A Positive Touch

A Positive Touch Reflexologist, Reiki MasterTeacher, student of Naturopathy and Nutrition, Nurse BSc.

Empowering women from menarche to menopause 💫Helping you reclaim balance & well-being naturally 🌸
🌿 Reflexology | Fertility | Womens Health, Holistic Healing

I love nature, and it’s alchemy! This little jar was simply a jar of tiny bright yellow St John’s wort flowers and fract...
09/06/2026

I love nature, and it’s alchemy!
This little jar was simply a jar of tiny bright yellow St John’s wort flowers and fractionated coconut oil, until a quiet but spectacular kind of alchemy occurred.

Harvested at its peak, the bright yellow flowers are slowly infused in oil, under sunlight. Over time, the oil shifts into that distinctive deep ruby red tone, a sign of the plant’s constituents being drawn out and carried into a form the body can readily work with.

This particular infusion has been gently sieved and is ready for its next stage … becoming a balm. Turning it from liquid to solid, it will be combined with local bees wax to create something for daily use, while still holding all of that plant-based intelligence within it.

Traditionally, St John’s Wort oil is used externally to support:

🌿nerve-related discomfort and sensitivity
🌿muscular tension and everyday aches
🌿areas of inflammation or irritation
🌿skin that feels overworked or unsettled

There is something important in this kind of preparation. Nothing is rushed, nothing is forced. It’s just time, light, and steady extraction. The kind of process that works with nature, not against it.

✨A gentle reminder: this is for external use only, and it can increase sensitivity to sunlight in some individuals, so mindful use around sun exposure is important.

Simple ingredients. Proper process. Real respect for what the natural world offers.

Big love ❤️

With it being a wet rainy day I decided to crack on with the studying Now, I am very aware of chemicals in our every day...
06/06/2026

With it being a wet rainy day I decided to crack on with the studying

Now, I am very aware of chemicals in our every day life. As many of you know that visit me for fertility, or other women’s health reasons.

Even I have had my eyes opened today … they keep going on about fertility rates dropping, early menopause, increase in PMOS, developmental issues in neonates & children, neurological diseases, respiratory diseases, metabolic diseases, cancers and so much more all increasing.

They fail to tell you about the chemical soup you are living in and how it’s being allowed.

Yes they might ( if you are lucky) have already researched the chemical, that you are applying to your skin several times a day or washing your clothes in, and they may have even put a limited daily exposure on it, to “ get away” with it being “safe.” But what they don’t tell you is that safety barrier they have created does not take in cumulative use of you using it daily for months and layering it with other products.

Then there’s the multiple chemicals in use that have no testing, and you can be using those in the same way without even knowing.

We layer these on our skin and our hair, they sit on our skin in our clothing, they come up against mucous membranes, we breathe them in, we ingest them, they go straight to our bloodstream and lymphatic system and course around our body creating a silent mayhem - disrupting hormones, signalling systems, enzyme action, whole body systems and more ….

They know it happens, they know the consequences… yet it continues.

Please advocate for yourself and your family.
And please remember just because something states it has nice botanical ingredients ( it may well have) it could still contain harmful chemical ingredients - please read your labels and be mindful of what you put on and against your skin, what you clean your home with, as well as what you eat and drink

We really are living in a chemical soup

🦋 The Butterfly Doesn’t Become a Butterfly Overnight 🦋Sometimes, in midlife, there comes a moment of awakening.A moment ...
04/06/2026

🦋 The Butterfly Doesn’t Become a Butterfly Overnight 🦋

Sometimes, in midlife, there comes a moment of awakening.

A moment when you realise you’ve spent years caring for everyone else.

Being the good daughter.
The supportive partner.
The devoted mother.
The dependable friend.
The one who always copes.
The one who always gives.

And somewhere along the way, you lost sight of yourself.

Not all at once.
Slowly.
Quietly.
Almost without noticing.

Until one day, you wake up and realise you’re no longer sure what you need, what you want, or even who you are beneath all the roles you’ve been carrying.

If this is where you find yourself, know this:

You are not lost.

You are remembering.

Like the butterfly, there comes a time when staying in the cocoon becomes more uncomfortable than emerging.

The cocoon can feel safe.

Inside it, you don’t have to be seen.

You don’t have to risk disappointing anyone.
You don’t have to speak your truth.
You don’t have to ask for what you need.
You don’t have to take up space.

