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Peacock Reiki, Main Street, West Wemyss (2025)

23/09/2025

There’s a song I’ve been listening to on repeat these last few days…not just because it’s a beautiful song but because something in it resonates with me.

The song is called ‘returning to myself’ - and in a way I think this is what life might be about.

We come into this existence, into this physical form as a divine spirit. We are powerful, knowing, connected, creative & loving beyond any earthy understanding.

But life, all that happens to us, all that shapes us, molds and influences us takes us further and further away from that light - from our own spirit.

It isn’t very long before our light is covered over by the grime of life - and our earthly body & mind is made to forget that it is part of God. That it is divine and whole and perfect and powerful. That it is love incarnate.

Life can be hard, it can be unbearably cruel for some people.

And those hard experiences and events, and those people who shaped and influenced us from childhood onwards, and the spiritless society around us, cause us to forget who we are & look outwith ourselves for solutions or comfort.

I can think of periods in my life where I have been very far from myself. Where I looked everywhere else but inside me.

But the gift, the healing, the strength and the power lie within us when we return to ourselves. To our own spirit.

The best people on your journey will guide you back there. To yourself. To reconnect you to your light.

A verse in the song says:

“Is it evolving turning inward?
Oh, what an easy way to be
Only kneeling at the altar of
The great and mighty me”

And that’s what all of us need to remember. Who we are. To kneel at our own altar. Seeking the answers from our own divinity.

Remembering that we ARE great and mighty as spirit - though our human part might well feel weak and powerless and at times worthless.

That’s NOT who we are.

Another verse says:

“Let me break myself apart
Instead and scatter to my birds
Like a burial at sea
To be the gospel without words”

And that is also who we are. Now I love scripture, I have a bible by my bed - but there is no holy book holier than your spirit. When we, piece by piece, rid ourselves of all that we aren’t. We return to our spirit.

It is the direct link to the divine. Because it IS the divine.

YOU are the gospel without words.

And when you return to yourself you are returning to the maker and creator. As much a part of you as the tallest mountains and mighty oceans are.

But we aren’t doing this alone.

We are born into community with other souls:

“There's no honor in the pilgrimage
Until a soul returns
To hold another's hand and then
And only then it learns
That life is like a stone
Only skipping for a time”

And that’s what life is. We are here for a blink of our eternal eye. Like a stone skimming along the water. Then that part is done and we return home - and we are all, as Ram Dass memorably said:

‘walking each other home’.

If we can take each other’s hand for the short time we are here. If we can remind them and remind ourselves of who we are. We might all return to ourselves. To our light. At this stage in my life - it’s the only thing I really want to do.

And what a world this would then be - on earth as it is in heaven.

Sending love always,
Ali x

And if you fancy listening to the song it’s ‘Returning to Myself’ by Brandi Carlile 😊

22/09/2025

Some of you might not know that I have a wee holiday let…and today while I was doing a ‘handover’ I did my usual - spotting anything that wasn’t quite right or needed a touch up. I made a note to myself of all the jobs that needing doing.

I can never see it the way guests do. They walk in an are ‘wowed’ by the space. If they notice any of the same wee faults I do, they pay no attention. They see the whole instead. And they love it.

I was thinking, we are all a bit like that with ourselves. We notice all the bits that aren’t perfect. All the bits about ourselves that we think need work. We don’t see the whole. We may not see the things that others love about us. We may have been so focused on what we think isn’t right about us that we have never seen our wholeness through the eyes of love.

Does that sound like you?

One little exercise you can do is to picture someone who really loves or has loved you standing in front of you.

Take a moment to get that picture in your mind.

Then step over into their body and look back at yourself standing opposite.

See yourself through their eyes.

What is it they see?

What are the things about you that they admire?

What do you notice about yourself when you see yourself through the eyes of love?

Spend some time looking at yourself through their eyes.

Then when you are ready, step back into your own body…try to remember that feeling.

Loving yourself is always the first step to healing. 💕🙏⭐️

And when self-love, compassion and healing come together then something special can happen.

Ali ###

21/09/2025

A good friend sent me this text message yesterday….

