It’s holiday season. And while that can be fun, for some of us it brings a whole lot of stress and anxiety. Because, if you’re travelling to an unfamiliar place, meeting strangers and coming out of your comfort zone, anything could happen!

So how do you roll with adventure? When things ‘go wrong’, how do you respond? 

 Are you always in your head? Thinking, planning, working things out? Here’s an invitation to step outside your own thoughts, even for 5 minutes.

When was the last time you had an adventure? Maybe travelling. Maybe meeting someone new. Maybe taking up a new hobby.

Silly, mischievous, playful, disruptive. All of these are alchemical energies we own, at any age.

Adulting can be serious work. Bills to pay, deadlines to meet, people to care for. But we all need to let go and let loose sometimes. We need to shake it all out so we can reconnect with our purest, joyful essence. To reclaim our love for life.

I don’t know about you, but around this time each year the energy goes CRAZY! All the dream-seeds I tended back in the spring have taken off in full growth mode. And it’s beautiful…and bonkers…and I get to experience all that I’ve said a full-bodied YES to.

Open with the very essence of your being. Find the pause within the breath, the still point between outbreath and inbreath. In that space you are nothing, yet part of everything. 

This is the place of wisdom, the vastness where everything is one. You are part of the greater matrix of this life, this planet.

Come closer. Closer to the still place where we share everything and yet are nothing. 

This is the place of wisdom, the vastness where everything is one. You are part of the greater matrix of this life, this planet, all sentient beings. And in this still, vast place, nothing is a mistake.

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We give ourselves away to others in relationship, but how do we stay empowered and centred in our own heart?

When we’re in the midst of personal change, we need both cocoon and connection.

When life throws you into personal change, it can feel so overwhelming that we need to withdraw from the world for a while. This is the cocooning stage of transformation, and it’s needed as we clear out old habits, old personality traits and relationships that belong to our ‘old self’. 

I’ve lived with being told I’m ‘too much’.

All my life, I’ve struggled with shame about how emotionally ‘full on’ I am. In a world where women are constantly, subtly (and not-so-subtly) told to stay small, quiet and to look after others’ feelings, to fully embody.

This week brings the ancient fire festival of Beltane. Traditionally it was celebrated with dance and wild ceremony as the summer truly arrived. Even today there are Beltane festivals around the UK and Ireland.

Our loved ones can feel challenged when we’re in the midst of personal change.

Easter holiday season – time to spend time with family and friends. While that’s hopefully a joyous occasion, let’s face it – it can also feel quite difficult. 

Especially when you’re in the midst of radical personal change.

Sometimes it’s the collapse of a relationship. Or an unexpected diagnosis. Sometimes it’s a money crisis – perhaps a job loss. Whatever triggers it, suddenly you’re on a journey to an unknown destination. And there doesn’t seem to be a map, much less sat nav.

I mean soul naked, unmasked. No you don’t have to take any clothes off!

It’s time to look at all aspects of whatever might be holding you back from being fully empowered YOU!

This time of year supports us to spring clean our lives, releasing things, habits and behaviours that no longer serve you. It’s time to look at all aspects of whatever might be holding you back from being fully empowered YOU!

As the light grows, there’s a call to return to the world after winter’s long dark days. How do you feel about showing up in the world?

Our sensual nature is the key to coming back into a full-bodied life

The snowdrops have blossomed, and here come the daffodils. I don’t know about you, but as the days lengthen and the light grows, I feel a surge of joy.

Gabrielle Roth, creator of 5 Rhythms dance, would ask ‘Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?’. I come back to that question time and time again.

When something fundamental changes in our life – a new relationship, new home, different job – it calls us out on anything that’s unhealed in our lives. Thresholds like these mean we need to make a commitment to a new direction, a different life. They are times of upheaval and change and, if we’re listening to our soul whispers, they are golden opportunities for soul growth.

The outcast is an archetype so many of us recognise. So how do we feel when we truly belong?

We women are so often taught to mold ourselves into acceptability. To be pleasing to the eye, not too loud, not too challenging. Not too big. Not too small.

And at the end of this journey, we lose ourselves. We ‘unbelong’ to our own sacred nature.

Here’s a secret that not many know. To truly shine your authentic light in this world, you have to befriend the dark.