For many women, the cocoon isn’t made of silk.

It’s made of years of people-pleasing.
Of staying small.
Of putting everyone else’s needs before your own.
Of believing that being needed was the same as being valued.

You learn to fly under the radar.

You become so good at caring for everyone else that nobody notices you’re disappearing.

Perhaps you don’t notice either.

Until one day, something stirs.

A quiet voice that says:

“There must be more than this.”

Not more to do.
Not more to achieve.

More of you.

The woman beneath the responsibilities.
The dreams beneath the expectations.
The voice beneath the silence.

Perhaps this season of life isn’t about becoming someone new.

Perhaps it’s about returning to the woman you were always meant to be.

Emerging isn’t about becoming someone else.

It’s about having the courage to be seen.

To stop hiding your gifts.
To stop shrinking your needs.
To stop believing that your worth is measured by what you do for others.

The butterfly doesn’t emerge because she’s ready.

She emerges because she can no longer remain inside the cocoon.

So today, take a moment for yourself.

Place a hand on your heart.

Close your eyes.

Breathe.

Tune into your own wisdom, your own intuition, the quiet voice that has been patiently waiting beneath the noise of everyday life.

And ask yourself:

✨ What part of me has been patiently waiting to be heard?

Sit with whatever arises.

No judgement.
No fixing.
No rushing.

Just listen.

Your soul has always known the way.

🦋 Midlife is not an ending.

It is a homecoming.

It is a remembering.

It is the season in which the butterfly finally unfolds her wings.

Big love ❤️

Many women choose Reiki to help them relax, restore balance, and reconnect with themselves during times of change.Whethe...
03/06/2026

Many women choose Reiki to help them relax, restore balance, and reconnect with themselves during times of change.

Whether you are seeking relaxation, emotional support, energetic alignment, or simply an hour to nurture yourself, Reiki offers a gentle opportunity to slow down, tune in, and create space for renewal.

Healing does not always mean fixing something that is broken. Sometimes it is simply about giving yourself permission to rest, receive, and return to your natural state of being.

✨ 1st June – Halfway Through the Year ✨I don’t know how we’re here already… but somehow, it’s June.Halfway through the y...
01/06/2026

✨ 1st June – Halfway Through the Year ✨

I don’t know how we’re here already… but somehow, it’s June.

Halfway through the year.

Since COVID, a lot of people say time doesn’t feel the same anymore. Life feels full, fast, and a bit blurred around the edges at times.

One thing Reiki always brings me back to is this ..
you don’t find yourself in the noise. You find yourself in the pause.

When we slow down for even a moment, we start to hear what’s actually going on underneath everything else.

And I really believe this… your soul wants to guide you.
Not loudly. Not forcefully.
More like a quiet knowing, you can easily miss if you’re in too much of a hurry.

So today, just take a moment for you.

Sit somewhere quiet if you can.
Place one hand on your heart.
And just breathe for a few moments.

Ask yourself:
🌿 How are you, really?
🌿 What’s been sitting heavy for you?
🌿 What do you need more of right now?

Stay with it for a moment. Don’t rush past the answers. Let your intuition come forward …gently, honestly, and without pressure.

Then ask yourself softly:

✨ What feels like the right next step for me?

No need to fix everything. No need to have it all figured out. Just listen.

✨Sending Reiki to whoever needs a bit of calm, grounding, and space to feel more like
themselves today.

Big love ❤️

For a very long time, I stayed quiet about Reiki. Coming from a clinical background, I was cautious about speaking openl...
26/05/2026

For a very long time, I stayed quiet about Reiki. Coming from a clinical background, I was cautious about speaking openly about energy work because I know it can be misunderstood. But over the years, through both personal experience and working with clients, I’ve seen how deeply powerful simple energetic support, relaxation, and nervous system regulation can be.

Reiki isn’t about magic or fixing people, for me, it’s about creating space for the body and mind to soften, rebalance, and heal. Reiki works on the understanding that everything in the body carries energy …. every cell, every organ, every emotion, every thought. We are not just physical beings; we are energetic beings too.

Our bodies constantly communicate through electrical impulses, magnetic fields, hormones, vibration, and frequency. When our energy is flowing freely, we feel calmer, clearer, lighter, emotionally balanced, and more connected to ourselves and our environment.

