MY JOURNAL

As long as I can remember I had a love hate relationship with food and my body. I remember at 8yrs old on Christmas Day, refusing to come downstairs to join my family because I felt so repulsive and fat. I couldn’t bear to show myself.

About a month ago, I was starting to experience a real feeling of dis-ease in myself and my life. Everything on the outside was looking so good. My work was going really well.

Every now and then I work with people who have done so much emotional work and they eat so well and even exercise regularly. And yet, something isn’t quite flowing… Something doesn’t seem free… so I advise them to go and dance!

A teacher once said to me many years ago, “Nicky, some people come in to our lives for merely a season. Others a lifetime”. These words have stayed in my heart ever since

As my job is essentially to help people come back to their most authentic selves, I see clients time and time again come to a place in their healing journey where they realise they no longer fit doing the work they are doing or be in the jobs they are in.

Wholegrains are an essential and fundamental food for us. Nourishing us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. And yet they are beginning to get a bad name.

January. The month of new beginnings. A new year, new energy and a clean blank canvas of space before us where we could literally create anything. Filled with so much possibility and all so exciting.

I first met Kara Rosen a few years ago when my friend (and now manager Jess) invited her as a guest to my first Evening of Natural Fine Dining Supper Club.

Recently, I’ve had students saying to me ‘Nicky, I’ve been doing this work on myself for one year now, aren’t I nearly finished yet?’ and I have to admit, I can’t help but giggle a little.

What is the one thing we can all do when we need some serious pampering? When we don’t need to go anywhere, plan anything or even wear any clothes! Run the bath, light some candles and ‘me time’ has immediately begun. Well, this is the way I roll anyway!

This is one of my favourite exercises to share. It is so simple and yet can be so hard for many to do. Most of us spend so much time giving to others, taking care of our partners, husbands, children, mothers, fathers and friends. But do we spend enough time taking care of ourselves?

When I was choosing who I wanted to write about as my favourite inspiring person this month, it was an easy choice for me to choose Natasha Kelly, Founder of Tiosk UK.