Ceri James

20/03/2026

G R I E F
a human experience and emotion that shapes us in more ways than we likely could ever imagine 🤍

19/03/2026

12/03/2026

Does anyone ever truly choose to be “the strong one”?

It’s a label I’ve been given for many years.
And only recently have I begun to recognise the quiet damage it can cause.

It usually begins with well-meaning words.

“I don’t know how you’ve coped.”
“You’re so brave.”
“You’re so strong.”

But the truth is… I never chose to be the strong one.

I was strong because I had no other option.

Strength wasn’t a personality trait.
It was survival.

And over time those words became something else.

They became an identity.

But being “the strong one” often means something far more painful beneath the surface.

It means you were left to carry your pain alone.

It means people assume you can handle more… so they place more weight on your shoulders.

And the hardest part?

The very quality people praise you for often becomes the reason no one realises how much you are hurting.

Your strength comforts everyone else.
But it quietly teaches the world that you do not need comfort too.

I’m slowly learning something important:

Often the people we call strong were simply the ones who had no choice but to endure what others never had to carry.

But strength that was born from survival deserves, one day, to be replaced with support.

So now I am learning something new.

How to ask for balance.
How to ask for reciprocity.
How to allow others to meet me where I am.

Because none of us were ever meant to carry the weight of life alone.

And if you have been the strong one for a very long time…
maybe this is the season where life begins to hold you, too.

🤍
Ceri xx

09/03/2026

It has been nine years since I last felt his physical presence — the reassurance of his grounding energy and the quiet wisdom he so effortlessly shared.

For those fortunate enough not to understand the pain of losing a love so great, they may quietly wonder why, after nine years since he grew his wings and left this earth, the grief can still feel so raw… so tender… and why I still feel called to write about it, to share it.

So I will explain why.

Everything in life has an opposite.
For everything that rises, something must fall.
Where there is light, there is also darkness.
When things are warm, they can also grow cold.

And where there is great love… there is also great grief.

The depth with which we love someone is the depth with which we feel their absence. Because grief, in its truest form, is simply love that has nowhere left to go.

Over the years I have found many ways to honour my Dad — his life, his memory, the imprint he left on my heart. But perhaps the greatest gift of all is that I can still speak about him with such love and tenderness to anyone willing to listen. In doing so, I keep a small part of him alive in this world.

His passing was undoubtedly the moment that cracked open my soul. It shook my world to its very core and left me learning how to live in a world without him.

But more than that… I had to learn who I even was now that he was no longer here.

Everything felt different.
I was different.
Life was different.

And that is another layer of grief many people do not speak about — the grief of losing the version of yourself that existed before the loss.

So to anyone who has lost someone they love — whether it was yesterday or twenty years ago — please know this:

You are not too much for still feeling deeply.
You are not weak for still grieving.
And you are not alone in learning how to live in a world that no longer holds someone your heart still longs for.

Grief is not something we “get over.”
It is something we slowly learn to carry — with love.

Please feel free to share a loved one you miss in the comments and share something with love about them with me

I am here … and I’d be honoured for you to use this space in that way

All my Love
Ceri x x

11/02/2026

So often the words healing and transformation are used as if they’re some kind of spiritual nuance — a magical experience with an even more magnetic, effortless outcome.

But let me gently reassure you of this…

This path is not for the faint of heart.
And in my own lived experience — and in the experiences of those I’ve held space for — it is rarely a path you consciously choose.

It’s more as if your soul calls you toward it
before your body has even had time to catch up.

For many, this journey is initiated by a deeply emotional life event.

The death of a loved one.
Heartbreak.
Divorce.
The loss of identity.
A grief that arrives through many different doorways.

And it’s not a quick fix.

Healing is not a straight line or a single method.

It’s a layered, compounded unfolding - shaped by self-exploration, reflection, practices, tools, and truths that slowly reveal themselves.

What supports one person may not support another.

This path asks you to learn how to breathe through the quiet phases. To wait out the silences where nothing appears to be happening. And to trust them just as much as the moments of momentum, clarity, and rapid change.

It’s piecing together a new puzzle — slowly, imperfectly — until one day, you begin to see a picture that finally fits your soul.

