Basic lifestyle changes and healthy habits can have a really positive effect on your mental wellbeing. As well as your overall being. I know for me when I went through a very dark time with with post-natal depression after my first baby, many of the below habits really helped me in my journey to recovery.
The following habits are also great preventive tools. Helping you keep you mind and body healthy and lowering the chance of you developing a mental illness and even a physical illness too!
Research shows that people who exercise regularly have better mental health and emotional wellbeing, and lower rates of mental illness. Exercise reduces the risk of developing mental illness. It also helps in treating some mental health conditions, like depression and anxiety.
This can be due to a number of reasons. When you exercise your brain produces feel-good hormones such as serotonin and endorphins and lowers stress hormones. Exercise also helps you have a better night’s sleep, which is another important factor in mental wellbeing. It can improve mental awareness and energy levels, giving you more sense of control. It reduces muscle tension, helping you feel more relaxed and less tense. And it can be a healthy outlet for frustrations.
You don’t need to go to the gym every day or do a high-intensity workout (unless you want to), It can simply be going for a walk every lunch, or going for a swim, run or yoga. Whatever suits you.
Research shows that drinking enough water can reduce the risk of depression and anxiety. And even mild dehydration takes its toll on our health. Your brain is 75% water and depends on hydration to function optimally. So it is no surprise that dehydration can cause your brain’s physical, hormonal, mental and emotional processes to weaken leaving you in a low mood and lack of energy. So try to stay hydrated by drinking 2 litres of water per day. A pint first thing when you wake is super beneficial for your brain after a long stint of no fluid. And drinking a pint half an hour before a meal will help your body to better absorb nutrients.
The mind has a very close relationship with the gut, this is called the gut mind connection. So what you eat has a direct effect on your mental, physical and even emotional wellbeing. Take small steps to improve your diet. This could be cutting out a sugar in a tea. Limiting the cups of coffee you have a day. Swapping your evening sweetie binge to having a sweet smoothie. I will write a blog soon going deeper into the mind-gut connection and how you diet can impact your wellbeing.
Establishing a good bedtime routine and having a good night’s sleep is so beneficial for your mental and physical wellbeing. If you struggle with sleeping you could try to cut out caffeine past 2 pm, avoid eating 3 hours before bedtime. Shut off all screens an hour before bed. Put a few drops of Lavender essential oil on your pillow, listen to wind down sleep meditation or write down all your thoughts and worries on a piece of paper to quieten your mind. The diagram to left shows how a lack of sleep affects your mental wellbeing.
Making time to do relaxing activities such as meditation, reading a book, deep breathing exercises, walking, painting/drawing, getting crafty, sit in nature can help take your body out of fight and flight mode which causes stress and overwhelm and activates your parasympathetic nervous system putting you into rest and digest. This state produces a calm and relaxed feeling in the mind and body and reduces stress and anxiety and helps your body to release toxins and repair cells.
Nature is vital in keeping us emotionally, psychologically and physically healthy. When it comes to mental health benefits, nature has a very wide definition. It can mean green spaces such as parks, woodland or forests as well as blue spaces like rivers, wetlands, beaches or canals. It also includes trees on an urban street, private gardens, verges and even indoor plants or window boxes. Surprisingly, even watching nature documentaries has been shown to be good for our mental health. This is great news as it means the mental health benefits of nature can be made available to nearly every one of us, no matter where we live. So you can go out for a walk, sit in nature, grow your own indoor plants or do gardening to help prevent mental illness or use it as a tool for recovery or coping strategy.
How are you doing? If you’ve been feeling more down, overwhelmed, worried, or stressed recently talk to someone, weather it’s a friend, family, stranger or a Doctor. Don’t wait until things become overwhelming, talking early can be a massive help.
If you think you may be starting to experience depression or anxiety, here is a self-assessment quiz with the NHS to help you better understand how you have been feeling – Depression and anxiety self-assessment quiz.
Mental health issues can come on very gradually and you may not even notice you have one, so if you have been experiencing any of the following over the past two weeks please contact your GP.
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Reiki is a gentle restorative form of energy healing that supports your emotional, physical, and energetic wellbeing. It helps your system return to a state of balance, especially when you’re feeling overwhelmed, drained, or disconnected.
Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a Japanese word meaning universal life force energy. It is limitless.
Rei – Universal life | Ki – Energy
It is the energy that flows through all living things. This same vital energy is known as Ki, Qi, or Prana in other traditions — flows through everything in existence. Practices like acupuncture, tai chi, and yoga also work with this life force.
When one’s life force energy is low and been depleted through stress, negative experiences and bad habits, the physical body can begin to suffer. Reiki acts like a river, rushing through your energy body, clearing energetic blocks and debris, restoring flow, and allowing your body’s natural healing processes to take over.
The fantastic benefit of Reiki like all holistic treatments is that it works on the whole you, at every level of being. Physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually Bringing the mind, body and soul into harmony.
You’ll lie down on a comfortable couch. I’ll scan your chakras and energy field to sense what’s needed. Then I place my hands gently on various places of your body channelling Reiki to specific areas that require support.
You may feel warmth, tingles, emotion rising, deep stillness, or simply a sense of peace. Each experience is unique, guided by your energy in that moment.
At the end of the session, I ground your energy, cleanse your aura, and seal your field to help integrate and protect the healing. I’ll also share any intuitive messages or guidance that arose, and offer suggestions to support you between sessions.
