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A Positive Touch, Dundee (2025)

19/12/2025

Becoming a Shihan – A Journey, Not a Weekend

🌿I am honoured to share that I have completed my Shihan Practitioner/Teacher training in the Usui System of Natural Healing and now step forward as a Reiki Teacher.

🌿This is not an ending, but a continuation.

🌿Reiki has a way of finding you—often at your lowest point, or at a moment when life is quietly (or loudly) asking you to change direction. That was certainly true for me. Reiki did not arrive as a neat solution; it arrived as a mirror, a challenge, and ultimately, a profound source of healing that continues to unfold.

🌿I have been incredibly blessed to train under Carole Haigh, a teacher whose influence on my personal healing and professional integrity cannot be overstated. Carole’s work has never been about shortcuts, certificates, or titles. Her commitment has always been to the practice, the people, and the principles of Reiki.

🌿She has worked tirelessly within communities to make Reiki accessible—bringing it beyond private treatment rooms and into spaces where healing is most needed. She teaches Reiki as it was intended: grounded, respectful, and faithful to the Usui System of Natural Healing. Her dedication to the lineage is not rigid or dogmatic, but alive—rooted in ongoing study, reflection, and a deep respect for Mikao Usui’s journey and teachings.

🌿What I admire is that Carole never “finished” Reiki. She continues to learn, to question, and to deepen her understanding of Usui himself and the spiritual discipline behind the practice. That, to me, is the mark of a true teacher.

🌿My training has taken years, not a weekend. It has been layered, demanding, and at times uncomfortable. It has asked me to look honestly at myself, to heal what needed healing, and to sit with what could not be rushed. This depth matters. Reiki is not something you simply do—it is something you live.

🌿My Reiki lineage places me only six teachers away from Mikao Usui himself. Does that mean something? In a practical sense, lineage does not make anyone “better.” But it does speak to continuity, stewardship, and respect for the origins of this practice. It reflects a responsibility to uphold the spirit of Reiki as a path of self-healing, humility, and service—not just a modality.

🌿I am stepping into this role as a Reiki Teacher with gratitude, integrity, and a commitment to ongoing learning. Reiki continues to heal me, challenge me, and guide me—and I trust it will continue to do so for as long as I walk this path.

🌿With deep respect for my teacher, my lineage, and the practice itself.

🌿For those who feel called to begin their own Reiki journey, I will be offering Shoden (Reiki Level 1) workshops from Spring 2026.

🌿These teachings will be shared in the spirit of the Usui System of Natural Healing—slow, respectful, experiential, and rooted in self-practice rather than quick progression. Reiki finds you when the time is right. If this resonates, you are welcome to watch this space, or get in touch.

Big love❤️

17/12/2025

Energy Moves Everything

You are not just a physical body.
You are energy, organised into form.

Energy carries information.
It tells the body when to contract, release, protect, and rest.

When energy moves, the body adapts.
When energy is held, the body feels it.

Tightness.
Heaviness.
Pain.

Not as a fault — but as a signal.

Pain is energy that has been held in place.

The body doesn’t create pain without reason.
It does it to get your attention.

It’s how your body communicates with you

Nothing here is broken.
The system is responding exactly as it should.

Energy doesn’t need fixing.
It needs space to move

14/12/2025

Your Energy Is Cyclical — Because You Are Seasonal by Nature

In both hormonal science and Traditional Chinese Medicine, a woman’s body is not designed for constant output. It is designed to move through phases — much like the seasons.

It blows my little mind to know that, In Chinese medicine, the menstrual cycle mirrors the natural seasonal cycle:

🪾Menstruation – Winter (Kidney energy):
This is a time of rest, storage, and deep replenishment. Blood and energy are conserved. The nervous system is more sensitive, intuition is heightened, and the body asks for warmth, stillness, and nourishment.

🪺Follicular Phase – Spring (Liver energy):
As oestrogen rises, energy begins to move and expand. Creativity, motivation, and optimism increase. This is a phase of growth, planning, and new beginnings — both physically and emotionally.

🌳Ovulation – Summer (Heart energy):
Energy is at its peak. Confidence, connection, communication, and joy are more accessible. This is an outward, expressive time, ideal for socialising, visibility, and collaboration.

🍂Luteal Phase – Late Summer / Early Autumn (Spleen & Lung energy):
Energy turns inward. Focus shifts to completion, organisation, and discernment. The body prepares to either sustain pregnancy or release. Grounding, routine, and emotional steadiness are essential here.

From this perspective, hormonal symptoms often arise not because the body is “failing,” but because we are living out of season — pushing through in winter, ignoring the need to slow in late summer, or denying rest during menstruation.

Supporting the cycle means supporting the organs, the blood, and the nervous system at each phase — through food, rest, touch, breath, and energy work. Being in tune with our body, and its needs

Your cycle is not something to control.
It is something to listen to, and support

When you honour your internal seasons, energy becomes steadier, symptoms soften, and the body regains natural rhythm.

