17/08/2026
A little flashback to paddle boarding on the Welsh coast last month. The sea for me is where I feel most connected with nature.
Chinese medicine views us as at one with nature, woven into it.
Our bodies respond to light and dark, warmth and cold, activity and rest. We move through cycles too. We grow, change, need nourishment, need rest, and sometimes need to let things go.
I love this idea because it feels like such a contrast to the way we’re often encouraged to live, constantly switched on, constantly consuming, constantly trying to keep up.
Nature doesn’t really work like that.
Late summer feels like a lovely reminder of this. Things are still full and abundant, but there’s also a subtle sense of change beginning.
So perhaps this season is an invitation to spend a little more time outside, put the phone down, and notice what it feels like to actually inhabit your body and your surroundings.
Not as another thing to achieve.
Just as a way of remembering that we’re part of something bigger than the little screen in our hands.
