Soul Journal

Bringing Earth’s Bounty Into Our Home

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When I read this post in Wild Harvest School Of Self Reliance, I thought that I really needed to share this with all of you. The impact on our planet is escalating at such a fast pace now, and, after hearing today on the radio (4) that in the EU we are using up far to many of our Mothers natural resources than She is able to renew, annually, that if we were to continue this insane way as an entire world, then TODAY would be the last day our Earth Mother could support us and…that would be it folks…we are DONE, right!

The European Union as a whole are the third heaviest consumers of natural resources, after China and the US – THAT is in itself a criminal act of epic proportions.

Now, we have this growing emphasis on ZERO WASTE, which is amazing…on the surface, yet, beneath there lies some very muddy waters. How many times, when looking for natural alternatives to the household items, cleaning products and packaged goods, do we find products that are made with natural resources from far flung places, such as is shared in this article below?

Each of our native environments provides ALL we actually NEED to live a good and harmonious life, when you dig deep beneath the Green Washing, you will find that, with some considered thought and planning, changing our daily habits and shopping choices, really becomes an act of not only self love and respect, but a Devotional Act to Mother Earth, who offers us unconditional love – well, now She HAS to place conditions on that love, for, if She doesn’t, there will be no more She can offer us…read on for something SO cool that will change how you wash your clothes and maybe even dishes once the season brings harvest this year!

Peace xXx

Sometimes the green movement really worries me. The idea of replacing toxic chemicals and plastic is admirable don’t get me wrong but why this tendency to reach across the world to find natural materials to replace them when Mother Nature provides everything we need right here? We just need to learn to use less, locally.

The latest thing that scares me is the re-emergence (if you are old enough like me you will have seen this fad around 20 years ago) of the use of soap nuts from India together with natural sponges from hot seas for washing. Is this eco?

We have our own saponin based plants growing in the UK, 20 years ago when soap nuts first came to the fore here through fair trade mail order companies I researched them to find that Indian women were being priced out of using their traditional cleanser, instead having to buy cheap detergent. Polluting the waterways and causing skin problems.

The romantic notion of them sweeping the soapnuts up to package for our guzzling washing machines as ‘green’ is very limited.

If it takes nine years for the tree to produce the nuts and we carry on washing like we do, the increasing commercial level of the extraction combined with the transporting of far flung ‘eco’ products across the globe is wrong ethically and sustainably.

Do you know we have our own soap making natural ingredients all around us and this is one of the main things Im passionate about teaching at Wild Harvest. If you are happy to pay more for soap nuts you still have to prepare before using, why not simply sweep up some horse chestnuts right here?

I started making the odd bottle of horse chestnut liquid wash way back then and it is amazing for skin, hair and softly cleaning clothes. Here are some pictures of our native soap nuts, please think before you online-order another cultures ethnobotanical rights.

Localism – it’s their right and our duty. Glycerine is also a uk product and its possible at the easiest level to buy pure glycerine soap base for cheaper than soap, melt and shape into washing bars. or grate as a ‘powder’. Finally, wood-ash and rain water (a bbq left outside) yield Lye, which diluted and used with dried grass (also locally available!) is a washing method or even reduce your lye down and pour into some fat of your choice or even make your own tallow from rendering beef fat – and you get soap!

Birch leaves dried and rubbed seeped in water and a little honeysuckle oil. Soapwort and campion root. How do you think we managed here before Daz and soapnuts? It’s not a simple dichotomy; either/or – there are loads of local natural alternatives! Please think outside the box but within our bio-boundaries when you wash!” Wild Harvest School Of Self Reliance (with additional edit from Peace Ravenwood to exclude rapeseed oil, which is highly toxic to us and the planets delicate ecosystem?

Spiritual Bathing – Reconnecting To Our Sacred Body

Spiritual Bathing – Reconnecting to our Sacred Body

In our efforts to remain functioning in our super fast technological world, there has become a vast rift between how we used to live and how we are told to live today.

This rift is being felt by more of us each day, and we are now finding our way back home to our more ancient and sacred practices, with such profound and beautiful changes that are in fact, lighting up our lives instead of continuing to dull them down.

Here, I’m loving to share with you a practice that is as old as time itself, one that is super simple to do at home and indeed out in your most loved wild places, with a little forward planning.

We need no fancy ingredients, no equipment other than a deep bowl and some water, wild water if you are close enough to collect some, and some gathered herbs, flowers and wild plants.

Many of us know about smudging our bodies with things like white sage or palo santo, right? Well, as far as this is concerned, we do not need to purchase such items, which, unless you live in the countries these plants are native to, is just adding to the disconnection from Mother Earth and our Ancestral lineage. Not to mention the destruction of Sacred forests for commercial gain.

When we begin the practice of Spiritual Bathing, we feel the depth of connection to this Sacred process, that money just cannot buy.

For millennia this practice has been carried out in our tribal circles, to bring ease to mental and spiritual imbalances. This super simple and loving act for our soul journey has become a regular in my world since being introduced to it through my immersion into the Arvigo Techniques Of Maya Abdominal Therapy three years ago.

So, how to do this? I kid you not, it is so easy, and can be done at any time you have time to set aside to focus on your own needs and perhaps can be introduced in many of our Circles too, Red Tents and Women’s Circles in particular find this practice a very beneficial part of the Ceremony of Sharing.

Firstly, take the time to gather some beautiful wild herbs, garden flowers and herbs, even bought herbs you then plant in the garden for future harvests, even the pot herbs found in the stores, in the fresh produce aisle will do!

I love a mixture of flower petals throughout the spring and summer, asking permission from the plant to collect some of the blooms (not all) and starting your intent to work these plant energies into your own for healing. I add some herbs such as thyme, rosemary, basil, sage, their scent is intoxicating as we work our prayers into the waters.