Life’s heartbreaks, disappointments, and failures aren’t ‘not meant to happen’, they aren’t mistakes or wasted time - they’re exactly what prepare us for growth.

The hard truth is that pain softens us and makes space for insight to arrive.

Without the cracks, the light can’t get in.

Without breaking the ground, the seed can’t grow.

Often we only understand later why we had to go through something difficult. Looking back, we can see: without that, we wouldn’t be where we are today. I know that’s true for me.

So if you’re asking “Why now?” remember: now is the only time anything can happen.

If you’re asking ‘Why me?” ask instead: why NOT you?

The lesson doesn’t come in the past or the future — it comes in the present. Always here. Always now.

What you need to know to move forward is already within you - sometimes it’s clear, sometimes it’s mysterious, but it’s always there.

Even confusion has meaning; it’s a sign to stop pretending you already have all the answers.

Don’t waste time waiting for a perfect moment to change or awaken.

The perfect moment IS now.

Sending love
Ali x

Thank God for good friends 🙏💫💕

19/09/2025

A while back my sister said something which really stuck a chord with me:

“I refuse to spend the rest of my adult life trying to weigh less”.

I know exactly what she means. How much of our brain space is taken up finding fault with ourselves.

What she said made me think, why not start appreciating yourself now. Just as you are. Cellulite. Stretch marks. The menopausal middle. That extra half (okay more than half) stone that you used to be able to shift but can’t now. The crows feet ohh and that loose jaw line too.

Yes, we may be bombarded by images of 20 yr old size 10 models at every turn. But you know what, we can choose not to compare ourselves - we can choose love ourselves instead.

But why stop there. What about your personality & character? Why not start loving that for exactly what it is too. Perceived faults and all. We spend so much time trying to be the perfect version of us (or even trying to be somebody else) that we don’t consider the radical act of loving ourselves just as we are. As we were created.

“You must find yourself acceptable to you. You must have a wholesome self-esteem. You must have a self that you can trust and believe in.”

I wonder how many of us can put our hands on our hearts and say that we know, understand, love and accept ourselves just as we are right now.

Not comparing ourselves to others or comparing ourselves to a better future or past version of ourselves. Not beating ourselves up and finding constant fault. Loving ourselves, as we are right here and now, is the first step to healing.

It’s a form of divine love.

Is that a gift you think you could give yourself today? More self love. Why not make that your intention for the day ahead?

Sending love always,
Ali x

P.S the quote is from the book: The New Psycho-Cybernetics, an old classic.

16/09/2025

Most of life’s greatest lessons were never taught in a classroom. Not for me anyway.

I’ve been to nursery & primary school, Sunday school, high school and university and remember absolutely nothing that I was taught.

And I’ve also had my moments at the ‘School of Hard Knocks’.

Here, life itself has been the teacher. And the lessons don’t come neatly packaged in books - they arrive through experience, trial and error, and over time. And of course it’s ironic that, unlike in school, in life the lessons come only after the test.

And most of the most important lessons for me have come wrapped in considerable pain.

Buddha tells us that ‘Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.’

Easy said.

But it IS true that when we shift our focus to learning rather than resisting, when we recognise that the hardest moments are our best teachers then our suffering IS lessened.

My personal ‘go to’ is to ask of any difficult situation ‘What is this teaching me?’ or ‘How is this meant to improve me?’

And that DOES reduce the suffering.

But do you know, I’ve also had the same lesson given to me repeatedly. I bet you have too.

The same partner or relationships but with different names and different faces? The same situation, but different, at work? The same people, but different, treating you badly? The same financial issue?

Life, in its infinite patience, circles back and gives us the same lesson until we finally get it. Really get it.

So it makes sense to focus on learning what life is trying to teach us - because if we don’t, we will undoubtedly see the same lesson appear again. And again.

So the invitation is simple: lean in, listen, and learn. Every single challenge holds wisdom, and every hard knock has the potential to shape us all into something stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

Closer to the people we were sent here to become.

