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Ros Thompson Bach Flower Practitioner/ Reflexologist/Reiki Master, 20 Nicolson Close, Chichester (2026)

04/03/2026

⁉️ In a hope to raise awareness - if you are navigating a natural menopause or your loved one is affected by this - this may help you - this is my journey - which was at times horrific! ❓

Menopause is finally a less taboo subject now, yet many women still suffer in silence. The pandemic, with its shortage of HRT products, pushed many women to explore natural ways to manage symptoms. I was forced to find a natural solution but my journey started 35 years ago.

I started my menopause at just 33 due to emergency surgery following years of gynae problems. Back then, HRT was the go-to solution, and I took it without question.

I felt amazing - until six months later when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had to stop the HRT immediately and found myself falling off a cliff with menopause symptoms without guidance or support.

It was a lonely, difficult road, and my family and mental health suffered. I was a single Mum and working full time - an interesting place to be! Actually it was horrific when I think back.

Fast forward to today, and we have so much more knowledge at our fingertips. If you're navigating menopause or preparing for it, I want to share what worked for me - natural remedies that can help you feel more balanced and in control.

‼️ There needs to be a proviso - this does not mean that I am against HRT - I would have taken if I could have done. ‼️

👉🏻 1. Nutrition Matters
Prioritise calcium & vitamin D for bone health.
Eat fresh fruits, vegetables, and whole foods.
Avoid trigger foods like alcohol, spicy dishes, and sugar, which can worsen symptoms.
Maintain a healthy weight—it’s tough but makes a difference.
👉🏻 2. Exercise for Strength & Stability
Walking, yoga, and pilates help maintain bone density and reduce stress.
Weight-bearing exercises support long-term health.
Ask your GP for a bone density scan to stay ahead of osteoporosis risks.
👉🏻 3. Key Supplements for Menopause
Black Cohosh – Helps with hot flushes (but give it time—one month isn’t enough!).
Fish oil – Supports brain health & reduces inflammation.
Linseed & Vitamin D – Essential for bone density & mood balance.
Please check with GP
👉🏻 4. Bach Flower Remedies for Emotional Well-being
Menopause impacts your emotions, too. These Bach remedies were a key part of my journey:
🌱 Walnut – Shields you from emotional overwhelm.
🌱 Impatiens – Helps with frustration & irritability.
🌱 Clematis – Clears brain fog, improving focus.
🌱 Holly – Eases anger & restores inner peace.
🌱 Star of Bethlehem – Helps with early menopause trauma.
🌱 Mimulus – Reduces fear of aging & the unknown.
🌱 Larch – Restores confidence when self-doubt creeps in.

❣️ Your Menopause, and your way
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to menopause. HRT might work for some but not for others. If you’re looking for natural solutions, I’d love to help you explore options that make this transition smoother. ❣️

03/03/2026

This week we celebrate International Women's day and I wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate women in general and the journeys they undertake as they navigate their own lifes and what life throws at them. ❣️

As many of you know I am a Menopause awareness trainer – working with Hormones on the blink.

The greatest part of the work that I do is aimed directly at helping women of a certain age to be able to continue their careers in the workplace and to enable them to get through the menopause and the struggles they face with an element of ease whilst retaining their careers. ⁉️

Women in midlife are often at the height of their experience, strategic capability and organisational influence. Many are find themselves leading teams, managing complex portfolios, helping others and holding down jobs of significant stature. ❓

They may also be running a home, raising children, looking after parents and juggling everything within a normal day!! ‼️

At the same time, many are navigating the difficulties that menopause can bring:-

• Loss of confidence and self-belief
• Emotional dis-regulation
• Sleep deprivation and cognitive clarity
• Reduced energy levels
• Stress resilience
• Loss of a sense of identity

Even if only one of these factors comes into play – it can create significant problems for the ladies in question.

The resulting emotions and feelings are that they are no longer able to function at the top of their game and how do they navigate life from here!

The work that we do at Hormones on the blink and also the work that I do with the Remedies by Ros is to enable these ladies to find a satisfactory path through this minefield and to help them to continue with their career with understanding employers and empathy from colleagues. ❣️

For the benefit of everyone, both employers and employees, it is essential that we maintain our staff for the continuity within the workplace.

