03/11/2025
Welcome to November!
How’s your October been? Here’s a selection of some of my October moments in no particular order…
Harvests from the allotment - including my first cabbage and first squash alongside my mama
Celebrations of apples x 3: 1st appleday listened to both at stammer & at 2nd ditchling (picked quince)
3rd: appleland with , saunas and drawing apples, I’d not been for a few years but usually sharing drawing and nice times. Nice to say hi to the 400 year old pear tree again.
Mindful drawing portraiture & life drawing - welcoming back to model (photo - taken at the where life drawing can be found - (come join the next one!)
A wonderful homemade ginger juice from my sister
A washed up brick that I carried to work after stopping by the sea
In between many saunas - The tea and water set at that I carry a few times a day a couple times a week to lovely guests before their advanced massages
Samhain celebrations and a photo of my dad looking like he is having the best time. Looking at pictures of him and remembering my favourite memories have been helping me navigate my grief for his sudden death last year.
(A big shout out and a virtual hug to all the people grieving something or someone be it this year or 50 years ago)
I’ve also been conducting my study in IBS and Clinical Massage - this week is week 16 the final week of results to add to my research paper which will be published next spring.
My current focus with my own health journeys and my clients is that alongside good routines like getting massage, exercise (weight training in particular) and nutrition, we need good human connection and fun, playfulness and time out. To be understood, to feel safe to feel those really hard feelings. In a busy busy world taking 5 minutes to find some awe, to write your worries, to speak to a good friend and to be silly - to laugh - could be all it takes to keep afloat!
What’s your 5 minute hack? Or what would you like to try?
