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Bringing hope, health and healing through Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine including the

I discovered the benefits of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine through my own journey living with chronic pain. I found it so beneficial that I trained for 3 years to become an acupuncturist myself! I am very excited about being in a place where I can bring hope, health and healing to people in a natural way by promoting the body's own natural self healing process.

02/11/2025

🎃 Roasting pumpkin seeds… easy peasy, just don’t leave them in the oven for too long (!) 🤭

👉 forgot to mention to dry them REALLY well after soaking them in salty water, the drier the crispier they are!

🫒 Also add olive oil to your chosen spices before popping in the oven. My fav mix: smoked paprika, cayenne & garlic 😋

☯️ You know me by now… always like to add the Chinese Medicine side to things ~ they have some fab benefits;

🤢 Expels parasites: Pumpkin seeds are classified as a herb that expels parasites, often prescribed for conditions involving intestinal worms like roundworms and tapeworms.

🐡 Reduces swelling: They are considered effective for reducing swelling, particularly postpartum edema in the hands and feet ~ wish I’d have known that after having Theo!!

🍽️ Aids digestion: Pumpkin seeds strengthen the Spleen and Stomach, which supports the digestive system, making them beneficial for those with weak digestion, fatigue, or loose stools.

🕺 Supports prostate health: They are used to help with prostate problems and swelling.

💩 Moistens the intestines: They can help with dry stools and constipation by moistening the intestines.

🎃 Did you keep your seeds? Let me know if you’re going to try them and what you think!! ✨

01/11/2025

💖 I am sharing this with such a grateful heart

💖 Grateful for the beauty of this world and getting to travel again! ✨

💖 Grateful for all the beautiful souls I met on this retreat and have the pleasure to now call friends

💖 Grateful to have been invited to co-facilitate, leading a workshop and delivering individual treatments plus all the extra tongue diagnosis 😝

💖 Grateful I was well enough to be able to attend

💖 Grateful for all the craic and connection

💖 Grateful for our amazing hosts and organisers , the hospitality, amazing food, care and love… above and beyond 🫶🏻

💖 Grateful for my travel, room & overall fabulous wee buddy .co.uk

💖 Grateful to have had the opportunity to share Chinese Medicine and my story a little further, hopefully sprinkling even more ✨sparkles ✨ along the way 🙏

30/10/2025

“Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one’s own life, or the world at large. As a verb, Merriam-Webster defines hope as “to expect with confidence” or “to cherish a desire with anticipation”.

It feels like the last 4 weeks for me I’ve been purely surviving on drops of hope.

I especially love what’s written above “with respect to events and circumstances in one’s own life”

My hope has ranged from “please God don’t let this pain destroy me this time” and “please God please let me not need my mum (🫶🏻) to get me on and off the toilet for one more day” to….

“Please God let me make it to Belfast to do my speaking gig so I can share my story and give ‘hope’ to someone else who needs to hear it” to “please God let me be able to sit long enough to see Theo perform in his school harvest” to….

“Please God let me be able to manage the 3 hour flight to Spain” to “Please God keep my back pain manageable with no massive flare-ups while I’m out in Spain”

After a really hard phone call with a doctor this morning (from my recent x-ray), for me right now, in this vulnerable moment, it’s very much “Please God strengthen my faith and my hope, keep me strong and build from this painful ‘hopeless’ feeling.

Living in hope certainly doesn’t mean that you have or expect a clear bright future laid out ahead of you.

It’s the acknowledgment that sometimes it’s living off the crumbs of hope.

But I do believe it’s also that when you feel you’ve been ‘kicked down’ again… that there’s even the ripple or resonance of that thran, determination that maybe you’re not even sure you have still left in you, but it will rise and God will help us to get to a place again to ‘expect with confidence’ and ‘cherish a desire with anticipation’.

“For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off”.

28/10/2025

📍Yintang is a powerful and widely used acupuncture point in Chinese Medicine. I add it to most of my treatments and you will often find me running around the house (and sometimes outside of the house having forgotten to remove it 🤪)

👀 It is located in the center of the forehead, between the medial ends of the eyebrows.

