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Enjoy - and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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Most whiskeys are blended, from several different malts, Johnny Walker is supreme at this, but for me the very best whiskeys are the single malts.

A single malt is a whiskey that is not blended. It comes from a single malt, the mash of a single growth of barley, brewed with the particular spring water of that distillery, and using its own yeast. I like the ones from the Isle of Islay best, especially Bruichladdich and Lafrohaig.

So how am I a single malt? I come from my own family and heritage, I was brewed in that family tradition, I'm authentically me.

That can be a bit challenging for some people, sometimes, but it's what and who I am. And we can all be like that. we can all be our own single malt, not a blend of what other people think we should be. And yes, that will challenge some people. Is that such a bad thing?

I like particular sorts of music, books, food, furnishings, clothes, wine, places to live, all that stuff. I don't follow trends , though sometimes I find I'm actually fashionable LOL.

How do you feel about all that?

Are you - or would you like to be - a single malt too?

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Yes, I hear you! I got to know myself years ago, you say, I don’t need to do it all over again.

Sorry, friend, yes you do. You’re not the same person you were then. Heck, you’re not even the same person you were yesterday let alone back then. We all need to get to know ourselves regularly and the standstill at each Solstice is a great time to do that.

On this third day I headed into core values. We all have them, they’re part of us, they’re actually what make us tick.

So what are mine? What makes me tick. What makes me get up in the morning?

Well I'm a long wooden spoon and I keep stirring cauldrons.

I'm an agitator and a challenger.

So, quite often people don't like what I say … but I've still got to say it anyway.

And yes, even after all this time, even after all the three quarters of a century I've been alive, doing that can still be difficult.

Which of us doesn't like to be loved? Which of us doesn't like to be approved of?

I’d really love to know your thoughts.

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Why Standstill?

Is this woo woo?

No it’s astronomy – not astrology but how the actual Sun – our home star – really works.

Our ancestors knew this. Of course they did, they were hunter-gatherers, they lived by the Sun and the stars. We forgot that as we got “civilized”. It’s way time-and-a-half we started remembering. It makes a huge difference to our whole lives, our instincts, our physical bodies, our feelings and our mindsets. It even affects how and whether we can access our intuition.

Our ancestors could do all that. We’ve forgotten. Let’s remember …

I’d really love to know your thoughts. What gets you up in the morning?

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The Scottish government and Swedish firm, Vattenfall, want to build wind farms there, demolishing the forest and the wildlife habitat in the process.

Wildcat Haven has worked to save the critically endangered Scottish wildcat for the last ten years, establishing a threat free haven covering hundreds of square miles in the remote Scottish Highlands.

At least 13 wildcats live in this forest; that's the largest single population known to exist in the world! It may well represent as much as a third of the surviving population of Scottish Wildcats.

Clashindarroch is publicly owned. Wildcat Haven have been campaigning for its protection since learning that swathes of it are being clear-felled for timber, and planning applications for a vast wind farm site covering a quarter of the forest were first sought. Wildcat Haven is very much pro renewable energy, but of course it must be the right development at the right site. In this case it is not.

This is the story of Finlay. One little Scottish Wildcat kitten who may have saved his sisters and brothers home. It would be wonderful if you can support him too, and the fight to keep his home unmolested.

And his story also shows how one being's sacrifice can change attitudes. And how it can help each of us to stand up for our own core values.

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I always use the 3 days of Standstill as a reflective time and Boy have I got a lot to reflect on this year!

I've spent the past year exploring business in a way I've not done before - like a "normal" business person 🤯. And yes, it has given me a lot of headaches. It's also given me a lot of insights and learning and even some new ways of doing things that I find valuable. That last really helps me as, come November, I was very depressed.

It's all about Being Me.

And helping you Be You is what my business is all about.

Modern life wants so much conformity from all of us - and that is just so bad for our souls! and anything that's bad for your soul is bad for you life, family, relationships and your business.

No, that's very rarely said in the business world. They actually think that's bad for the Great God Profit. And they don't even see that's a fallacy too.

Never mind - Over the Midwinter Season I'll be talking about all this and offering ideas and insights for you to try out to - to help you be more and more You.