Next, fill a deep glass or metal bowl with fresh water, set this outside in the sunlight if possible and add all the gathered plant materials. Begin stirring them into the water, watching how the light plays on them in the sparkles as you stir. Now is the time to begin your song, find the words from deep within you, bring them into voice and sing them into the water and flowers as you stir. Gently, begin to squeeze the plants, stirring all the while, singing as you go. This prayer song will deepen as you continue to release the scents and oils from the plants you have chosen to work with.

Your song can be one of griefs to be released, of anger unexpressed, of despair, or you can bring into song all the love, gratitude and joy you wish to birth in your life, the song is yours and yours alone, the plant waters will take them and transmute them into the most beautiful scented bath you could imagine.

Over the time you spend working with this water filled explosion of love, you will see the plants release, release release. It is beautiful to watch, to feel and to absorb their energies into your hands. The time this takes is personal to you, not to be rushed, to be savoured for as long as possible, before moving on to the next stage.

The Bathing – with your infused water, it is now time to bathe. This can be done fully clothed, or if you are in a suitable space, remove all or some of your clothes, so you may fully cover your skin with this Sacred Water.

If clothed, take handfuls of the plant infused water and sprinkle them all around and over your body, from feet to head and head to feet, taking time to really splash yourself with the water, singing as you do so. Keep the song flowing.

If you are with loved ones, perhaps you can bathe each other in turn this way, how much love you can share with each other as you sing your songs into each handful of bloom steeped liquid.

If you have removed some or all of your clothes, you can literally pour the entire bowl of water over your body, head to foot, feeling how the water connects with your skin. All the while, singing your loving prayers to yourself and your soul.

Once you are complete, it is time to look at the final step. This depends upon how you chose to bathe. Do you have water left? If so, then you can leave them in the sun to rest and continue infusing. The next day, this water can be poured onto the earth as an offering to Mother for providing for us, for helping us to rebalance our energies once more. If you used all the water, then sit awhile and give thanks in song or prayer to Mother for her blessings of the plants and the waters, before leaving to return to your day.

Once we begin this Sacred Practice on a regular basis, we find that, like smudging, we become balanced and whole again, more so each time we engage in this most beautiful way, with the Earth and our Unique bodies and feel more of our true soul self coming home.

In loving grace, Peace xXx

The Shift From Our Overconsumption Of The Planets Finite Natural Resources

A Path To Becoming Nature & Ancestral Food Sovereignty For Health & Sustainability

What I share here is indeed a deeply emotive post, I know that, and appreciate that if you are plant based/vegan, who have been following my journey from the beginning, this could just be too much for you to read at this point in time. I know that a few months ago, I would have felt the same, so, with that in mind, please do not close your mind or hearts – perhaps keep this for a time when it is possibly the right time for you to look more deeply into your own health issues and perhaps reach out to learn more?

My education has escalated and transformed our lives over the last month, since learning how living plant based, mostly vegan, for over a decade was contributing to our declining health.

I’d like to list some of the main issues we both had, hubs and I, over this period of time, comparing them to how I felt as a morbidly obese 30-something when we first met. Then, how we are feeling now, a month and a half in.

Anthony isn’t fully primal yet, however, he is working on it in his own time, for the benefits of simple changes have been quite astounding, albeit small yet no less powerful. For him, it is sugar that he clings onto at the moment, sweet fruits and snacks being the trigger making him feel a boost of energy, which, naturally, becomes a crash a little while later.

The Podcast I share here is to give you some facts of Oxalate toxicity, that we are all consuming when we are eating high plant based or vegan, unknowingly contributing to the destruction of our gut microbiome and consequently overall declining immune health and increasing inflammatory dis-eases.

So, our health issues, in brief, for there were more; simple issues that I will probably not recall at this point in writing.

Brain fog
Daily headaches
Memory issues
Hypothyroidism
Eyesight deterioration (partly due to screen time)
Insomnia
Aching legs
Lethargy
Dry skin
Skin rashes and spots all over the body (him not me)
Heavy legs
Lack of energy
Ant was told he is pre-diabetic
Stomach Bloating
Distended stomach – permanent (Ant)
Muscle wasting
Extreme bowel movements – 5 – 17 a day (me)
Watery BM’s
Gas
Excessive nighttime belching
Early morning wake ups for BM’s
Excessive urination – every 30 minutes
Inability to release excess weight – no matter what plan I stuck to.
Weight gain
DVT (me) plus post-thrombotic syndrome)
Varicose veins
Joint and Muscle inflammation
Knee issues worsening
Swollen ankles
Inability to concentrate on anything of importance
Inability to retain information when studying subjects
Connective tissue pain
Breast pain and swelling
Breast changes – scaly area and severe itching.
Womb issues – severe pains and swelling

This is a pretty dire list, isn’t it?

Okay, so, just from my point of health, BEFORE we went plant based, I came home from living in France (long story, so I won’t detail that here) Just to say, I was in a violent marriage to an alcoholic, became severely obese (20 stone) YET…I could walk for 6-10 miles on a daily and weekly basis, I was a full-time dog walker and gardened over 2 acres of land, with very little of any issues health wise other than being so heavy!

My own health issues began shortly after we became vegetarian, and Anthony gradually has been seeing decline in his own health during this time too…the first onslaught was the depletion of my thyroid health. It spiralled from there over the following 14 years, to the point that I truly thought that I became so chronically sick and could end up in the hospital if I did not change direction and radically.

WE DID THIS FOR THE ANIMALS – that was our first priority, after becoming so horrified at the treatment meted to them in life and during their final hours.

