Alleluia! We are still here to tell the tale, and what a tale it will be!  How will you be describing these past 15 months to the generation that aren’t here yet?

Thankfully we have survived what has undoubtedly been the most unprecedented period in human history.  While the projected death rates in March 2020 did not materalise (thank God), the stress and fear levels that everybody had to endure were off the graph.  Never before has this level of fear been experienced simultaneously by every citizen of every country in the world.  As the fear levels decline, this is the time when each of us needs to be super vigilant about our health.

From a biological perspective, when we are in “fight or flight” mode our bodies produce a host of hormones to keep us on high alert to help us survive, these hormones (steroids) downplay our immune system, as it gives priority to our vital functions of Respiration, Circulation etc.

Basically, non-essential body maintenance is ignored, but this must be dealt with as some point in the future-which for most of us is NOW!

This is why we often “get sick” on our holidays, or why people who have worked at stressful jobs for decades die a few months after they retire (their maintenance list was simply too long!). From a Health and Well-being point of view it is ESSENTIAL that we take extra special care of ourselves over the coming months, especially around learning to re-calibrate our stress response.

To help with this, I am delighted to re-start the wonderful SOUL SPA DAYS, at our beautiful setting in Murroe, if you would like more details please email

Most of you will be very used to me bleeting on about the value of Reiki as a self-care tool, but I have to say, Reiki really came of age over the past 15 months, those of us blessed to have taken Reiki Level one class (just one class of 3 hours), were able to manage our stress levels, by ourselves, in the comfort of our own homes-who could have guessed that we would be confined to our home en-mass for so long!

It has always been my favourite class to teach, and I encourage those of you who do not have this amazing self-empowering tool to please take a training asap-it will literally change your internal world, and that will give you the stamina to deal with whatever is going on in the external world.  Please get in touch, I am happy to explain what it entails and how it works and if you would like to take the training with another Reiki Master-Teacher, I would be happy to recommend any of the 30 Reiki Masters I have taught over the past 16 years.

My next Reiki Level One training is Monday 14th June 10am to 1pm, let me know if you are interested in this class, or if another day/time suits you, as I teach this class regularly.

In the meantime, be mindful of the choices you make on a daily basis as things start to open up again, and ensure that you are choosing plenty of self-care activities.  If we do the well-being work this summer, it will be “money in the bank” when the winter health challenges return as they always have done, for centuries.

Another tool that has been of tremendous benefit over the years, but again “came of age”, is my cartoon book that explains Stress and how to manage it, Stress Free Solutions to Becoming Stress Free is available from any online bookstore, or via the amazon link on my website.  I think the physical book is more effective, but perhaps that just me being old-fashioned, (I like to turn pages!), the e-version is also available for download from online bookstores. Anna’s online store/

As always I am happy to be of service, in person, online or via the online 60 second panic solution, just pop me an email and Ill get back to you within a couple of days,

I have gone from looooving my job to appreciating my role with a whole new level of gratitude,

sending you tonnes of love & light

Anna