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Elen

I took a deep dive into their trenches. Sifted through oceans of so-called wisdom. And guess what? It turned me turgid!

Like that old song, "Killing Me Softly", you know?

I listened - but I knew in my bones: This isn't me. This isn't right. They were subtly stealing my soul. I fought back. Clawed back my essence, did some serious soul-retrieval. And the gurus? They pushed back, hard. "It'll never work," they said. But here's the kicker - I'm here, more "me" than ever.

I'm unapologetically out of step with their chorus.

So I say, stay true to the core, fiery values of your spirit.

Question everything. Every friend. Every boss. Every social more. Every organisation. Every 'expert' whisper. When your gut screams, "No way!" - listen to it. It’s telling you Truth.

Stay wild. Stay awake. Never, ever let them kill you with their song.

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Me? I try to be feline in my approach to being present.

I strive for cat-level awareness. 24/7.

See, cats—and all animals—they don’t clock out of awareness. 🐾

They aren’t juggling past regrets and future anxieties.

They're right here. Right now. In the magical prrrr-sent.

And here's my take—I make it my goal to be the same.

To be fully awake, feeling the chair I'm sitting on.

Listening to the subtle hum of the world around me.

While also being acutely in tune with my inner landscape.

We call it Walking Between the Worlds

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Lots of good stuff there - posts, notes, stories, videos and my podcasts. And news of my latest ventures including an online thing you're really going to love.

See you there ...

Jules and I enjoyed our first chat so much I invited her back again.

Can you Hear nature, the natural world.

I'm sure you can.

But many people are afraid to voice this, to share with others they can communicate with nature. That's getting much better nowadays, people are "coming out" much more, and that's so helping the natural world, the ecosystem and even climate change!

Today, Jules and I share our experiences of talking with animals. times when animals have called to us, we've followed our instincts, our intuition, and gone to be with them. and we each have a story of how we were called to help ...

It goes so deep, that communication with nature. It's real connection ... the real connecting with nature ... where we can hear and respond to nature calling us in a very direct ways.

Both Jules and I have met so many people, in our work, who've had similar experiences. It's so lovely to know more and more people are feeling good about instinctive and intuitive communication.

Have you got a story like ours?

Do share it in the comments, or email us, if you have.

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Joan is the CEO of trybooking, an international company based in the Lake District – how cool is that? What a fabulous place to run your company from!

It’s a super simple-to-use event and ticket booking company – sort of similar to Eventbrite and such, but so much easier to use. And … it has one thing that’s huge for me, a Human Being at the end of the phone!

I’m not the world’s best at using this type of program, and wading through generic how-to docs rarely answers my question. Imagine my delight when I began using trybooking, got in a muddle and discovered there was actually a phone number to call! And then, the phone was answered immediately, and the voice on the other end was a lovely Lancashire lady who asked how she could help me … listened to my problem … and spent the next hour helping me set up my account, the event, the home page, the ticketing, and everything.

Of course, I was hooked.

And that is Joan’s forte. She’s a power-full woman who believes in human beings, customer care, and really helping people. And not just her customers but her staff too. We had a really good chat about teamwork, being part of the team and – and I love this – Delegating Up!

Joan talks about how delegation works best when the staff feel able to delegate up to the boss, where they can take their problem to the boss and know they’ll be heard, listened to and helped. Never put down or belittled. We talked too about how getting all the team involved in finding solutions to challenges really does work, and how listening to and encouraging staff to find new and creative ways to do things can really push the company forward. It inspires the staff too, makes them better and enlarges their skillset. And morale takes off! Not just for the staff but for the managers too.

I love chatting with Joan, she’s had an amazing life which she shares with us here. And so many creative ways of doing business. One of the roles she loves best is being Entrepreneur in Residence at Lancaster University. It’s a great programme to help business students, and the teaching staff. Look it up, it’s very interesting.

Contact Joan at …

Trybooking and LinkedIn

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My passion is helping people tell their story.A

nd I’m not just talking about the pretty and amazing moments. I’m including the bad bits. The challenges. The things that you somehow try to hide and forget.

