Arras Healing

14/11/2025

Greetings fellow earthlings, so much rain eh! The becks and streams are loving it. I still have some spaces left at The Ancestors Circle next Tuesday, 7pm, in Market Weighton. Drop me a comment or a message if you'd like to come along. It's £15pp payable on the day (cash or card)

I work in the loose structure of somatic attunement and embodied listening, which has a good balance of masculine and feminine energies. This supports our intuitive senses and authenticity to come online. And it is a great way of working for sensitive, highly sensitive, and neurodivergent folks 🌀

Here's the group prompt for Tuesday, which stays the same for the first few gatherings & I'll refine as we go along. Don't worry if you haven't worked like this before as it's very laidback, and I join the Circle as a full participant:

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"Is there anything I want to say to the Ancestors today, including if there is anything I would seek clarity on, or more information, or insights, or even support? Or when I see these questions/inquiries, what arises in me, what comes forward for me, into my awareness?"

As you share into the space (or listen to others as they share) notice your somatic "inner listening" ~ which means any sensations, feelings, images, emotions, words, or subtle movements in your body or your internal landscape. It may help to listen or speak with your eyes closed, it is different for everyone though.

As you sense into your inner experience, feel free to speak to your experience, or what arises for you in the moment-to-moment noticing and witnessing. Notice your body, notice your breath, notice the group-field, stay curious and patient with yourself. Notice what you are aware of, or maybe not aware of. There is no right way or wrong way, and it isn't about sharing in the same way that other people share ~ but it's entirely your own process. By practising this, we can build up embodied listening, co-regulated presence, and give more spaciousness to the field of collective witnessing and ancestral awareness.

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~Candy

13/11/2025

This is a great post and much-needed correction to the field 😎

Indigenous knowledge has held an embodied understanding of breath, body, relationship and safety for thousands of generations. These teachings recognise that the nervous system is shaped through Country, kinship, story, rhythm and ceremony.

Polyvagal theory is a helpful contemporary tool, but it sits inside a much older Indigenous worldview about how humans regulate, connect and heal.

Healing deepens when:
❤️ Indigenous wisdom leads the way,
❤️ neuroscience walks alongside rather than defines, and
❤️ somatic practice is grounded in culture, Country and relationship - not just the individual body.

11/11/2025

I have 3 spaces left for The Ancestors Circle going ahead next Tuesday (18th November) here at my coaching space in Market Weighton 🌀👣

7pm-8.30pm
£15pp (cash, card, or PayPal)

This will be a mixed gender gathering (open to men too!)
Address provided on booking

I am an ancestral healing facilitator, somatic trauma coach, and professional breathworker ~ holding this space for us to gather with the kind-and-loving ancestors who consent to join us and share in this relational field 🐾🌿

We follow a loose structure to allow for an emergent container, but you can expect:

Share in presence (outside of clock-time) with the Ancestors & be part of something ancient and 'awe'-some
Ancestral healing opportunity
Meditation / attunement
Optional sharing circle (group prompt emailed out in advance to allow for reflection time)
Oracle cards
Informal social space + chitchat with like-minded people
Grounding practices

I am your neurodivergent, friendly host 🙂

Looking forward to meeting you, and greeting your ancestors too ~ drop me a line if you'd like to come along! 🌀👣

Warmly, your host
~Candy

10/11/2025

This is a poem written by Mike Edwards, a journalist for The Horncastle News, after visiting the Great War 1914-18 battlefields. It has meant a lot to me over the years since a tour guide handed it to me without saying anything. I had just visited Adanac Cemetery near the Somme in 2017 to see my ancestor, Charles, who died on the final day of the battle (18/11/1916). Thankfully his body was retrieved. He left behind a wife Elsie and two children.

The greatest way to is to forge peace between all nations: animal, human, more-than-human, and Nature, in honour of the restful and the restless dead. Until then we continue to dishonour their suffering and remain stuck in repetition compulsion cycles

A world without war and the maiming of men, animals and people is entirely possible

Every day is remembrance day
~Candy

This is a poem written by Mike Edwards, a journalist for The Horncastle News, after visiting the Great War 1914-18 battlefields. It has meant a lot to me ove...

