You are tired. Not just sleepy - truly, deeply tired. And no matter how many early nights you have, the tiredness remains. It sits behind your eyes, settles in your shoulders, and quietly dulls the colours of your days. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. And you are not failing at rest. You may simply be resting in only one way, when your whole being is calling out for so much more. Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith, physician and author of Sacred Rest, identified seven distinct types of rest...

Have you ever felt completely off - not quite ill, but not quite yourself either? Perhaps there's been a low hum of anxiety that you can't quite explain, a heaviness in your chest, or a sense that your energy just isn't flowing the way it used to. If any of that resonates, you may be experiencing what many holistic therapists would describe as an imbalance in your chakra system. I'm Julie, and at Consciousness Awakened, I offer Chakra Balancing sessions as part of a deeply considered approach...

There is a word that gets used a great deal when we talk about healing. That word is ‘deal’. We say we need to deal with our past. Deal with our trauma. Deal with our anxiety. Deal with the things that have happened to us, and the feelings those things left behind. And I understand why. When pain is present, addressing it can feel like a task - something to be managed, processed, and put away. We approach it like a problem that needs solving, a wound that needs dressing, a storm that needs...