Angela Casey - Healer and Spiritual Guide

07/11/2025

Peace.
I seem to be constantly returning to this at the moment.
I can’t imagine why!

The unwelcome news is….
It starts with us.
Here.
Now.

Resisting the urge to have the last word.
Resisting the temptation to jump on a perceived jibe, slight or barb.
Allowing things to sail past instead of catching them and throwing them back.
Allowing others to have made a mistake or had a moment of poor judgement without harbouring long-lasting resentment or hurt.
Making a sincere effort not to let past issues influence how we approach present problems.
Cultivating a short memory, a deaf ear and a blind eye.

Easy?
Of course not.
Very difficult.
But the alternative is ongoing conflict.
In small ways it leads to feelings of unhappiness and bitterness.
In big ways…
War.

04/11/2025

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.”
C.G. Jung

Indeed.
Who does enjoy grovelling around in mess and murk?
Who readily takes part in an exercise to dredge the sludge and slime at the bottom of the pond?
Whose favourite occupation would involve a deep dive into a slurry pit?
Well, I don’t see many hands going up.

How much more attractive is the prospect of moving towards the light?
There are volunteers a-plenty for this one.

But the light isn’t a vision ahead of us.
The light is part and parcel of the darkness we are so keen to escape from.
And we have to turn back and dig long and deep.

No one said it would be easy.
Anyone who does say so is lying.

26/10/2025

My accordion playing son showed me this.
I absolutely love it.
It has an archetypal feel.
Bit by bit we are awakened throughout our lives.
And all the disowned and disenfranchised parts of ourselves rise up and join the dance of life.

Simply THE most magical balfolk dance experience EVER! The atmosphere was pure magic! I had tears rolling down my cheeks -- such a beautiful moment. Here at ...

22/10/2025

Having a tough time?
No doubt about it, Life can chuck us some pretty tricky curveballs at times.
We don’t see it coming, and it knocks us sideways.

How are you?
“I’m not really coping at all well”
My immediate response to that is “yes, you are, it’s simply that this is what coping looks like”.

We’d all like to think we could just roll up our sleeves, gird up our loins, and square up to the situation with heroic strength.
It doesn’t really go like that.

More often we are up and down to the point of seasickness.
One minute we feel “I’ve got this, we can get through”, the next minute we are slumped at the kitchen table sobbing into a cup of tea.
Or slumped on the sofa at the end of the day clutching an empty wine glass.
Oh lying awake in the loneliest of small hours consumed by panic.
Or railing against God, the Universe or anything else we can find to take the blame.
Or rushing around like a tornado trying to do stuff to make ourselves feel competent and in control.
Or spending hours running or at the gym hoping exhaustion will leave no room for terror.
This is just how it is.

Coping is a messy business.
It’s horrible.
Hard work.
Exhausting.
Frightening.

If you’re feeling like this, cut yourself some slack.
You’re doing your best to get through.
And that’s all that’s being asked of you.
Just do what you can.
After all…you can’t do more than that!

18/10/2025

Hope.
Always!

11/10/2025

“Well, I’ve had an x-ray, and had some physio, and been for a massage, tried some supplements and taken painkillers but it’s still not better”
Have you thought of trying Healing?
Healing…really?

In many respects I’m a kind of last chance saloon!
If all obvious things have failed, desperation leads otherwise thoroughly rational people to abandon their adherence to sensible solutions and try something utterly absurd!

Well, why not?
What on earth is there to lose?
(There actually may be a lot to gain!)

I’m here.
Just message me!

09/10/2025

“You are an actual miracle worker”.

One of my daughters has been suffering with a painful shoulder.
If you’ve ever had a misbehaving shoulder you’ll know just what this means.
Can’t sleep, can’t get clothes on (or off), can’t use both hands to lift things, can’t do your hair or clean your teeth, can’t do up necklaces, can’t lift things out of the oven….
The list goes on.
And then there’s the constant need for painkillers when a “shriek moment” has ramped up the pain levels.
In short, it’s utterly miserable and exhausting.

Such was the situation when my daughter came to visit five days ago.
And with three youngsters to look after, life was pretty dismal.
“I’ll give you a quick treatment while you’re here” I said.
Five mins max.

