A beautiful 2-hour mindfulness and meditation session to see us through to the new year tonight 🥰
A massive thank you to everyone who has come along to any of my sessions this year — including those who took the leap with my first Mindfulness Based Living Course. It fills my heart that you entrust me with your midweek chill-out and to support your mindfulness journey.
Tonight’s standout feedback: “I arrived with a heart rate of 111 and ended at 67!” 💜
Here’s to more mindfulness and meditation in 2026 😊💜
09/12/2025
A tired mind and a tense body are not two separate things.
When your system is overloaded — too many tasks, too many expectations, too much stimulation — your muscles tighten to protect you.
You’re not “being dramatic”.
You’re having a perfectly normal physiological response to stress.
And the beautiful thing is…
your body also knows how to come back into balance.
Touch, warmth, breath, grounding — these reset your nervous system in minutes.
This is why therapies, mindfulness, and intentional rest make such a difference.
Your body wants to heal.
You just need the space to let it.
08/12/2025
If your social battery feels drained before the week has even begun… you’re definitely not alone.
This time of year asks us to be everywhere — planning, organising, smiling, showing up, rushing, buying, wrapping, hosting…
And yet your nervous system is quietly saying:
“Please, slow down.”
Tiredness isn’t a failure.
Overwhelm isn’t weakness.
It’s your body asking for a moment to soften…
Softening. Resetting. Reconnecting.
One breath at a time.
03/12/2025
If you've been hunched over your keyboard all week or spending too much time on your phone and have started to resemble a prawn… 🦐
Then you need my special December offer!
Every Friday in December
25-minute seated massage | £20
A brilliant way to undo the mid-week tension, ease tight shoulders and necks, and feel human again before the weekend.
Spaces are limited, message me to book. 💜
29/11/2025
As we step into December and life starts to feel a little busier, I’m creating a peaceful space on Wednesday 10th December for anyone who needs a quiet hour to unwind and reset 💜
Two gentle meditation sessions, each with their own vibe:
🕠 5.30–6.30pm – The Unwind Session
Perfect if you want to relax on your way home and ease out of the day before the evening rush.
🕢 6.45–8.00pm – The Settle & Sleep Session
Cosy, candlelit, slower… ideal if you want to settle your mind and drift into a deeper, more restful sleep.
£10 per session
Or come to both for £20 – only 1 bundle left
If December already feels full-on and you’d love a moment of calm, I’d love to welcome you.
Message me to book ✨💜
28/11/2025
As promised, here are the appointments that are remaining in December. I will keep updating this on my stories. If you don't see anything that fits, please still get in touch and let me know and I will make every effort to find something that works for you or keep you on the wait list ✨️
The evening of relaxation is suitable for all levels (beginners welcome).
See you soon, Gill 😊💜
27/11/2025
A big thank you to my superstar helper tonight (Tanya 💜) and to every one of you who bought a pamper box, booked a massage, or stopped for a wee chat. It was so lovely meeting you all!
Hope to welcome you into my cosy space at The Cross soon 😊
Tomorrow I’ll share all my upcoming events and availability right through to the end of 2025 ✨
25/11/2025
I’m excited to be at the Garnock Community Campus Christmas Fayre this Thursday (27th November) from 6–8.50pm! 🎄✨
I’ll be bringing:
💜 Handmade mindful mini-kits
💜 Seasonal goodie boxes
💜 And a chance to try out my brand new on-site massage chair for a little calm in the Christmas chaos
It’s always a brilliant night for the community — hot food vans, inflatable snow globe, local stalls, and a great festive atmosphere.
If you’re popping along, come and say hello! 💜✨
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17/11/2025
Most people don’t realise how closely linked pain and stress are.
When your body is tense, everything feels harder — sleep, mood, digestion, focus… all of it.
Reflexology works by calming the nervous system so your body can finally switch out of “fight or flight.”
When the body feels safe, it can rest, repair, and release tension naturally.