Sending love
Ali

15/09/2025

I was thinking about the name of God this morning. About how for many years I would, speaking out loud, use alternative names like Source, or Universe or Creator.

I felt as if the word God came with too many heavy connotations, was too closely tied to religion, with all its manifest failings and darknesses.

Religion itself being, in my opinion, often responsible for some incredibly ungodly actions. And of course, we’ve also got Michelangelo to blame for creating the vision of ‘God’ as a white man with a flowing white beard, floating on a fluffy cloud…which is just obviously nonsense.

But these last few years I’ve come back to using the word God.

And I know the word is old fashioned and can make people uncomfortable.

And I know that words carry power and meaning and interpretations.

But God itself is beyond words and titles and labels. Humans have been trying to name the unnamable forever.

The Bible uses 100 words to refer to God, Shiva has over 108 titles, there are 99 names for Allah in the Quran…none of them could begin to describe the indescribable.

The unifying energy, the creative power and impulse, the incomprehensibly intelligent & fathomless love of the divine can never be named. It is beyond all words.

And yet, words are all we have.

So when you see me use the word God, feel free to replace it with what speaks more naturally to you.

So, after all of that, here’s a wee exercise you might try when you start your day, and preferably everyday:

Take a piece of paper or your journal and at the top write the question:

God, what would you have me know today…?’

Then begin writing ‘My dearest & most precious child, I would have you know….’

Let your higher self - the God within you & outwith you - continue writing. Don’t think about what you ‘should’ write, just let it come…and see what guidance or reassurance or upliftment you get for the day ahead.

Try it. It might surprise you 😊

Sending love
Ali x

14/09/2025

I read this today and there are so many nuggets of wisdom and truth within this wee piece of writing that I had to share with you…which lines resonate with you? Which lines touch you? Or inspire you?

For me it’s “Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen” - how beautifully put. And how true.

And love.

At the risk of putting a Jennifer Rush song in your mind, the power of love is what it’s all about…

I’ll let you read the whole thing…

"Our duty, as human beings, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God (Source, Spirit, Love). We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.

And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability—and that it may take a very long time.

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire."

✍️Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sending love
Ali x

13/09/2025

I don’t know about you, but I often find myself in tears of heartbreak and incomprehension when I watch the news. The war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, America sinking into fascism & the organised rise of racism in our own country.

It’s easy to feel powerless. To imagine them as distant events - something happening far away, caused by inhumane leaders, armies, or dark forces outside our control.

I write to my MP, I boycott Israeli products, I donate to NGO’s and I’ve signed more petitions than I can count - and can still feel helpless.

But the truth is, war and conflict does not just exist ‘out there’. It is also born ‘in here’ - in the human heart.

We all carry a piece of the problem, and we all carry piece of the solution - in our own hearts.

The seeds of anger, judgement, greed, and fear live within each of us. So too do the seeds of compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and peace. Which ones grow depends on which we choose to feed through our thoughts, words, and actions.

I remember this phrase from my childhood: ‘little deeds, like little seeds, grow to flowers or to weeds’.

Our behaviour is never neutral. Every interaction, however small, adds to either collective peace or collective conflict. A harsh word or a dark thought can ripple outwards just as a kind gesture can.

The way we speak, the way we listen, the way we treat ourselves and others - all of this contributes to the energy of the world and to the collective. Because we are all one. Because we are all energetically connected.

If we truly long for peace in the world, as I’m sure we all do, we have to begin within ourselves.

We have to soften the wars we wage in our own minds and in our own hearts and within our own relationships. We have to notice when resentment rises, when blame takes root, when fear drives the choices we make and the thoughts we allow. And we have to consciously return, again and again, to our own practices of peace - to listening more deeply, to forgiving more freely, and to choosing love over fear.

Global peace will never be built by politicians alone. And certainly by not the ones we currently have.

It needs to be built moment by moment, person by person, through the consciousness all of us carry into the world.

When we all come to recognise that our very smallest choices & actions matter, we will realise our power. And within our individual power I think lies hope - because even in times of great conflict within the world, the way forward is not beyond us.

It lies within each and every one of us.

