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08/07/2026

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Health and wellbeing walks can be enjoyed in Musselburgh.

05/07/2026

I hear a lot noise around mental health. Messages around speaking up if you have mental health challenges (mental ill-health) and reaching out for support.

It’s positive that this is being spoken about more often and that awareness is building on the topic however mental health effects us all, it’s not just something that happened to someone else. It’s not temporary. The clue is in the word health.

Truly removing the stigma around this subject will only happen when we reach the realisation that we all have mental health needs, as we do physical health. Like our physical health we need to look after our mental health to stay fit and now more than ever we are seeing people in crisis.

We can be in good mental health or not at anytime, often this is closely linked to our circumstances. The amazing news is we do have power around staying mentally fit and learning to cope in a helpful way with what life throws at us.

No one of any age, stance, race or religion is exempt. Life, like it gives us the common cold, will bring us ups and downs, twists and turns, heartache and joy.

When we forget to take notice of the good moments, the perfect fragments of time in an imperfect life that make us smile, we loose all sense of who we are and what we have to be grateful for.

Look out for what makes you smile today, and when the waves come and you feel doubt remind yourself; this is normal, it will pass, it always does.

05/07/2026

Magic happens in my office all the time and I’m so lucky to witness it first hand ☺️

Thank you to all my clients for letting me be part of your journey.

And thank you to you, for being here with me on my page. I hope that there are times when it gives you what you need, challenges your perspective or just simply reminds you that your not alone.

Much love, Gemma x

She has started
to smile when her path is spinning
to laugh when life grabs at her ankles
pulling like dead weight.

She has started
to trust in the ways of the world
to release her hold on what she cannot control
heartache, hurt, change.

She has started
to realise that her body is beautiful,
her mind strong, her feet on steady ground.

She has found
the only thing holding her back
is the doubt in her own mind.

~ Author Unknown

04/07/2026

The truth is the strongest people you know often need your support the most.

They are the ones that won’t freely ask for it, they are the ones that might resist it, the ones that say they are ok and they’ve got this.

Keep showing up, they need you. It takes time, safety, reconditioning and connection to allow these friends to allow themselves to be vulnerable enough to show their hidden pain. Strength, self sufficiency and emotional walls have kept them safe for a very long time but that safety isn’t love and no one can survive without love and connection.

What we project isn’t always what’s underneath.

If you recognise this in yourself remind yourself your doing the best you can the only way you know how. Awareness is step one, you might not be able to let people in straight away but your one step closer than you were before you recognised this is how you cope.

“The problem when you are a strong, capable, self-confident person, is that more often than not, people think that you don't really need things like comfort, reassurance, loyalty and guidance.

People are more likely to look at you and say, "She doesn't need this"
"She doesn't need that"
“She's already all of this and all of that".

But then the truth is that most probably, you are a strong, capable, self-confident person because vou built yourself brick-by-brick into that person; because you HAD to BECOME that person; because you had determination enough to make yourself into the image that you knew you needed to become.

At the heart of many strong, confident people, is a heart most longing of the things that most others simply take for granted.”

C. JoyBell C.
www.raisingvibrations.com.au

04/07/2026

Functional; simple or complex 🤔

In a world where pretty much anything can be excused by a culture that weighs functionality as a key measure, many of us have become programmed to just keep going.

But what if it was ok to say I’ve reached my limit, this is too heavy to keep carrying?

The benefit of being functional is it allows us to lie to ourself, we mask and excuse. We think it feels better, we are getting stuff done. That can only be good right?

It can look like unhelpful coping and addiction; but I still hold down a job, pay for a house, show up for my kids.

It can look like being stuck in a functional state of trauma, internally falling apart at the seams and yet smiling outwardly and accomplishing what needs to be done.

High functioning can mask insecurity, emotional turmoil, and depression.

It can sound like I show up, say the things I’m expected to, do the things I need to and then I go home and shut down because I’ve used every ounce of what I have.

It can be working so hard professionally, personally or for others that it’s all consuming or keeping yourself so busy that there is no space left to feel or face anything else, who wants to feel those feelings anyway right…

Functioning provides an escape, it’s a way to avoid what feels uncomfortable.

But eventually you will need to put it down, it will burn you out and the ways you’ve been coping - sometimes for years - just won’t work anymore.

The truth, what you’ve been avoiding is still there. Allow yourself some space to acknowledge yourself, feel the feelings. It’s ok to face it, you’ll be ok.

23/06/2026

Don't wait to be ready. Spoiler - you'll never be ready. Life is happening now. Don't be afraid to live it.

Love and be loved.
Get it wrong,
make mistakes more often.

Pay attention to what feels safe and what excites you, do that.

If you want it, go for it and if you have to chase it let it go.

If you can lean into the process you will find you are right where you need to be xx