However, what has become so clear, since starting to really educate ourselves and relearn how animals are not only the saviour of our imminent planetary crisis and crucial to the biodiversity of all life on this earth, we are designed to eat meat and animal offerings, for we have lost our indigenous sovereignty and primal ancestry – during this mass experiment to promote a planet of plant eaters who are slowly getting sicker and sicker, promoting the pharmaceutical corporations AND the billionaire founding fathers of the plant based Agenda 21 to cover this planet with millions of acres of monocrops, deforestation and destruction of natural habitats that are VITAL to supporting all life on earth. They are doing this in the name of Planetary Sustainability – which also includes the roll out of nuclear energy plants, GMO crops AND 5G – please do your research into this and look DEEP.

Now, today, we are here and feeling a whole heap of health benefits, this early on in our transformation, it is hard to deny that eating mostly organic, pasture raised, fatty meat for our main food source with (for me) virtually no plant foods at this time other than perhaps a very tiny amount of medicinal herbs and mushrooms, and knowing that plants are medicinal NOT a source of food that fills the plate or blender jug!

80% reduction in inflammation
Deeper sleep
waking refreshed
Concentration improvements
Ability to write – for hours!
Skin improvements
More youthful looking
No hunger cravings
NO sugar cravings (me)
More energy
Breast issues are resolving
Womb pain reduced 90% unless I am very active
Leg issues – my PTS is so much less now
No more bloating, gas or belching
Digestive issues have all but disappeared!
Regular bowel movements – max 3 a day, usually just 2!
A more positive outlook on life in genera

And this is just for starters!

From this moment onwards I, as always, will continue to share my truth with integrity and gratitude for all that life brings us to learn from, and, I know now that my own life is more deeply connected to the land and nature of my home country than it has ever been before, and that I am now a more conscious consumer and becoming far more aware of how living with nature that is OUR sovereignty is SO vital for the future of this planet, than when purchasing all manner of imported produce, powders and products from far-flung places to the tune of hundreds of pounds every month. That, dear friends, is where we are right now, on this path to becoming nature.

Let’s have a look into what eating an Ancestral Diet looks like and take it from there.

Some people do well eating various food groups that aren’t necessarily considered ancestral but are still traditional foods from nature – not made in vats in a laboratory, and this is completely fine. What works for one person may not work for another. For example, some people can’t eat any nightshades, so tomatoes, potatoes, peppers etc are off the menu for them, some people can’t eat pulses or beans, or any form of grain. Does this make these food groups inherently unhealthy? No. We all have biological differences that necessitate variations in our diets, and that is all good, right? Of course it is.

Ancestral eating is eliminating modern-day foods like:

vegetable oils (soy, rapeseed, corn, canola, cottonseed)
refined sugar
processed soy and fake meats
refined, packaged products

What Ancestral Eating Is

Ancestral eating is, simply put, eating unrefined, unprocessed, whole foods that have been around for thousands and thousands of years. This includes:

grass-fed, wild animals – avoiding those raised to kill for shooting as these have been fed on grains loaded with drugs etc to keep them alive.
wild seafood
pastured chicken and eggs
organic fruits and vegetables
healthy, traditional fats like olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, lard, butter, etc. My caveat here is to eat only those fats that are produced in the country you live in.
grass-fed, full-fat raw dairy
fermented foods; using wild plants where possible and raw dairy kefir, seasonal fruits and avoiding store bought ferments which contain many plants that are antinutrient rich.

Ancestral eating is centered around eating real food. What do I mean by real food? Food as close to its natural state as possible. Ancestral food doesn’t have ingredients – it is the ingredient!

Ancestral Eating Is Eating Local

It’s eating food from your local farmers and farmers markets. This isn’t only great for the environment, it supports your local economy. Every time you buy food, you vote. You can vote for farmers or you can vote for giant corporations.

Ancestral eating is knowing where your food comes from. It’s not anonymous. It’s knowing who grew it and how it was grown. It offers us the opportunity to build relationships which gift us more than any store could offer us in our entire lifetime, along with reducing our entire carbon footprint – a win win situation.

Ancestral Eating Is About Sustainability

Cows are meant to be grass-fed. Chickens are meant to be pastured. Vegetables are not meant to be grown with dangerous chemicals. Fruits and nuts are not meant to be available all year round, nor are they meant to be consumed through the year, and, when you really look at these foods, you can see how some foods are actually not meant to be eaten at all, due to the plants methods of protecting themselves against predation in order to continue proliferating their young. Added to this is the often never considered fact that most of our current vegetable foods have, in fact, been genetically altered over the last 100-200 years, from wild, medicinal plants, into swollen, oxalate loaded, health sabotaging foods that have been powering the Green Food revolution for many years now.

Ancestral Food Is Seasonal

This is one subject that many people struggle with – Tomatoes in winter? Just do the best you can. Shopping at your local farmers market makes seasonal eating much easier and more accessible. You’ll buy tomatoes in the summer, broccoli in the autumn, squash in the winter, asparagus in the spring. This puts you in tune with nature’s rhythm. It also ensures your food is healthier because it hasn’t traveled three thousand miles to reach you.

Ancestral Eating Is Not The Latest ‘Fad Diet’ Or Trend – It’s The Best Way Of Eating You Could Opt For

It’s eating foods your body recognizes and utilizes. Some people can and will go out and hunt their food, which is great. But it’s not an option that’s available to everyone. For most of us, it’s just about eating food our ancestors ate and recognized as food: meat, fish, raw dairy, wild plants, fruits, nuts, and not: tofu, canola oil, soy cheese or ready meals!

It’s probably a new concept for many of us, as it was to me until I really opened my eyes and mind to the changes that were plainly needed – when people refer to ancestral or traditional diets as fads. Last I checked, fads don’t last thousands upon thousands of years. No culture survived and thrived on a fad diet. Last I checked – the healthiest way to eat is to eat whole, unprocessed foods from nature, grown locally and sustainably. That’s what ancestral eating is all about!

