This week is Ostara (on the 21st to be precise). March is always a time of fairly extreme transition in England, and the weather this March has been better than the cold and snow that February brought. I love…
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My school finishes an hour later than most secondary schools so throughout winter, nearly every day I go to school in the dark and I go home in the dark. So the slowly lengthening amount of light in the…
Yule is almost upon us and Christmas is just around the corner. Like many of you, my holiday plans aren’t quite typical and it will be a very small but highly personal celebration as opposed to any sort of…
People may not be celebrating Halloween in the most traditional ways this year; trick o’ treating does seem off the cards for most. But I’m not going to let that stop me from embracing one of my favourite days…
I was on the birth control pill for nearly a decade when I decided that I wanted to stop altering my body’s natural hormones. It was around the same time that I was doing my doula training so I…
Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival to celebrate being halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It’s traditionally held on 1 May and it’s both the peak of spring and the beginning of summer. Plus it…
Something that I’ve noticed recently is the increase in light every day. This year is quite different from year’s previous due to my teacher training, and I always find the winter to be quite the challenge for me. But…
We are in the middle of Mabon, the Autumn Equinox. It’s the end of the harvest season. The days may still be a little warm, but the summer is definitely at it’s end. There’s a distinct chill in the…
***This contains a gifted product; however all opinions are forever my own*** I’ve gone to acupuncture appointments for over a year, but recently my schedule has not allowed for it. So I wanted to look for an alternative that…
I’ve blogged before about how I am an anxious person with a history of clinical anxiety and depression. Over the last few years, I have made a concerted effort to concentrate on lowering the levels of stress in my…