Michelle Garbutt - Holistic Therapist

Michelle Garbutt - Holistic Therapist Hi, I am Michelle, a holistic counsellor & transformation coach and your guide to heart-centredness. Who is Heart-Centredness for? Interested?

💛 A grounded guide supporting your rise from survival mode
💖 Accredited Holistic Counsellor, Coach & Energy Healer
💜 Support for IBD & Autoimmune Warriors
💫 Founder of The Aligned Woman Project
Mentorship | 1:1 sessions | Group Programs | Retreats I believe the key to you living a fulfilling, aligned and calm life lies with what I refer to as Heart-Centredness. It’s a powerful, transformative solution to feelings of overwhelm, stress, emotional outbursts, illness and disconnection. Heart-Centredness allows for the life you desire to transpire. The person who is open-minded, willing to try a holistic approach and some self-exploration. Check out Heart-Centred Living if you are ready to be free from emotional outbursts, disconnection, stress, overwhelm and past experiences. For my IBD-ers Heart-Centred Healing is for you, I will guide you through the steps that took me from feeling controlled, restricted and helpless with IBD to living free from the limitations and anguish of IBD, free to live life on my terms. My work is inspired by my own intuitive journey to help my IBD, I did more than that, I consider myself free from IBD. My results inspire the work I do today. Through my studies and experience I know that heart-centredness is key!

13/09/2026

A luxury meditation and mindfulness retreat by the sea

There are times when you don’t need to push through, try harder or add another thing to your life.

You simply need the space to pause.

To step away from the noise, the responsibilities and the constant stream of things requiring your attention and spend some time nurturing yourself.

This intimate meditation and mindfulness retreat offers you the opportunity to slow down, experience a range of meditation practices and discover how mindfulness can support greater calm in your everyday life.

Held in a beautiful luxury beachside house, it is a peaceful escape designed to help you rest, reconnect and return home feeling calmer, clearer and deeply nurtured.

You don’t need an established meditation practice to attend this retreat.

During the retreat, you will explore simple mindfulness practices and leave with practices you can continue at home.

You don’t need to arrive feeling calm.

You only need to arrive willing to pause.

This is your invitation to step away from the noise and return to yourself; rested, nurtured and carrying a little more calm home with you.

More details and book your spot here: https://www.michellegarbutt.com/retreat/

Spaces are limited to allow space for the calm to arise

Personal post today.This princess pooch has been there from the beginning with my business and before that. Yep she att...
08/09/2026

Personal post today.

This princess pooch has been there from the beginning with my business and before that. Yep she attended my first business photo shoot when I was more focused on fitness.

It is this Princess Pooch's birthday today. She turns 11 and I am pausing for an appreciation post, not she will read it or care. She has had her birthday chickems, a big walk and a bigger nap, that's all that matters to her. 😀

We have been through a lot together, I got her in London and moved back home to Oz with her (no way I was leaving her behind, she was the most expensive thing to move back and I don't regret it).

We have moved houses as well as countries, worked through fear aggression (her not me), completed agility training, 2 operations (her not me), she has been my buddy through IBD flares, watched my business change and adapt as I changed and grew. She has seen all the emotions and brought so many laughs to my life.

Through it all she has been my shadow, right by my side and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Dogs bring a magic to your life, Madam Millie has definitely done that for me.

Happy Birthday Madam!

This memory from a 2016 Facebook post - "As I pause and take stock at the start of my 39th year as I wonder around the h...
31/08/2026

This memory from a 2016 Facebook post - "As I pause and take stock at the start of my 39th year as I wonder around the heath with my furbaby. I'm thankful for the wonderful family and friends that surround me but also I wonder about what improvements I can make for a healthier body, mind and the overall betterment of me and life in general. Action plans are forming and I'm feeling re-energised"

Well if I only knew that the Universe was going to throw me a massive curve ball and show me just what improvements I could make for a healthier body, mind and overall betterment of me!

This post was made about a month & a half before I experienced my worst flare in my 20 years of living with UC. 2 week hospital stay, prednisone not working (IV high dose didn't do a thing), put on biologics (Remicade).

A flare that made me think what can I do to have agency with my health, my disease. Medicine was not working like it used to, I needed to look at other ways to support my disease.

It's when I focused on stress management and what I could do to calm my internal body / environment to support my disease.

Best thing I ever did! Within a year I was living symptom free, in deep remission and off the biologics. Not only had my IBD improved but I felt different inside.

I kept up with the changes I was making, started studying and exploring to understand what had happened, why I had experienced such a shift.

I wanted other people to experience the relief that I felt, the life I got back, the way I felt "normal" again. I didn't want to keep quiet, I wanted other people to know, to experience the same thing as me.

The post reminded me that things can change in an instance. That one experience can start you on a completely different direction. Most importantly why I wanted to get into the work that I do.