10/11/2025

Thanks for patience as I get my groupwork going again. I'm currently firming up some part-time work for myself to run adjacent to Arras Healing and I also totally overestimated what I am able to carry without getting over-stimulated as an autistic person! After some hard reflections last week, I am going to focus on one group at a time (alongside my 1-1 offerings) and see where it leads to

For now this will be The Ancestors Circle, as it is where my heart and soul lie and where I have the most intuitive nagging

Hoping to go ahead on Tuesday 18th Nov @ 7pm, with the gathering of the Circle here in Market Weighton, just need to confirm I am not needed at a job that day and will share the promo

I know this is not a conventional or linear way of running a business, but finding my feet as an unmasking, disabled woman day-by-day in this new era 🕊 & I feel we need more inclusive, neuro-affirming ways of working that break the status quo (so why not put myself out there with my ideas!)

Comment or DM if you're interested in more info or joining The Ancestors Circle 🐾🌿👣

~Candy

05/11/2025

Somatic First Aid ~ tips for grounding clients and putting on the brakes

New article added to Substack 🎉

Somatic First Aid, or Trauma First Aid, is a phrase that I use when we are working with unresolved emotions and difficult feelings in body-based therapy or coaching

Visit my Substack for tips and tools to use with clients, groups, and in your own inner work!

~Candy

03/11/2025

I recently shared a new post to Arras Healing's blog all about trauma bonds and breaking trauma bonds 🫶 I am working on a new meditation for my YouTube channel which is all about this too, and will share it here when it's ready! Trauma bonds are often seen in difficult or abusive interpersonal relationships, and they can happen between children-and-parents, between spouses/partners, between friends, between siblings ~ and even between work colleagues! In the past, they were sometimes characterised as "hot and cold" behaviour, and now you more often hear people talking about "push-pull dynamics" in relationships, avoidant attachments, love-bombing or breadcrumbing. If you'd like to learn about breaking trauma bonds and freeing yourself from this type of pain, check out my blog for some tips and tools 🙂 I also offer 1-1 somatic and breathwork coaching around this ~Candy

In this blog, I share my strategies for coping with abandonment in the wake of a trauma bond, as well as how to cope with the pain and suffering that comes with trauma bonds.

30/10/2025

29/10/2025

Come along to the refreshed ***Meditation & Wellness Group*** at 7pm on Monday (3rd November), here with me at Arras Healing 😃

Come together in a relaxed setting with like-minded people and slow down the pace of life and living. Step from 'doing' into 'non-doing' and simply be for a while. This is great for stress, anxiety, isolation, loneliness, depression and general wellness. A chance to experience different kinds of meditation, such as guided, visualisation, stillness and contemplative practices, poetry / storytelling, mindfulness, somatic attunement, and breathwork to name a few. Build and share your practice, reduce anxiety, and calm your mind and body. Mondays, 9am and repeated again at 7pm, £10 per person

Mixed gender, all ages, all abilities. Comment if you'd like to attend & I just need your email address to share the joining info 🙂

28/10/2025

Why I'm opening my home to group spaces 💚

I already run my one-to-one client work from my home here in Market Weighton, but it's the first time I will also be opening to group spaces too. I tried to do this back in 2022 but aborted those plans at the time, so here I am nearly 3 years later, circling back on myself.

For me, it feels like the natural culmination of how I have grown and evolved over the last 3 (nearly 4) years of running Arras Healing. I am much more unapologetically and radically my own person than ever before, and as others will know, it's hard work to get there and a lot of mini-deaths.

Now, not only I am keen to reach out and put myself out there, but I'd like to create spaces of community connection, especially for those who are neurodivergent, sensitive, or somewhat socially isolated at times. And I'm also keen to break down barriers to perfectionism and performance in the holistic wellness world.

