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September 25, 2017February 27, 2018Leave a comment

Here you will find an up to date list of all my eBooks & other digital products as they become available. Click on the highlighted titles to be taken to Gumroad for purchase! ❤ Sami Lou's Nature Cure Guide; Glowing Skin & Sparkling Energy. Would you really love to give your self-care an overhaul, … Continue reading eBooks

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The Holistic Branch is run by Samantha Mant, a Naturopath & Intuitive Healer, with 17 years experience. She is also a Writer, Witch, and facilitator of a Facebook community (The Holistic Branch Cauldron) open to all who walk a magickal healing path. Samantha is on a soul-powered mission to help cultivate a world in which every person trusts their intuition to heal themselves and honour their body.

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This years theme for me was ‘trust’. Remembering & strengthening the trust I have for myself, my own body, my ability to heal myself, my intuition, & all the rest! I had become caught up over the past few years with my work & establishing myself online; it happens, I love the work I do. When you have a chronic degenerative autoimmune illness, to live well means you have no choice but to put yourself first. This actually goes for everyone regardless, but more on that later.. Last year I realised I had calcification forming in a few of my joints, my core was weak, my physical alignment was off & I was experiencing a flare now & then.. rare for me! Taking this year to step back a little from my online presence was so necessary in order to invest that time & energy into this ‘remembrance session’ of what I already knew & had walked through many times.. prioritising self/inner trust. It also meant more pain for a while as my body broke down the calcification, as it pulled itself into a more useful alignment & better gait to balance out the freer moving joints, it meant a lot of rest to compensate that effort. I trialed whole hemp oil for a few months, twice over the year, but it seems that doesn’t agree with me & threw me off track. I’m still allowing my body the space to unravel the effects of it. It’s been a year of up & down, & back & forth.. but isn’t this the flow of every year one way or another? We expand, we contract.. we exert, we rest. The cycle, the spiral, the duality an’ all that Jazz. Remembering that we have all the answers & guidance within us is a powerful dawning. Trusting our own bodies experiences, leaning into the pain, whether that’s physical, emotional or mental, is the way through. What did you guys breakthrough this year? All my love, Sami Lou 💖💖

Happy #halloween #Samhain or #Beltane depending what side of the hemisphere you reside on this planet! 🎃🦇🎃 The veil is thin on both occasions. Spending most of my life in Australia, as a practicing #witch ,after living most of my childhood in the UK, has really opened my eyes to how opposite ends of the Wheel of the Year are more alike than different. At Samhain we move towards winter death, and at Beltane we know the abundance of summer is on its way.. but life and death both hold the promise of each other within. 🥀🥀 This perception of cyclic endurance (energy immortality) may be why this time of year is my favourite, or maybe it’s just coz my birthday is coming up 😉 One of the major themes working with my clients this year, was their desire to create more ritual in their lives. There are many reasons we crave ritual; comfort, peace, to strengthen the connection to ourselves. It has been such an honour to help my peeps realise this in their lives. 💖 I’m thinking to look into creating mini masterclasses on seasonal / #woty rituals to share with you.. would that be something you guys would be interested in? I would love to know! Mega spooky Halloween love to you 🖤🦇🖤🎃👻

Day 5 of the #sensualselfiechallenge is themed ‘flowers & fierceness’. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to @evyan.whitney for this challenge. It’s been a privilege to be a part of & to witness the other participants beauty, creativity & stories. 🥀 I took this challenge mostly as it sounded really fun, but also because my selfie game needs a major lift haha. I rarely take photos of myself because I find them difficult to get ‘right’. I wanted to get outside of my comfort zone of what ‘right’ is.. I took my photos as soon as I had woken, without makeup & with only a little photo editing to enhance lighting. I felt some edges at times, when I couldn’t get an image to be the way I envisioned, or if I started to get up in my inner critic. I went ahead & posted them regardless & experienced more fun being a part of this wonderful group of people then I expected! Thanks for the ride, everyone! ✨✨ I intend to post more photos of myself in the future, now that I’ve discovered it need not be a time consuming process 😂Thank you, my friends, for your likes & touching comments .. you’re all my heart parts ❤️❤️❤️

Day 4’s theme of the #sensualselfiechallenge is crowns, goddess vibes, adornment & reclaiming physical expression. Inspired by @blacklorelei7 This crown number is a Halloween prop my sister & I made 2 years ago 😂🙌🏻 I got annoyed with trying to take a mirror selfie, I find them difficult. So I’m not big on this photo, but who has time to make things perfect .. Feeling comfortable in your skin & taking up space can be fluctuating when you’re differently-abled, have a chronic illness or chronic pain. I’ve mentioned before how I see the journey of life & everything in it, as a Spiral Path; therefore also how I see my healing path / relationship with my body. Being diagnosed when I was 5 brought with it a lot of fingers pointing out what was ‘wrong’ with me in the medical & schooling systems, as well as the issues we all know with ableist society, at an impressionable age. Often this left me feeling like there really was something wrong with me, that I was a bad person with no worth, that my own body was actually punishing me & that I would never be seen for who I really was. Luckily for my young self, I was also very connected to my higher consciousness, which would sweep in claiming that those thoughts were all bullshit, that I needed to take up more space, to make people see & hear me, & to REBEL against a damaging & abusive system, for myself & others alike. Which I did. At first, as a way to protect myself. But at the age of 15 when I could finally leave the medical system & left school, I then started to soften those deflecting walls around me. I could allow my true personality & heart to show up. I had a lot of strength in who I was, & a lot of love & acceptance for my body.. This grows with every passing year.. but still, at 35 years old, there are times when pain makes me want to escape my skin. I have learned to accept this, it’s a feeling that wants to be felt. It means my body needs more care, more love, & my healing modalities to be utilised. Each time this feeling is triggered & I walk through the darkness & stillness, I go deeper into trusting my own innate wisdom & strength. I remember to dance to my own drum as I travel my Spiral Path..

Day 3 of the #sensualselfiechallenge is all about “‘unflattering’ angles’ & is inspired by @4locrow ‘s wonderful words ‘I am beautiful from every angle, but I do not need to be beautiful to be of value.’ ~Lauren. 👏🏻::::::; I feel like maybe I’ve cheated on this one, as I have posted photos of the scars from my hip replacements before. But I’m feeling extremely tired today: I ate gluten yesterday and that is an RA trigger for me.. sometimes you have to just test out if that’s still the case 😂 and eat the yummy food ;) So, instead of a better planned photo, you get one showcasing a very faint scar (those suckers are actually at least 30cm long), a bit of skinny arm and leg, in poor lighting, taken by my sister lol.. ✨✨✨✨ I’m really enjoying this challenge and seeing the participants amazing photos and their incredible stories / bravery. I’m so sorry to hear and see that there has been negativity and censoring.. this just goes to show how much we need to keep taking up space with our physical selves and reclaiming how human bodies are perceived. It’s all part of a revolution, baby! Sending love out to all the babes participating 💖💖💖👑👑👑

@evyan.whitney ‘s #sensualselfiechallenge day 2 inspired by @ethereal.1 “I vow to honor, & hold space for my body’s individual beauty in infinite ways, till death do us part.” ~Emilia. ❤️

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