How Do We Begin To Eat Ancestrally?

Here are some of tips for transitioning to an ancestral diet:

check out your local farmers market
find a buying club in your area, this will set you up with an organic farm or farmers that you can order your local, sustainable food from – I found mine at http://rawmilk.simkin.co.uk/what-is-raw-milk.html
eat organic as much as possible, but especially when it comes to meat and dairy
stop buying food from a box or anything that is packaged – if it has more than 3 )max) ingredients, avoid it! (doing this will save you money as well!)
Google farmers in your area
start a backyard garden
get some backyard chickens
take a class on beekeeping
simplify your food – a piece of salmon with a side of asparagus and a duck egg is a quick, healthy, super simple ancestral meal, no need to complicate it!
Join a meat collective – here is a Fantastic one – https://www.thehornedbeefcompany.com

Finally, go out in nature every day and step into that glorious state of belonging to your environment, check out my series over on The Lifetrainme Academy for 6 ways to Become Nature.

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Out of a Year of Darkness Comes The Light

It has been a damn long time since I’ve posted anything in here, I sad about this, however, it’s not something I’ve been able to do, for a YEAR, come here and write anything that would read well.

Last October was the beginning of the most awful year I’ve had in decades. This isn’t including the personal family ill health that is also very much impacting our lives over the last few years, which I’m not sharing here at this time, keeping this private for those who are deeply poorly.

Before now, I just have been unable to write about my year without falling into deep sadness and self made snot pool, thats how crap it’s been.

Today I’m in a much more positive space, and feel it is right to share this year with you, in brief, so as not to bore the pants off ya!

After several years of basically hustling like a crazy person, simply to survive, the endless hours in the kitchen took their toll on my body in a very cruel way. Remember my What Does It Mean To Have Health blog? Well, in the space since I wrote that, I sort of didn’t continue on the path I thought was THE right one, and the result was my health continued to deteriorate, I continued on regardless, because I had to, (I’ve edited that blog too) and I saw that the original company I aligned with was so far from what I believed in – purity, clean ingredients, ethics, charitable work and so on. (I’ll not listen to the person who basically pressured me into joining so HE made money off ME and I got more skint!) thankfully now I’m totally aligned with the RIGHT company (as you will see) and with my own soul path to boot.

MY BODY COLAPSED on me! In the worst way She could…she took me out of my kitchen! Landed me with no way to function as a chef let alone be in shape to show up for ANYONE, many days not even for myself.

When I share that this intervention manifested as Frozen Shoulder, I’m sure lots of you will cringe as you know how BAD that is, right? Now, on the surface, this looks like a common issue, and it is. However, when you are working with multiple energies, layers etc, it looks very much different than the surface stuff, and it’s MASSIVE. This is why I’m sharing today with you, and I really hope that if you have this, or similar, it might point you onto a new path of seeing beneath the surface.

At the time this all kicked off, I was not in a good place. I had yet to see clearly what depth this journey would take me to, yet I knew it was far more complex than the physical level, and set off at least, on the right path, to uncovering all the secrets within, so I learned every day new messages and wisdom.

The pain and debility this issue comes with is no joke. It’s some of the worst we can endure, sometimes barely making it through the day and endless nights of excruciating pain, lack of sleep, banishment to another room so Hubby gets rest and so on. Bluntly, I’d not wish this on anyone (apart, maybe, from the people behind the destruction of our world)

The first five months were just unbearable really, forced to do pretty much nothing other than essential activities like going out with our dog, quite literally this was all I could do most days, unable to even pick up my knife to prepare food, resorting to prepared vegetables (and many meals far less than healthy) just so we had a decent meal. Driving almost did me in, but it needed doing, tears, snot the lot! Many days I just cried for hours, screamed in rage at my failure to keep my body functioning, then sat on the couch, heat pad on, praying for relief. In those darkest of months, I was unable to dig deep to uncover the medicine, but I picked away at this riddle when ever I was able to, pulling pieces of it together to form the beautiful picture I see today.

In the first stages, I was very fortunate we had some money aside that we used to get help, in the form of chiropractic sessions. This was combined with endless waiting for appointments etc with the NHS, which drag on forever. I knew I had to get proper help because I do not do drugs! Pharmaceutical ones anyhow. So, we booked up sessions each week to help align my spine again. And it HURT, LOTS. Once we got the all clear nothing was amis with my spine that would stop my chiropractor working, he went for it, and it did make a huge beneficial change, and got me on the way to functioning better, but it took weeks and weeks and I was still in a world of agony every single day.

Depression bites deep when we are in pain for extended periods, and then comes comfort eating, self hate, and so on, and your world narrows a little more every day, as you begin to cancel meet ups with loved ones, back out of plans you would ordinarily LOVE to be doing, and then the offers and invites peter out. Yeah, it is not nice at all to feel alone and abandoned (even when that isn’t reality, we feel it is) I have been on a total Armageddon of rollercoasters over this past year.

As we traveled this unfolding journey, our money ran out, pretty fast, for treatments, and I asked my guides WHY they had left me (I truly believed they had) when I needed them most, and in my many pity party moments, something must have shifted, and I did feel this many times once I had come through another meltdown moment, like the energy we release in tears heals parts of us (it actually does) and opens up a channel for new energy to enter. This came in the form of several Angels who heard my calls for help, and opened their wings for me to walk into their outstretched arms. Well, I sort of stumbled clumsily and cried deep thanks) and I was given the help I so deeply needed to assist my beloved body with Her healing. This is still ongoing, and I’m now able to start giving others help again too.

