Welcome to the Dare to Blossom Newsletter
Gift service: still time to orderReflections: Freedom
"Becoming You" - Taster circles and a new programme for 2026
Monthly Dare to Blossom Zoom circles
Season's greetings to you however you are celebrating at this time of year. Thank you for being with me throughout 2025, and I hope you will choose to journey with me over the next twelve months.
Gift service: still time to order
If you are looking for gift ideas, and you are in the UK, there is still time to order cards, books or art work direct from me. I can gift wrap and send direct to the person you wish to receive the gift, with a note from you. Or if you are seeing the person over Christmas I can send to you of course.
Each deck of cards (there are five to choose from) is £16, plus shipping, and there is a saving on postage cost for multiple purchases
Signed and dedicated copies of my most recent book Your Compass Rose Speaks: Rediscover Your Inner Wisdom are also £16, plus postage. The book and one of the Rediscovery Cards decks together make a wonderful gift for someone special.
I have a selection of encaustic art paintings in stock, the photos here are small so contact me for a larger image if you would like to see any more clearly. The regular price is £48, but I am extending the November 'birthday month sale' a little longer, so £24 for you. The mount size is 6"x8", painting 4"x6"
Reflections: Freedom
My first response is 'ooh...' at the brightness of the colour, the only one in this shade across the whole year.
If you would like to join me in reflection, ask yourself the questions here, and write in your journal. Or, if you prefer, read on and come back later.
- What is your first response?
- To the word? To the colour?
- What else is there?
- And, what else?
- What is your response to the words together? How do all the colours connect?
What else is there?
My life has so much freedom compared with others around the world. Do I appreciate it?
And, what else?
I am not sure just now what else may arise with this word, and the vibrant yellow. And - that is fine. I do not need to have an answer for every question. And nor do you - 'I don't know.' is an answer by itself.
What is your response to all the words together? How do the colours connect?
This year's spread of cards has been fascinating to me. The way the colours have flowed, right from the beginning with Ease and Rest being the same colour in the centre, sometimes blending with each other, sometimes jumping out, as Daring and Freedom do.
I would love to hear your reflections if you feel like sharing them. Also - would you like me to repeat this next year? Or is it time for something new? Just hit 'Reply' to let me know.
"Becoming You" - Taster circles and a new programme for 2026
The first run of the new format that arrived with me as an inspiration from - wherever those things appear in my mind - and became the True Essence eight week programme has been a truly wonderful and extraordinary experience.
The two extra weeks brought us spaciousness and time to connect more deeply with each other, and with our own inner wisdom. Now I am planning another eight week programme to open 2026: "Becoming You".
Unbecoming and Becoming will be the titles of the two extra weeks. Unbecoming after the week for East – Passion and Potential, an opportunity to let go, to choose which aspects to keep hold of and which to let slip away. The other extra week will follow Power, the South, where we remember nature’s powers and step into the power that is arising in us – and into Becoming what we now wish to be. A new year feels a perfect time to be letting go of the old, to focus on the most vital things in life just now.
The title of the programme is 'Becoming You' - simply signifying the next version of yourself that you will be choosing to step into. Unlike traditional New Year's Resolutions, which for me can feel forced and impossible to keep, I invite you to join me in a gentle exploration.
The word ‘unbecoming’ makes me smile. The sense of something being unbecoming in a rather traditional, old-fashioned sense of the word, as in unbecoming behaviour not being right or proper in polite society, not appropriate.
And, for me, that does fit too – sometimes I do not wish to be bound by those definitions of what is appropriate, maybe I want to become something quite different, to behave in ways not expected of the 73 years I have lived in this life. Another way of looking at 'growing old disgracefully' perhaps?
If you have not experienced one of my programmes before, I would like to reassure you that there is no pressure. No assignments, or challenges or deadlines. No expectations of any particular outcome. And perhaps paradoxically, people tell me they experience profound insights and transformations during these programmes.
So – this is where I am with this just now – more clarification will follow as I begin to write the descriptions for each of the eight weeks. The start date will be Monday 2nd February, with a private Facebook group opening the weekend before. There will be taster circles, on Tuesdays 2nd and 16th December, 13th January, and 20th January, all at 2.30 pm UK time. I am also offering a tasters at 11.00 am on Wednesdays 10th December, and 14th January.
The fee is £224 for the eight weeks - and I know that the post-Christmas bills are a challenge and budgets are stretched, so there will be an easy-payment schedule if this would help you, along with the usual discount for anyone who has participated in previous programmes, and some discretionary rate places for those who would love to join us but do not have the funds just now.. Basically - if you know this is right for you, we can find a way to make it work financially for both of us, so do not hesitate to ask for a private chat to discuss.
Please do contact me if you have any thoughts on this programme or have any questions - and do come along to one or more of the taster sessions. There is absolutely no pressure to sign up, simply an invitation to spend a gentle hour together in a small group and experience a little of the magic we create together in the in-depth programmes.
Monthly Dare to Blossom Zoom circles
The next Saturday Circle is at 11.00 am (UK time) on Saturday 6th December. Contact me to book, find the event on Facebook, or simply ask me for the Zoom link.
The dates for next year are on the website here. The first of 2026 is on Saturday 10th January at 11.00 am.
Thank you for joining me here this month, any thoughts, feedback, or questions are always welcome.
