Creating Calm with Lucy

Creating Calm with Lucy Integrative & holistic counselling based in Dawlish, offering a calm safe space to heal, grow & transform �

03/03/2026

Mist in the branches, birds calling through the stillness, and the steady comfort of the woodland floor. A small pause that helped my whole body exhale 🌫🌳🌱🐕‍🦺🕉

This morning began in the field with soft fog, light rain, and nothing but birdsong and the earth steady beneath my feet...
03/03/2026

This morning began in the field with soft fog, light rain, and nothing but birdsong and the earth steady beneath my feet. There was a calmness that felt grounding, the kind that settles into your body before your mind has even caught up. Under the lunar eclipse, with Mercury retrograde stirring the deeper layers, it felt like a moment of clarity. A quiet invitation to let go of old patterns and make space for something gentler.
I find collecting pieces of pottery I find in the soil calming—small, imperfect, irregular ‑shaped things that feel like reminders of how we rebuild ourselves. How we gather what’s meaningful. How we choose what comes with us into the next season. Each piece feels like a tiny act of reclamation, a way of honouring the parts of myself I’m learning to hold with more softness.
And then the day unfolded… hectic, tangled, full of needs and not enough time to meet them. One of those days where everything slips through your fingers and you feel stretched thin. The kind of day that tests the very patterns you’re trying to release.
But eclipses have a way of showing us what’s no longer working. They illuminate the friction points, the habits that drain us, the places where we’re still carrying more than we need to.
By evening, I found myself back in the same field. The sky had opened into something spacious and forgiving, the kind of light that makes you exhale without realising you were holding your breath. My dog ran ahead, joyful and certain, reminding me that even the messiest days can end in softness.
Letting go isn’t linear. Healing isn’t tidy. But the earth keeps offering us these thresholds—morning fog, evening sky, the steady rhythm of nature—inviting us to begin again, piece by piece, like pottery gathered in our hands.
Thank you for walking these seasons with me. May tonight bring you a little more ease.

The first day of March feels like a deep breath.A moment to acknowledge everything winter has held, and everything we’re...
01/03/2026

The first day of March feels like a deep breath.
A moment to acknowledge everything winter has held, and everything we’re beginning to step toward. You don’t need to have a plan. You don’t need to feel ready. March is a month that meets you where you are.
If you’re navigating change, healing, or uncertainty, this is a reminder that you’re allowed to move at your own pace. Growth doesn’t need to be visible to be real.
Wishing you a month filled with softness, steadiness, and moments of calm.
Hopeful, Reflective, and Supportive. 🌿🌷🌼🍀🏵🌤☀️



28/02/2026

We made it through the winter ❤️

28/02/2026

what’s left.

28/02/2026

By far the question I am most asked… how to begin?

Just begin. Imperfectly. And carry on that way too. There is never a perfect time and you’ll never ever get it just right. But it will still be brilliant and uniquely you. How fun. Let’s go 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

From ‘to the women’

📕📕❤️❤️💃🏼💃🏼

28/02/2026

The wheel of the year keeps turning.

And the fairy tree has spoken. By the old longbarrow, where the earth still holds its ancient dead, the hawthorn has begun to leaf.

This is how spring arrives where I live. The hawthorn is a threshold tree. A keeper of boundaries. A watcher at the edges of fields and worlds. When she wakes, you know the cold has loosened its grip.

The land has tilted back towards the light. The barrow breathes.
The roots stir.

And the year turns again.
-Woodlarking

28/02/2026
Yesterday Dan Rox I treated myself in the softest, most soul‑filling way. A new book to curl up with, a another gorgeous...
16/02/2026

Yesterday Dan Rox I treated myself in the softest, most soul‑filling way. A new book to curl up with, a another gorgeous piece of artwork from that instantly felt like it belonged with me, and some beautifully fragrant mugwort to weave into my rituals and rest.
There’s something soothing in choosing small treasures just because they speak to you. No purpose beyond pleasure, curiosity, and tending to the parts of myself that thrive on beauty and meaning. These little moments of self‑nourishment feel like their own quiet magic 💜🌿📚

Yesterday I spent the most gorgeous day with my beautiful friend Daniel Paul Neale at his & Adam Neale stunning shop, di...
16/02/2026

Yesterday I spent the most gorgeous day with my beautiful friend Daniel Paul Neale at his & Adam Neale stunning shop, diving into a crystal workshop that felt like a homecoming to a part of myself I’ve been craving. There’s something powerful about sitting in a circle of like‑minded souls, sharing stories, swapping energy, and remembering that community is medicine.
I left feeling nourished, held, and—yes—chakras aligned. These are the moments that feed the work I do through Creating Calm with Lucy and … the quiet rituals, the connection, the magic we make together.
Grateful for the invitation, the sparkle, and the reminder that tending to our inner world is sacred work. 💜🦊🐻💜

01/02/2026

🌱 Imbolc Morning 🌱
This morning’s walk carried the quiet magic of Imbolc — that tender moment when winter loosens its grip and the first hints of new life begin to stir. In the woods, the air felt different: birds calling to the returning light, crows circling overhead, and a woodpecker tapping out its steady rhythm like a heartbeat beneath the trees.
Imbolc is the promise of what’s coming. Not loud, not rushed — just the soft awakening of the earth, the gentle reminder that renewal begins long before we see it.
As I walked, I felt the invitation to slow down, breathe deeply, and let nature guide the pace. This season asks for patience, for trust, and for noticing the small signs that something within us is beginning to shift too.
A moment of stillness. A moment of hope. A moment to honour the quiet beginnings. 🌿

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