☺️ Stimulating Yintang, either through acupuncture or acupressure, is primarily known for calming the spirit and mind.

🙌 I use it regularly to treat a range of physical and emotional conditions, including:
💥 Anxiety and stress: Helps ease racing thoughts and promotes mental clarity.
💥Insomnia: Used to promote relaxation and help with difficulty sleeping.
💥 Headaches: Particularly effective for frontal headaches, sinus pressure and eyestrain.
💥 Dizziness and vertigo: Helps to alleviate feelings of lightheadedness.
💥 Nasal problems: Can relieve symptoms like nasal congestion, runny nose and sinus pain.
💥 Agitation: Helps to calm the mind and ease restlessness.

🙌 You can very easily use acupressure on Yintang to stimulate the point yourself:
➡️ Locate the point: Place your finger at the midpoint between your eyebrows.
➡️ Apply pressure: Apply firm but gentle pressure with your index or middle finger.
➡️ Breathe and massage: While applying pressure, take slow, deep breaths. You can either hold the pressure or massage the area in small, circular motions for a couple of minutes.

💖 In Chinese Medicine Yintang is associated with emotional stability and is considered an important point for addressing internal conflict by offering a new perspective.

💖 It has also been used in ancient traditions to signify wisdom and enlightenment.

✨ The point is referred to as the “Hall of Impression” due to its symbolic significance.

💖 To have had the opportunity to treat all these incredible ladies to this powerful ‘unicorn’ point (as I always jokingly refer to it) , was an absolute pleasure and a very special, fun filled, moment I will treasure 💞

😘 Special thanks to .co.uk for the creativity with the collage ~ legend!

22/10/2025

🙏 As I’m getting ready to head off on my next adventure, co-facilitating a retreat in Spain…. This is what’s on my mind. In the midst of pain and fear… I needed to be reminded of these words:

💖 There’s someone wakening up in a hospital bed, wishing they were in your position…

✨ Do it scared

✨ Do it uncertain

✨ Do it alone

✨ Do it sad

✨ Do it when it’s hard

✨ Do it even when you’re not ready

💖 Do it for them 💖

💖 Do it for you 💖

18/10/2025

I’ve been asked SO many times about coughs and respiratory issues this last couple weeks and I always advise the ginger foot-soaks and guasha’ing the chest area (check back on my previous posts) but here’s another fantastic, and very quick & easy release technique!

In Chinese Medicine, rubbing the thenar eminence (the fleshy part at the base of the thumb) and the lung meridian points on the hand can be used to support respiratory health.

The lung meridian runs along the thumb side of the hand, and specific points along this path, such as Yuji (Lung 10), benefit the lungs. You can see me finding it here and pointing it out in the video.

Rubbing this area (I’m using my body Guasha tool here with the longer handle) will help ease symptoms like chest tightness or difficulty breathing by stimulating energy flow in the lung meridian.

You can use absolutely use a Guasha but if you haven’t got one, even a clean jam-jar lid or spoon to bring the blood flow to the surface and down the channel will bring release! 🙌

⬇️ I’ve added 2 more pics of exactly where the thenar eminence is located and the lung channel pathway in the comments below as Facebook won’t allow me to put all together in one post 🧐

16/10/2025

🍐 PEARS 🍐

When your Uncle grows his own delicious pears and you get gifted a bag 🙏

😋 if there’s any left over from the kiddies munching them - you make warming porridge with pears and cinnamon for brunch 🫶🏻

✨ BENEFITS of pears in Chinese Medicine;
🍐 Pears are YIN in nature therefore they moisten, cool and hydrate.
🍐 They are used to nourish and moisten the lungs - the ideal fruit for autumn - so perfect if experiencing anything ‘chesty’ or emotionally if you’re feeling grief of any kind and finding things hard to ‘let go of’
🍐 They relieve dryness and calm internal heat so again dry coughs, constipation, or any dry skin issues

✨ BENEFITS of cinnamon in Chinese Medicine;
🤎 Cinnamon is considered more YANG.
🤎 It’s therefore known as a warming herb, used to release cold in the body and improves circulation by promoting blood flow ❤️