If you would like more information regarding Menopause Awareness and how you can help your staff or your own wellbeing – it would be brilliant to further that conversation – please feel free to DM me

26/02/2026

“My mum suggested that I give you a call” – this was the message I received from a 25 year old broken hearted young man!!!❗❗

In the answer phone message I have already detected a sense of urgency – he was considering ending his life, he didn’t want anti-depressants.❗❤

This was a challenge, not for the remedies, but for me to manage his expectations.🤔

We booked our time, allowing the customary hour, worked through his thoughts and needs, lots of tears and wow yes so much emotion. It was an incredibly powerful hour – all I had to do now was to hope that he would take the remedies!!☺️

Two weeks in, I always have a check in with clients – and there are huge glimmers of hope- the mood is generally more positive, the dark cloud that was hanging over his head had gone!😊

In his own words – he almost felt he could feel the sunshine!🌞

We talk through the remedies and he can see where the positivity is coming.✅

Next step is to leave him quietly to finish the bottle, and we agree to meet in 3 weeks.

Oh wow what a transformation, the first and most noticeable thing was the smile.
The tone of voice – much more positive – the confidence was coming out. ❤ Yes he had experienced moments of lowness but overall he was feeling more like his old self.

The remedies had surprised him – he really didn’t expect to be feeling as good as he was just from taking 16 drops of a beautiful liquid.⚡

Confession from a 25 year old young man – I need to trust Mum more often – the remedies are subtly remarkable. ❤

So we work through another selection of 7 remedies to create a blend to enhance further his emotions an feelings.

How the remedies create such a change – a transformation coming together in front of my eyes.

I like, my client, just love to see this work of the Bach Flower Remedies.❤❤🌿

24/02/2026

How tolerant are you of your colleagues or even your friends and family? ‼️

Do you have an everlasting pot of patience? ❓

How does this attitude affect the rest of your life – the time you spend with your children, or even your pets? 🤔

We have just spent a weekend dog sitting as part of the Trusted Dog sitters work that we do and have had the pleasure of looking after an aged by sweet terrier type dog. Seventeen years old – and partially sighted so it’s been a weekend of kindness and tolerance. 🦊

No long walks – she lays down when she has had enough – quite literally just stopped – until you turn for home!

Other dogs that we have looked after have all had their little idiosyncrasies but once you understand what makes them tick and what they need, the love that you get back is so rewarding.

☀️ The same applies to humans – to our children – we need to understand their emotions – work out what they are trying to tell us – often they don’t know the words that match the emotions – so we need to be patient and understanding to bring out the best in our children.

The same again applies to other family members, especially when dealing with those living with dementia – in the early stages when they fluctuate between what they know and remember and what they don’t, the fear that they are losing their mind and understanding what that means – this is a terrifying situation.

The patience and understanding that is required by all carers with the repetition of questions and the difficulties with behaviour – if the carers are frustrated and show how they feel – it will inevitably make the situation worse. The carers need a break to alleviate the monotony and those who are living with dementia need to have a break for some humour and feel loved and cared for.

🌱 Dr Bach gave us the Beech remedy designed to help if you are over critical and find yourself feeling intolerant and snappy.

❣️ With the positive result being a feeling of empathy and understanding which in turn will enable kindness to shine through.

At the end of the day the kindness will always win! Smiles all around.

23/02/2026

Today after 4 beautiful days in Suffolk, we are returning home.

Every time we come home I have this enormous of nostalgia and sadness, it is a place where my heart lays, my father and his large family are a big part of Hadleigh and the surrounding villages.

It is the place of wonky houses!!! sometimes buildings defy gravity and any logic at all, they are architectural phenomenons - most are still lived in and also used as shops as well.

Can we make building today that can stand the test of hundreds of years?

Can our businesses withstand the test of years of wear and tear and still present us with a durable format?

Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if we can leave something for our children to remember us - not thinking about Rack concrete and our attitude in looking after things for posterity!!

I wonder what my grandchildren will have to remember us by.

20/02/2026

Today is Love your Pet day, oh how we still wish we had a pet to love, nowadays we share our love with the pets of other families.

We sadly lost the love of our life Snoopy, the little dog in these photos, back in November 2023, taken so suddenly at the age of 9 and far too soon. The postman now arrives unannounced and visitors too, and the house is still incredibly quite.

Snoopy's passing of course has paved the way for our 3 beautiful grandchildren and the wonderful Moose who we are able to look after from time to time.

We had animals in our lives for 30 years and despite the work and time involved they brought us so much joy, Moonbeam who gave us over 20 years of fun and joy, Buster a rescue Labrador and of course the inimitable Snoopy - we are now free of responsibilities but the hole is still there.

I will always be grateful for the love that our animals have given us - totally unconditionally and always such a joy.

Do you have 4 legged friends in your world? How do they enhance your world?

This weekend we are dog sitting for a friend in Suffolk so having our canine fix looking after the wonderful Meg.