Here is what has been of huge help to me (maybe for you too)

Bowen Therapy

Essential Oils

Vortex Healing

Cupping

Tuina Massage

Vibrational infrared massage

Cannabis oil (CBD and Activated)

Fascia work

Reflexology

Accupucture

Soul Retrieval

Tennis Ball for trigger point release

TheraCane trigger point tool

FRIENDSHIP

Some of these we have purchased tools to use at home, and I’m still using them daily, Hubby is too for his aches, The essential oils, infrared massager, fasciablaster, cannabis, cupping and energy work, and I’m still having help from the Angles, just less often now.

During all those months, my right arm out of action, I learned how to use my left arm to do all the activities needed. Then I felt this shoulder begin to weaken, become inflamed, and, just at the point where my right shoulder was beginning to gain movement and get my range back, lefty FROZE too!

I had days when I panicked that I would be unable to – wipe my own behind! I just dreaded his happening, who wouldn’t! I prayed it wouldn’t happen, and that my right shoulder would heal enough before the left one became too frozen – I was already dependent on Anthony to help me get dressed every day (I still can’t put my own bra on) Thankfully, with all the healing we were doing, my right shoulder just managed enough movement to take over again despite my landing up at the Emergency Walk In at the hospital with my left shoulder one Sunday morning when it totally froze up in agony! I literally had 24 hours where I could do nothing with that arm at all. Angel Nicola came with me to the hospital that day, and her work is tremendously beneficial, for, the very next day, I could move my left arm a bit more and the pain went down a little. The picture being revealed more daily.

Now, where my right shoulder totally put me out of action, my left one, I knew far more how to manage. Despite that, I was still unable to drive for almost 9 weeks, and I not quite fully back to driving daily yet, but it is getting easier and I recover faster. One part of this is that all through, I’ve had tremendous neck trauma, repeatedly my neck has been in agony, and needed intense therapy to put right. Our shoulders are a combination of several muscles and most of them connect in to our neck and back muscles, so it all gets messy needing many sessions to help restore order.

So, as I’ve written so much already, I wanted to give you the picture of what I’ve uncovered over this last year.

Our illnesses are only what we can physically SEE on the surface, like the water in the pond, it’s very different beneath the surface as we know, right? Here’s where I wish I could draw the rest for you. When we take a big step OUT of our physical body (aided by others when needed) and become Eagle archetype, we get to view the entire landscape of our illness or debility and see it all in panoramic glory, reading all the layers in the land that give us the picture we need, to become at one with our healing journey or our ReBirthing as I came to see.

Not wishing to leave out circumstances that are out of our direct control, such as family illness, which in our case is Cancer, because this impacts our own energies in a big way. We take on the healing for others when we are on our own healing and awakening path, and for me, it is part of healing the Ancestor and Familial Line through this relationship with cancer, along with setting up the healing for all who follow after us. This has a huge impact on our bodies, which currently is manifesting in many of us being sidelined for long periods of time. Basically, we are holding massive healings round the planet, it is felt and seen but in the same space we see turmoil, destruction and debased behaviour increasingly in our day to day lives as the healing gains momentum, so does the darkness, it is fighting to keep control, but we are pushing the light harder and faster to ensure the darkness is driven back.

That is what is happening on a global scale, locally too.

So, looking at the up close personal rebirthing, it has come to show me in my medicine workings, that, as we know, nobody CHOOSES the path of Shaman for this path is not an easy nor pretty path to follow, it is rock strewn and excruciating at times, then it is the most joyful too when we are helping others access their own medicine. The Medicine People (Shaman) are chosen by their guides and of course, Elders as we awaken our cunning. When I asked for this path, Little did I know what it would bring. Would I change path now? NO, not ever, I might of prepared more though! What I aim to share is, that on accepting to walk the Medicine Path, I invited in the rebirthing with all it entails, to become The Medicine, so I can help others embody theirs. This rebirth is bathed in the breath of the Dragons Fire, intense, intimate, revelatory, heartbreakingly painful, and requires us to let go of being human so that our Dragon Fire can integrate fully. This is the Fire of our Prayers which we breathe for others, the waters, the Earth in the eternal cycle of life.

Right now, this day, I know right where I’m at is where I’ve been meant to be. My physical body is finding balance, I function at around 80% most days now, and know exactly what is required to keep my body healing (more on this another time) and I’m able to show up every day to guide others again, in so many ways, and the forest is a happy place to spend hours once more!

Throughout this year I have refused all medical intervention, done hours of medical research into what they were pushing me to have done, which began with injections and would have ended with SURGERY and only resorted to paracetamol on days that it was impossible to get out of bed without them. Spiralling depression could have taken me out for longer, so I’m grateful for those who have been here with me every step of the way.

To summarise – this year, not just for me, is the year the Medicine People return – I ask, are you feeling this is YOU? Let us learn our breath together and then go do the work!

This has been a long blog, if you got through it all I’m blessed for you taking time and if it resonates, please email me your story.

Hold these words close – Never Give In to pressure from the pharmaceutical industry peddlers (GPS etc) do your own research into HOW their drugs affect our bodies short and long term – the price of going this path is COSTLY. Never be afraid to each our for help repeatedly if need be. Always begin with spinal health on any treatment protocol, alongside balancing your Gut. NATURAL HEALING is very real and very powerful, on so many levels, and for this we need support, for the bullying our medical professionals do is also very real, dressed up as solutions to our problems.

Look beyond the rippled surface and feel what is beneath

Eternal Gratitude to my beloved Anthony, without your love I would have been consumed by the Dragons Fire, you teach me how to embrace it. To my beloved Mum, walking this path with you as we both learn what it is to live in human form and transmute through the years life, death, to life again.

