• Trailblazer Interview: Kayla Kurin & Accessible Yoga for All

    Kayla Kurin is the founder of Aroga Yoga, she’s a yoga therapist, teacher and health advocate who works with people who are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. Is that you? *That sound you just heard was everyone reading this raising their hands simultaneously.* I’m so excited to share her work with you, especially knowing that many of you are, like me, living with illness and in caring roles, working to make yoga accessible day to day.

  • Sacred Stories: Michaelmas & Honouring Protection

    Image Credit Sacred Stories Series: seasonal psycho-spiritual checkpoints to share our history & remind us to pause. This Thursday, 29th September is Michaelmas, or the Feast of Michael and All Angels, traditionally, this is the time of year that people celebrated the equinox, beginning of autumn and the shortening of days. Whether you are Christian, pagan, agnostic or atheist, if you live in the western world, you live in a society shaped by and saturated in these sacred stories.  The custom of celebrating Michaelmas Day as the last day of harvest was broken when Henry VIII split from the Catholic Church; Harvest Festival is celebrated now. St Michael is also the patron…

  • September Trailblazing Healing Resources: Fuel for Your Healing Fire

    The best of the wellness internet. Lovingly curated trailblazing healing resources for fun and wellness fabulousness to fuel your healing fire. Relax and dive in! My favourite trailblazing healing resources, inspirations, proclamation and motivation this month. I love getting emails about how working with Turning Trailblazer has shifted people’s lives and perspectives…if you’d like to check it out, you can get a free copy here. If you are building a business, do you follow my Accessible Business Pinterest board? Each week we set our intentions in The Trailblazers’ Cafe and support each other through the week, so powerful! Want to travel around the UK? Check out this awesome accessibility app. What to…

  • Pain Matters: Managing the ‘Why Me?’ Blues

    Have ever had one of those days, when being grown up seems like more than you can bear? When all of your healing, your self-development and spiritual work is not helping you? Not only that but it feels like it’s hurting you because you aren’t seeing the message or the lesson in your chronic pain/broken leg/recurring depression? It sounds like the ‘Why Me?’ Blues. I mean come on, what happened? Did a star misalign? Were you unkind to a nun in a past life?

  • Dear Grace Q & A: How do I keep my spirits up when I’m hurting?

      Dear Grace Q & A: How do I keep my spirits up long term, when living with emotional and physical pain? I really hear how difficult it is to cope emotionally when you are hurting for a long time and I hope these 5 points help you manage the pain and still find some peace: 1. Build Resilience Resilience supports us to cope with uncertainty. Resilience is something we can choose to build. The factors which make up resilience have been identified by psychologists. We can learn resilience as surely as we can learn how to use Instagram or make a cup of tea.