19/02/2026

Testimonial Thursday

A few weeks I had a conversation with a prominent lady in the world of sport, she had no previous experience of the Bach Flower Remedies.

She had been taking the remedies for a mere 10 days and while she was away on holiday, I received this email from her on her return.

"Well, I must say, I’ve religiously taken my magic potion plus a couple of squirts of rescue remedy and I feel like it is making a huge difference.

Mum and I had a lovely trip away and I can honestly say I found depths of patience, kindness and compassion that I didn’t know I had!! Usually I would have got really wound up by the very very slow pace of walking, poor Mum hanging onto my arm, the fact that she takes forever to get ready even when she knows that we had planned to leave at a certain time etc BUT I found myself waiting patiently, gently cajoled, got her to hurry up but in a nice kind way (rather than with a bit of an ‘edge’ where my patience was wearing thin!).

And we had an 8 hour journey home in traffic, I managed to juggle a load of work challenges that were happening whilst I was away and still smile!

AND I got my period on Friday evening and I didn’t seem to have any PMT symptoms apart from some night sweats which are normal anyway.

So all in all a success!"

Receiving this acknowledgement as to how the remedies have helped a client is simply wonderful.

Thank you Dr Bach for your wonderful work.

17/02/2026

In large parts of the country it is half term, and this can mean very different things for different children - and it's not something we often talk about.

For some children, school holidays are a welcome chance to breath to rest and relax. They finally get a break from early mornings, academic pressures, social worries, or environments that may sometimes feel overwhelming. Rest, freedom, and unstructured time can help them reset emotionally and mentally. They find the breaks incredibly useful. ☀️

🏫 But for others, though, sadly school is the place where they feel most secure. It provides a routine, predictability, friendships, encouragement, and a sense of belonging.

🏘️ If home life feels uncertain, stressful, or overstimulating, time away from school can actually feel unsettling rather than relaxing. This is the time that our children need us most.

As parents, professionals and care providers we need to be aware that every child’s experience is unique. Behaviour during school holidays isn’t simply “good” or “challenging”, it can demonstrate how safe, balanced, and supported a child feels in that moment.

Do the children in your house feel supported - are they pleased to be home - are they anxious about going back? Maybe ask the question?

☀️ Gentle, holistic supports can make a meaningful difference.

I work with a large number of children who struggle with the changes that life brings, the new emotions that they face and with the Bach Flower remedies, for example, we use them to help support children’s emotional wellbeing in a natural, non-invasive way.

🌱 Carefully chosen remedies may help with feelings such as anxiety, irritability, overwhelm, difficulty with change, or emotional ups and downs - helping children feel more settled and able to enjoy their time, wherever they are.

This half term, perhaps the most powerful thing we can offer children is curiosity instead of assumption. ‼️

When we pause to notice what they’re feeling beneath the surface, we create space for them to feel understood - this is where emotional resilience truly begins. ❣️

16/02/2026

Oh my goodness after the last few weeks of rain I thought we could do with a ray of sunshine - here is my remedy for just that - Gorse the Flower Remedy for Hope 🌞

The days are getting longer and yes the signs of spring are on the way but after the incessant rain of yesterday it really did feel like groundhog day!

The Sun on Saturday I think made Sunday feel worse!

🌞So this morning I found myself using my little bottle of Gorse, a beautiful Bach Flower remedy, this can help lift your spirits and restore your sense of hope.

Gorse is ideal for those struggling with deep feelings of hopelessness or resignation. When life feels like an endless struggle, this remedy works gently to help you rediscover optimism and light.

Think of the Gorse plant thriving on Dartmoor’s moors, its vibrant yellow flowers shining brightly even in stormy weather. It’s a powerful symbol of resilience and positivity, qualities this remedy brings to your life.

When Can It Help?
🌟 Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): As winter approaches and the days grow shorter, Gorse can lift the seasonal gloom.
🌟 Chronic Disappointments: If life has left you disheartened and drained, Gorse can restore your faith in better days ahead.
🌟 Recovery from Illness: During emotional lows that accompany physical recovery, Gorse can renew hope.
🌟 Low Energy: Feelings of despair often drain your energy. Gorse, especially when paired with Olive, can help rejuvenate your mood and vitality.

The Positives of Gorse
🌿 Restores hope and faith.
🌿 Encourages a brighter outlook on life.
🌿Helps you move forward with optimism.
While Gorse doesn’t remove life’s challenges, it helps you approach them with renewed strength. Like its vibrant yellow flower, Gorse shines a light in the darkness, reminding you that healing begins within and brighter days are ahead.