A gentle reminder: you don’t need to push through everything on your own.
If you'd like to explore reflexology for pain or stress support, my Wednesday–Friday appointments are open.
16/11/2025
Hiya, I’m Gill 💜
Me first…
🌱I love nature and all her wisdom.
🤓I’m a massive bookworm.
🤐 I don't do talking before my morning coffee.
🧣And scarves? An absolute must — Therapist Law ar this time of year for anyone with neck or shoulder tension 😂
I’m also mum to an almost-teenager (how did that happen 😳), and I split my week between working with my local HSCP and running Purple Poppy Wellness.
💜 I care deeply about helping people de-stress, self-regulate, and find those gentle “a-ha” moments on their wellbeing journey.
Life can feel like a hamster wheel — work, family, housework, keeping fit, trying to stay energised… it’s a lot.
I’m here to help you simplify wellness by tuning into the natural world for guidance. Nature always knows best.
💜 Purple Poppy began when my son was a baby — first with natural skincare and aromatherapy, then therapies to help people connect with their bodies, release stress, and come back towards balance. Later, after grief and anxiety reshaped my own life, mindfulness became part of my path and naturally part of my work too.
💜 Now, from my wee hub in the centre of Beith, I offer therapies, mindfulness, workshops, and gatherings that support people to connect — with themselves, their bodies, and with other likeminded souls.
If you’re new here, Welcome 😊👋🏼
If you’ve been around a while, thank you — I’m so glad you’re here 💕✨️
12/11/2025
Updated availability.
What a difference a day makes...(24 little hours)
Still have 2 appointments available this week, or a very long luxurious dinner break for me 😏🤐)
Then some more appointments at the end of the month. Currently looking at a day off on the 28th! Please book a treatment and save me from the redecorating tasks that I have started and now want to run away from 😅🤯
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So far this year has been full of learning and new experiences. I started the year by undertaking a variety of tech courses to help me to be more visible and to provide you with interesting and relevant content. From Pinterest and Instagram to building my own website, pushing this technophobe outside of her comfort zone!
In March I completed further training in Natural Lift Facial Massage. What a treatment that is! I don’t think I have ever had as many people fall asleep during their treatments as they do with this one!
A big part of my role is to help my customers to develop their ability to deal with stress and anxiety. Having experienced periods of both anxiety and depression I am keen to help others however I can. Having always been camera shy and quite a private person, this year I decided that it was time to get over myself! It’s very difficult to help people if you are shying away isn’t it. So I put on my big girl pants and starting doing group Mindfulness events, alongside a very talented Yoga instructor (aka Calm Sundays). This led us to hold a fabulous weekend retreat on Arran, a whole weekend of Yoga and Mindfulness that received brilliant feedback and saw a lot of happy and chilled out faces getting back on that ferry to Ardrossan.
I have also continued down my own path with Mindfulness training and I hope that this will one day lead me to a qualification in Mindfulness for Young People. Having spent the majority of my adult life working with teenagers, Mindfulness is a skill that I am really keen to share with them.
Getting involved in Mental Health Awareness week and posting about this years topic “Be Body Kind” raised a lot of interesting points for me. Initially in the feelings that were thrown up when you stand in front of a screen and hit the record button but more importantly in the conversations that occurred off the back of those videos. Body image really is such a massive issue, that affects everyone. That connection to other people, that acknowledgement that we all have our own issues to deal with, I thought that was a really powerful thing.
Roll forward to August and I have an amazing opportunity to collaborate with a brilliant Psychotherapist to bring you a course of workshops (Body Kind), that will combine Mindfulness with Therapy Techniques to enable you to take an honest look at the things that are holding you back from being the person that you really want to be. To dismantle that negative body image and be left with something more positive, the ability to acknowledge how unique and wonderful you really are.... I cannot wait until September to get started with this.
What does the rest of 2019 have in store? More learning, more development and more collaborating with talented people...and of course planning ahead for 2020 retreats.