To all my Angels I thank you for coming home to your Sisters pleas as she finds her wings again; Nicola, Rosemarie, Sarah, Jill, Patricia, Sheryl, Jolene, Gina and Steve and to the other Warriors who have shared their pain with me as we sit in tears together finding our truth. In Munay, Peace

Cacao, Food Of The Gods – Honouring Tradition

The Mexican tradition of eating chocolate (Cacao) is very different to what we are familiar with. It is traditionally eaten as a hot beverage, made from the ground beans, herbs and spices, and sweetened with honey.

in addition to drinking the Cacao, people would grind the beans and spices together on the matatė to form coarse chocolates that would be rolled into chunky blocks or set in mounds, nothing like we buy in the stores today. These intense Cacao offerings provide huge energy surges, stave off hunger for hours and naturally give us a high that is quite amazing!

It was to honour this tradition that I have created the chocolate sacraments that you find here.

The Herbs and spices that are blended with the Cacao in each drink have been selected for their health balancing properties, and their ability to assist us in shifting our consciousness and connecting with ancient tradition.

I use premium cacao beans, working them in a conching machine to give an incredible smooth texture, all the ingredients are ground for around 10 hours, infused with the frequency of Tuning Forks to heighten their potency, and prayers are woven into the mix for gratitude and healing.

Breathing Love Into Chaos

Today I choose courage
The courage and strength to share that for a good while I have felt the need to completely withdraw from the world outside of the cocoon of my own medicine, wrap myself inside the wise embrace of my own healing process and surrender to silence.
I have very deep worries over the way our world seems headed, in such chaos and depravity that we see all around us, I feel the collective shock and fear over the future of all beings in our beautiful world. If I say that it’s all going to be okay and we should all just focus on the light this will make it all good, these words feel empty and false.
I look for the inner wisdom over what is happening, to see beneath all the sadness, anger, hate and so on, I see a world crumbling and in so much pain, this feels like the disease is spreading and coming out of the body of this old world of pain, a deep seated tumour being forced into the front of all our senses, so we feel it, taste it, swallow it and purge it from our own bodies. I have felt my own body in so much pain this year, knowing that there is a deep change coming, doing my best to love my body in the depth of that pain and discomfort, that exhaustion and deep desire to just retreat and sleep and never come out of the cave again until all the pain is over, yet I push through again and again and again, until…there is no place left to go but that beautiful rest. I feel that my body has become a mirror for what is happening in our world, reflecting all that is crumbling, releasing all that need to hold on no matter what and ignore all the flags that have been raised, I deeply see that what is needed for all of us is love, for us to love ourselves deeply, give our body temple what is truly needed, to let go of all that pushing and pushing, forcing ourselves to be what others think we should be, and return to a place of deep loving kindness, then, in our breath, this flows out of us into our relationships, family, community and so on. This is where our new world is being birthed from, this is what is bringing the old world to pass. Once we come to this place of loving breath and live it every day, even if we can’t face seeing anyone else or interacting in any way, live in that space of eternal, devotional love for soul self, changes the world, one heart beat, one breath at a time.

Perhaps instead of feeling the collective fear and grief of our crumbling, chaotic world, we choose to just sit here in our loving breath, send that breath out into the collective, so that we all start to feel the change stronger each day? This is by no way saying we don’t see what is arising, yet we give it the acknowledgment of our witness and let it feel the loving breath in every exhalation.

I feel there has never been a more crucial time in our lifetimes, for us to reach out to others and bring our warrior tribes back together. The times of being alone are over, the times of feeling powerless and overwhelmed are over. In our breath we can change our world, joining our hearts, hands and minds together is incredibly empowering for when we do this from the place of deep self love, souls are fully embodied again and our world ripples with that loving vibrational shift which pours over all the diseased parts for their final release.

Earth Guardian, Seer, Soul Embodiment, Medicine Woman.

Embodiment Of Ancestors

What Does It Mean To Have Health?

This post comes with a kind of warning. It’s a LONG one, so make a brew and maybe bring some snacks!

What I share here is from a deeply personal soul place, these words are my way of flowing through from a place of heart breaking silence of sorts about my life so far as an awakening Master, medicine woman, healer, and reflection of all that is.

Last night, as I went to bed, I was feeling terrible. My stomach hurt, it was swollen and complaining. It’s not the first time either. My body aches, She is tired and lacking in vibrancy. My eyesight is blurred, from too many hours looking at screens no doubt! I’ve noticed a marked change over the last couple of years or so from having perfect 20:20 vision to needing glasses for reading and writing and so on.

I felt sadness at how my physical body is faring right now, a slow deterioration despite my sometimes hit and miss efforts to support Her with healthy foods and supplements, exercise and pure water, fresh air and good company. These aches and pains have come to such a level now that I truly must, need and HAVE to address my life. What I have come to see needs to be done isn’t just about what I put into my body as food though, that is only ONE level of health that I’m finally seeing revealed. I’m still discovering what works for this body of mine food wise!

As I woke this morning, feeling less than great, feeling sore and depleted, I had a bit of an AHA moment. Almost like a fog had cleared and I could really see what living a healthy life needs for me to HAVE that health. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m still looking at what this is, literally as I sit here typing this all out, yet, I can say that I’ve been making excuses for far too long and hiding in the shadows of what I though was good for me for too long as well.

I know some of you who will be reading this know me personally and know me well, maybe you know me better than I know myself and will shout a big fat FINALLY SHE GETS IT at your screen as you read on – let me know if you do, please!!!

What this offering ISN’T is a post on diet, although that of course should play a major starring role in our lives if we are seeking to feel great in our skin, right? Well, it’s not ENTIRELY a post about diet, okay!

You see, I’ve been basically kidding myself for the past few years. Ever since I was introduced to the world of raw foods, cacao and healing. Yep, that’s right, I fess up, here and now…it’s the truth.

