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19/01/2026

Medicinal Monday ✨ GINGER 💫

This week’s plant ally is ginger.

Ginger is warming, grounding, and gently energising — often used to support:

• nausea and digestion
• inflammation and aches
• circulation and fatigue
• the nervous system during stress

Grief doesn’t just live in the heart — it’s felt in the body too. Many people experience heaviness in the stomach, tightness, or that “knotted” feeling when emotions rise. Ginger can be a simple, supportive companion during those moments.

A warm cup of ginger tea can be a small act of care — something steady, soothing, and present when everything else feels overwhelming.

You don’t need to fix the pain. Sometimes it’s about offering the body a little warmth and kindness 🤍

As always, listen to your body and seek professional advice if needed.

05/01/2026

Medicinal Monday 🌿 Hawthorn

Known as the plant of the HEART ❤

Hawthorn offers gentle support where grief is often felt most — in the chest, the ache, the tenderness that lingers.

Hawthorn can be worked with as a TEA 🍵, TINCTURE, or FLOWER ESSENCE.

Where can you buy it? (If not picked from the wild):

🌿Independent herbalists
🌿Health food shops
🌿Natural pharmacies, or reputable online herbal stores.

Look for the botanical name Crataegus.

Be kind to your heart today, enjoy a Hawthorn tea 🍵 🤍

✨ Always seek professional guidance before using herbal remedies.

11/12/2025

Sweet Potato Brownies with Melted Dark Chocolate 🍠🍫✨

Grief can take a real toll on your nervous system — appetite changes, low energy, emotional spikes, and that “wired but tired” feeling are all so normal.
One gentle way to support yourself? Nourishing comfort foods that help your body feel steadier.

Here’s why Sweet Potato Brownies with Melted Dark Chocolate can be such a supportive choice during grief:

🍠 Sweet Potato

Rich in complex carbohydrates → steady energy + stable blood sugar
Vitamin B6 → supports mood-regulating neurotransmitters
Beta-carotene → strengthens immune function when stress is high

🍫 Dark Chocolate (melted into the mix)

Magnesium → relaxes the nervous system + helps with sleep
Flavonoids → protect the brain from stress-related inflammation
Naturally mood-lifting compounds → offer gentle emotional support

🌰 Nut Butter or Almond Flour (if added)

Healthy fats → grounding + nourishing for an overwhelmed system
Protein → supports stable blood sugar
Vitamin E → antioxidants for brain and nerve health

🍯 Natural Sweeteners

Lower glycaemic impact → kinder on energy levels
Easy-to-digest fuel → helpful when appetite is low

💛 Gentle Reminder

These brownies aren’t here to fix your grief.
But nourishing, grounding foods can help your body feel a little steadier on difficult days.
Whatever your appetite looks like right now — be kind to yourself. Eating something comforting and nutrient-rich is an act of care.

10/12/2025

For Friends of Someone Who’s Grieving: What Helps & What Hurts

When someone you love is grieving, it’s hard to know what to say or do. You can’t fix their loss—but you can support them in ways that truly matter.

Here are some gentle do’s and don’ts to help you show up with compassion.

💛 What To Do

• Acknowledge their loss.
A simple “I’m so sorry this happened” goes a long way.

• Sit with them in the hard moments.
You don’t need the right words—your presence is enough.

• Check in regularly.
Grief lasts longer than people think. A message weeks or months later still matters.

• Offer specific help.
“I’m at the shop—can I bring you anything?”
“I’m free Thursday if you need company.”

• Listen more than you speak.
Let them feel how they feel without trying to guide the conversation.

💛 What Not To Do

• Don’t offer clichés or silver linings.
“Everything happens for a reason” or “They’re in a better place now” can feel painful, even if well-meant.

• Don’t rush their process.
There’s no timeline for grieving—and no “should.”

• Don’t compare their loss to yours.
Every grief is different. Focus on their experience, not your own.

• Don’t avoid them because you’re unsure what to say.
Silence can feel like abandonment. Even a short message counts.

• Don’t expect them to be their old self quickly.
Loss changes us. Allow space for who they’re becoming.

💛 A gentle reminder

You don’t need to fix their grief.
You just need to walk alongside them with kindness, patience, and an open heart.

08/12/2025

🌿 Medicinal Monday: Lemon Balm for Grief Support

For the restless mind & the heavy heart

If your nervous system feels frayed or your emotions are sitting close to the surface, Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) is a beautiful plant ally to reach for.
Soft, citrusy, and calming, it has been used for centuries to soothe anxious thoughts, settle the body, and bring a little lightness back into the day.

Here are a few simple ways to use it:

✨ As a calming tea
Steep 1–2 teaspoons of dried lemon balm (or a handful fresh) for 10 minutes.
A gentle way to ease tension, especially when grief makes the body tight or the mind busy.

✨ As a fresh leaf infusion
Add fresh sprigs to cold water and let them sit for a few hours.
A refreshing, grounding drink that feels like breathing space.

✨ For sleep support
Drink a cup in the evening — or combine with chamomile — to help soften those intrusive nighttime thoughts and support deeper rest.

✨ As a “moment of calm”
Simply crush a fresh leaf between your fingers and inhale its scent.
A small, sensory grounding tool for the moments when emotions rise unexpectedly.

Lemon balm is gentle, but as always, check with your GP if you’re pregnant, breastfeeding, or taking thyroid medication.

Today’s reflection:
Where can you offer yourself one moment of calm — even for 30 seconds — in the space between everything you’re carrying?

05/12/2025

Grief Awareness Week 🤍

There’s so much we don’t talk about when it comes to grief.
Not because it isn’t real — but because it can feel heavy or too hard to put into words.

