Lucy Ascham

19/12/2025

As a diabetic I’m sometimes told - you can’t have cake you have diabetes. I got this card for a birthday a few years back by Minfulmess Ian Blake. It’s a fun way of considering whether to eat cake or not.

Here’s the thing about that question and me with diabetes and coeliac disease.

There are several different sorts of diabetes - pregnancy/gestational, injury or surgical removal of the pancreas, cystic fibrosis, type 2 when the pancreas is overwhelmed with work from diet and lack of exercise and mine - Type 1 Diabetes. There is a hereditary element, and sometimes after a virus the body starts on itself - an autoimmune disease.

So my pancreas is now damaged beyond repair and no longer produces insulin.

Back to the cake question… my flow chart would be…
what is my blood glucose level now?
Have I injected insulin within the last 4 hours?
Am I able to go for a walk or jog after eating?
Have I just been for a walk or jog?
Am I generally feeling well or do I have a virus?
Have I recently eaten anything or due to have a meal?
How many carbs are there in this cake portion I’m thinking of eating?
If I do have a slice, how much insulin will I need to inject?
What is my ratio of carbs:insulin for me at this time of day?
Did I exercise yesterday?

Seriously yes… all of these!

These are just some of the daily internal calculations your healthy pancreas balances hormones and I have to make these consciously - when considering the question of ‘Can I eat cake’.

Then I need to know if it’s 100% gluten free cake and likely to be without contamination from other crumbs of gluten or else I’ll be sick and my guts will be damaged.

Can I eat cake… erm yea sometimes if I fancy it and do the mental gymnastics.

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27/11/2025

🌟 Curious about systemic constellations? 🌟

You are warmly invited to join me for a half‑day taster workshop at the beautiful Whirlow Spirituality Centre, Sheffield.

🗓 Sunday 18 January 2026
⏰ 2–5pm
🎟 Tickets £35 and first come, first served 2:1 ticket offers

This powerful embodied work reveals hidden family & system dynamics, offering fresh insights and gentle healing shifts. One or two participants will be chosen by lottery for a deeper piece of work.

✨ Safe, confidential, welcoming space - no topic is taboo. ✨ “A fascinating workshop… some emotional healing work was done.” – Paul N.

👉 Limited places - book now and experience the healing for yourself!

13/11/2025

Who do you know, in your world,who might be curious to explore Family Systemic Constellations therapy?

I’m delighted to have been invited to share this work at Sunday’s Well-being Day.

You’ll get a chance to come and meet me at my stall and ask questions and for £7.50 you can join in for an experience of this phenomenological work.

We’ll use this process to map out in 3D a family system and together we’ll explore how injury, illness and other life events can effect the whole fabric of a family. Those pulls and tugs can act like an undertow which can steer our lives back towards unhealed events from our ancestors.

It’s beautiful, kind, truthful healing work.

Please share with anyone who can get to Chesterfield this Sunday.

I look forward to seeing you there

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06/11/2025

I warmly invite you to come and experience family and systemic Constellations work in person with me, Lucy Ascham, on Sunday 16 November 11.15am at Casa Hotel Chesterfield. It’s free to come for the day, and a nominal charge for the workshops and tasters.
I’ve got a stall, so please come and say Hello and ask any questions you have about the work.
I offer private sessions online and group sessions - next one day workshop Saturday 22 November in Fulwood Sheffield.

See my website for further details and the booking links.

www.lucyascham.com

23/10/2025

👶✨ Being a Doula is one of the deepest honours of my life.

For 22 years, I’ve supported mums, dads and babies through pregnancy, birth, and those raw, beautiful early days.

From natural birthing classes to hospital visits, nappy changes to gentle Alexander Technique sessions - I offer steady, non-medical attuned care to help families heal and thrive.

This week I bottle-fed a baby, changed a nappy, gave mum her first Alexander session, and remembered the joy (and chaos!) of those early days. I also caught up with three Mums who's teens I once welcomed into the world as newborns. They are now exploring music, tree surgery, and restaurant work.

What a privilege to still be part of their lives.

If you know someone in Sheffield who’s pregnant or navigating new parenthood, I have space for a couple of visits each week through Christmas and into spring.

Let’s start with a conversation 💛

📍 Sheffield
🕊 Home & hospital visits available
🔗 lucyascham.com/whats-on

Photo by unsplash.com/heftiba

21/10/2025

✨ “We are shaped by those who tend us.” – John Powell

Last night in my monthly neuroscience and constellations class, I was invited to represent a mother in a complex adoption story. Without knowing the details, my body responded — tightness around my heart, warmth when connection was felt, and a deep sense of honour in witnessing healing unfold.

This is the quiet power of Systemic Constellations. You don’t need to bring an issue to benefit. Simply witnessing or representing can stir something profound in your own story.

Join me in Sheffield on Saturday 22 November for a full-day workshop. Pay What You Can – all are welcome. Let something shift. Let something soften. Let something new emerge.

📍 Fulwood, Sheffield
🔗 Book here: lucyascham.com/whats-on

21/10/2025

✨ “We are shaped by those who tend us.” – John Powell

Last night in my monthly neuroscience and constellations class with Sarah Peyton, I was invited to represent a mother in a complex adoption story.

Without knowing the details, my body responded - tightness around my heart when I saw the 'mother' representative, warmth when connection was felt with my 'daughter', and a deep sense of honour in witnessing healing unfold.

This is the quiet embodied power of Systemic Constellations. You don’t need to bring an issue to benefit. Simply witnessing or representing can stir something profound in your own story. And bring healing to you and those in your own family system.

Join me in Sheffield on Saturday 22 November for a full-day workshop. Pay What You Can – all are welcome.

Let something shift. Let something soften. Let something new emerge.

📍 Fulwood, Sheffield 🔗 Book here: lucyascham.com/whats-on

10/09/2025

Do you ruminate on what might have been? Do you try and replay the past and wish you’d been able to go down a different path?
Do you try and bargain with fate?

I know I have. And what has stopped it is work.

This powerful healing modality maps out our inner struggles and challenges so we can see what Fate needs to be agreed with.

When we resist or blame or deny our reality, we use A Lot of our life energy.

This beautiful deep work enables us to be supported to see what our younger self and ancestors had to bear in order to pass on Life. And how much it has cost for us to be alive.

And if we can accept our Life at its full cost and bow to Fate, then we can make peace with our past and find renewed energy levels for our future.

I’m grateful to be returning to for a weekend of healing Constellations work.

I’d love to see you there.

27/28 September.

30/07/2025

FREE Unforced Breath workshop TOMORROW Thursday at 6-6.30pm online.

14/07/2025

I'm offering my first Resonance session online this Thursday. Please share this post so others can benefit too, many thanks, Lucy

Join us for an introduction to Resonance, where we will attend to a missed moment of Celebration together online!

14/07/2025

I hope to see you, perhaps you could share with a friend?

Join us for an introduction to Resonance, where we will attend to a missed moment of Celebration together online!

14/07/2025

Join us for an introduction to Resonance, where we will attend to a missed moment of Celebration together online!