But you know, those are the ones that truly made you who you are today. And you’re thinking about that moment right now, aren’t you?

So, my question to you today is:

Why aren’t you sharing that with the world?· I

s it because you think it makes you look weak?·

Because people may see you’re not perfect?·

Because it makes you look unprofessional?

But, you know what? It makes you… HUMAN!

And that’s how people connect with you.

How cool is that?

I know you’re ready for this. That’s why I know my upcoming 6-week group programme – Tell Your Story – is perfect for you.

• It begins 6 June

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And there’s an Exclusive follow-up programme for all the participants.

Let’s get Your Story on the road ✍️🦋😎

About if we need to do everything ourselves. Or perhaps it's best to do what makes our own hearts sing and offer jobs we're less good at to others who really enjoy doing them. It's about sharing. About doing what we each do well.

We talk about how animals do this. Wolves are super good at it. In a pack each wolf has her or his own job and they have them because that's what they're good at, not because they're ordered to. Other animals work the same way. They have jobs and they enjoy doing them. We can learn so much from the way animals work.

We also talk about how animals show us when we drop our energy, when we become calm. We've seen how horses will lie down and completely relax I took the retreat participants to visit with my colleagues' rescue horses. When we came, the retreaters were very excited, then we went to visit my friend's stone circle. The horses were stand around watching, all except one who lay down. The retreaters tuned into the circle and their energies slowed down, they became calm and, as they did, all the horses lay down around them.

It's what James French teaches, to calm ourselves and so create a calm atmosphere around us. The horses showed us we'd done that. And we learned from them.

We learned too that we can lower our energy, become calm, that stress and anxiety fall away then, we find we can see clearer, get our perspective back.

We can learn so much by watching and noticing animals. It's part of allowing the wild inside us to speak to us, and learn from that.

Join us next month for more Wild Insides.

Suzy is a multi-award winning networker, Chief Unique Lady, mother, serial divorcee (I so love that!) and after 30 years in IT & Telecoms (which was VERY male dominated) and being the first and only woman on the Board at Rochdale AFC. She’s a fierce campaigner of Women's Empowerment.

Her original one network is now a franchise of 10, with successful IWD (International Women’s Days) and Christmas events under her belt, that are now regular events (and on my calendar!). Suzy is the busy woman who gets things done, but before she does anything, she loves to walk her dog Daisy Doodle, then when she's finished doing, she's usually flying off somewhere exotic as Travel is her other passion.

So come and meet Suzy Orr … she really is Suzy Orrsome!!

To contact Suzy – and join Unique ladies – go to …

www.uniqueladies.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/uniqueladiesnetwork

https://twitter.com/MyChorleycake

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As Lao Tzu said: nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished … We can do that too. Follow Nature’s example – and we feel so, so good when we do. It gives us perspective. Helps us get our priorities right. Gives us back some work/life balance. Spending and giving time to be with Nature lifts the stress off you, the frustrations, fears and worries. Giving yourself time is one of the biggest gifts you can give yourself Y So take some time out … give yourself some Me-Time … take yourself to somewhere you love, where you can be quiet and uninterrupted. Turn your phone off just for this time. Maybe take a snack and a drink with you. Go on this journey … Be still for a moment, and fully present with Nature, in the moment with your Wild Self and with the natural world of which you’re a part. Follow my Soul in Business podcast & Power-Full Women YouTube for regular solo and guest podcasts that can help you Be a Shit Creek Survivor.

We each have a story and Sally shares some of hers here on this podcast. It’s amazing where she’s come from and all of her story has built Sally into the powerhouse brand coach she is now. Hearing Sally’s story helps us connect with her. Stories from her nursing career on a cancer ward for many years and working closely with her patients, getting to know them, and how that was such a privilege. Her family, the love they share, and how they too are a vital part of her story. And Sally’s belief in herself, how she’s grown that, how it all comes together now in her Purpose and how that purpose is what gets her out of bed in the morning!

Connect with Sally Inkster through her website: www.sallyinkster.com

There you’ll find her Dazzle! courses, be able to book 1-2-1 work with her, and read her blog.

