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Little Weekend Giveaway! There are some PALentines treats left over so thought we’d spread some joy. These are a few of my favourite things from my favourite people. A beautiful card and message from @dewintonpaperco Some miso coconut toffees from @cookies__for__breakfast A beautiful flower accessory from @themightyquinnsfloweremporium A piece of selenite and some palo santo To win, make sure you follow me and my pals above and comment below what a few of your favourite things are! I’ll pick a winner on Friday 22nd February Happy Weekend All! X
My New Mantra - I can be very ‘in my head’ or *cough* a bit of a navel gazer. I find it tricky to not think of every single possible outcome, to any new situation or venture or opportunity or lunch choice or new friend or the weather or the clothes I’m wearing or or or or or. I can get scared or worried that it won’t work out, or I won’t measure up it I’ll get hurt. It can get quite tiring up in my brain. So now, I take a deep breath when the doubts set in and say this to myself as many times as I need to, to calm down. I got the awesome @dewintonpaperco to write it in a card for me last night at our PALentines event ☺️
I realised the other day that my hair is the same length it was pre- cancer and pre-treatment (I posted something on stories, but it’s still knocking my socks off). This is me just after a was officially diagnosed, I found the lump (who I named Burt) 5 years ago this week. The 5 year thing, coupled with the hair thing, feelings like this should be kinda momentous, back at the start before I knew anything, I thought I’d be back to ‘normal’ by now. In fact my goal was to grow my hair back to the way it looked before, I had no concept of how long that would take but it felt like if I could achieve this, I’d be some how fixed. I don’t know if I though if the outside looked vaguely the same as before then the insides would follow a long. I realised long ago that, that wasn’t going to be the case (maybe that’s why I stopped measuring my hair). Way too much has happened, try as you might, you just can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, life doesn’t work that way. I will never be the same person I was back then. For one, I’m 5 years older. For another, even if the the dice has been rolled differently, you don’t stay the same! Those 5 extra years would of changed me some how, maybe for the better or for the worse - there’s little point trying to figure that one out. I guess this is me saying, goals are great and can be super useful in keeping us going but don’t be afraid to move those goal posts if they no longer serve you or reassess regularly that you still want that particular goal don’t focus on it blindly and for goodness-sake start spending more time celebrating the little things a long the way too. I just want to remind you to check yourself regularly for lumps and bumps and go to the doctor if you’re worried. Also stop saving things for ‘best’ or for when you’re thinner or your hair is longer or whatever it is you’re saving the ‘best’ for; reward yourself for being a grown up person, who has lived another full week just being who you are and hopefully hasn’t killed anyone. Happy Sunday All! X The beautiful @lydia.stamps took this photo
Just one of those days when I need to remember to take some deep breaths....... and maybe unclench my jaw too. One reason why I love giving massages (and having them too), is the time it gives you to slow down and concentrate on the small, very important things that our bodies need. Those big, deep, wonderful breathes - so much better for you than those twittery little shallow ones we so often spend our days doing. Be kind to ourselves allow yourself the luxury to be slow and purposeful this weekend.
Have you booked for PALentines yet? Do you like meditation, cookies, snacks, awesome flowers and stationary? Well you might want to think about booking those tickets! I basically brought together my dream team to hang out with and we’re inviting you along too. It’s going to be awesome! https://www.otherspacebristol.com/store/palentines
It’s Monday, it’s sunny and this house has a pink front door. I’m choosing to be happy about all these things and half a dozen more. I’m ‘thinking Pink’ 💕☺️
Want to hang out? I’ve got together with a stupendously amazing group of humans (I’m not kidding, this is my dream team of people to hang out with) to create a cool & cozy way to spread a little joy during these not so fun months. @loopmassage & @otherspacebristol present - PAL-tines Day, an alternative to the V word @thequietheart will be kicking things off with a gentle, restorative meditation and stretch @whiteowltherapies will be introducing us to the power of the voice bath. They’ll give us some much needed end of day balance and breathing We’ll then have some nibbles supplied by @ellypear and cookies by @cookies__for__breakfast a long with a glass of fizz or two, while we have time to do activities! @dewintonpaperco will be on hand to help create cards to send or keep We’ll be customising flower hair pieces or boutonnières by @themightyquinnsfloweremporium You can even get a nail tidy or hand massage by @__you__beauty We’ll then wave you off with a few selected treats as well. We want it to be a way to hang out with your pals or meet some new ones. We promise you won’t have to dodge any heart shaped balloons either. Hope to see you there! Tickets are limited - the link is in the info box ☝️ amazing image by @dewintonpaperco of course!
Calling all Massage Therapists - do you want to be in our gang? I’m looking for awesome people to join our squad. Are you trained in holistic & deep tissue, or sports massage? Do you have any other fabulous skills to bring to the party? Please send me an email hello@loopmassage.com (you could DM me but I’ll just ask you to send an email :-) ) - introduce yourself, your work and what makes you, you. Please share this on to anyone you think might be just perfect. Thank you
I’ve been snapping pictures, mainly as I walk to work, to remind me on these grey, blah days that the sun shall shine and we will try again.
I feel super weird about putting this up. I don’t tend to do selfies but we’ve had a flurry of new peeps joining us, so it seemed like the perfect time, I guess. Ok, so this is the first picture in a long time, that I’ve liked of me. It’s unfiltered too, I do have some make up on - not heaps but that’s all relative. I never wanted to be one of those people who didn’t like photos of themselves, it just sort of happened. I am unbelievably uncomfortable in front of a camera and really don’t like having my photo taken, especially if I can’t control it afterwards. Yes, that sounds vain, I don’t know if it comes from that place wholly or that I’m quite shy. I just find it hard to enjoy how I look. I’m deeply uncomfortable generally speaking! Which is weird coming from someone who has seen herself bald and moon faced from chemo steroids - I really hoped going through that would mean I had a better relationship with my face and body, but actually the opposite was true. I prefer being under the radar and just avoiding it! It’s sad, I am sad for me, about that. So in 2019, I’m finally trying to change it. I’m not saying I like how ‘selfie’ obsessed the culture has gotten, and I feel the need to take lots of photos of myself. I’m just working hard to accept myself, as I am, exactly who I am, not changing inwardly or outwardly for anyone else. It’s too tiring and I’m done not knowing who I actually am as a human. I’ve no idea why this one particularly made the grade, I’m hoping I’ve just gotten better at being OK with who I am on that particular day. Today, because I have eaten like a trash panda over the weekend - I have to spots - that is life 🤷🏻‍♀️ Phew, that was an essay I didn’t mean to write!