What people don’t talk about enough:

• How grief can make even the smallest tasks feel overwhelming
• How friendships can shift when people don’t know what to say
• How waves of sadness can rise years later — when everyone else seems to have moved on
• How anger, guilt, relief, numbness or confusion can all exist at the same time
• How grief changes your sense of home, safety, and who you are in the world

Your friends — and even some family members — may have moved forward with life, but something can hit you years later and you might feel “silly” for talking about it.

You’re not silly. You’re grieving in real time.

And when you can’t make sense of all these emotions,
it can create a deep feeling of loneliness and isolation.
You may even feel a sense of madness — but it has a name:

Grief.

Sometimes people can’t resonate with the depth of what you’re going through.

It can add further upset, but it’s rarely because they don’t care —
it’s often because they don’t know how to relate or how to hold something this big.

Remember:

You’re not going mad — your body and mind are responding to trauma and shock.
Your grief is valid. Your timeline is valid. Your feelings are human.

You’re not alone.

You deserve compassion, understanding, and space to heal in your own way.

Talk to a Grief Specialist. We are here to listen to provide support and understanding. We are able to educate those trying to understand their complex layers of grief whether its 1 year on or 20 years on from losing their loved one.

🤍

04/12/2025

✨ Grief Kitchen | Sweet Potato Jacket with Smashed Avocado & Fresh Vine Tomato Salsa

When you’re grieving, your body is carrying so much more than people realise. Fatigue, fogginess, low appetite, irritability — they’re all normal responses to the emotional load your nervous system is holding.

This week’s Grief Kitchen is one of the most comforting meals for those tender, depleted evenings:
a warm sweet potato jacket topped with smashed avocado and a fresh vine tomato salsa.
It’s grounding, nourishing, and full of nutrients that support your nervous system while you move through grief.

Sweet potatoes provide steady, calming energy.
Avocado brings healthy fats and magnesium for nervous-system regulation.
Tomatoes add antioxidants and brightness — especially helpful when your appetite feels low.

And if you’re too tired or overwhelmed (which happens often during grief), please know this:
A sweet potato jacket with only smashed avocado is just as delicious, supportive, and soothing.
Simple is enough.
Truly.

It also happens to be one of my favourite easy suppers — one that always helps me drift into good, deep ZZZs. 😴💛

Be gentle with yourself today.
Your body deserves soft, steady nourishment.

— Emily 🌿

03/12/2025

SIGNS by Laura Lynn Jackson

book recommendation

I’ve just finished a book I quite literally couldn’t put down — SIGNS by Laura Lynn Jackson — and I’m still thinking about it and recommending it when people talk about SIGNS.

What’s funny is that I came across it by “mistake”… or was it?
A great friend, Lydia, sent me a link saying I should read this book called Signs — that it touches on grief, and that I’d find it interesting. Weeks later, I’m wandering around an airport bookshop, completely unenthused by the non-fiction section… until this one book is practically staring at me.

THAT’S the book Lydia mentioned.
I picked it up, bought it, and read half of it on the plane.

Laura Lynn Jackson is a psychic medium, and the book explores The Other Side — how to tune into signs, connect with loved ones who have passed, and even communicate with your guides. Some of you might think this sounds a little crazy and honestly, the book includes plenty of stories from hardcore sceptics who then turn into believers. Others may be curious but unsure. And some of you already know, deep down, that there is something beyond us.

Wherever you fall on that spectrum, this book holds comfort, hope, connection and meaning.

For those grieving, it’s full of stories that remind you that you are not alone in this strange, painful experience of loss and at times you can find magic.

Lydia, said to me, she hasn’t experienced major loss but “When the time comes, I know I’ll be supported, there is some comfort"
Which is rather magical.

I have had many a sign from loved ones and this book affirms what i thought.

If you have even one ounce of curiosity, then this could provide comfort through your grief when talking feels too much at the moment 💛💛💛

27/11/2025

THE GRIEF KITCHEN
Every Thursday | Scroll down for your first Recipe

🥝🫐🍋🍌 Welcome to The Grief Kitchen 🥦🥑🌽🥕

This is something I’m deeply passionate about.
During my own grief, I remember feeling so frustrated with the tiredness and the constant fatigue. It felt like something was wrong with me.

I eventually went to see a nutritionist friend, and she said something I’ll never forget:
“You’re not going mad. You’re grieving. Your body is carrying a lot — be kind and patient with yourself.”

She also shared foods that could support my nervous system during that time, and it genuinely helped me understand what my body was asking for.

So I wanted to bring that same reassurance to you, every Thursday.

If you’re feeling exhausted, foggy, wired, or overwhelmed — it’s a normal response to grief. And there are gentle, grounding foods that can help support you through it. 😊

Every Thursday, I’ll be sharing simple, comforting recipes designed with yours or a friend/families grieving body and nervous system in mind:

🥑Some quick easy meals, when you just dont have the energy
🥦More established recipes for when you are feeling stronger
🍲For friends & family who want to support those grieving and make a nutritious, healthy meals ideal for your friends nervous system.

THE GRIEF KITCHEN with Emy

A little nourishment for the tender days.

25/11/2025

A very touching R E V I E W for 🤍

This is why I am so grateful to be helping others through their grief and loss — to help them understand why they feel the way they feel, to reassure them they aren’t “mad” for the moments that catch them off guard.
Like the days they can’t get out of bed, or when they pour cold water from the kettle into their mug because they forgot to switch it on 😉
Or when physical symptoms start to worry them — breathlessness, heart palpitations, fatigue.
It’s all part of grief’s vibrant tapestry, and with the right support, you don’t have to navigate it alone.

If you’re struggling to keep up with life because grief has taken over — work, kids, family — please reach out. We are here to help and not judge.

Emily (Emy)

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