Healing Arts Bodywork-Sigourney

01/26/2026

New news for 2026!
In February I will be moving to Grinnell.
I will continue to schedule sessions on Wednesdays in Sigourney.

01/14/2026

Capricorn season often brings ambition, pressure, and the urge to “hold it all together.” These Bach Flower remedies are gentle supports for steadiness, resilience, and softening the edges when life gets a bit weighty.

Have you tried any of them before?

12/31/2025

12/08/2025

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12/04/2025

🐧PLEASE be safe 🤍 Also, keep tabs on your cold-season habits like scrunching up your shoulders to "hold your coat up", and don't go so hard at snow shoveling that you ignore your body's cry for rest!

11/30/2025

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11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!!

11/22/2025

Sagittarius season begins
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11/10/2025

How do you cope with the frustrations of technology? I've been preoccupied lately. I've slipped into the mistaken assumption that technology is there to be of help in whatever I am trying to do on my computer. As soon as I enter the virtual world, I am effectively reinforcing a contract of engagement with the provider of whichever service I am using (health, finance, social media, retailers, insurance etc etc). All seems fine, until a problem arises, then the opportunities for resolving an issue become very narrow.

I can "speak" to a bot. Getting past the bot and actually speaking to a person requires box ticking. Wrong box, then repeat the same message in different ways. This invariably returns me to the beginning. Should there be a glimmer of hope that I will be connected to a real person, it is dependent on how overworked and under-resourced that department is, and whether they are able to resolve an issue. If they can't then it is a referral (via internal message) to another department, with its policy of sending customers a template email only. It's not possible to reply but there will be instructions to click on links in their email, which lead back to where I started. Another bot, more boxes. Rather than bang my head on the computer screen, I try again. And again. I'm not one to give up easily, yet it defeats me. Then I have to switch off.. until the next day.

Technology is without doubt helpful in many ways in creating networks of connectivity. However, technology and those who build the sites we use, are process-thinkers. This is the lens they look through in driving toward their goals. It's becoming rarer to find a service provider which is genuinely in service to people. Maybe the aim of the net is to ensnare rather than liberate. Although it does liberate my feelings of frustration at the system...

I'm grateful to Vervain, along with countryside walks crunching through the fallen leaves and the wonders of nature. There's the joy!🌺

11/06/2025

In summer, Mustard flowers bring cheerful colour the landscape. The sudden appearance of the bright yellow flowers mimics the sudden and apparently unexplained appearance of a deep gloom.

It may seem to have no origin or known cause. It simply appears.

Mustard seeds are widespread in the soil seed bank but they only germinate when the ground is disturbed. And this too is the pattern of the Mustard state. A disruption to our equilibrium that brings to the surface old trauma prompting a state of “unexplained” gloom.

The Second Nineteen essences all point to triggered responses. In the case of Mustard, potentially some deeply hidden past trauma.

Mustard essence reflects the energy of the bright yellow flowers allowing you to find joy in life that will dispel the gloom.

https://www.bachflowerlearning.com/the-language-of-plants/mustard/

10/28/2025

Peeling the layers. We can never know precisely what may be hidden in the layers of emotions that we’ve spent decades covering up as a defence mechanism or coping strategy to deal with situations and relationships that have left their mark. With the Bach flowers, you don’t need to go digging for those imprints. You simply listen to how you feel right now, in this present moment. Willow resentment? Heather neediness? Holly spite? Or any of the other Bach flowers….

Unhealed emotions can, as time goes on, become embodied and contribute to destabilising our health. If after difficult times you have a tendency to just push on with things, rather than allowing yourself the quality of time and attention you need to holistically heal, you may be surprised by what is still with you. In my own experiences of deeply embedded ‘flower states’ I’ve discovered some (including Sweet Chestnut) when coming around after surgical intervention — which is an extreme way to discover them. Not recommended! However, certainly a catalyst to become more tuned in to the wake-up calls when there is a lot going on in life, and adjusting and taking the flower mix as required.

When you take your drops on a regular basis, they will gently do their work in helping you to resolve your current imbalances and reveal the next layer. And so you progress, learning about yourself, recognising what you need to heal, let go of, reconcile, forgive, love….

None of us are the finished masterpiece, we are each a work in progress, layer by layer, emotion by emotion until, as Dr Bach said, the soul and personality are in harmony and all is joy and peace, happiness and health.

What layers have been revealed to you on your healing journey? 🌺