It has given me inspiration and motivation. Be prepared to hear more, to be invited to step into something new and more on this topic that gets me excited and a little firey at times.

Yes I miss London, I made a wonderful group of friends, it's more dog friendly, Millie and I walked on the Health numerous times a week and I miss that. But I also love Oz.

Feeling a little spicy with this one today. The question is inspired by a post I saw the other day.My story around this ...
27/08/2026

Feeling a little spicy with this one today. The question is inspired by a post I saw the other day.

My story around this is for the first 20 years of having IBD I was closed off to any ideas or suggestions that didn't come from my medical team. I shut-down those conversations quick. I wasn't even open to the idea, to considering suggestions.

I think for me this came down to:
- being conditioned to think that all the answers lie in modern medicine and closing off anything else
- having UC is scary, unpredictable, there is a level of fear, I was living in a state of alert a lot, i.e more in a state of stress than a state of relaxation
- I was trying to avoid the next flare & wary of anything that might trigger one
- I was living in survival mode, meaning I couldn't be open to more, I didn't have the capacity for more. I wasn't in a position to think about more, so just lets not have those conversations because I didn't have the mental space.

What changed to allow meditation and what followed?
- the worse flare to date in 2016, where prednisone didn't work (even high dose intravenous) and I had to go on biologics

The fear of my condition progressively getting worsen made me think there had to be another way because it looked like my medical options were starting to fail.

I heard the words "stress can impact your disease/cause flares" in my head. Something my doctors had told me previously. A friend had taken up meditation and spoke about how it helped him with stress and I thought ok I will give it a go.

It wasn't easy but I built a regular practice.

Within a year after some tests I was declared in deep remission and came of the biologics.

I am not naive I know the biologics played a role but so did the meditation as it helped allow my body to rest, relax and come into the relaxation response (a space where the body naturally heals itself).

I stayed in deep remission for 7 years and am currently waiting on tests to confirm that I am back in deep remission, I am pretty sure that I am.

Meditation didn't cure my IBD but it did provide support for my illness.

25/08/2026

Step away from the noise, slow down and give yourself the space to simply be.

This retreat has been intentionally designed with space around it.

Alongside guided meditation and mindfulness experiences, there will be time for personal reflection, quiet moments by the beach and individual relaxation.

This is your opportunity to step away from everyday responsibilities and allow yourself to be nurtured.

The Quiet Within Retreat
23–25 October 2026
Werri Beach, NSW
Maximum 10 women

Some things I have noticed as I move through the Quiet Mornings for Calmer Days 14 day challenge. Not so much about the...
23/08/2026

Some things I have noticed as I move through the Quiet Mornings for Calmer Days 14 day challenge. Not so much about the change but what happens now when I don't get my quieter mornings, how it all started and the impact on my days.

One thing I realised is that madam Millie keeps me in check on our walks. In terms of I am present, I don't listen to anything, I am not on my phone (besides to record a little story as we walk, anything longer and she gives me a look). The only time I am on my phone is for urgent stuff, and I mean emergency urgent.

Yes Millie notices the difference in my presence and our connection on our walks. If I am on my phone, she gets annoyed and I can feel the shift in energy.

No I can't listen to podcast or music on our walks. It actually grates on me and my nervous system now. It stops me from being in the present moment, its a distraction and kind of annoying now. I love a podcast and music in the car, when I am working, working out etc but not on a walk.

On the rare mornings when I don't get the chance to meditate, gently stretch and get in some form of movement, my body notices. I am not in the same state of being.

It's interesting how my quiet mornings have such a big impact on my day, my body and my state of being. I love my quiet mornings and the impact they have.

I am so honoured to be able to share these with the woman in the challenge. I can't wait to hear how they feel once the challenge is done.

How do you start your day?

A luxury meditation and mindfulness retreat by the seaThere are times when you don’t need to push through, try harder or...
20/08/2026

A luxury meditation and mindfulness retreat by the sea

There are times when you don’t need to push through, try harder or add another thing to your life.

You simply need the space to pause.

To step away from the noise, the responsibilities and the constant stream of things requiring your attention and spend some time nurturing yourself.

This intimate meditation and mindfulness retreat offers you the opportunity to slow down, experience a range of meditation practices and discover how mindfulness can support greater calm in your everyday life.

Held in a beautiful luxury beachside house, it is a peaceful escape designed to help you rest, reconnect and return home feeling calmer, clearer and deeply nurtured.

You don’t need an established meditation practice to attend this retreat.

During the retreat, you will explore simple mindfulness practices and leave with practices you can continue at home.

You don’t need to arrive feeling calm.

You only need to arrive willing to pause.

This is your invitation to step away from the noise and return to yourself; rested, nurtured and carrying a little more calm home with you.

More details and book your spot here: https://www.michellegarbutt.com/retreat/

Spaces are limited to allow space for the calm to arise.

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Wollongong, NSW

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Saturday 9am - 2pm

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