Sending love,
Ali x

"Only when one has become personally peaceful can one truly create peace in the world" - Leo Tolstoy

"Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself" - Thich Nhat Hanh

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” - The Dalai Lama

12/09/2025

I honestly can’t believe I’m saying this - but here’s my availability up until the end of the year!

Drop me a DM, What’sApp or email to book in 😊

Sessions last 1.5hrs-2hrs and cost £40. With a deposit of £20 to secure the appointment and then the balance payment of £20 on the day.

Just drop me a wee note to book in 💕
Sending love
Ali x

(4pm appointments can sometimes become 6:30pm appointments if that suits better)

NOVEMBER

1st Sat 11am TAKEN
1st Sat 1:30pm TAKEN
1st Sat 4pm TAKEN
3rd Mon 11am TAKEN
3rd Mon 1:30pm TAKEN
3rd Mon 4pm TAKEN
5th Wed 11am TAKEN
5th Wed 1:30pm TAKEN
7th Fri 11am TAKEN
7th Fri 1:30pm TAKEN
7th Fri 4pm TAKEN
9th Sun 11am TAKEN
9th Sun 1:30pm TAKEN
9th Sun 4pm TAKEN
11th Tue 11am TAKEN
11th Tue 1:30pm TAKEN
11th Tue 4pm TAKEN
13th Thur 11am TAKEN
13th Thur 1:30pm TAKEN
13th Thur 4pm TAKEN
15th Sat 11am TAKEN
15th Sat 1:30pm TAKEN
15th Sat 4pm TAKEN
18th Tue 11am TAKEN
18th Tue 1:30pm TAKEN
18th Tue 4pm TAKEN
20th Thur 11am TAKEN
20th Thur 1:30pm TAKEN
20th Thur 4pm TAKEN
25th Tue 11am TAKEN
25th Tue 1:30pm TAKEN
25th Tue 4pm TAKEN

DECEMBER

2nd Tue 11am TAKEN
2nd Tue 1:30pm TAKEN
2nd Tue 4pm TAKEN
4th Thur 11am TAKEN
4th Thur 1:30pm
4th Thur 4pm
6th Sat 11am TAKEN
6th Sat 1:30pm TAKEN
6th Sat 4pm
9th Tue 11am TAKEN
9th Tue 1:30pm TAKEN
9th Tue 4pm TAKEN
11th Thur 11am TAKEN
11th Thur 1:30pm
11th Thur 4pm
16th Tue 11am
16th Tue 1:30pm
16th Tue 4pm
18th Thur 11am TAKEN
18th Thur 1:30pm TAKEN
18th Thur 4pm TAKEN
20th Sat 11am
20th Sat 1:30pm
20th Sat 4pm TAKEN
22nd Mon 11am TAKEN
22nd Mon 1:30pm TAKEN
22nd Mon 4pm TAKEN
28th Sun 11am TAKEN
28th Sun 1:30pm TAKEN
28th Sun 4pm TAKEN
30th Tue 11am TAKEN
30th Tue 1:30pm
30th Tue 4pm

Sending love always,
Ali x

12/09/2025

You don’t feed a newborn baby steak & chips as soon as they are born. First comes milk, then soft food, then there’s the fussy childhood stage of only eating chicken nuggets or pizza - only in time does that wee child become ready for a more ‘grown up’ diet.

Perhaps, over time, they might even develop a sophisticated palate! I remember my mum only developed a liking for 🫒 olives in her late 40’s!

The same is true of the soul. Your purpose, your path, your calling - it doesn’t usually arrive all at once, fully formed. The Divine is wise and patient, feeding us exactly what we’re ready for in each stage of our lives.

I can look back & see the spiritual ‘diet’ of each season of my life and the ever increasing depth of it.

Those of you who know me well, know that this year has brought me a spiritual deep dive that I didn’t see coming.

But when I look back through my life, I can almost see the inevitability of it. Each stage of my life was a preparation.

And every stage, whether it felt simple or profound, has been a sacred smorgasboard! The moments I’ve experienced no matter how small, or seemingly insignificant, were all a planned part of my unfolding.