What I share with you here is that I have been struggling in such a huge way for years, going through so many ways of attempting to heal my body and my way of living and not ever quite getting it right. Now, there are of course a number of factors in this and mindset plays a huge part to all of it, in fact it’s possibly the biggest determining factor of all of them if I’m honest. I’m sure a lot of you will be nodding right now? Out there in the big world, we are presented with lies and distractions and seductions every single day, all of which are there to mess with our mindset, our heads and our hearts, as well as our stomachs, right!? Oh and let’s not forget how the big world is constructed to keep us living a small life too, a life where we struggle More

The Healing Energy of Mugwort

Artemisia Vulgaris, common name Mugwort, is a pretty common wild plant, seen along the roadsides showing his glossy serrated leaves, flashes of his silvery belly as the breeze ruffles them. For me, Mugwort is one of the Master Sacrament plants that I work with a great deal of the time. I’ve mentioned Master Sacraments a lot in my posts, so, to add here that my own personal way of working has several plants that I choose to call Master Sacraments, those plants that are very potent, strong medicine that belong to the group of plants that can be called entheogens: that which generates the Divine within. Mugwort has a gentler yet no less strong effect on our minds way of receiving wisdom, and as such Medicine, combines so very well with Cacao when blended with Her.

Before I continue, I would like to include here a VERY important message about working with wild plants. It is incredibly important that any plants we choose to work with are done so with the utmost reverence for the wisdom these plants have to share with us. No matter if you buy the ingredients for your medicines online or from a store you personally visit, or that you choose to forage for them in their wild places. It is our personal responsibility to not only source our ingredients from the very best and most ethical suppliers we can find (research extensively before buying anything, and ask questions about how THEY source them) if we are foraging for plants ourselves, which many of us are keen to do, naturally, it is our duty of care as Earth Guardians, that we begin building a deep releationship with each plant even before we harvest any part of these plants. This can take weeks even months before the plant is ready to grant us permission to take them home for working with, it can, and often is, an immediate yes to our question. What ever the way we embark upon this quest, it is the way to approach this work. When we are harvesting, remember, take only what you NEED, never more than around 1/3 of the plants growth!!! And, always give thanks and an offering in exchange of some kind (some hair, food, water, what ever feels appropriate at the time – even go as far as asking what the plant would like in return) This way of building our relationship is a very beautiful way of being in our wild nature and is only right that we choose to walk this path of complete harmony with all of that around us.

So, to continue…this summer, as part of the Sacred Ecology Apprenticeship with Rachel Corby, we began working with Mugwort (and many other plants) in a deeper way, which I was SO happy to do, having until that point been kinda feeling around with how I’ve done things so far, to have this guidance not only from Rachel, but to be meeting the plants in their Spirit world and going really deep with them to be given their wisdom. On the day we were meeting with Mugwort we were given an initiation into his medicine world, granted permission if you like, to work with him, walking with his energy as part of our life path as medicine carriers. Later that day we were also shown how to work with the Spirit of Mugwort to realign the energy body (rather like Reiki is one way of looking at this), Mugwort is a powerful plant medicine that energetically can move through our body, the spine in particular, and remove any trauma and blockages from the spinal column and nervous system. I’m going to copy in the info here from the Mugwort healing section in Offerings for you!

Working with the Spirit of Mugwort, this powerful and gentle energy medicine works to assist with:
Back injuries
Accidents
Long term injury
Post natal health
Sacral injuries

Mugwort works with moving energy, clearing pathways and relieves pain in doing so.
Mugwort works on your central nervous system, from the brain, down your spine and round your entire body.

These sessions are incredibly gentle, allowing your to fully rest for 20 minutes once the treatment begins.
The full session lasts for around 1 hour ????

Mugwort is an incredible plant medicine, having spent many months working with this wise elder teacher and been initiated into working deeper with him, I have had many beautiful journeys into his 7th Dimensional reality.
He is directly connected with our crown chakra and offers us such a calming experience when we meet him, the revelations on traveling in the dreamscape with him are so very profound and heart opening.
It is a great honour to work with this plant and to be of service to help others with his spirit energy.

Each time I work with this plant, be it as a tea, in the cacao medicine, or during healing sessions, I am always deeply humbled to experience this energy. Remembering that it is important to honour the time it takes for any plant to truly and thoroughly atune to our needs, rather than rush though it and out the other side so we can get back to our ‘busy’ again!

I hope one day that you would like to come experience what our plant teachers are waiting patiently for us to hear.

In bliss

Peace ????

What Are The Sacraments?

It’s Sunday afternoon as I sit here and write this for you. I often get stuck on the title for these offerings, which can lead to a bit of writers block! Once the Title is there the words flow more fluidly, just getting over that first way of wording what has already been mulling round my mind for hours.

I’ve planned to write this sharing for a while now and then set it aside for weeks, yet it has always been there ready to be written.

In previous posts I’ve shared about the cacao drinks and how they began, years ago whilst stirring the pot of molten cacao, hearing ‘voices’ asking me to make a drink that would be of great help to us as we go through this journey in our human bodies.

Way back then I made them with cacao powder and added in some herbs, spices etc to make a powdered drinking mix that was blended into hot water and some nut milk, sweetened however one wished to. These could also be mixed with fruits to make smoothies or milk shakes, equally yummy and nourishing. Yet, it became apparent that there was something missing in doing so.

Only after taking a break, or going into a reclusive phase up a mountain in Wales, did the energy of what was to become such potent medicine begin to shift into a whole new dimension. It was while we lived on that mountain that I began working with cacao in the more sacred way that I do today. I introduced cacao paste to the party, along with cacao powder and the host of plants that are now in the Mayan Elixir. This created a far more intense brew with the deeper results that I was initially looking for. A richer, fattier, darker drink that really shifted our consciousness from inside the body’s somewhat restrictive physical form to one where we could access higher states of being, super energy, clarity and focus! What’s not to like about that???

