Awaken Nature Healing

11/10/2026

Autumn Treasure in abundance from a beautiful Horse Chestnut 🍂

11/10/2026

This week I bottled up my Elderberry elixir ready for the coming colder months of the year. The elixirs are made from elderberries gathered from two of my favourite trees, along with other spices, cinnamon and star anise. The honey and brandy combination preserves the liquid and makes it taste amazing.
This is one of the natural remedies I’ll be using to keep my immune system strong throughout the coming months.
Taking just one teaspoon a day helps to do this.

I’ll also be having ginger root tea every day.
If you infuse pieces of ginger into hot water for 15 minutes, they get soft enough to eat. Ginger is incredible for being anti-inflammatory, therefore good for the joints, settling the stomach, and helping you fight colds and flus. It’s also really cheap to buy as well, and really easy to incorporate into daily health routines.

10/10/2026

Peaceful Autumnal vibes at Colby today sharing time with trees and people, enjoying connections while lying on the Earth, looking up at the sky and the trees and the canopies, listening to the birds, along with creating positive affirmations and visualisations, drinking home-made herbal tea, earthing, cleansing away the old, and making beautiful fragranced herb and fruit bags for extra Autumn cosiness.

Thank you to all who joined me today, and for those who are interested, I will be running a Winter Solstice celebration on the 19th of December, full details to be confirmed in the near future 🌞

07/10/2026

First acorn find of the year, well apart from those on the evergreen Holm Oak.
But even then, seems to be that on the whole, the Oak trees are having a year off. These two are the only ones that’ve been made by the Oak that lives in the hedge in my garden.

Carrying an acorn in your pocket or placing one on your windowsill is said to bring luck and protection from lightning, a tradition associated with the Oak trees link to Thor, the Norse god of thunder.
It is also said to bring longevity and abundance.

I will however be leaving these two on the tree. 

07/10/2026

Rosemary flowers are edible, like the leaves, and can be utilised for their soothing benefits.
Try making a tea from them, or infusing the leaves and flowers into an oil to drizzle over salads.
The flowers can also be crystallised and used as a decorative garnish.

06/10/2026

If you’re looking for a beautiful morning connecting with the energies of this gorgeous autumnal season for healing and well-being, join me on the 10th of October at Colby Woodland Gardens for a morning of:

•Celebrating Nature’s Abundance •Grounding/Earthing
•Energy cleansing and alignment
•Meditation
•Warming Orange Spiced tea
•Tree Wisdom
•Making Autumnal themed Herb, Fruit and Spice bags

Valuing the changes that nature goes through in Autumn time, we’ll connect back into our own journey through the yearly cycle, as we fully ground and protect ourselves for the coming months ahead.

We’ll be connecting with the energy of water through visualisation and meditation to create healthy energy flow in the body, and also working with the solar plexus for protection and strengthening.

As part of the morning, we’ll be enjoying some home-made tea and refreshments in a grove of sacred trees, as we reflect on where we are right now and what seasons change brings.

We’ll also be making fragrant herbal fruit and spice bags to take away with us, the scent of which will keep us connected and grounded throughout the Autumn months.

If you’re interested in learning more, or in booking a space, full details can be found in the link below:

https://www.awakennaturehealing.com/workshop/healing-autumn/

or message me at [email protected]

💛

06/10/2026

Absolutely beautiful … you can see why its scientific name ‘quercifolia’ was given to it, because it does kind of look like an oak leaf. But also how I would imagine a hedgehog would look if it turned into a moth!

06/10/2026

Oh wow, I would love to see one of these 😊

The UK birding scene was set alight last Thursday morning when local birdwatcher Hugh Harrop discovered Britain’s fifth-ever sighting of a Siberian blue robin in his garden.

Read more via the link in the comments below.

05/10/2026

Many of us probably associate sloe berries with gin making, which is definitely one of the most popular uses for the berries, which some people also call the fruits of the Blackthorn tree.
Personally, I don’t like gin, but I do really like the Blackthorn, a tree richly steeped in mythology and folklore, and whose berries can be used in other ways if you were so inclined to try them.

If you come across a Blackthorn, some call it a tree, some think of it more as a shrub, it is related to Hawthorn, but it’s thorns are much longer, and while the Hawthorn is much associated with love and healing of the heart, the Blackthorn unfortunately has had some darker tales associated with it. This is mainly because of the use of the thorns to harm others, and its links to warfare.

It’s said in Scotland, winter begins when the ground is struck by the Cailleach, Crone of Death, with her Blackthorn staff.
And the tree is associated with the darker side of witchery, where the long thorns would be fixed to the end of a club to harm others, and witches would go walking with their Blackthorn staffs.

Poor Blackthorn, for it really is a beautiful tree, and has also been used for protection, such as being called upon when one needed a thick hedge of impenetrable thorns to stop a pursuer. Or keep someone out, as in the tale of Sleeping Beauty.

And it is said that time spent with the tree will help to purify and cleanse away negative emotions, so that you can be ready to bring in the new.

Medicinally, Blackthorn has been used for its astringency, the flowers and sloes for helping with upset stomachs, sore throats, inflammation of the mouth and also for purifying the blood. The sloe contains minerals such as calcium and magnesium, and also vitamins C, E, phenols, and antioxidants.

It’s best to harvest the berries later in the autumn, after the first frosts have arrived, and the cold temperatures have helped to soften and make them more flavoursome.

Eaten raw, the sloes are quite astringent and can dry the mouth, hence why they are more commonly used for making into syrups, jams, or for adding flavour to alcohol.

When using them, it’s also best to strain out the seeds as they contain small amounts of amygdalin, and can be toxic.

03/10/2026

The ethereal Porcelain Mushroom manifested abundantly on an old dead tree, now glistening enchantingly in the light