I have my own doubts and fears and worries about not being good enough.

Impostor syndrome is a real thing!

But I know, deep down, that I am being guided, grown, and prepared for more. The same as you are.

Your soul’s journey is a veritable feast - and you’ll most certainly not enjoy a lot of the meals you are served up at the time.

But I -and you - are being fed and nourished perfectly for where we are right now and for where we are eventually headed.

And God only knows where that will be!

And that’s the magic and the mystery of your, and my, constant unfolding.

Sending love,
Ali x

10/09/2025

I walked today on Iona, in squally rain, to St Columba’s Bay. And as I looked at all the different colours, shapes and sizes of stones I mused that, in life, we are all a bit like pebbles on the beach.

The tides of life come in and go out again. Life rolls us all together, wave after wave. Placing us next to each other as friends, lovers, workers, family and strangers.

Every meeting we have with another being -whether positive or negative- is always shaping us. The laughter, the disagreements, the kindnesses, the love, even the anger… all of them polish us into something more rounded & more whole if we let them.

Our rough and jagged edges gradually worn smooth.

So next time someone ‘rubs you up the wrong way’, remember that the sea is always at work, polishing each of us into perfection

Sending love
Ali x

10/09/2025

I’m having just a fleeting visit to Iona - but so far a deeply moving & profound one. It’s often called ‘the thin place’ - where the veil between our finite world and the infinite world is thinner - and I think there’s a truth in that.

But for me it’s also a special place for different reasons. You see, my mum, and her best friend Ian, were lifelong members of the Iona Community and that meant that we came here as a family regularly in our childhood and teenage years.

My sister & I knew the abbey inside out and ran about its grounds wild and happy. We went to morning and night time services and I remember my sister pretending, more than once, that she’d fallen asleep so she’d be lifted up & carried out by our dad. Candle lit services seemed magical to me…and they still do.

And the foundations of my own relationship with God were laid here.

As adult women my sister & I have both been here with our husbands (late and ex) & with close friends & with my sister’s children when they were little and older.

My mum celebrated her 70th birthday here while she was terminally ill - having a week long house party with friends and family & a hot tub that was never out of use - and we scattered her ashes here.

I stayed on Iona with my late Russian husband and my mum.

I’ve been here with my current partner.

I even camped in a tent here with my first love when I was 16!

The last time I stayed here I stayed with a dear friend in her mid 90’s…who is now nearing the end of her earthly journey.

And there’s my late ‘uncle Ian’, my mum’s friend & an important person in my early years, who gave me a message to come here for a visit - via a lovely medium.

I have so many memories here. And on this visit, perhaps because I’m on my own, it’s almost as if there were reels or slideshows of memories playing everywhere I look, all different times of my life, years and years of them, with lots of important people in those memories. It’s as if I’m walking through them.

Here, on Iona, I have felt time behave quite differently.

The mists of past and present have swirled around me all at the same time; as real as each other, past and present have blended here in a way that has felt almost revelatory & mystical.

Of course, because of quantum physics we know they are all happening simultaneously - we know that time isn’t linear. We think there was a yesterday, a today and a tomorrow. But time doesn’t exist in that way except in our minds.

It’s an illusion.

Everything exists all at once.

We know it scientifically but we rarely experience it.

All moments exist together. And here, on Iona, I’ve felt that truth more than I imagined I could.

Past and present have woven together, reminding me that time is not a straight line at all, but something far more mysterious. All moments exist at once, all love is here still, nothing is ever truly lost.

The loved ones who we think have come and gone, the people I love now, all walk beside me together. And walk within me now.

But what’s even more intriguing is that I must be walking through future me’s too.

Memories yet to be made.

Because if all time exists all at once, and it does, then the future me is here with me too. And though I’m aware it breathes in me in the present moment as possibility, as a dream and a potential.

It is also already happening here too.

And if you’ve experienced déjà vu then you’ve already stepped into that knowing for a moment yourself.

As my dad used to often quote ‘the universe isn’t just stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we CAN imagine’

Sending much love from this special (wet, wild and windy today) thin place.
Ali x

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