Nothing new is being added to you.

This is ancient wisdom that has always lived within.

You’re simply learning how to uncover it, trust it, and embody it 🤍✨

Sending all my love to anyone who is on their own journey of healing and returning to their own inner light

Ceri x x

09/02/2026

Your soul calls for you to remember your own truth and your own light within 🤍✨

03/02/2026

This didn’t unfold neatly.
It unfolded year by year.

Through moments I didn’t see coming.
Through loss, exhaustion, rebuilding, and choosing myself when it hurt most.

Some years were about surviving.
Some were about unlearning who I’d been.
Some were about finding the courage to live differently.

Awakening isn’t one moment of clarity.
It’s what happens when life cracks you open — and you keep going anyway.

This journey is what shapes the way I work now.
If you’re somewhere in the middle of your own becoming, you’re not alone here 🤍

29/01/2026

When one photo holds the beginning of a story so deep, so life-changing, so emotional…

This one is it.

The evening of 8th March 2017 — I took this photo to send to my mum to tell her I’d be super late home from the hairdressers. My hair colour had gone fluorescent yellow/orange (the photo really doesn’t show the full disaster 🙈).

My mum was at home looking after my six-week-old twins and my four-year-old son, as my then husband was away working.

I was truly upset about my hair that evening…

But within 24 hours, my life would come crashing down around me.
An ache in my heart so big I would forget how to breathe with ease for a long time to come.
The catalyst for my awakening was now just inches away.

On Friday 9th March 2017, my beloved father passed away suddenly and unexpectedly while he was away working.
No drama.
No rush of emergency care.
No noise at all.
Just a phone call… and then sudden, all-consuming emptiness.

Awakenings are often brought on by major life events and trauma like this — though I had no awareness of that at the time. No understanding. No realisation of the path that would unfold from this one moment.

Grief is love with nowhere physical to go.
We are asked to navigate emotions we have never felt before. There is no “end” to grief — we are simply squeezed into a space where we must grow beyond who we were, so we can become strong enough to hold it.

That kind of healing is deep, intimate, lonely, painful, exhausting… and all-consuming.

But what I have discovered is this:
As we grow to hold grief, we also expand our ability to love.
Grief cannot exist without love, and love cannot exist without grief — they are intricately connected 🤍

And so, even from something so painful, beauty can exist ✨

I look back at this photo now and send that version of me the expansion of love I can hold today.
I want to tell her she has remarkable strength, integrity, determination and beauty within her.
That she will conquer what she sets her mind to.
That while the journey won’t be easy, she will one day be so proud of the woman she becomes — for the love she can hold, the wisdom she can share, the life she rebuilds and the purpose she carries 🤍✨

A simple photo to some…
But a thousand feelings, stories, lessons and journeys to me 🙏🏻

And to anyone sitting in grief, loss, trauma, heartache or sadness —
You can and will move through this.
One moment. One breath. One feeling at a time 🤍✨

06/01/2026

Awakening is the process of returning to the true light of your soul … the process of remembering your own truth, guidance and inner light ✨

31/12/2025

I spent so many years listening to people telling me I was ‘too’ sensitive, mocking me for ‘being a cry baby’ or letting things bother me too much … but, I’ve come to realise that this was NEVER a weakness, it was a gift, something that some people spend a whole lifetime never mastering, never being able to tap in to …

I am able to feel my emotions so deeply, hold space for them and evaluate them in order to process them to live freely whilst many others only suppress them because they are so afraid of them.

My ability to sense other people emotions allows me to reach out to comfort, to heal and be empathetic with those I choose to help …

My sensitivity makes me even more beautifully ME ✨

I’m not afraid of my emotions or anyone else’s because I’ve allowed myself to feel them, experience them and heal them 🙏🏻🤍✨

Never allow anyone to tell you your sensitivity is a weakness or something to hide - it’s a beautiful gift 🤍

Ceri x x

14/12/2025

These are my must do’s for getting connected with Angels - it’s easier than you may think 🤍✨

04/12/2025

When people, situations, jobs or circumstances fall away, just know that it’s simply the Angels responding to your souls deep inner call to live in truth and alignment - trusting the process 🤍🙏🏻✨ Ceri x