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Find your true self, self-esteem & worth, inner peace & love It is the most important journey we make in our lives.

Knowing yourself is the path to discovering real self esteem; finding peace within yourself and around you; building deep and authentic relationships; enhancing your heath and wellbeing; and finding the purpose that will lead you to happiness and fulfilment.

06/12/2025

“𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀”

🌟 𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕖𝕣 & ℂ𝕒𝕔𝕒𝕠 – ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕤 𝔼𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖!

And honestly… could there be a better moment to laugh than 10 days before Christmas?
No. There could not. 😂

Between the turkey stress… the gift lists… the family dynamics (“So… are you still single?”)… Christmas brings joy but also triggers.

So let’s release it all together - the tension, the silliness, the pressure - in a cosy circle of laughter, warmth and cacao.

On Saturday, 14 December at 4pm, we’ll laugh, breathe, shake off the madness, and then slow down with heart-opening cacao.

All welcome — no yoga mats, no poses, just joy.

✨ BOOK HERE: https://Laughter-and-Cacao.eventbrite.co.uk

Come as you are.
Leave lighter, calmer, and maybe a little bit sparkly inside.

Knowing yourself

Note: photo for mood purposes

01/12/2025

✨ The Day Holy Kakao Arrived

Saturday was the launch of Holy Kakao, and from the moment I woke up, the day was already speaking.

I had aimed for 14 people, we got 5… the same energy. Before we even knew someone couldn’t make it, another person stepped in. The space wasn’t holding a number — it was holding a frequency.
5 participants. Plus the two of us - 7.
The seeker’s number. The mystic’s number. Exactly the energy the day needed.

Before we began, I pulled cards — and they revealed the whole story:
✨ Violet Flame — transformation
✨ Nourishment — cacao as medicine
✨ Mindful Listening — presence
✨ Notice the Signs — the whisper that everything would speak today
And it did.

We opened the space, lit the altar, set the cacao. People softened as soon as they sat —they felt safe.

One powerful moment came during the activation, when I invited each person to hold my gaze as I handed them the cacao. For one participant this was huge — she avoids eye contact. But she stayed. She trusted. Something opened in her whole body.
Later, during the creative part, she painted something without knowing:
My oak tree. With the heart inside its trunk.
She had never seen it. She had no idea the heart is actually there. But her soul recognised it before her mind did.

She also painted gold and yellow light — the colours of the Holy Grail card that she later chose. She painted it before she chose it — intuition moving ahead of thought.

After the event, I went to a dinner. Walking after to the bus stop, a young man approached and asked if he could pray for me. His name was Santiago — a name of pilgrimage. From Rome, lived in Portugal, parents from Peru… all places woven into my life and into cacao’s lineage. (And Peru is exactly where Laura is travelling now.)

On Sunday, I returned the altar flowers to the earth. They were offerings, never meant to be kept. I placed them at the roots of my oak tree — the same tree she painted, the same heart she somehow saw.
Holy Kakao didn’t just launch — it arrived.
Seven of us.
One circle.
One beginning.

🤎 Maria
Holy Kakao | Knowing Yourself
Laura: artofchocolatetasting.com

30/11/2025

“𝐀 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐂𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭”

December can be a lovely month… but it’s also intense.

The pace speeds up, the expectations rise, and our nervous system pretends it’s fine while quietly asking for a pause.

So on Saturday, 14 December at 4pm, I’m creating a Christmas Edition Laughter & Cacao — a place where we can breathe again.

We’ll start with gentle laughter to soften the body… the kind that warms the chest and loosens the tightness we didn’t realise we were holding.

And then we sit together with warm cacao - letting it melt the edges, open the heart, and remind us what this season is really about:
Connection.
Presence.
A little bit of magic.

If you’re feeling the call to pause before the holiday whirlwind begins, this circle is for you.

✨ Reserve your place: https://Laughter-and-Cacao.eventbrite.co.uk

Come for the laughter.
Stay for the cacao.
Leave with your heart a little lighter.

Maria Veiga at Knowingyourself.co.uk

Bellenden therapies - Peckham

28/11/2025

𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰!

Thanksgiving week…
A time where half the world is cooking, the other half is stressing,
and ALL of us are remembering (or discovering!) what truly nourishes the heart.

