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Emily | Release • Reconnect • Remember

A journey of rekindling ✨
Honest reflections on self abandonment, health & healing
For women over 40
1:1 sessions & support available here 👇

I realised this morning that it all starts with being grateful for the small things.If you are so distracted by your cur...
25/07/2026

I realised this morning that it all starts with being grateful for the small things.

If you are so distracted by your current situation, or something that happens, you’ll miss the little magic and miracles showing up for you.

Yesterday my mum asked me to pop into hers on my way past. When I got there she had two large tubs of natural Greek yogurt. My mum is tube fed and hasn’t eaten since 2018, so they were definitely not on her shopping order. Somehow they arrived in her grocery bags anyway. And she gifted them to me.

I had run out of kefir and natural yogurt the day before and thought, oh well, I’ve had a good few days of choosing a healthy breakfast for myself but it’ll have to wait until next week’s shopping budget.

Well. Not any more 😊

And I couldn’t be happier or more grateful, because I’ve been doing so well at choosing me, choosing to eat nourishing foods, knowing my self worth and now I’ve been gifted almost another weeks supply!

Here’s what hit me.

You cannot ask the universe to shower you with abundance (in all areas, not just wealth) if you are coming from a place of no self worth. The message you are giving out is that you are not worthy of receiving it.

And if you are so distracted that you can’t see the beauty, the magic, the miracles in the smallest of moments and be grateful, you are pushing it away. By constantly focusing on what isn’t enough or being ungrateful. By allowing something external to suck you into its drama and chaos so completely that you miss what you’ve just been given.

If you cannot hold and receive two tubs of yogurt, how on earth do you expect to hold millions? 😂

I’ve been restructuring everything.Letting one business go. Health issues. Separation. Giving up work and going onto ben...
24/07/2026

I’ve been restructuring everything.

Letting one business go. Health issues. Separation. Giving up work and going onto benefits. Becoming a single mum. It’s all happened in recent months and I’ve had to step back, regroup and figure out what comes next.

I started creating and then I got to pricing and the tears started pouring down my face.

What about the women just like me?

The ones who couldn’t afford to pay for a session even if they wanted to. The ones who wouldn’t even entertain the idea because it feels so far out of reach it’s not worth the heartbreak of wanting it in the first place.

I’ve read so much about high achievers who collapse and burn out. But what about the women who undervalue themselves? The ones whose trauma, conditioning and limiting beliefs led them to feel small, insignificant, incapable.

Still playing the role of caretaker, people pleaser, fixer, with the added weight of surviving the cost of living in low paid jobs or on benefits.

Not because they’re lazy. Not because they’re incapable.

Because life led to this. Because ill health led to this.
Because having a huge heart and always choosing others at your own detriment led to this.

I see you. I know you. I am you.

There’s a huge demographic that goes under the radar, that needs support just as much as anyone else, that nobody is building for.

I’m going to reach you. Somehow.

It’s still possible to choose yourself. Change is possible, but you have to want it, believe it’s possible and commit to taking small steps every day.

No one else can do that part for you.
But you don’t have to do it alone.

The Rekindle Reset app is completely free and always will be. And I’m back offering in-person sessions, which can be purchased as a gift for someone who would benefit.

You deserve this. Even if you don’t believe it yet.

Much love,
Emily ###

I’m a single mum on benefits with an autoimmune disease and chronic illness and no idea how I’m going to cover my bills ...
22/07/2026

I’m a single mum on benefits with an autoimmune disease and chronic illness and no idea how I’m going to cover my bills this month, but I’m still going to choose this.

It would be so easy to let it swamp me right now, to cave in, shut down, reach for whatever is easiest and cheapest and requires the least of me. I won’t pretend the thought hasn’t crossed my mind. But that only takes me back into the loop, and I’m trying to break the pattern.

So here’s what I’m doing instead: I’m going to find the cheapest supermarket, buy the freshest fruit and veg I can afford. Because eating well doesn’t have to mean expensive, and being short on money doesn’t mean I have to be short on nourishment too. It just means I have to be more clever and intentional about it.