Five days later all pain gone.
Sleeping.
Back to normal.
Just a slight restriction left when it comes to doing up a bra strap.

Now, I can’t guarantee that’ll happen every time.
But you never know.

In point of fact, when it comes to shoulders, I’m struggling to remember a single client over all the years who has not improved.

I’d say it was well worth a try!
(And not just for shoulders, either!)

You know where I am.
I’m here!
(Your friendly neighbourhood miracle worker!)

07/10/2025

I was speaking with someone recently.
She has been having some therapy.
And was happy to tell me there were now things she had got rid of, that were over and done with, finally gone.

I don’t feel we ever “get rid” of things.
Nor do I feel things are ever “over and done with”.
And I don’t really feel this is what healing is all about.

We are not a slate to be wiped clean.
Nor would that be desirable if it was even possible.

We are a dynamic energy system, constantly changing, rearranging, dying away and renewing.
Far too miraculously complex to ever really understand.
We are shaped and changed and restructured by every experience we encounter.
Everything leaves a mark, an influence.
Our life history is written on every cell of our body and fibre of our being.
It makes us who we are.

“Therapy” should always be about bringing understanding, resolution, acceptance.
So that experiences become more comfortably integrated, less painful, unsettling or disruptive.

Our scars are the gifts we are given for having come through.
We should wear them with pride.

28/09/2025

These are tricky times we’re going through, for sure.
Some might even say dangerous.
Unsettling for sure.

It’s easy in turbulent times to feel anxious, fearful and unsafe.
Overwhelmed even, by the magnitude of it all.
And feel ourselves to be powerless.
Too small to have any effect on the world around us.
But that would not be true.

“The World” starts here.
With each and every one of us.
We each have a responsibility to get up each day and do what is needed the very best way we can.
With attention.
And joy.
However mundane, routine or unremarkable the tasks may be.

Whether that’s tidying up the clutter from the evening before.
Filling the washing machine.
Walking the dog.
Or sorting out the supermarket delivery.
(Please feel free to add your own preferred routine job!)

What we do is important, however small.
How we do things is important, too, however few see it.
Small acts by lots of people is an unstoppable force for good.

Start here.
And start today.
Change the world one washing-up bowl at a time!

(If you’re short of jobs to do, there are plenty waiting here for you to choose from!)

10/09/2025

I was watching Michael Rosen on TV this morning.
He’s such a lovely man; funny and wise.

He was talking about the quest for “the perfect thing”
In his case, the perfect houmous.
Well, why not?
It’s as good an object for a spiritual quest as any!

He was, he said, always disappointed.
In his imagination he could envisage the perfect houmous.
The “sublime” version.
But the actual houmous he got was never quite that.

The trick, he said, was being able to be happy with less than the envisioned ideal.
Not seeing it as a failure to get perfection.
But being able to enjoy “good enough” with gratitude and joy.

Absolutely!

06/09/2025

I wrote about peace yesterday.
I’m writing about peace again today.
World peace is a critical concern for us all at present.
Our futures depend upon the ability of heads of state and their negotiating teams to find a way through this fractured time.
Why is it so difficult?
Why all the aggression and bullying and suspicion and power games?

We need to bring our perspective from flood to beam.
Focus in on the near and small.
On the close-to-home.

What about us?
How do we ourselves deal with people who are different from us, and don’t see things as we do?
How do we deal with people who have not “played fair”, not kept their word?
People we don’t trust, or don’t like?
People who have been aggressive towards us?

Working for peace in our daily lives demands we talk to people we don’t like.
And listen.
That we allow others to feel differently and act in a way we find hard to comprehend.
And try to understand their viewpoint and motivation, even if it goes against all we feel and think.
It demands we try and find the shred of common ground, the glimmer of shared humanity, and hope we can build on it.
It demands we build bridges, however precarious and flimsy they may be.
And however much we don’t want to and feel “why should I?”

World peace begins with us.
Each and every one of us.
In our kitchens and in our living rooms.
In our places of work and in our leisure pursuits.

Peace is infectious.
We all need to spread it around.
We all need to catch it.
This is the pandemic our world desperately needs.