Hello my loves,
Can I make a suggestion? It may be a little offbeat with the rest of social media right now.. even contradictory to be posting it here.. But please, hear me out.. Let’s take a pause, a breath.. let’s just *stop* for a moment.
There are so many generous hearted people seeking to be of service on social media right now..
Open community gatherings, mediations, yoga classes, workouts.. creations of love.. free courses.. So many friends & family sharing opinions & news articles & emotions .. But before we flit from one thing to another, & try to juggle the endless media, opinion, offerings etc online, with our own personal crisis at this time..
Let’s take pause.
The Holistic Branch messaging has always been about finding our own inner guidance to what we need, to connect to our own medicine.. to intuit what would be most useful to us to source next on our healing path..
Empowered self-healing, (which includes finding the right mentors, modalities, coaches etc, as well as self education) all the way!
In order to do that, to hear our inner intuitive voice, we need to be still for a while.
We need to feel what we are FEELING.
Right now there is so much collective and personal grief & fear.. if you feel overwhelmed by this, please take pause.
Maybe brew a cup of something soothing, sit in your backyard, connect with your heart and ask ‘what next, what do I desire’? My guess is probably a nap!
Ok.. maybe a big cry first.. maybe to scream.. sob.. let go.. feel into the darkest, grieving place within you right now and let it be expressed. Create a clear channel to hear yourself past the overwhelm.. Then nap.
Then again, ask ‘what next? What does my body/mind/heart/ family need right now’? Then once again, do that.. then another heart check in..
Make space for what is calling within you..
One moment to moment, feeling to feeling, intuitively led.. And if you have children, encourage them to check in with themselves and express what they may be feeling too..
A non-judgemental, free-form, safe space to voice is what all of us need right now.
Not necessarily to always be answered .. but always heard.
Cont’ in comments ..
I woke at 5am this morning & couldn’t get back to sleep, so I whirled this video on repeat for about an hour & had myself a lil Sunrise Dance Party 💜✨ I love the vibe of this music vid.. It feels like if the show She-Ra, & the film of Flash Gordon, hooked up on an MDMA fueled tinder date, this would be their spawn. 🦄
Anyway.. I felt that I should share my Lady Gaga Dance Party, as it seems we could all do with one right now.
It’s a perfect time to turn to art.
The message is in the lyrics.. open up, let love heal you. 💖💜💖🌹💖💜💖
:::: Cycle day 2 ::::
I stared bleeding yesterday with the full moon. My cycle has been steadily moving back to a FM bleed from a dark/new moon bleed these past few months.
My cycle likes to flow back & forth between the moon polarities, then settling on either phase for a while, absorbing the medicine & wisdom I’m to glean from the alignment.
The past almost two years I’ve bled with the dark/new moon. For me, this was a sign to really nourish myself; to lean into my deep healing knowhow & apply that in a more profound way.
After a time of intense creative output & supporting the people around me, resulting in burnout, this was the way my body knew to cultivate its own healing Red Tent.
Under the cover of the dark moon, with its call to gaze inward (to the dark subconscious, to what is hidden), I could more easily see & tend to the parts of me that needed shedding & renewal.. reflected in my menses flow & then the new moon cycle.
Observing this helps cultivate a much deeper connection to the life, death, rebirth cycle, that the menstrual & moon phases take us on.
As my cycle is aligned once again with the full moon, I’m aware that my psyche/inner self/higher self (whatever) is confirming I’m ready to shift focus to more ‘outwardly’ again.
That the time spent in my dark red tent, has fortified me, deepening the pool of which I can hold space from, create from & share from.
The heightened emotional, vulnerable, channeling state that is the menstrual phase, can be where I work from to be of service & healing, not just to myself.
Now, with my full-moon-blood-oracle-wisdom, I can see a clearer path, feel a stronger emergence, & maintain the boundaries built at my dark moon altar.
How do you relate to your menses/moon cycle? 🌹🌕🌹🌕🌹
In honour of international women’s day, I’m sharing an excerpt from my journal; a letter to the inner Wild Woman archetype. ‘I’m sorry for squashing you down with the stories of my pain;
I’m sorry that I have allowed doubt & judgement to stifle you;
I’m sorry for not bringing you up & out into the air,
the sun,
the moon,
the sea,
the ecstatic bliss that is nature & life, frequently enough for me to know you as intimately as I should.
I reclaim you in the moments of my frustration,
anger,
fire,
play,
joy,
pleasure,
self-expression;
when I set boundaries & self-advocate.. when I long to scream into the earth & tear my nails through the soil.
So that your fierce freedom, wisdom, magick & transformative power possesses me,
Propels me into change.’
🔥🥀🕯🥀🔥
Artist @cocorrina.co
Hello lovely people,
I have an old blog post in which I write about how to protect and build up your immune system if you have a cold or flu.. but this also works for helping your immunity defend against any virus!
I share it in the hopes you may feel more empowered with knowledge moving forward in the current climate we are in.
I also would like to add that managing our stress levels is supper important for our immunity.
Please engage in all your fave stress reduction techniques, take adaptogenic herbs and mushrooms (chaga, reishi, withania, hawthorn berry) as well as the viral fighting ones like, astragalus, cats claw, echinacea, hypericum (also called St Johns wort, but please don’t take this one if on ssri antidepressants). Use lemon, tee tree, eucalyptus and pine essential oils to clean your home with, in the diffuser, and as room sprays (combine a few drops of oil in water and alcohol and shake before spraying, or find a premade base).. not all at once, rotate the oils, or combine just two at a time.. so your body doesn’t become ‘used’ to them and the efficacy then be reduced.
I’ll link the blog post in the comment section so this is easy to share.
Any questions please also leave below and I’ll get back to you when I can!
I’ve written this quite fast so I apologise if it doesn’t quite make sense.. but I’ll clarify anything as needed below 😉
Much love and stay grounded!
Sami Lou 😘💖💖💖 #immunity #immunesystem #immunesupport #naturalremedies #naturopathy #wellbeing #flu #colds #preventativemedicine #empoweredhealth
