There is a place inside you that knows how to rest. Not the rest that comes after everything is done, because everything is never done. The rest that lives underneath the noise. Underneath the rushing and the worrying and the endless catching up. The rest your body was built for, before the world got so fast and so loud.

Slow Sunday is a monthly letter for people who are tired of being tired. For the ones whose nervous system has been running on high alert for so long it has forgotten what calm feels like. For those who know, somewhere deep down, that this isn’t how it was supposed to be.

Each month, on a Sunday morning, a letter arrives. Something warm to read with something warm to drink. A little Ayurvedic wisdom for the season. A gentle word for the wild horse of your survival brain. A recipe from the kitchen. A chapter of a story. A glimpse of a valley in the Dordogne where I will one day take my work with people onto the land.

Step into a life of simplicity

Come join me in a world of warmth, optimism and simplicity, as a counterbalance to the daily onslaught of global news. Think of it as joining me in my kitchen around a big table for a cup of something nice. I’m looking forward to passing on everything I’ve been learning about health—how the brain deals with stress, as well as how you can support your well-being in simple ways with nutrition and lifestyle protocols rooted in Ayurveda.

I healed 15 years of digestive issues and related symptoms with Ayurveda in 3 months. The change was so life transforming I and went on to train, working with case studies across 3 years as I trained. I specialise in Ayurvedic nutrition and lifestyle protocols. I also draw upon my hypnotherapy and coaching training to help my clients set and achieve goals, and manage stress and behaviour change. In a nutshell the work I do involves helping people support their metabolic health, and turn stress around.

I’d really love to help you to feel safe and warm as we navigate the challenging times we find ourselves in, through reconnecting with your biological rhythms, living in tune with the seasons and managing the brain so that it doesn’t flip into a stress response—anxiety, depression, anger, negative and obsessive thinking.

To manage stress we need to give our positive neural networks a regular workout, that’s what my Warm Words for Weary Minds are about.

Love…

Love growing food and creating nourishing recipes that are simple and heart-warming, I’m going to be setting up a Peaceful Belly Test Kitchen to share my learning about simple ingredients, recipes I play with and Ayurvedic cooking.

Recipes

Recipes are plant-based with some meat and fish. I use in-season produce, grown myself when possible.

And there’s more!

I will be creating fall asleep stories, yoga nidra and relaxation recordings. Plus I’m on a mission and will share that journey with you, read more about that in this Slow Sunday

What to expect

On Sundays I will send out my Slow Sunday letter to all subscribers with some warm words for weary minds. There will also be posts each month sharing the fiction book I’m writing called The Peaceful Belly Kitchen, articles, and news from the Peaceful Belly Test Kitchen, with extracts for my free subscribers.

Getting to know you

I hope you will comment on posts because I’d love to get to know you, hear your thoughts and ideas, what’s going on in your life, and perhaps one day there will be the opportunity for us to sit around a big table together!

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