Healing is a concept that is often romanticised. Dreaming of complete and total recovery without anything remaining of the original hurt and trauma.

This is too idealistic (and I say that as someone who is an idealist). Too perfect to be truly human.

I think the truth is more like scar tissue.

I am not one to offer cures for any condition, but for judgement I will make an exception.

Judgement is so incredibly emotionally debilitating, spiritually devastating and mentally exhausting, that it does require something to be written of its cure.

Optimal functioning of the Heart meridian includes feeling deep love and warmth for yourself and life, and being able to offer and receive this from others.

However, we will all have experienced some form of hurt where our protective instinct is to close off the heart to guard against future hurt.

You may have come across the chakra system, which describes the subtle energy fields present in our bodies.

The seven main chakras on the body are usually located from the base of your pelvis to the top of your head. Other smaller chakras are also thought to be present. While still others are thought to continue beneath you as your energetic connection to the Earth and above you as your energetic connection to Source.

Let’s focus on those located on/within the physical body, and in particular those located within the main torso of the body: root, sacral, solar plexus and heart.

Your body is smart and vastly intelligent.

Your body holds the knowing of every experience you have ever had. Your body holds all of the records of your birth, growing up and adulthood.

Your body holds the stress, the trauma, the tension. Your body remembers the warmth, the holding, the goodness.

Anyone who has ventured into the root of any physical difficulty to the realms of the mental, emotional and spiritual will undoubtedly have encountered the work of Louise Hay.

Perhaps best known for her million-hit talks on TED and TEDx, Brené is a highly influential researcher in the fields of vulnerability, shame, emotional resilience and creativity.

In my opinion, Melissa is a very special yoga teacher.

She has a gift for being with you on your journey and connecting with you - via the internet to your home and directly to your heart.

A few of my favourite practices, practitioners and people…

I feel now the rising energies of the sacred feminine. I see this showing up in women reclaiming their power and in men returning to true connection with the Earth.