😊 Rediscover your inner sunshine and calm with a few drops of Gorse. 😊

Thank you Penny for the photo on a sunnier day!!!!

13/02/2026

Facts on Friday❗️

Do you struggle to sleep?

Do you have children who have difficulty sleeping?

❤If you are feeling sleep deprived please have a read below it could be a solution.
Let me introduce you to my solution to sleepless nights - Rescue remedy Night drops. An alternative remedy to aid a good nights sleep! 😴

This amazing remedy in it's little yellow and blue bottle will help you enjoy a relaxing nights sleep and if you wake again in the middle of the night you can take another few drops and you will soon be back to sleep.

🌱The Night Remedy contains the same basic 5 essences as the original Rescue Remedy but with the addition of White Chestnut. This is the clue and a superb remedy to stop those whirling thoughts just as you are about to drop off.

🌿White Chestnut is our remedy for unwanted mental thoughts and it is with this amazing remedy that you will find yourself able to concentrate better in the morning and allow your brain to calm down.

This remedy is also the perfect solution for children who have trouble sleeping - it is alcohol free and easy to take. Just perfect for a decent nights sleep.

Peace and rest for all! ❤

11/02/2026

During this week where we are looking at our Children's mental health, I want to look more about how we can best support our children emotionally.

Today, more children than ever are struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, low self-esteem, and emotional regulation. The pressures of school, friendships, social media, and life changes can seem really tough for children.

As parents we want to provide our children with the tools to feel safe, confident, and resilient. Let's look at some possible alternatives

🌿 Bach Flower Remedies – These gentle plant-based essences, developed by Dr. Edward Bach, work subtly to support children’s emotions.

Unlike conventional treatments, they don’t suppress feelings but instead help children process emotions naturally. There’s even a special glycerine-based range designed specifically for children!

There is also an opportunity for children to talk through their needs whilst finding out which remedies are best suited for them.

🌱 Play Therapy & Creative Expression – Play is a child’s natural way of processing emotions. Whether through art, music, role-playing, or free imaginative play, it helps children express themselves without words.

🗣️ Talk Time & Open Conversations – Creating a safe space for children to talk about their feelings is crucial. Simple questions "What was the best part of your day?" or "Did anything make you feel sad today?" can be very helpful.

📵Trying to reduce screen time and finding time to play outdoors – Too much time on phones and tablets can lead to overstimulation, anxiety, and sleep issues. if they can spend more time outdoors it can help to reset their nervous systems and help overall.

🛌 A Consistent Bedtime Routine – Sleep is essential for emotional regulation. Gentle wind-down activities like reading, soft lighting, and calming remedies such as Bach Night Remedy can aid better sleep.

🧘 Mindfulness & Deep Breathing – if this can become part of your child's life it will help them manage stress and anxiety, giving them lifelong tools for emotional balance.

💛 Supporting a child’s mental health doesn’t have to be complicated. Small, daily practices can make a world of difference.

10/02/2026

It is Children's Mental Health week 9th to3rd - 9th February and during this week it's an ideal time to discuss how these amazing flowers can help our children.🌿

There is a range of remedies produced specifically for children - all glycerine based - Dr Bach really thought about how he could help everyone.

Dr. Bach's remedies can work wonders when it comes to supporting your child's developmental stages. ❤

Whether they're in the active or passive play phase, these natural remedies can help manage emotions and foster healthy growth.

⭐ Is your little one hiding their anxieties and fears? Try Agrimony, perfect for helping them open up through drawing and expressing themselves.
⭐Does your child struggle to stand up for themselves? Centaury might do the trick, empowering them to find their voice and assert their needs.
⭐If your child has experienced difficult events, like the loss of a loved one, parent or maybe a pet consider using Honeysuckle and Star of Bethlehem to release sadness, trauma, and ease sorrow.
⭐Does your child constantly seek approval? Cerato can boost their confidence, helping them make their own decisions and trust their instincts.
⭐️I know it was a long time ago but is your child still experiencing the effects of the pandemic - a lot of children experience a multitude of emotions during this period and are displaying some worrying symptoms. There are several we blend here.
⭐️️The worrying rise of Autism, and ADHD and other SEN traits that are being discovered - I have proven cases of how the remedies have helped children here.

These are just a few of the remedies available to support your child's emotional well-being throughout their developmental journey.

This week I am going to be talking and showing you how much more your children can benefit from these wonderful solutions. www.remediesbyros.com

Ros Thompson Bach Flower Practitioner/ Reflexologist/Reiki Master

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