attune to your emotional needs.

~Candy

If you need access to calm and regulation for your nervous system, or another grounding resource when working with clients or groups ~ try this simple Horizo...

22/06/2025

In the interest of demonstrating what vulnerable leadership actually looks like, and walking my talk, I'm sharing this transparent update with my Facebook followers:

Thanks for everyone's patience & support over the last 4 months. I am aware that my social media has been more about blogging than concrete offerings.

As some of you know, back in February I was the victim of a horrible assault in my NHS healthcare workplace role. I reported this to the police as fraud, malicious comms, and stalking. The person who targeted me chose to impersonate Arras Healing, went out of their way to stalk me online, created a fake profile under my name, and sent messages to my employer, causing me great distress, horror, and intimidation. In the ensuing HR investigation I was left feeling traumatised, emotionally and psychologically abused, and eventually, devalued and discarded. It appears that there have been no consequences for my attacker, who I reported to the police, and despite multiple whistle-blowing attempts I feel that the effects on me of this whole experience have been detrimental, minimised and ignored.

Enduring this over the last 4 months has not been easy, and I have been left feeling very abused and mistreated by both the attack and by my employer. It has meant that all of my work with Arras came to a complete standstill.

I've now unfortunately left my employment which has put me in a difficult place financially which I do not feel was of my choosing, and was the effects of bullying and harassment in the workplace. I'm considering my options at the moment, whether to go back to the police with the additional evidence I now have, and whether to pursue anything further with my employer's treatment and handling of the investigation, such as constructive dismissal and whistleblowing detriment.

I'm sharing this openly and vulnerably because I've felt increasingly silenced and without-a-voice over the last 4 months. This has been a direct effect of the assault and trauma I've gone through. It has massively affected my confidence and feelings of safety online. I've evidence that my social media continues to be stalked. I've also been struggling with IBS and chronic sinusitis, caused by the stress and negative energy of the bullying and attack.

Not sure there are any positives, as I have now lost my job, but I am hopeful that there are brighter, kinder things around the corner for me. In some ways, this feels like the beginning of the rest of my life.

I am hopeful to gradually get back into the swing with Arras Healing's offerings too, as my confidence returns ❤️ Right now, it isn't there yet, and I've got a lot of picking myself up to do. Once again, thank you for your patience & I do sincerely hope to be back to it properly soon

~Candy

14/06/2025

Last week, just before the full moon, 🌕 I recorded a short ancestral meditation and blessing. It’s now on YouTube and starts at around 2:30 minutes in. Before this, just a bit of background and why I felt moved to offer something from this part of Yorkshire and Britain, out into the greater collective. Giving thanks to the ancestors of land & place who support this blessing 🫶🏻 Enjoy!

Meditation itself begins at 2:30 and before this a couple of minutes recognising the recent film premiere and online gathering for The Eternal Song. Last wee...

14/06/2025

A beautiful reminder. Worth the read. Speaks to so much of what I've been travelling with over the last 5 years intensively, here in this little part of East Yorkshire. It's a trial and error relationship on the animism path, I often make mistakes, I often get things wrong or don't understand something ~ the trick is in remaining humble and owning up to when you get things wrong, saying when you don't know, when you don't understand, with the land, ancestors, and all our "relations" (as indigenous peoples often say). It's particularly okay to admit honestly that you will never understand, and it's very healthy to own up and acknowledge that you know absolutely nothing. That is being on the trail of the great mystery, in earnest.

Let me share something that lives deep in our teachings — something our old ones knew, and that the land still whispers to those who listen with more than just their ears.

All of creation — the rivers, the rocks, the stars, the wind — it isn’t separate from us. It is us. It’s not just out there; it lives inside of us too. That Great Mystery — the one our people call the Breath, the Spirit, the Law that cannot be broken — moves through all things. It is not a theory. It is you. It is me. It is the root system that connects all our relations, seen and unseen.

We weren’t put here to dominate creation — we were woven into it.

That’s why our ancestors taught us not to say “it” when speaking of a tree, or a bear, or a thundercloud — because they are not objects. They are beings. Relations. And when we begin to see the face of the sacred in the other — even in the smallest blade of grass — we begin to remember the I/thou relationship that western ways tried to make us forget.

This is the essence of what many now call “Natural Law” — but our people have known it as wâhkôtowin, as mîyo wicehtowin, as kinship and right relation since time began. It’s the understanding that we live in a circle, not a ladder. That everything has a spirit. That the world is not a resource — it is a relative.

So when we speak to the water, or offer to***co to the winds, it’s not superstition. It’s a renewal of relationship. It’s a remembering of who we are.

Because the secret is this: that Great Mystery you’ve been searching for outside?

It’s been inside you all along.

Tâpwê.

—Kanipawit Maskwa
John Gonzalez
Standing Bear Network

08/06/2025

This has been a brilliant gathering and an immense blessing so far ~ and still 2 days to go!

03/06/2025

I've just finished watching the film premiere of The Eternal Song, from which features Tiokasin Ghosthorse and other indigenous spiritual and community leaders throughout

I highly recommend signing up to their 6-day gathering which is free to do so online, and you get access to the film for 48 hours, as well as the option to join live talks and Q&As

The gathering is described as thus:

We cannot heal alone.
But we also cannot wait for the world to be healed before beginning.
Personal healing and collective healing are threads of the same weave—

pulled together, they can mend what we’ve been told is beyond repair.

This is what The Eternal Song holds space for:

a re-remembering of wholeness. A call to tend not only the body, but the lineage.

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If you are, like me, on the path of ancestral oneness and learning from the land ~ in the hope that it's not too late to avoid global disaster ~ not too late to prevent the worst effects of collapse ~ not too late to ensure that we do not turn against each other when it matters ~ then I recommend this special film. It's deeply moving and I'm looking forward to the live talks over the next 6 days. It is a prayer and I have received the message, with gladness, which I commit to passing forward

Here's the link to sign up: https://theeternalsong.org/

~Candy

26/05/2025

Reflective practice for breathworkers, breath professionals, breath dabblers, and wellness coaches and therapists is now into its 3rd year, when I took over facilitation of this group from the original course leader that I trained with (gratitude for that opportunity back then)

Although I now work way less with clients and groups than I did back in 2022, I hope that I still have a lot to offer in terms of peer support, knowledge, skills, and mentoring to others on the path of holistic and somatic wellness (alongside and in equal collab with the other lovely and experienced peeps who come along to these)

We are a group who continue to meet monthly on the last Friday of the month, with our next gathering later this week (30th May)

A lot of our discussions are around personal growth and development, as well as collective trouble-shooting for client work and group work, or sharing of CPD opportunities. Two, three, four, five heads are always better than one!

Our sessions are also guided and contained within a framework of ethics and values which we carry into every meeting, and which we co-developed into being

There is room for you at the inn if you'd like to come along!
~Candy