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18/01/2026

As we approach the first new moon of the year, it is time to pause.
A cycle comes to an end before the moon cycle starts again – a time to surrender and a time to plant a new seed to grow in our personal next cycle.
What makes the first new moon special is that we often set intentions for the year to come and often get frustrated as those intentions often fail quickly.
I invite you today to surrender – your hopes, wishes and dreams for this year and tune into our hearts – in our hearts there is a place where spirit lives in us – in our 8th chakra (about 30-40com above our heads) is where part of us lives in spirit.
As with every meditation, please do stop if anything doesn’t feel right
With love and light

As we approach the first new moon of the year, it is time to pause. A cycle comes to an end before the moon cycle starts again – a time to surrender and a ti...

01/01/2026

Happy New Year ✨
As we step into a new year, we’re also closing the first quarter of this century—quite a milestone. We can use our first upcoming full moon to reflect – it is also the mid-year moon (in the southern Hemisphere – in the north it is the wolfs moon) or high moon and it is in cancer – great to set intentions for hopes and dreams – for me those intentions exceeding my private life as I look back at the past 25 years which have been intense, unpredictable, and at times overwhelming.
We globally lived through huge shocks, rapid change, and moments that challenged our sense of certainty and inner compass.
Yet something powerful emerged out of it: humanity adapting, questioning, and slowly becoming more aware.
Crises sparked conversations and some divide.
Climate events ignited environmental action.
Rather extensive social shifts pushed us to rethink how we live, learn, work, and connect.
Technology certainly transformed the way we communicate and create—sometimes uncomfortably fast—but it also opened doors we couldn’t have imagined before.
Yes, the world can feel more deeply divided and so much noisier.
When everything seemingly changed at once, it’s natural to look for certainty and belonging…. and maybe that’s part of what this moment is asking of us: to slow down, listen more deeply, and reconnect—with ourselves and with each other.
I feel hopeful because I see a growing movement back to community, to shared values, to trusting our inner compass again.
A sense a return to heart over outrage, curiosity over judgment, love over cancel culture.
To me a clear invitation to choose connection in uncertain times, and to shaping the next chapter with intention, kindness, and courage.
Happy New Year 💛

25/12/2025

Dear Friends,
I wish everyone peaceful celebrations, Merry Christmas and sending my love to those who grieve.
The time between the Festive season and the year ending, invites to dwell a little deeper during our 12 days of Christmas ... traditions changed from where it originated: it was a Pegan tradition with originally 13 days after the winter solstice, taking the long dark nights and a thin vale between the worlds. Of course, the tradition we just passed the summer solstice and that makes it a different story all together. Embracing change, merge old with new, see how one thing starting grows into another - nothing ever stays the same!
What do I make of it today?
As the year began, many of us planted seeds through intentions. Now, as the summer comes to full swing, those seeds begin to bloom. Early fruits have been harvested, and it’s a good moment to pause and reflect: Do we see blooming around us what we hoped to grow? Are these the growing fruits we imagined?
Summer, a time of fullness—bright light, strong emotions, long afternoons.
But that same light may also cast long shadows.
Times become uncertain and we often tend to cling to what feels familiar: our beliefs, our circles, our sense of safety and identity.
Fear can quietly pull us away from what feels different—ideas, faiths, or ways of living.
We see these shadows reflected in the world, as conflicts elsewhere reach our own doorsteps. As recent events still sit heavy in our hearts, many of us can feel a clear “before and after” in our lives as things may never be the same.
Moments like these invite us to go inward and grow love—especially toward those who think, believe, or live differently.
We’ve lived through deep divisions before, here and across the world.
Some of what began then is now taking stronger shape in how we live and setting priorities.
The question on my mind is: how do we balance safety with freedom?
This summer, I choose to nurture loving-kindness. I don’t need to agree with friends, family or anyone for that matter, to stay connected and don’t expect others to agree with me either.
Difference doesn’t have to mean division.
More than ever, I choose to anchor in love rather than fear, in unity rather than separation— what I hope to seed for the new year is a quest of finding pathways to end war in hearts and minds, especially when love feels difficult.
I will take the reflective season to explore how this could look like – how can we use the energy of the year of the horse to work full horsepower with hand and heart on growing love?
With love and light to all
Kerstin