This is how far I’ve come in the last year. A version of me not so long ago would have used every single one of those circumstances (the health issues, the finances, the single parenting) as reasons to give up, letting all of it become evidence that change wasn’t possible for me right now, that this was all I was worth, that there was no point trying to aim higher. Now I see it differently.

You have a choice, always, and not always an easy one or an obvious one, but there is always a next step, always a way through, always something you can choose that moves you toward where you want to be rather than away from it.

You can move with it and through it, and who knows what is on the other side, but giving up on yourself is not an option.

The decision comes first, and the how figures itself out after.

I’ve got this and so do you ❤️

Much love,
Emily ###

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Here it is. Your permission slip.The garden will still be there tomorrow. The washing up will get done eventually. And t...
21/07/2026

Here it is. Your permission slip.

The garden will still be there tomorrow.
The washing up will get done eventually.
And the dining table, well, that’s this week’s project.

One of the hardest lessons of this whole journey has been learning to ask for help and actually accept it. I’ve always been the homemaker, the dog mum, the full time worker, the one who holds it all together for everyone else.

When my health declined, all of that became a struggle, and going easier on myself did not come naturally.

But after an honest conversation with my kids, some things have changed. They’re old enough. It’s actually good for them to contribute rather than be waited on hand and foot.

So Gruff is finishing the garden at some point this week, Louie has a small pile of washing up with his name on it, and I get to sit at the dining table and work through the mess at my own pace.

It will all get done.
Just not all by me, and not all today.

If you needed permission to let some things slide or accept help, this is it.

Much love,
Emily 🌱🌿🌸

That moment when you realise you even self abandon when doing the shopping list.“So long as the kids have everything the...
20/07/2026

That moment when you realise you even self abandon when doing the shopping list.

“So long as the kids have everything they need.”
“I’ll just eat this, it’ll be fine.”
“I don’t need anything.”

I had this realisation yesterday doing my online shop. I went through the whole order making sure everyone else was covered and then got to the end and there was nothing in there for me.

Not one thing I actually wanted or needed for my own health and recovery.

And I thought, if I’m serious about this, if I’m genuinely committing to prioritising my own health and wellbeing, I have to start somewhere.

Even if that somewhere is just putting myself on the shopping list.

It sounds small. It isn’t.

Because self abandonment doesn’t only show up in the big moments. It shows up in the everyday, invisible, automatic ones. The ones you don’t even notice because they’ve always just been what you do.

Noticing is where it starts.

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Something I wish someone had said to me sooner.You don’t have to figure this out alone.Not the exhaustion that doesn’t h...
19/07/2026

Something I wish someone had said to me sooner.

You don’t have to figure this out alone.

Not the exhaustion that doesn’t have a name.

Not the patterns you keep falling back into no matter how hard you try.

Not the quiet sense that something needs to change but you don’t know where to start or whether you even have the energy to start at all.

So many of the women who find their way to the Rekindle Reset app tell me the same thing. That they’d been carrying it quietly for years. That they’d tried things and stopped. That they felt like they should be further along by now, or that other people had it worse so who were they to need support.

I see you in that.
I’ve been in that.

This app exists because I needed something that would meet me on the days I had nothing left. Something that didn’t ask me to show up perfectly or commit to an hour of self-care I didn’t have. Something that simply said, come back when you feel called.

If you’ve been meaning to download it and haven’t yet, today is a gentle nudge.

Not a push. Just a hand reaching out.

Comment REKINDLE below and I’ll send you the link. It’s free to start and it lives right on your home screen so it’s there when you need it most.

Small resets, gently repeated, become a new way of being ✨

Much love,
Emily ###

For most of my life I put everyone else first. It was my natural instinct, just what I automatically did, how I was cond...
18/07/2026

For most of my life I put everyone else first.

It was my natural instinct, just what I automatically did, how I was conditioned to function, the right way to be, with no real awareness or question. And for a long time my body quietly absorbed it all until it couldn’t anymore.