Will it be perfect running groups from my home? Probably not. Will my cat try to interrupt sessions sometimes? Probably (she has interrupted client sessions in the past). Will there be other things crop up that I can't yet foresee? Perhaps. But will it be perfectly imperfect, delivered in a unique way that only I can deliver it? Yes! (as is the case for all of us with our unique gifts and skillsets).

Based on the widening division and polarisation that we're seeing in the world, it seems clear to me that embodying vulnerable leadership (and how this enriches our lives), is one of the best contributions that I can make right now. Taking imperfect actions and showing up exactly as I am on any given day.

I'm also a massive fan of substance-over-style. I know that my social media posts aren't glossy and refined, and sometimes they use cartoons that look like I let my inner child loose on them (I did!), but I tell myself they're warm and fuzzy and approachable, and at the end of the day Arras Healing is an extension of my own nervous system and values.

So if you'd like to check out my little groups, here in Market Weighton, and see how connecting to local community in a non-judgemental, compassionate, trauma-informed and attuned space might work for you, hosted by yours truly, check out my recent posts or my website for all the details.

~Candy

Photo: Mount Airy over South Cave, Oct 2025

27/10/2025

New groups restart from Monday 3rd November in Market Weighton 😃 Click on each image to see more information about my new and refreshed group offerings. There are 4 groups to choose from, or you can join as many as you like to see what fits! This is NOT group therapy, however my groupwork does focus on community connection, wellness, meditation, personal empowerment, curiosity and compassion.

Groups are mixed gender and can accommodate 3-7 people (minimum 2 people booked on to go ahead). They range in fee/pricing from £7 to £15, depending on the format and length of the group. Some are 60 minutes and others are up to 90 minutes.

They will be hosted by me (Candy) from my dedicated coaching and therapies space here in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire. There is the choice of being seated in a chair, or with a comfy meditation cushion, or floor-sitting with soft rug. Ground floor room but, unfortunately, wheelchair access may be tricky as there is no ramp. Please contact me to discuss any disability or access needs.

Cash & card are both accepted at the start / end of groups, or you can also pay securely online if you forget. WhatsApp Group (broadcast only) for easier updates and bookings. Message me or comment for questions etc. 🙂 ~Candy

27/10/2025

What's On? at Arras Healing for the rest of 2025 ✨

Launching Monday 3rd November, my regular group offerings are now available to join at your own pace and convenience

See timetable. When you come along to your first group, I will ask if you'd like to join the broadcast-only WhatsApp Group for easier updates & booking

MONDAYS
09.00 and 19.00
Meditation & Wellness Group | £10pp
***Join a regular meditation group in Market Weighton, with a mixture of breathwork, meditation, optional sharing, oracle cards, and relaxed connection in an informal setting

TUESDAYS
19.00
The Ancestors Circle | £15pp
***My most spiritual and animist offering. Ancestral healing, ancestor work, legacy burdens, trauma. An experiential gathering, working in liminal space between the seen and the unseen (sometimes called the subtle realms), and benefitting from the resourcing of an ancient shared nervous system. Partnership offering intended to go where it needs to go and reach where it needs to reach

WEDNESDAYS
19.00
Autism, ADHD and Neurodivergence Mutual Support Group | £7pp
***A brand new group for neurodivergent community in East Yorkshire! Hosted by Candy (AuDHD), experienced coach and facilitator, lived experience of hidden disabilities and neurodiversity

SATURDAYS
09.30
Compassion in times of Collapse | £10pp
***Come together in circle with our neighbours, peers, and fellow humans to practise compassion for self and others during times of personal and collective collapse

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My groupwork centres wellness, meditation, somatic attunement, spirituality, ancestral healing, community connection, neurodivergence, individual empowerment, self-compassion, curiosity, and loneliness / social isolation

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***Note: groups operate '2 weeks on, 2 weeks off' to accommodate disability ~ I've scheduled '3 weeks on, 1 week off' for the remainder of the year but may be subject to change. Will post updates to socials, newsletter and WhatsApp as needed

I look forward to welcoming you! Together, we can create communities of collective healing and wellness that ripple out across East Yorkshire and beyond 💫

~Candy