15/12/2025

Tonight, I light my candle
Tonight, I hope to see many candles in windows
A gesture of hope and solidarity, with families who lost loved ones and friends.
I think of my dear friends of the Jewish community and as much as I am glad that they are OK, I feel the deep sadness for all who has been taken and their families and friends.
I also mourn the freedom of people celebrate the festive season in peace, with joy and in community.
But what about tomorrow night?
Lighting a candle is a gesture, a moment of reflection and prayer. Praying for the strength to withstand violence and grow stronger together as a whole community were everyone has a place, where every tradition celebrated in peace will be able to continue to do so.
Now I struggle and wrestle with words... but it's only 15 min away to light the candle in the window... so let's start with a gesture and a prayer... let it grow from there.
Much love to all
I hope Sydney will light up in candlelight tonight.
Much love to all

09/12/2025

This so resonates with my own experience.. at times it seems I can see others captured on either side of this quote and of course, swinging like a pendulum from side to side, including myself of course. Acceptance is always a first step to find a way of settling in the middle: holding both truth. After all planet Earth is the teaching place, lets learn together.
Wishing all a magical festive season.
I will be back with offerings next year as I'm currently recovering from surgery - a plate and lots of screws had been removed from my leg.
Lots of love to all

16/11/2025

An old friend recently posted a quote by Johann Wolfgang von Göthe. The translation I found says:
“The most powerful figment of imagination is public opinion: no one knows exactly who creates it, no one has ever met it personally, yet everyone allows themselves to be tyrannised by it”
It certainly rings true to me – in big and small things.
This brought up another idea I grew up with:
When asked a difficult question, the eye movements supposedly reveal whether you’re lying – especially when looking up to the left and right. Funny that this ‘myth’ turned into a therapy form called brain spotting in which the eye positions are used therapeutically in a very different way!
However, the stress of not moving the eyes away from the person one talked too got underlined with the belief that one must look someone straight in the eyes to be taken seriously, conveying to know what exactly you are talking about.
Let’s be honest: in emotional or stressful situation, intense eye contact can make thinking so much harder, adding to stress levels.
How much nicer would it be to give each other space to release our eyes, let them wonder whilst thinking, breath and come back with an answer which is likely of greater value then what one could say under stress. It feels a little sad that this seems to be confined to therapy rooms, where it becomes part of the therapy session.
Our body mind soul and spirit know how to heal and what it needs if only we would find the courage to allow it like we do when we have a cut – clean the wound and let it heal – you don’t even need to know how your body does it.
That’s essentially what Francine Sharprio stumbled upon in 1987 when she realised that moving her eyes from side to side would allow her to process a stressful situation – which became the foundation of EMDR (eye-Movement-Desensitisation and reprocessing) Today this is acknowledged as an evidence-based therapy worldwide – even if we still can’t fully explain how it works.
I like to invite you to do the same: allow and play with new and old ideas, discover and rediscover how to heal and manage daily life stress. Say you are running late for work – before you walk in, pause, breath allow your eyes to move from side to side and process why you are late and see if it makes a different to walking in with the usual rush around.
When might you seek extra support?
• When you keep doing things you wish to change
• When you are not doing what you like to do
• When you don’t know what you like or want altogether.

And of course, if you are dealing with any kind of illness or condition that interferes with daily life, specialist support is important.
Be gentle and kind with yourself. We are all learning, unlearning and relearning.
Get in touch if you like to know more or seeking support.
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07/11/2025

The old oak door is symbolic of my Celtic roots - it is the door between worlds and in mythology only the once pure of heart should walk through it as it usually has a little guard keeping watch and closing the threshold should the wrong person approach - it wasn't done lightly. Symbols like this can open us up to lives mysteries. This recording is from a few years back and yet I feel it's valid just as much today. This is a trial and if it works well more is to come. Enjoy the meditation

03/11/2025

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21/10/2025

Hi all,
Living with too many treasures can be challenging - I had the pleasure to volunteer and supported Debbie at the elephant groups. I learned a lot from Debbie and are so grateful that she invited me to join her team just after I graduated with my counselling Diploma over 2 years ago - what a start it was ... well a kick starts really, diving straight into the deep end of mental health challenges.
Thanks to Debbie I am now an in-depended on contractor working for people on NDIS or private alongside my home-based clinic, as well as online.
It is so valuable to learn from one another and support each other and never underestimate our own life stories and lived experiences - This was to Debbie an important factor for taking me on board.
Yes, professional knowledge and tools are very important, but without the deep understanding and compassion gained through live experiences, those tools may not be as effective -
The modalities we learned all had a story of the person who developed those on a base of lived experience and experiential learning, before it became a tool taught to many.
wishing everyone a great week
lots of love to all

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