This is exactly why Holy Kakao exists.
Cacao has always been the antidote to greed, a plant gifted to humans to soften the heart, reconnect people, and remind us of the sacred in the everyday.

500 years ago, people forgot this.
We still do.
So we return to the medicine.

On Saturday, we’ll gather for a deep, joyful, sensorial journey:

🍫 tasting fine-flavour single-origin chocolate
🌈 exploring colour + creativity
🌿 connecting with cacao’s ancient story
💛 softening the heart through drinking it
😂 and yes… a little bit of laughter too (we can’t help it)

If you’re tired of the rush, and the noise, the pressure, and you want an afternoon that actually feeds your soul, come join us.

It’s cosy, heart-opening, playful, grounding, and full of truth.
🔗 Reserve your place:
https://HolyKakao-AwakeningtheHeart.eventbrite.co.uk

🟣 Holy Kakao – Awakening the Heart with Chocolate
Saturday 29 November | 2pm–5pm
Electric Elephant Café, London SE17

Maria & Laura

27/11/2025

Christmas is beautiful…

But let’s be honest — it also presses every button we have.

The “perfect dinner,” the awkward conversations, the budgets, the planning, the rushing… even choosing wrapping paper becomes a life decision. 🤦‍♀️🎄

So on 14 December at 4pm, we’re gathering for a Christmas Edition of Laughter & Cacao - to soften all that pressure and reconnect with something real.

We’ll spend the first part shaking off the stress through laughter (gentle, playful, no yoga poses), and then sit together with warm cacao… letting the heart exhale.

This is your permission slip to come down from the chaos for an hour and a half.

✨ LINK: https://Laughter-and-Cacao.eventbrite.co.uk

Grab your place while there’s space.

Let’s laugh before Christmas arrives — so we can meet it with peace instead of panic.

Maria Veiga Knowing yourself

Bellenden Therapies - Peckham

26/11/2025

This week is Thanksgiving… and whether we celebrate it or not, the collective is filled with one thing: gratitude, reflection, and a desire to return to what truly

For me, cacao has always been that medicine - the one that brings us back into our chest, into breath, into presence, into truth.

On Saturday 29th, Laura and I are opening a sensorial, creative and heart-centred space at Electric Elephant Café, blending:

✨ fine-flavour single-origin chocolate
✨ laughter + wellbeing
✨ cacao as ancient plant medicine
✨ colour, creativity & sensory exploration
✨ connection — with yourself and others
✨ and the story of cacao as the antidote to greed

If your heart has been whispering
“I need something different… something real… something that nourishes me.” This is your invitation.

A few spaces left.
Come open your heart with us.
🔗 Book here:
https://HolyKakao-AwakeningtheHeart.eventbrite.co.uk

🟣 Holy Kakao – Awakening the Heart with Chocolate
Saturday 29 November | 2pm–5pm
Electric Elephant Café, London SE17

01/11/2025

Yesterday on the underground stairs…

Something happened that shook me a little — but also made me proud of myself.

I saw a young girl walking ahead of me with her left hand behind her back, doing that gesture that’s been shared on social media as a sign of distress or asking for help.
Next to her was a man, his arm draped over her.

For a split second, I thought, surely not… maybe I’m imagining it.
Then another voice said, but what if it is?
So I chose to act. Following them to observe their behaviour.

At the top of the stairs, she was still near him — but as I watched, I realised she was actually with her mum, dad, and brother.

Still, I went up to her and asked softly, “Are you ok?”
She said yes.
I explained what I’d seen and asked if she knew what that gesture meant.
She smiled — “yes, I do” — and I told her how important it is, but also not something to play with.

Her mum was very taken that I noticed it!!
I said: we all need to...
And even though I was shaking, I felt proud that I didn’t ignore that inner nudge.

We don’t always know what’s real or not — but it’s better to check than to walk away.

Pay attention. Ask the question. Trust your instincts.

Someone’s safety might depend on that moment of courage.

