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05/08/2025

I'll be taking a break from Instagram for a while as I am off adventuring with my family this August.

In my subscription, The Wild Enchantment Club, we are exploring sinking into the sense of touch during this abundant, sensuous month. Come and join us for £7.50/month (link in bio).

May your late summer days be filled with love, rest and aliveness.

I'll be back towards September as I launch my signature programme, Rewild Your Soul where we go deep into our local landscapes re-enmeshing ourselves with our inner and outer wild.

And don't forget to sign up to my FREE Autumn Equinox workshop as part of the Rewild Your Soul launch: The Call Of The Wild - From Longing to Belonging where you will:

,🌿Understand why you feel uprooted from the land.
🌿Learn a mud inspired practice to come home to the wild.

Comment on the workshop post in my grid for the link.

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16/06/2025

What can wildflowers teach us about adornment?

Each wildflower in the meadow is specialised to attract a different insect with scent, colour (visible and UV), humidity, electrostatic fields and flowering times.

A meadow supports insects throughout the summer as each perfectly imperfect flower blooms at different times; a mutually beneficial dance between plant and pollinator.

What if each of us have a different way of adorning ourselves in a way that supports us in the way that we want to be seen and understood and celebrates our precious lives on this Earth?

Adorning ourselves in way that shows our love for our world?

Explore all this in my upcoming ☀️Summer Solstice Wildflower Gathering on 20 June 2025, 1-2pm BST, by joining my subscription The Wild Enchantment Club.🌙🌿

During this gathering we will:

🌼Get to know a local wildflower through wild journalling techniques

🌼Learn facts and stories about Britain's wildflowers

🌼Consider the imperfect beauty of wildflowers and our own imperfect beauty

🌼Create a wildflower crown to adorn ourselves in celebration of the Summer Solstice.

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🌿Comment 'wildflower' for the link to sign up for £7.50/month.

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Together, we'll reorient our precious attention toward wonder and joy.

27/01/2025

In an age of AI and fake news the act of putting pen to paper and making marks of your experience and response to place matters. It is healing work.

As we type out emails or make diagrams on PowerPoint /Canva the physicality of paper, ink and making marks in response to once specific place and time brings something to life - a remembering that we have agency, we can tell stories, we can create.

I'm working on a NEW wild journalling course where in 10 days you'll get started making marks with and in response to nature. I imagine it as your Book of Enchantment filled with spells that conjure the physical, tangible wild back into your being.

Comment 'wild' for the waitlist link. 🌿

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These A6 drawings are from a larger collection I am building as I walk through and experience local wooded areas through the seasons. Sometimes I prepare the paper before, tinting it with ink made from Oak Gall or Beetroot. I use black gel pens and pencil to make the marks. On the back I mark the time, place and a small note of what I noticed.

Each A6 card represents an brief experience and interaction with the wood.

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16/12/2024

Look North on a clear night, wild one ✨

There in the darkness—an ethereal haze of green and pink light, so transparent you might doubt your eyes... until you see it move, dancing across the stars. The Northern Lights are calling telling stories of the ocean of sky above us and the myths of our ancestors.

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In this week's Solstice Advent episode of Your Wildly Enchanted Life, we're chasing aurora stories: from the scientific poetry of solar flares traveling millions of miles to paint our sky, to ancient tales of fire foxes running so fast their tails sparked the heavens.

It's been a long held dream of mine to see the Northern Lights and this year I watched an almost-there ethereal green-pink glow from my garden! (see the first picture). My research about the aurora borealis has given that experience and even deeper meaning which I share in the episode.

Did you know we're in a peak of solar activity? The magnificent aurora borealis displays of light we're seeing even in Southern England are because billions of tons of hot plasma are being hurled from the Sun at 2 million miles per hour and meeting Earth's protective atmosphere and magnetic field creating a cosmic dance.

In this episode join me to discover:

🌟 Why 2025 might be your best chance to see the aurora

🌟 What gives the lights their ethereal colors

🌟 Stories of celestial weddings and heavenly warriors

Listen to 'Your Wildly Enchanted Life' on Substack and Spotify 🎧

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20/11/2024

Because filling your life with beauty, wonder and magic is also resistance.

It can be so easy to let world events tip us into endless despair and grief.

While we need to feel these feelings - they are an outpouring of our love - let is also set our compass towards a wildly enchanted world.

The Wild Enchantment Club is coming...

Share something that brought you wonder in the comments.

02/10/2024

Playing with mud, bark, leaves and moss by the old Oak tree.

I noticed its leaves are slightly elongated and pointed compare to the English Oak.

Excited by these experiments. Wild journalling as art practice.

09/09/2024

I loved chatting with Alissa about weaving awe and wonder into daily life, including our homes. I also touched on a couple of things I haven't spoken much about before:

🎻 The joy of playing music, how music and the land are interlinked and how my violin is a voice of the trees and woodland from whi h it is made.

💔 The miscarriage my husband and I experienced in May 2023 and how my relationship with nature is crucial in creating ritual and rembrance for our little one on the brink of being.

Find The English Homemaker podcast on all good podcast platforms.

Already listened? Let me know what stayed with you the most in the comments.

27/06/2024

Late spring-early summer in my wild nature journal.

I am getting more and more interested in playfully collaborating WITH nature in my journal pages rather than accurately portraying what I observe (which can often lead to crippling perfectionism) .

I'm thinking of calling this collaborative type of nature journalling wild journalling.

We are nature so it makes sense to me that our journals are literally made together with the land and life around us.

These pages are a mix of both detailed observations and collaborations with nature:

Page 1. Bumblebee path as it feeds on Poppies in my garden. Page shows red painted poppy flowers with black lines tracing the path of the bee.

Page 2. Snails in our garden. I loved noticing the colours on their shells.Page shows 2 paintings of garden snails with notes.

Page 3. Hover fly path as it feeds on Nigella in my garden. Page shows pencil path of hover fly on painted blue nigella flowers.

Page 4. This spring I spent time getting to know the Blue T**s nesting in our garden and learned that 40% of Blue tit nests have eggs sires by different male to the one tending to the nest and chicks! Page shows a painting of a blue tit standing at the edge of a nest.

How do you feel about nature journalling? Is it something you want to try? What holds you back from starting?

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