Charlotte Sarre Support for Girls & Women

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Charlotte Sarre Support for Girls & Women

Hi there, I’m Charlotte. I run online and in-person women circles and offer mentoring to teen girls.

12/10/2025

Spiral.In circles have formed the metronome of my life. A constant and steady thread throughout the three years I've been doing this work, something to measure the passing of time against. Meeting monthly, creating a moment of rest, for me, for and with others.

Although my circles are alive and well, I haven't been able to prioritise them in the way I really want to. The last couple of months, life has been full and complex and beautiful and it has caused me to water the seedling I nurtured into being, less than maybe it would like.
I have so many dreams and with creativity flowing freely lately, ideas have bubbled up and sparked excitement in my belly. For now, they go on paper, in journals, my phone and random Word documents on my computer, a collection of little sprouts I want to nurture and help grow. With every dream, every circle, every authentic and truthful conversation, it becomes clearer what I want these sprouts to blossom into. Releasing them into the world feels like the next important step in the journey, but I also feel I want to allow them to unfold in their own time. Slowly, slowly, without forcing or pressure. Maybe the rich darkness of autumn and winter will work its magic, as it always does, and I'll be able to bring Spiral.In's new shoots to you soon... 🌱

I guess what I want to say with this post is, thank you. Thank you for being here, for your patience, for joining me on this journey and for sitting in circle with me every month. For forming the thread that keeps me tethered to the importance of this work, this reclamation of our feminine strength and power. I love this work because of you ✨️

17/09/2025

The autumn equinox is upon us 🍁
Can you believe it? How did we get here?

Time is a funny thing. I feel like the reality of it is often different than how I think about it in my head. As a kid I used to think summer only lasted two months, the time I was off school. Autumn started when the first leaf fell to the floor and ended when all trees were bare. Winter was Christmas, spring my birthday. It all felt quite compartmentalised, separate blocks, transitions marked by specific dates.

What I'm realising now is that the reality of time is something very different and is rightfully experienced in my body. As with most things, it's because of what I see in the natural world, that I've come to this realisation. When I look at the tree in my garden, her berries turning red in the middle of summer, and I notice the swifts have left before I've even fully registered they arrived, it becomes crystal clear that time is cyclical. Continuously calling in the next phase, little living things responding whilst others are at a different stage on this great magnificent wheel. Nature knows when to move on. My body knows it too. Most of the time, a melancholy lingers in my bones, a missing of a time that hasn't even begun yet. Like sand slipping through my fingers, unstoppable, a lingering in the air, my body following this ancient rhythm. Knowing when it's time to let go, feeling into when it's time to invite in something new.

How reassuring and equally devastating to know that nothing will last. All we can do is melt into the moments we are given. Every day a gift. What a privilege to get to experience life ✨️

01/09/2025

✨️How well do you know your inner child?✨️

Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time with my inner little one. So much so that I’ve come to see her as my third child. When I’m feeling overwhelmed by the demands on me, I try to discern which child needs me most. Sometimes it’s my daughter, sometimes my son and sometimes it’s little me. It has helped me put myself first sometimes, a validation of my own needs.
For me, the most pressing demands come from little people, but they could come from your work, the expectations of friends, family, pets or your home even. It could be the never-ending to-do list or it could be a pressure you feel around your creative productivity.
Not always, but often, in these situations, we are triggered. Something happens and we hear an echo from the past, making us react in a conditioned way. Our body will take the lead here and without a conscious or cognitive thought, we behave in a way that we remember will keep us safe.

Now that safety is the key. Because we needed that safety as a child. It was paramount for our survival, the safety of love and innate belonging. We learned to do what was needed to fulfil these basic needs. And even though we are adults now and can care for ourselves in many ways, our inner child still needs that safety. Our inner child is still checking whether we are loved.

So, in these overwhelming moments, can you imagine seeing your inner child? Can you feel her tugging at your skirt, calling out for you? And if you do, what would change if you mothered this child?
How would it feel to take a breath, feel your feet on the earth as the adult woman you are now and tend to this younger version of you? What would happen if you crouched down, looked her in the eye and said “I see you. I hear you. I’m here.” 💛

04/08/2025

Something strange happens to time in summer. Days open and close, weeks pass by unnoticed and all of a sudden you start to notice the light is fading.
I often feel like we work hard, push forth, use up our inner resources, with the promise of a holiday dangling in front of us. Then when we finally get there, we get to stop at last and lay it all down, but instead we choose to fill our days to the brim, in an attempt to squeeze the most out of this time. We soak up the abundance of the warmer months, with an almost obsessive urgency, yet paradoxically, what most of us crave, is rest.

And this is what I want to share with you this summer: ✨️Rest✨️

I’d like to invite you to find it, to create it, to radically prioritise it, as much as possible. I will do the same. Of course I will continue to create space every month to sit with you, in connection and compassion, to listen and to breath, as it nourishes me as much as I hope it does you. But maybe I’ll post even less on social media and skip next month’s newsletter. Life this year has felt big in many ways and there is more to come, including my eldest starting school in September. So I feel a real tug to strip everything bare, to let fall away all that doesn’t serve me and melt into time together with my loved ones.

It takes great effort to not just say those words, but to act upon them too. As with most things though, we can trust our bodies know the way, following the path of joy and pleasure. So let’s listen. To ourself, our beautiful body, the wind in the trees. Let’s choose to be as present as we can be. Bare feet on warm earth, fragrant flowers in our kitchen, salt from the sea on our skin, hands to hold.

Let’s remember what true rest feels like 💛

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21/07/2025

You have beach people and you have forest people. It took me ages to figure out which one I was.

As a child, we often went to the coast in the summer holidays, staying at my grandparents’ holiday home. I have so many wonderful memories from this time. The smells and sounds of the beach, the sand in the shower, lotion on sun-kissed skin and the deep dreamless sleep at the end of the day. Even now, when I stand on a beach, I feel like I’m expanding into the openness, the breeze clears my head and watching the vastness of the sea, I often feel a sense of promise, of hope 🌊
And then there’s the forest. I spent quite a few hours in the woods as a child and loved running through crunchy leaves, the excitement of finding toad stools or spotting a woodpecker and feeling the sweet-smelling moss on tree trunks. Lush in spring, cool in summer, beautiful in autumn and mysterious in winter, I felt, and still feel, so much joy in the versatility and abundance of a forest 🌳

These days, when we go on a family adventure, there’s always a choice to be made. Beach or forest. And by feeling into what we are most drawn to on the day and spending equal amounts of time at either place, I have finally come to a bit of a conclusion. Of course I still love both, anything Mother Earth has to offer, I feel deeply grateful for, and yet, there is a place I have come to realise truly feels like coming home. That place is the forest. The best bit about this realisation is that I’ve been able to pinpoint WHY it’s the forest for me.
Besides a deep sense of peace and belonging, in the forest I feel a belonging amongst others. A belonging amongst the trees. You see, you are never alone in a forest, trees of all shapes and sizes, all embracing their authentic individuality, surround you and talk to you like friends. Whispering secrets, singing ancient songs and listening to your words, your cries, your laugh, your truth. In a forest you are reminded that you are never alone, always held by life. That’s why it’s a homecoming, into the wilderness, into freedom and love ✨️

So which one has your heart? The beach or the forest? And why? Let me know in the comments 🤗

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https://www.ritesforgirls.com/facilitator/charlotte-sarre/, http://www.spiral-in.co.uk/

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