Every year, as we cycle through the year and each Celtic festival comes around, I find myself learning a little bit more about each one’s meaning and about the many simple ways we can work with them to connect more deeply with the seasons. I have two books that I reach for each time and […]
While tending to my own self care this past couple of weeks, talking with friends and my community on social media, I was reminded how it’s most definitely not just me who has been flagging. I feel like our generation of Mothers will look back at our journey and this time will massively stand out. […]
I was digging out a few pictures of the heavenly circular weavings we worked on at the very first Mother Wild retreat for a lovely mama so she could see what I meant by the foraged hazel loom/frame and I realised they might be useful inspiration for other mamas needing easy/cheap/natural/calm activities at this […]
As we slide towards the school holidays and I begin to feel the load lightening with homeschooling, I’m feeling a sense of emerging from something. In lots of way, the gradual reducing of lockdown restrictions hasn’t made much difference to us with the boys still at home and our day to day not […]
I send out an occasional newsletters to my lovely subscribers list and they often seem to come out of me like a letter to a friend. I thought it’d be nice to share excerpts of these here sometimes. To get the full version at the time I send them, with info about retreats and offerings […]
Summer Solstice falls on Saturday (20th June 2020) and while looking for inspiration I found a list from a Summer Solstice gone by I’d shared on my old blog. It was lovely to revisit and remember the Solstices when my two were really little and […]
Welcome to my new blogging home – dedicated to all the things that inspire my work supporting Mums to use nature and self care practices to feel more fully themselves. My previous (slightly sporadic) journey with blogging can still be found over at my personal blog – www.darlingbudsofmeblog.wordpress.com – and likely this space […]