🫶🏻 What a beautiful, tasty combination 🫶🏻

🥰 And thank you Uncle Albert

14/10/2025

➡️ Caught up / phlegm in the Chest?
🫁 Feeling some respiratory issues working on you?
😷 Cold / cough season feeling like it’s approaching?
😟 Tight chest with anxiety or tension?
❤️‍🩹 Heart feeling heavy or broken?
🥵 Hot flushes? Top Tip ~ keep this in the fridge and use it to direct the heat out rather than letting it flush further up to the neck and head 💥

💖 This little beauty is my go-to and I recommend it to so many friends, family and clients. In fact I made this wee video for a friend to show her the best way to use it for a chesty virus working on her, and I thought it would be a great time to share it for you all too!

🩸You can see the redness and blood flow flush straight to the surface here, the redder the more heat is being released 🙌

🦠 Also amazing with the ginger foot-soaks if you are in the middle of fighting a virus of any kind.

✨ Both available in my website shop
www.hopehealthhealing.co.uk

🙏 Please remember not all guashas are made of the same quality.. a lot of the cheaper brands are mixed with plastic 😬 and compared to the rose quartz, there is no competition!

🫶🏻 Hope this really helps, it’s such a simple yet amazing wee tool!

13/10/2025

💖 Here I am last night, one very grateful lady with so much to be thankful for.

🙌 Making it up to Belfast in the midst of a horrendous back flare up.

🎤 Standing in front of over 100 people (!) to tell my story and share hope, health and healing.

🙏 Grateful for my determination (ie pure thran).

🙏 Grateful for the ability to push myself.

🙏 Grateful for the incredible support and love that I’m surrounded by… you know who you are 🫶🏻

🙏 Grateful for the ability to push through real fear and trauma and seeing the sparkles at the other side of that.

🙏 Grateful for the blend of eastern and western medicine that has made it possible for me to physically move and ease some horrendous pain this past 2 weeks.

✨Grateful for HOPE ✨

✨ Grateful for HEALTH ✨

✨ Grateful for HEALING ✨

08/10/2025

How I hope and pray I can bring all those things for everyone who walks through my cabin doors and for those I love in my life.

But what a privilege it’s been for me to have these gifts freely and joyfully bestowed upon me this last week or so since I’ve had my flare up.

I often say how I wish I’d had a ‘Sarah’ in my corner way back in the darkest days of my injuries and the path that lead me down.

Isn’t it a beautiful thing to look at how our dark times not only highlight what light we want to bring into the world for others, but then how that in turn can shine the same light of hope, health and healing into our own lives!

💖 How utterly beautiful 💖

🥹 Excuse me while I have a wee moment here 🥹

03/10/2025

As you know Moxa (Mugwort), is one of my favs. It’s an incredible herb used in Chinese Medicine for many benefits.

In the video you see me using a moxa stick over a clients toes… more specifically her ‘Jing well’ points.

At Jing well points (which are located at the nail beds of our fingers and toes), qi runs shallow and narrow and is very dynamic, “pouring forth like a spring or well”.. so the results can be incredibly powerful.

Using moxa on these points have many benefits…

In the video I am using it to relax sinews and tendons and open orifices to promote a smooth flowing labour.

In the 2nd picture my gorgeous friend is very kindly using this technique on me to resolve swelling and blood stasis & also relax my sinews and tendons during an incredibly debilitating bout of back pain. So grateful 🙏

Other benefits include;
💨 regulating internal organs
💨 activating and restoring function in damaged areas
💨 clearing heat and toxins

Let’s hear it for the moxa!! 👏

Moxa is the main herb used in all the footsoak blends too, providing a lovely relaxing way for you all at home to access the benefits in a very safe and relaxing way 💖

They are still on offer ‘but one get on free’ on my website shop:

www.hopehealthhealing.co.uk

I can’t put into words how grateful I am to know this medicine, use this medicine on clients, family and friends and have it at my fingertips when I’m suffering myself 🙏

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