Awaken Nature Healing

23/12/2025

A positive step, and just hoping that the government will commit to help ending practices that should never have been brought about in the first place 

BREAKING❗BIG NEWS FOR ANIMALS: The Animal Welfare Strategy is out, and it has the potential to transform the lives of millions of animals across the UK and beyond! 🐷🐶🦊🐰
We’ve been waiting for this moment, hoping for generational change for animals across the UK and beyond. The strategy is finally published. Now the real question: will it deliver for animals? 🤔

There are some big wins!
🐔 A commitment to end the caged keeping of farmed animals, something that over 100,000 animal champions campaigned for this year.
🐣 A commitment to end the practice of killing day-old chicks, a move which could prevent around 45 million male chicks from being killed within 12 to 36 hours of being born.
🐰 A commitment to look to strengthen penalties for cruelty against wildlife and phase out animal testing where possible.
🦊 A recommitment to ban trail hunting and 🐶 end puppy farming.

Improving animal welfare is a moral, ethical and societal imperative. The strategy has strong ambition, and we’re encouraged by that. Now the priority must be swift action to deliver on these commitments for animals.
➡️ The Government must turn promises into progress, and we will work with them to ensure this strategy fulfils its potential to positively impact the lives of millions of animals.

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/AWS-DEFRA

21/12/2025

Bringing a bit of extra magic to the day, a very friendly black cat who lives up the lane from me ✨

21/12/2025

Sharing a video I made today while walking through the forest, one of my favourite things to do in winter time. I love this turning point of the year, a perfect time to reflect on where we are and what has brought us to this point, what we need to let go of, what to feel grateful for, and to ready ourselves for what is yet to come.
Merry Solstice to you all✨☺️

Winter solstice, is about the return of the light, the birth of the Sun, and so many traditional celebrations at this time of the year around the world focus...

20/12/2025

Winter reflections…wishing you all Solstice blessings as we approach now the shortest day of the year.
Solstice means, ‘sun standing still’, and while it is us here that are moving on our planetary home, around the Sun, our star, she gives the illusion of standing still before appearing to gradually raise higher in the sky, bringing more warmth and light as the days unfold.

As we near the end of the year, this can be seen as a time of reflection, most of us now looking forward to entering into a time of celebration. Of life, of love, and of the light returning, before evaluating what it is that we have achieved and experienced throughout the last 12 months. May it all be beautiful.  Now, and forever on ☀️

18/12/2025

When seeking wisdom, I have often found great council comes from those we call trees.

17/12/2025

If it’s beginning to feel like the winter’s closing in, and you’re finding yourself longing for the lighter evenings again, one way to lift yourself up might be to go and find some Gorse, which is usually growing in abundance on cliff tops and along coastal areas. So many of us suffer from SAD in these darker months, and one of the remedies I’ve always found most beneficial is to go out and be in nature as much as possible. For when you’re out there, you take yourself out of your own head, and connect to the beautiful world around us.
Gorse, prolifically in flower right now, is related to uplifting the mood, because while so much else can feel a bit devoid of colour on winter days, this spiky leaved bush is currently producing bright yellow flowers, reminiscent of sunny days, and that which makes us feel happy.
You can eat these flowers, and they have a wonderfully nurturing almond smell to them. However, you can also take Gorse as a flower essence, and can either make your own, or go to visit a natural health store and buy an already made remedy. Gorse is for those who are feeling low, and are in desperate need to be uplifted, and to see hope. Might sound a bit drastic, but really anything which nurtures the heart and brings us back into our loving selves can only surely be a good thing.
Gorse also remind us that every plant has it’s own intelligent way of living in it’s environment. Gorse flowers throughout the winter months when not much else does, ensuring that any pollinators that are around will be drawn to it, simultaneously providing nectar for those who need it. It will also be less likely to be eaten by other insects because of the cold season. A clever plant indeed.

16/12/2025

An enchanting Holly tree met upon the path today, whose trunk shone like gold in the last of the Sun’s rays upon the land☀️

16/12/2025

One of the woodland guardians I met upon the path today 🍂

16/12/2025

If you’re looking for an enlightening read over the Christmas season, I highly recommend Linda Tucker’s, Mystery of the White Lions💛✨💛

Day of Reconciliation (South Africa)

Today, we re-a-lion with Mother Earth
And restore the sacred relationship of love and respect
Between Lions, Land and People.

Bringing harmonious coexistence to current and future generations.
True reconciliation lives where respect becomes action,
Where protection becomes shared responsibility,
And where the wild is free to be wild.

The lions remind us;
We are not separate from this Earth,
We are her guardians, together

15/12/2025

The gold light of the Sun as we now approach solstice. As we move through December, it is a time when many long for the return of lighter days. To feel the warmth of the Sun upon us, energising the body, and brightening the mind. Even now though, regular time outdoors can have a positive effect on our health.
Sunshine helps to produce vitamin D and raise serotonin levels, helping us to feel calmer, happier, and brighter within.
Natural light can help regulate our circadian rhythms, potentially providing a better night’s sleep.
Our skin benefits, as does our immune system, and our blood pressure.
Walking outdoors also helps to keep the energy flow within our bodies, rather than us getting stagnant and sedentary as is often the case in the winter months.
If anything though, just looking out on a view like this, the light of the Sun casting a band upon a silver Sea, as birds fly high following their path to wherever it is they are going. This in itself does us a world of good, and helps us remember our beautiful soulful connection to this amazing planet we live upon.

14/12/2025

It may be the darkest time of the year, but out and about yesterday in the sunshine I came across so much colour. Some early blossoming daffodils, a few pretty bramble flowers, delicate pink petalled herb robert flowers, a single primrose flower by itself, winter heliotrope, hogweed, gorse, and so many rich red Hawthorn berries, still on the tree, or fallen down with the winds to the ground below. Little potent reminders that solstice is on its way, and that Spring will soon be here.
The Winter holds so much beauty, but the dark evenings affect so many of us. And there are many reasons why we need the sunlight.
Our ancestors understood this, and even in this age of electricity and heat within the home, if we are lucky enough to have that of course, we still feel it deep within.
One of the best remedies for feeling low is to take yourself outside, even if it sometimes means being out in all the elements. For there we feel the connection we need, and the reminder that sometimes it is essential to retreat, to then find ourselves anew. 

13/12/2025

A starfish I found today at the beach. It’s body felt soft so I picked it up and put it back into the sea.
I don’t know what it is about starfish that feels so magical. Probably mostly that they’re shaped like a perfectly formed five pointed star, a universal symbol of protection, and light.
And that within the sea, the depths of mystery we thankfully may never completely fathom, there is reflected the wonders of the sky above. The creatures that live there, inhabitants who inspire us to dream.