I’m not saying my autoimmune disease, my chronic fatigue, chronic pain and brain fog are purely the result of a lifetime of self abandonment, but I’m also not dismissing that possibility.

The research consistently points in that direction and it’s resonating in a way the alternative never has. Being told it’s unexplainable, that human cells just sometimes attack themselves with no reason why, has never sat right with me.

When we consistently override our own signals, abandon our own needs and live in a permanent state of giving without replenishing, the body eventually finds a way to make us stop. It stores what the mind won’t acknowledge. It speaks what we’ve never been given permission to say. It actually bloody ends up screaming at us.

Bessel Van Der Kolk wrote The Body Keeps The Score. Gabor Maté wrote When The Body Says No. There are hundreds of clinicians, authors and ordinary people whose stories point to the same thing, and then there’s me, my story, my body that made me stop and listen.

I’m learning, slowly and imperfectly, what it actually means to come first. Not in a selfish way, because self care is not selfish, but in a way that feels foreign and right all at the same time.

I’m done with self abandonment, done with suppressing my voice and my emotions, and done with coming last on my own list.

When your back is up against the wall, it’s time to start listening.

I’m still in the middle of my own healing.I don’t have a neat recovery story to share yet. No “and then everything chang...
17/07/2026

I’m still in the middle of my own healing.

I don’t have a neat recovery story to share yet. No “and then everything changed” moment. Just the ongoing, messy, nonlinear reality of learning to listen to my body when everything in me has been conditioned to push through.

But somewhere in the middle of it I realised I needed something to hold me between the deeper work. Something that met me exactly where I was on a Tuesday night at 11pm when everything felt heavy.

So I built the Rekindle Reset app. Not from a place of having it figured out, but from a place of being right in it and needing something real.

I’m actually committing to using it daily myself now. Properly. Because I know what’s in there works, and it’s time I fully lived it, not just built it.

If you’re somewhere in the middle of your own unravelling too, not out the other side yet but open to the possibility that there’s another way, this was made for exactly that moment.

Comment REKINDLE below and I’ll send you the link.

Much love,
Emily 🌱🌿🌸

Some days my body makes the decision for me.Today is one of those days. I overdid it, again, and now I’m horizontal, fru...
15/07/2026

Some days my body makes the decision for me.

Today is one of those days. I overdid it, again, and now I’m horizontal, frustrated, and having a very honest conversation with myself about the gap between what I know and what I actually do.

I know rest is productive.

I know the housework will be there tomorrow.

I know pushing through only makes it worse and costs me more days than if I’d just stopped when I first felt it coming.

And yet.

There’s always something that needs doing. The kids, the pets, the house, the thing I told myself I’d finally get done today. The guilt of stopping when the world around you keeps moving is its own kind of exhausting.

So here I am, learning, slowly and imperfectly, to actually listen to my body and surrender instead of just knowing I should.

This is the work too.

Not just the healing practices, the nature walks, the meditations, the energy sessions, the nervous system regulation.

This.

The moment you choose yourself even when every part of you is arguing against it.

You surrender and unapologetically rest.

I’m not quite there yet. But I’m closer than I was.

If you’re somewhere in this today, you’re not alone.

Rest where you can. Unapologetically.

Much love,
Emily ###

13/07/2026

Out for my morning walk before it gets too hot and somewhere between the aching hips and the fresh air I caught myself holding my breath.

My old dance teacher used to say it to me all the time. Breathe, Emily.

And then my mind went to childbirth. Because the one thing we’re universally taught when we’re in the most intense pain of our lives is to breathe with it, through it, not against it.
I’ve given birth naturally twice using breathwork. My body already knows how to do this.

So now I’m walking and breathing deliberately and if you happen to pass me on the path, I promise I’m not going into labour. 😂

The body holds so much when we forget to breathe. Pain tightens. Tension builds. And somewhere along the way we just... stop noticing.

Today’s reminder, from my hips to yours: breathe.

Much love,
Emily ### 🌿

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