We are all interconnected energy, vibrating at different frequencies. Reiki is a very high vibrating healing energy, that is not bound by space nor time. Therefore it makes sense that a Reiki practitioner can channel Reiki to someone, or something, that is on the other side of the world, and it does not lose power. find out more by reading my blog WTF is Distant Reiki?
In fact, many clients find remote sessions even more powerful, as they can relax in their own space without the stress of travel or being observed. This often allows for a deeper surrender and more profound healing.
What happens during the remote session?
At the agreed time, I’ll connect to your energy field and scan your chakras to see what’s in balance or needs support. I then harmonize and clear your chakras, channeling Reiki to wherever it’s needed most for your highest and greatest good.
To complete the session, I’ll ground your energy, clear your aura of anything that no longer serves you, and seal and protect your aura.
All you need to do is find a quiet space, set the intention to receive, and allow yourself to rest.
After the session, I’ll send a follow-up email within 24 hours with any insights or chakra messages that came through, including how imbalances might have been affecting you and how to support your continued healing.
Melt into the couch with relaxing resonance. You’ll begin with a grounding meditation to settle your body and mind. From there, your only job is to receive, letting the healing frequencies of sound wash through your entire system.
I use a carefully attuned combination of instruments including crystal singing bowls, gong, bells, and shamanic percussion. Each carries its own vibration, rhythm, and tone that interacts with your nervous system, brainwaves, and energy field in unique ways.
Sound healing works through entrainment , a natural phenomenon where your brainwaves, heartbeat, and breath begin to synchronise with the external frequencies you’re exposed to. This gently guides your body into a deeply relaxed parasympathetic state (often called “rest and digest”) where natural healing and restoration can occur.
Research suggests that just 20 minutes of sound-based meditation, such as with singing bowls, can help reduce cortisol (the stress hormone), enhance alpha and theta brainwave activity, and support balance between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. These brain states are associated with creativity, intuition, emotional release, and deep inner peace.
On an energetic level, sound can help clear stagnant or blocked energy, process unspoken emotions, and create more spaciousness in your body and mind. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, energetically drained, or just need to reconnect with yourself, this is a deeply restorative session.
No two sound healing sessions are ever the same — your energy guides the instruments. You’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer, and more connected to your inner world.
This powerful two-hour journey dives deep into the Akashic Records. The energetic archive of your soul’s entire evolution. It holds everything: your past lives, karmic patterns, soul contracts, timelines, relationships, gifts, and all the sticky shit you might still be carrying.
This isn’t about floating off into the cosmos. It’s about understanding the root of what’s holding you back right now. Maybe it’s fear, repeating patterns, confidence blocks, relationship drama, money issues, or just a deep sense that something needs shifting. We’ll trace the threads to where it started, and then change the story.
You’ll be guided into a relaxed, meditative state where we’ll access a past life connected to your current challenge. As you move through that life, I’ll work with healing energy to help your soul release, process, and clear what is not longer yours to hold.
Depending on time and what your energy needs, we may then rewrite the story of that past life to bring deep healing. Or visit a lifetime where you fully embodied a strength you want to reclaim — like confidence, creative power, leadership, or self-love.
Each session is different, and deeply personal. You don’t need “psychic” or any previous woo experience. Just an open mind, open heart and willingness to discover..
Whether you’re at a crossroads, stuck in a loop, or ready to remember more of who you truly are, this session will help you clear what’s not yours and reconnect with the power that is.
This is a deeply transformative healing journey across four sessions, created to support you wherever you’re at in life. Whether you’re clearing emotional baggage, navigating a big life shift, or simply wanting to rediscover and connect to your true self; This is for you.
Each session begins with a chat to explore what’s going on for you and what your energy is calling for. Every session is completely unique and intuitively led.
We’ll work with a powerful mix of modalities, including Reiki, flame frequencies, sound healing, Akashic codes, ancestral healing, shadow work, and whatever else your system needs in the moment.
Across the four sessions, you’ll move through a deep process of releasing, recalibrating, and restoring your emotional, physical, mental, and energetic layers. You may also be invited to do rituals, ‘homework’, or simple practices between sessions to help integrate the healing into everyday life.
Each session ends with grounding, sealing, and zipping up your aura; keeping the energy clear and contained while you integrate.
This is for you if you’re ready to get real, shift the heavy shit, and stop carrying what isn’t yours anymore. You’ll leave each s
This deeply restorative session combines sound healing and Reiki to gently guide you in a blissful state of rest & digest. It begins with a full energetic scan of your chakras and body, identifying where there are any imbalances and blockages.
From there, I work intuitively with Reiki and sound healing instruments such as crystal bowls and shamanic percussions. The two modalities work beautifully together, to allow your body’s and higher-self’s healing wisdom to step forward. Allowing you to process, release and regenerate on every level, cellularly, emotionally, mentally and energetically,
We’ll finish by grounding your energy, sweeping and sealing your aura using Reiki. This helps the healing frequencies to integrate and remain active for as long as your system needs.
There is no set way for how these session are carried out. Every session is uniquely tailored to you.
This is the perfect combination to get rid of the shitty, sticky ickiness weighing your down. Clearing space for your life force energy to flow through you more freely. You’ll leave feeling clearer, lighter, calmer, and more connected to yourself.