I live in the Stretton Hills, an ancient caldera of ex-volcanoes from about 560 million years ago! Fortunately, all the volcanoes have gone to sleep but they’ve left us these beautiful pointy hills and my front window looks out across the valley to one of them, the Caradoc. It's one of Gwyn’s strongholds. Looking out from the cave at the top, I can see my front door!

Gwyn is part of our local legend too, Wild Edric. Edric was a real person – he very nearly beat back William the Conqueror! – and he married a fairy wife. Now he’s said to lead the Wild Hunt as Gwyn’s representative.

This story is about the Wild Hunt …

If you'd like to know more go to my website and Facebook page. And follow my Soul in Business podcast and Power-Full Women Channel for regular solo and guest podcasts that can help you Be a Shit Creek Survivor.

Victoria, a trained journalist, marketer and social media manager and, for almost twenty years she helped expert business owners, coaches and authors reach their goals. Then she experienced the phenomenal impact of podcasts and it became her sole focus, so she took a book marketing course, learned the value of adding podcast guesting to your book marketing mix.

She and her team have booked hundreds of podcast interviews, helping authors, coaches and business owners establish their authority, build their platforms and share their messages with the world. And she’s done this for me too!

Victoria is a co-author of The Most Amazing Marketing Book Ever with Mark Schaefer and Friends (pub. June 2023) which includes 350 strategies to help your business to grow.

Victoria lives in Dorset, England with her husband, two children, two rabbits, a cat and her parents. (It’s a full house.) She’s a lifelong lover of books and proud to be a reader for the prestigious Bridport Prize writing competition.

If you’d like to work with Victoria get in touch with her through her website https://victoriabennion.com/ I can’t recommend working with Victoria too highly 😊

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Robyn is a wild woman and wellbeing alchemist! Brings out the wild and transformational person you are inside.

Together we love inspiring the fire in others, and making the connections between wild nature all around us and ourselves. We love fun, thinking out-of-the-box, paradoxes that seem impossible but are a natural part of the natural world, and we love kindling the fire of connection in everyone.

We’re both businesswomen too, solopreneurs running our own businesses and making a living, we find the wildness inside brings out our creativity … and we want to share that with you.

Spurring people into new and transformative viewpoints that invite and enable them to step into a whole new way of being, liberating them and shifting their wellbeing to a new level, is out passion and joy.

We’ll tell stories, share things that happen to us, show how being wild changes our own lives and businesses and wellbeing for the better. And we’d like to share yours too is you will trust us with them.

We all need to Connect … with each other, with wild nature, and with the Wild Inside.

Subscribe on YouTube – let’s get together every month and share our wild insides 😊

Contact: Elen at www.elensentier.com and Robyn at https://equenergy.com

And both of us on our LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram channels

Looking forward to playing and sharing with you …

Use these links to get in touch with Robyn …

· website: https://equenergy.com

· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Equenergy

· FB group: www.facebook.com/groups/wildwisdomwellbeing/ go here for Robyn’s “Ask me anything …” session once a month.

· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/equenergy/

· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-harris-19730843/

· LinkedIn business: https://www.linkedin.com/company/equenergy/

For Robyn’s new Introduction to MetaConsciousness® - In person and the online event – go to https://www.equenergy.com/OnlineMetaCourse

And for all Robyn’s events

For the other two we talk about in the vlog and podcast …

· In-Joy Your Life - in person & online

· Have we been getting wellbeing all wrong?!

go to https://www.equenergy.com/news-and-events/

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I had a lovely recognition experience last night at the writers’ group I’m a member of. There were 10 of us, all different genres, including poets, and they all liked it, all said immediately they wanted to read more, wanted to know what happened. And three said that although they wouldn’t normally read that genre they loved it too and wanted to know more.

Now, I’m not just crowing because people like my stuff. That’s good. Great in fact. Makes me feel fantastic. I’m talking about it because we ALL need encouragement. Every one of us.

But how often do we get it? And … how often do we GIVE it ???

What do you feel about this?

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We all get these feelings. Know we need to do something. Need to Change. And change is often scary!