Over time, stress, trauma, grief, fear, illness, emotional suppression, exhaustion, and even constant overstimulation can create energetic congestion within the body. These “blockages” are not always something we can physically see, but we feel them. They show up as tension, anxiety, emotional heaviness, fatigue, brain fog, disrupted sleep, pain, or a feeling of being disconnected from ourselves. The body tightens in response to stress, and the nervous system moves into survival mode.

Reiki gently supports the body back into a state of balance. It is not about forcing or fixing; it’s about allowing. During Reiki, the body often shifts from a stressed sympathetic state into a parasympathetic state … the body’s natural healing and restorative mode.
As the nervous system relaxes, breathing deepens, muscles soften, and the body no longer feels the need to “hold on” so tightly.

When energetic blockages begin to release, people often describe feeling lighter, warmer, calmer, emotional, peaceful, more expansive or deeply relaxed. This is because stagnant energy starts to move again.

Our vibration is influenced by everything we experience:

🌿our thoughts
🌿emotions
🌿environment
🌿stress levels
🌿relationships
🌿nutrition
🌿sleep
🌿self-worth
🌿and the energy we surround ourselves with

Higher vibration does not mean being “happy all the time.” It means the body and energy field are functioning in greater harmony and coherence. Emotions such as love, gratitude, compassion, calmness, purpose, and connection tend to create a lighter energetic state within the body, while chronic fear, anger, shame, overwhelm, or emotional suppression can feel heavier and denser energetically.

People often notice that after Reiki they feel more grounded, emotionally clearer, and more able to cope. Their energy feels softer rather than depleted. Others around them can often sense this shift too … even without words.

Animals are incredibly sensitive to energy because they do not rely on language in the same way humans do. They respond to frequency, nervous system regulation, intention, and emotional safety. Animals often instinctively move towards people with calm, balanced energy and will avoid chaotic, dysregulated or heavy energy. They can hear changes in tone, feel tension in the body, and sense emotional states long before words are spoken.

This is why animals will often settle beside someone who is calm and energetically grounded. It’s also why our voice changes when our energy changes. When we are relaxed and regulated, our tone naturally softens, slows, and carries safety. Both humans and animals respond to this instinctively.

Reiki reminds the body of what balance feels like. It creates space for the body, mind, and energy to breathe again … not by adding something unnatural, but by supporting the body back towards its own innate ability to heal, to regulate, and restore itself.

It’s simply beautiful

Menopause has a way of stripping things back to bare truth.The masks. The people-pleasing. The pressure to stay small, q...
20/05/2026

Menopause has a way of stripping things back to bare truth.
The masks. The people-pleasing. The pressure to stay small, quiet, agreeable.
At this stage of life, many women begin remembering who they were before the world told them who to be.

And maybe that’s why sisterhood matters more than ever during this phase.

As women, we are connected through something ancient and deeply intelligent … our cycles, our intuition, our bodies, our stories. From first bleed to motherhood, heartbreak, healing, loss, rebirth, and menopause… we carry wisdom that cannot be taught from a textbook alone.

Menopause is not the end of our power.
It is often the return of it.

This season asks us to gather differently.
Less competition.
Less comparison.
Less “mean girl” energy disguised as banter, gossip, jealousy, or exclusion.

More honesty.
More compassion.
More women reminding other women who they are.

Because the truth is … life has humbled every one of us in some way. We all know what it feels like to be judged, overlooked, unsupported, exhausted, hormonal, grieving parts of ourselves, or trying to hold everything together while quietly falling apart.

So my circle is becoming a place of softness and strength.
A place where women are safe to evolve.
Safe to age.
Safe to speak.
Safe to rest.
Safe to rise.

No mean girl energy allowed here.
We are too grown, too wise, and too connected for that.

Menopause teaches us that energy matters.
And I choose women who heal, encourage, uplift, and remember that we were never meant to do this alone.

✨ The nervous system calms in safe company.
✨ Healing deepens in supportive spaces.
✨ Women thrive when women stop tearing each other apart.

So, here’s to the women who remember their power, honour their wisdom, and rise together instead of competing, because when women truly support each other, generations heal. 🌿✨

So now we have “menopause body wash.” 🙃Yes, menopausal skin can absolutely become:drier, thinner, more sensitive, and it...
19/05/2026

So now we have “menopause body wash.” 🙃

Yes, menopausal skin can absolutely become:
drier, thinner, more sensitive, and itchier

Hormonal changes affect the skin barrier, collagen and hydration levels. That part is real.