This brew became a real ‘natural high’ in all the terms you could imagine.

From that moment on I began going that extra mile with my crafting of Sacraments, bringing in the element of Ceremony in their birthing, from the prayers that were breathed into the blend as they were being grated and mixed, that loving intent to bring abundant health and joy to all who drank from the cup of cacao, to how I placed part of each blend on my kitchen altar as an offering of Gratitude to my Guides for their assistance and support during this process, my devotional service.

I have changed more over the last 18 months too, since I began walking the path to reconnecting with the real medicine of this world we move within, and with it so has the way I make the blends, as if they couldn’t get any more amazing! Well, I feel there is always more to learn and more to offer…

I chose to always honour what my Guides bring to share, even if at the time it seems to be way out there in terms of what is happening in the mainstream (yeah, who cares what the mainstream are doing, right!?)

So, today my blends are birthed with great devotion to IxCacao and all Her allies. I no longer use cacao powder in any of the cacao offerings that I’m part of creating, instead it is either cacao paste blended with cacao butter or whole cacao beans (nibs, because we are not able to use whole beans with their skins intact just in case of there being any traces of micotoxins). This gives us the most potent, rich, creamy blend of them all, with a high fat content for the best uptake of all the nutritional benefits in the blend. Working with these elements and the other plant medicine that is contained within each of the two blends and using a stonegrinder to create the SMOOTHEST cacao drink imaginable means that you get an awesome medicinal cacao Sacrament.

This whole process takes TIME ???? As each moment making them is part of the Ceremony for me, from the initial thought of crafting to the end result of packaging them up. As I begin the process, I set the altar with the incense, bring out the tuning forks, crystals to empower the brew, take the prayer smoke outside to smudge myself clear of any energies that are not aligned with my intentions, then paolo santo smoke to bring in those prayers and energies that I wish to birth into the blend. The machine is also smudged clear as well as the cacao mix as it goes into the grinder and is set in motion. Next I select the tuning fork that brings the vibrational energy to the blend, this is incredibly powerful! I’ve noticed how they taste different when I’ve included the forks as opposed to before I began working with them. I might use upto 4 forks on each blend throughout their birthing! I let them grind for around 8 hours so that all the herbs and barks etc are finely processed, leaving no chunky bits at all, just smooth chocolate heaven! Once this is done, the mix is poured into containers and let to cool and cure for 24 hours before being grated up and packaged. Just to ensure that all is as I wish for each blend, I set aside enough of each for personal use, sitting in my own Sacred Enjoyment, giving my love and gratitude for being able to offer these Sacraments to others who wish to walk their way home again.

Cacao is a GREAT Master Sacrament to work with, She has much wisdom to share with us, I could literally speak about Her gifts of knowing for DAYS, such is the depth of healing She offers us.

It is my hope that when you choose to work with one of my offerings, that you have the most amazing and insightful experience, even if it is ‘just’ the best hot chocolate you have ever had!

Take a look in the Store to order, should you wish.

In Gratitude

Peace ????

Cacao Medicine Circles

Since the very early days of my workings with chocolate I’ve found a deep sense personal expression and expansion which has led me on such an amazing journey and becoming a totally different person now to who I used to be.

I can look back on my life and honestly say that I’m in a far better place now than I ever thought I would be.

Several years have gone by since the very first Invitation from my guides to create a drink that not only honours the Mayan culture of cacao along with being a potent medicine that helps us open up and awaken to our truth in this life. Since I started offering cacao ceremonies my practice of doing so has evolved into what has become such a beautiful experience for all who sit in Circle and welcome in the depth of love and nourishment IxCacao offers us.

The early circles were very ‘basic’ and I trembled during each of them, worried that I wasn’t ‘delivering’ a great experience! Now, I know that by offering these circles everyone who comes takes away what is perfect for them in that moment and I no longer worry, for there is no need to give a performance when I’m in the place of offering from my soul, connected directly to Great Spirit as we all are.

As I not only intuitively craft the Sacrament from scratch for each ceremony (as well as providing access to the 2 blends found in the Store on this website), – every ceremony begins from that moment of intentionally bringing together the cacao and the herbs, roots, barks and spices. The week leading up to the ceremony I begin dropping into that energy, altering my days so that I’m more able to be walking more gently, lessening outer distractions, sleeping more and so on.

The night before the ceremony I go to bed after drinking my regular brew of Mugwort tea (I might also add in some Salvia Divinorum or Damiana) and begin my call to the Ancestors, guides, elementals, to come join me that night in my dream work ready for the day ahead.

On the morning of the ceremony I set in motion the Call more deeply, sitting with a dose of the Sacrament that will be used in the ceremony itself and begin the calling in of the 4 directions, all the elements and any other aspects that I feel will be beneficial for that ceremony and the group who are attending, so that everyone is there for the entire day until we return home to our beds to dream our new direction into being.

I’ve done this a few times now and have really had such a profound and transformational experience from following this way of offering ceremony. During the ceremony itself I’ve been overwhelmed with LOVE and such a Divine energy that has to be felt to know what I mean!

I love how our practice evolves over time as we walk in our soul centre and be of service.

When you decide to enter into the Cacao Circle know that from that moment you have accepted to walk a new path on your own life journey and the medicine will reach out to you to be received. Life afterwards will feel very different indeed.

If you would like to experience this work with me then please do connect in with our next Full Moon Medicine Circle or book onto one of the Plant Consciousness Retreat Days.

I also offer group ceremonies around the UK (if you wish to host one them please connect with me) and 1-1 Ceremonies here in my home