11/12/2025

FACT or MYTH ?
Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign — just like your pulse or blood pressure.

FACT. Absolutely !

Your natural, unmedicated menstrual cycle is one of the most powerful indicators of your overall health. It deserves as much respect as the numbers we monitor in a clinic.

When your cycle runs smoothly — regular timing, manageable symptoms, consistent patterns — it’s often a reflection that your hormones, nervous system, nutrition, and overall wellbeing are in good working order.

But when things shift — suddenly irregular periods, heavier or lighter bleeding, worsening cramps, mood swings, spotting, or changes in cycle length — your body may be waving a quiet little flag that something needs attention.

These changes can point to:
• Hormonal imbalance
• Stress (emotional or physical)
• Under-eating or nutrient deficiencies
• Thyroid issues
• PCOS, endometriosis, peri-menopause, or other underlying conditions

Your cycle is not an inconvenience; it’s a messenger, and another route of elimination for your body, helping remove excess hormones and metabolic byproducts each month.

Listen to it, track it, respect it — it’s one of the most reliable, built-in health indicators you have, and costs nothing, other than a little effort

And if it’s sending you signals you don’t quite understand?
That’s where I come in.

09/12/2025

In the world of holistic health, there’s a quiet truth we don’t always talk about…
Some practitioners hold on tightly to their clients—almost as if referring elsewhere means “losing” them.

But that has never been my approach, nor will it ever be.

My role isn’t to hold on to someone.
My role is to support their journey, wherever it leads.

I’m constantly sharing other therapies, practitioners, options, and opportunities with the women I work with—not because I doubt what I offer, but because healing is never one-dimensional. Sometimes it takes a village. Sometimes it takes trying something unexpected. Sometimes it takes expanding the circle, not shrinking it.

And yes, that means when I refer someone elsewhere, I might not see them for a while.
But that’s the beauty of real connection: it isn’t fragile.

My clients know they can wander, explore, grow, and return whenever they feel called.
There’s always a place for them here—no guilt, no pressure, no possessiveness.

To me, that is healing.
That is community.
That is how women thrive—supported, empowered, and surrounded by people who want the very best for them.

I love the work I do, and am honoured every time I’m a small part of someone’s journey…

Big love ❤️

06/12/2025

When I look back, I’m amazed at how little attention I gave to my hormones — despite the fact they were shouting at me from the very start.

As a young woman navigating menarche, the heavy bleeding, the flooding, the double-padding just to get through the school day…
Not once did I stop and think, “What’s actually driving all of this?”
Hormones weren’t even on my radar.

A miscarriage.
Two pregnancies.
Two very different births — emotionally, physically, hormonally.
And still, it never crossed my mind to look deeper into the orchestra running the whole show.

And honestly — have you ever really given your hormones much thought?
Most of us don’t.
We just get on with life, coping, managing, normalising things we shouldn’t have to.

For years, I assumed what so many of us do:
There are “female hormones” and “male hormones,” and that was that.
Simple. Fixed. Separate worlds.

Except… that’s not how the body works at all.

It wasn’t until I reached menopause myself, that I finally understood the truth:
Men and women share the same hormones.
We simply hold them in different ratios, creating different rhythms, cycles, and needs.

And those hormones?
They’re not one-off players stepping in for a solo here and there.
They are working day in, day out, quietly influencing everything from mood to metabolism, sleep to stress, fertility to brain clarity.

They’re like a grand orchestra — finely tuned, highly sensitive, and performing every second of every day
If even one instrument goes out of key, the whole symphony shifts.
Sometimes subtly.
Sometimes dramatically.

The solution to hormonal disarray isn’t extreme intervention.
It’s not isolating one hormone and trying to “fix” it.
It’s not complicated science.
It’s going back to basics.
It’s balance.
It’s giving the body the support it needs, so the orchestra can find some kind of harmony again.

If only I’d understood this sooner, if only they had taught us this in school, think of the empowerment and autonomy it would have given us over our own bodies

01/12/2025

And just like that… the festive season arrives.

Some people greet it with a sparkle-in-their-eyes, childlike wonder and excitement.

Others feel the weight of the year settle on their shoulders.

Many sit somewhere in between — a mixture of joy, nostalgia, overwhelm, and everything else that makes us human.

However you meet this month, your experience is valid.
For all of us, this time of year has a way of amplifying what’s already within us.

In my work with women — from first periods to fertility journeys, pregnancy, postpartum, hormonal shifts and menopause — I’m constantly reminded that our bodies and emotions don’t follow the calendar. They follow real life…. and real life can feel messy, beautiful, hard, exhausting, and hopeful… often all at once.

If December brings busyness, take a breath.
If it brings loneliness, reach out.
If it brings joy, let yourself savour it without guilt.
And if it brings a need for support — emotionally, hormonally, or energetically — know that you’re not alone.

My therapy room is a space for grounding, balancing, releasing, and restoring — all year - but especially at this time of year. Whether through reflexology, reproductive support, energy work, or simple compassionate presence, you’re welcome exactly as you are.