But here’s my question…

Why are so many menopause-branded products still packed with:
📌fragrance
📌foaming surfactants
📌preservatives
📌unnecessary additives

…when sensitive menopausal skin often needs the opposite?

Personally, I’d rather see:
✔ a gentle sulphate-free wash for the body
✔ minimal ingredients
✔ fragrance-free skincare
✔ protecting the skin barrier
✔ hydration and nutrition support from within

And for intimate skin? Often less is more. Warm water, gentle emollients or simple natural oils (if tolerated) can be kinder than heavily fragranced “feminine” products.

Not everything with “menopause” printed on the label is revolutionary care.

Sometimes it’s just standard skincare wrapped in menopause marketing.

Women deserve proper support, education and evidence-based care, not simply another demographic to sell products to.

What do you think 🤔 a helpful innovation or clever rebranding? 👀

What a truly beautiful day we shared at our Menopause Workshop at the stunning Forbes of Kingennie. The sunshine appeare...
18/05/2026

What a truly beautiful day we shared at our Menopause Workshop at the stunning Forbes of Kingennie. The sunshine appeared for us, creating the perfect setting for a day of learning, connection, reflection and restoration. ☀️✨

Together, we explored so much more than menopause itself. We talked about how our hormones have been communicating with us cycle after cycle since puberty, and how menopause is not simply about the reproductive system … it is a whole-body, whole-mind transition.

We discussed how every system within the body is deeply connected, and how women’s bodies operate very differently from male bodies because of the constant ebb, flow and shifting nature of our hormonal system throughout life.

We explored the three major hormonal transition points in a woman’s life and the profound impact these shifts can have physically, emotionally and mentally. We also spoke about what to be mindful of health-wise during and after menopause, and how we can nurture and support ourselves moving into this next phase of life.

The day was beautifully layered with wisdom and self-care:
✨ Understanding skin changes during menopause from both emotional and Chinese Medicine perspectives
✨ Learning why the products we use matter✨ A guided reflexology facial routine for home use, along with lovely products to take away
✨ Exploring the body’s 7 main chakras and what they can represent during menopause
✨ Strength-building yoga demonstrations
✨ A deeply restorative yoga nidra, meditation and gorgeous sound bath experience

And of course, time to simply sit, chat, laugh and connect over lunch with a wonderful group of women.

To every woman who attended …

✨Thank you✨

Thank you for showing up for yourselves, for your openness, your honesty and for trusting us to hold this space and provide an informative and supportive day. We appreciate each and every one of you so much. 💛

A heartfelt thank you also to this beautiful first collaboration together.

With big love ❤️

Tracey, Alexandra & Elaine ✨ #

Today, a client asked me a really important question after being diagnosed with depression during peri-menopause.She sha...
13/05/2026

Today, a client asked me a really important question after being diagnosed with depression during peri-menopause.

She shared that she had also experienced postnatal depression after each of her children and wondered:
“Could there be a link?”

I can completely understand why she would make that connection and interestingly, research suggests there may be something in it.

We are learning more about how some women may be particularly sensitive to hormonal changes during key stages of life, including:
✨ Postpartum
✨ Perimenopause
✨ Menopause

Studies have found that women who have experienced postnatal depression may have a higher likelihood of experiencing depression again during perimenopause or menopause. However this does not mean it will happen to everyone, nor does it mean menopause will automatically be “worse,” but it may suggest a greater sensitivity to hormonal fluctuation and nervous system stress.

Of course, menopause is never just about hormones alone.

Menopause can be deeply layered with sleep disruption, stress, emotional load, caring responsibilities, burnout, nutritional status, previous mental health history, and life changes, all of which can have a significant impact too.

What’s important is that women know they are not imagining it, they are not failing and they are not alone.

So many women struggle silently with:
• Anxiety
• Low mood
• Brain fog
• Irritability
• Feeling emotionally overwhelmed
• Loss of confidence
• Exhaustion

Yet often put it down to “just getting older.”

The more we talk openly about hormonal and emotional health across a woman’s lifespan, the more supported, understood and safe women will feel.

And perhaps most importantly:
A history of postnatal depression does not define someone’s menopause journey, but it can give us valuable insight into how we can support women earlier, more compassionately, and more holistically.

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