And maybe it’s no coincidence that yesterday on my Tarot journey that I have been doing with Tiffany, (a friend and Tarot expert), I was on The World card — number 21, and how interesting that the date today adds to that too
Because being in the world is exactly this: showing up, connected, human.
It’s not about reaching enlightenment somewhere far away — it’s about taking part in life here, as it unfolds, with open eyes and a steady heart.
—
Maria Veiga | The Sage Dude Tarot | Knowing Yourself
with the hand of the Hermit 🕯️

31/10/2025

🌺 Holy Kakao — An Invitation from the Heart

Cacao whispers:
I have been waiting for you.
In the laughter you forgot to release,
in the stillness you’ve been longing for.
I have travelled through forests and through hands that cared for me, carrying stories of gratitude and warmth.

And now, I, Maria and Laura invite you to join us.
Holy Kakao was born from a vision — a wish to bring laughter, story, and chocolate together in one soulful afternoon. 🍫

A moment to pause, to taste, to breathe.

To reconnect with yourself, others, and the heart of life itself.
We’ll laugh, sip cacao, listen to its story, and paint what the flavours awaken within us.

It’s part laughter yoga, part storytelling, part cacao ceremony, and part creative art — truly four workshops in one!

This is our launch edition, offered at an introductory price of £40 (Eventbrite £44.04).

Come be part of the very first circle — help us plant the roots of something beautiful.

📅 Saturday 29 November | 2–4:30/5 pm
📍 Electric Elephant Café, SE17
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holy-kakao-awakening-the-heart-through-chocolate-tickets-1808795057709?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Bring your curiosity, your open heart, and your love of chocolate —
the rest will unfold naturally. 💜

30/10/2025

🌱 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓭𝓸𝓷’𝓽 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓲𝔁𝓲𝓷𝓰 — 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯.

Your 20s and 30s aren’t the carefree years everyone promised.
They’re the years where you’re meant to “have it together” — career, relationships, identity — but secretly, you’re still trying to work out who you are.

You might be:
✨ Burnt out from proving your worth
✨ Constantly anxious, but no one can tell
✨ Caught in people-pleasing, or afraid of letting anyone down
✨ Stuck in overthinking every decision — job, partner, purpose
✨ Carrying family patterns you thought you’d escaped

This is the work I do — helping you find clarity in the noise.
Not with clichés or quick fixes, but through honest conversation, deep understanding, and gentle truth.

I don’t sit in silence while you struggle.
I help you make sense of what’s happening — the why behind it — so you can finally move through it, not around it.

If you’re ready to stop pretending you’re fine and start actually feeling okay, I’m here.

🪷 Online and in-person sessions available in London
📩 Message me or visit www.knowingyourself.co.uk
—
Maria Veiga | Knowing Yourself
Psychotherapist & Mentor for the new generation navigating life, love, and purpose.

29/10/2025

Heart-to-Heart

Sometimes life moves so fast that we forget to taste it.

Holy Kakao was born as a pause — a space to laugh, create, and reconnect with the heart through chocolate. 🍫

This is not a ceremony you watch; it’s one you feel.
We’ll laugh, sip cacao, listen to its story, and paint what the flavours awaken within us.

Three hours of warmth, play, and gentle heart medicine — no acting, no pressure, just truth.

This first gathering is very special — our launch edition, offered at an introductory price of £40 (Eventbrite £44.04).

If you’ve been craving connection, creativity, and something real… this might be it.

📅 Saturday 29 November | 2–4:30/5 pm
📍 Electric Elephant Café, SE17
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holy-kakao-awakening-the-heart-through-chocolate-tickets-1808795057709?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Come join us — and let the heart of cacao do the rest. 💜

27/10/2025

“A call from the heart of cacao…”

I have been waiting for you.
Patiently. Quietly.
In the hum of laughter you forgot to release,
in the stories you never had time to tell,
in the gentle rhythm of your heart that still remembers joy.

I am not just chocolate — I am memory, warmth, pulse.
I have travelled through forests, through hands that tended me with love,
to meet you here — in this moment of stillness and sweetness.

Come sit with me.
Taste the laughter.
Paint your own story.
Let your heart breathe again.

Holy Kakao: Awakening the Heart through Chocolate
📅 Saturday 29 November | 2–4:30/5 pm
📍 Electric Elephant Café, SE17
🎟️ Introductory price £40 (£44.04 on Eventbrite)

Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/holy-kakao-awakening-the-heart-through-chocolate-tickets-1808795057709?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

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