My approach to Reflexology
My approach to Reflexology encompasses the whole of my healing tool kit. If it's an off the peg, bog standard Reflexology Treatment that you are after, then you'll be very disappointed! Reiki, Plant Medicine, Shamanic Healing, you will always get the healing you need....
Plant Spirit Medicine
There is much more to Plant Medicine than reaching for a Herbal tincture, salve, infusion or capsules from the Health Food store. By using the approach of Plant Spirit Medicine and tuning into the spirit of the plant you can receive a deeper, truly holistic and more...
How can Reflexology help you?
Not only does Reflexology work brilliantly as a preventative medicine but Reflexology can help you by treating many minor health problems and irritations like back pain, head-aches, hormone imbalance, insomnia, self-confidence, digestive issues and pain management....
Words from a Faery
As I was journaling yesterday a Faery Forest Princess strolled onto my pages, read these Faery words to hear what she has to say: I've been hiding a long time, a very long time because the human business has just been ticking along, running away with itself, running...
Sacred Space
What is Sacred Space? Our lives are full of sacred spaces. When you hear the words "Sacred Space" you may instantly think of ancient sites, large cathedrals, mysterious stone circles, Buddhist temples, elaborate Mosques and other symbols of religious worship. Or...
Reflexology and Reiki in Innerleithen and Peebles
Update 2021 Sorry! I am no longer able to offer Reflexology and Reiki in Innerleithen and Peebles! It's now possible to work with me at my home near Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. So please do not read the text below, it's no longer valid! All of my treatments will be...
Favourite summer meditations to help you thrive and keep your cool
Yay the sun is out! (sometimes) and it's a joy to be out and about feeling the warmth on our skin. Here are my favourite summer meditations to enhance mindfulness at this special but often action packed time of year. 1) Go barefoot Well not all the time... Next time...
Why Meditate?
If you are now expecting to read a list of health enhancing benefits answering the why meditate question, then you will be disappointed. Save that for Google and all the other meditation and mindfulness sites. These days there is so much neuroscience research going on...
Happy New Year: UPDATE from Scotland
I'm a little late with my Happy New Year wishes but it's still January, so hope it's going OK now that the fun of all the festivities have past. No doubt everyone is in DETOX mode so keep going on your health kick and keep up those resolutions (or are they...
Tips to Help Us Thrive in Uncertainty
So to say that things in my life right now are uncertain is quite the understatement. I'm temporarily staying with family, having sold my home, packed up my business and moved countries... with no real plan for the next step. Err, sometimes we are compelled to take...
Crikey what have we done?
Right so, those who follow Oliver Farm Botanicals and are fans of our teas, flowers and herbal products will know all this already, but just in case you hadn't heard we have gone and done the unthinkable. We have sold the farm... Crikey what have we done? I could put...
oh just get on and do it!
It's just so easy to put off doing things isn't it? And even more so when you have left something for so long that it just seems embarrassing to even mention it. Like that phone call to a friend you have been meaning to make and have left is so long that far too much...