I look forward to spending time with you

Big love ❤️

28/11/2025

When you have been a little over zealous with your Reiki drumming!!!! 😵‍💫🥹🫣

28/11/2025

✨ The Dance of Duality ✨

I’ve learned over the years that life rarely moves in straight, predictable lines. It rises, it dips, it curves back on itself, and sometimes it takes us places we never planned to go.

At first, I used to resist those lows — the darker moments, the pauses, the stillness that felt uncomfortable. But with time (and a fair few lessons delivered the hard way), I began to see what Buddhist philosophy teaches so beautifully: these undulations aren’t interruptions to our path… ✨they are the path✨

We often crave the good times, the rise, the clarity, the light. Yet every ascent is born from a dip. Every moment of brightness is defined by a shadow. Without contrast, we would never recognise the beauty before us.

The darker chapters of life are not punishments — they ARE teachers.
They ask us to pause, to feel, to listen. They strip back the noise so we can hear what truly matters.

Woven into this journey is one of Buddhism’s deepest truths: Nothing is permanent

The difficult moments will shift. The ease will shift. The light, the dark, the softness, the discomfort — all of it moves through us like weather across a sky that is far wider than any storm. Remembering this brings peace. It reminds us that we don’t need to cling to the highs or fear the lows; both are temporary, both part of the same sacred rhythm.

Reiki echoes this same wisdom:
Energy flows where it is needed most.
Sometimes that means moving through the dense places — the emotional knots, the heaviness, the uncertainty — before we reach expansion, balance, and renewal.

So if you find yourself in a “dip,” know this:
You are not broken.
You are becoming.
YOU ARE RIDING THE WAVE OF DUALITY
You are gathering the insight required for your next rise.

And when that rise comes, you won’t just step into the light — you’ll recognise it, appreciate it, and embody it more fully because of where you have been.

With a Reiki-guided heart,
♥️

20/11/2025

Very interesting …. I came across this today, so thought I’d share a little observation from my own clinic…

Every mum I’ve supported through IVF who has gone on to have a baby, has had a boy so far.

Interestingly, this lines up with what large studies have shown — IVF births lean slightly towards boys compared with natural conception. ( slightly being the word!)

It’s not a rule, not a guarantee, just a curious pattern that seems to show up both in research and in real life.

I’m not sharing this to alarm or upset anyone, but because I feel women deserve honest, balanced conversations about every part of the fertility journey.

19/11/2025

🌿In holistic and energy-based medicine, your “inner world”… your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, energetic patterns, and subconscious reactions …is far more than a quiet backdrop.

🌿It’s the pulse that influences how you experience health, relationships, and your sense of self.

🌿It’s the soil everything grows from.

🌿When the soil is nourished, clear, and tended to, your outer life reflects that vitality. When it’s depleted or tangled with old roots, nothing thrives the way it should.

1. Your nervous system responds to your internal tone✨

Every thought, belief, and emotional pattern sends instructions to your nervous system.
A calm, steady inner world signals safety.
A chaotic inner world signals threat.

Hormones, cycles, digestion, sleep—they all respond accordingly.

2. Your energy field reacts before your mind catches up✨

Emotions have frequency.
Love expands.
Fear contracts.
Peace centres.
Stress scatters.

Your energy field broadcasts these patterns, influencing how you show up and what you draw in. Your inner world quietly sets the atmosphere you live in.

3. Beliefs shape your behaviour—and therefore your outcomes✨

When you believe healing or change is possible, your actions align with that belief.
When your inner world tells you you’re stuck, your body mirrors that message with tension, fatigue, or stagnation.

The inner environment comes first.
The outer experience follows.

4. Where your attention goes, your energy flows✨

Reflexology, Reiki, and energetic practices show this beautifully.
When you bring awareness to your womb, your breath, your heart, your cycle—energy shifts.
What was tight softens.
What was stagnant moves.
What was numb begins to wake.

5. Transformation is an inside job✨

Real change rarely begins with the external.
Your routines, nutrition, and lifestyle matter—but they work best when your internal patterns are aligned with healing and balance.

🌿Your inner world is the soil.
🌿Your outer life is the garden.

🌿Nurture the soil, and the garden naturally begins to flourish.

18/11/2025

🎄 The C Word Has Arrived… Christmas Offers 2025🎄

Two beautiful festive treatments are now available — one returning favourite with a tweak, and one deeply restorative new ritual.

What’s the tweak with our returning favourite? You have the choice of traditional seated Indian head massage, or supine on the bed - no need to move!

🎄You can choose either of the offers below for your Christmas voucher,

🎄OR can pay for one session of reflexology, Reiki, or Indian head massage

🎄OR buy someone a course of treatments.

🎄The options are endless!

🎄Vouchers are limited this year, it really is a case of when they have gone they are gone.

🌟Just want to treat yourself ? Both packages will be available from 1st Dec until end of January … no voucher required 🌟

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