So we can procrastinate, look away, the moon’s in the wrong quarter – you know all that! And I’m a real expert at it some of the time … that’s why I’m good at helping you out of that place, stop you dragging your feet, postponing things, dawdling and shilly-shallying 😊

I get the jiggles – I've got them right now. Let me tell you about it ... and why it's a really Good Thing!

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Dr. Valentin specializes in integrative medicine utilizing her training in Nutrition, IV Therapy, Botanical Medicine, Acupuncture, Homeopathy and Pharmaceuticals. She is also trained in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement for women and works with hormone replacement therapy for men.

Dr Lotte Valentin is one of the most wonderfully integrated women I’ve met. Her work crosses boundaries and integrates them. She is an author, regular guest on The Shift Network, evidential psychic medium, medical medium, ancestral healer and international keynote speaker!

Dr. Lotte is also the host of her own podcast Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul, which is currently ranked in the top 10% GLOBALLY out of 2.8 million podcasts. She developed this podcast to help people create a path to healing their own life physically, emotionally and spiritually, and bridge the gap between science and soul. I met her by being her guest in 2023, we gelled, clicked, became friends. Now she is a guest on my podcast. Later in 2023 we intend to do a webinar together.

You can contact Dr Lotte, and register for these great FREE events, at https://drlotte.com/new-page-4

· Ancestral Healing Summit by The Shift Network: 30 Jan –3 Feb 2023

· Live Your Most Evolved Life: 29 Jan – 5 Feb 2023

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Guarding your energy is vital – we all need to spend energy wisely. Lots of folk are talking about this at the moment, probably because too many of us spend the festive season at the beck and call of friends and family … and we try to convince ourselves this is fun!

So few people have practice in how to say “No”. If we don’t take care of ourselves then we’re not that much use in taking care of others … or of doing our jobs! Saying "No" and having good boundaries is a huge part of looking after ourselves and conserving our energy.

My new program – Find Your Voice – is all about how to do that. Learn how to say NO! successfully, how to let go of the guilt and shame, how to say it so other people can hear it well. The program starts 6th Feb 2023, limited to 10 places so you all get plenty of me-time AND you-time, and it’s all live teaching, with homework, sharing and small group work.

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You'll find and tell your own story, find the real, authentic you, with a safe group of like-minded, supportive women.

Who killed Vicki's father? will she find the lover she ran away from ten years ago? And what does the Owl Woman want from her? Everything hurts! too much pain, but Vicki knows she must find the truth. But will it kill her?

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Want to work on this with me? Look out for my NEW 10-week Group Coaching Programme. Give me a call at https://calendly.com/elensentier, let's talk about it, set you up for the New Year

Pagan Pages is an international e-magazine I've been writing for for years, great people, really diverse and inclusive, so give them a listen too when you've checked out the podcast.

Pagan Pages: Helping Give Pagans a Voice for Over a Decade

PaganPages.Org began as an idea for a newsletter in an old Yahoo group. The newsletter was distributed monthly, and contained monthly columns from our many creative writers. Over time, we decided to open the magazine up to other Yahoo groups, and then, to other Pagans on the internet. As we opened it up, we found new authors and creatives to join our team. We had our first public issue of PaganPages.Org in April 2006, and have been releasing the magazine ever since!

This is one of the ways I do it for myself, and one of the ways I offer for clients to do it for themselves too. It's a form of japanese flower arranging ... and it really works to help us unstick ourselves too 😎

This time, it's a story from one of my advanced students ... she posted it this morning and I was so thrilled I asked her if I could use the bones of it for the podcast. Here it is ... enjoy!

So how do we get to trust someone? I'm talking about it this week as it's something I'm working with right now ...

And Victoria said she'd come and be a guest here on Pea Green Boat so we can hear more about her and what got her into podcasting. What this space ...

This is one of my own, built around the old tales of the raven goddess of death and rebirth. In some of the tales she’s also called the Washer at the Ford.

The Washer at the Ford is the raven goddess. She lives with all of us in the Celtic lands, in Britain, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany.

This story comes out of the old Arthurian tales and is my thoughts on what might have happened after he rejected Gwenhwyfar when she went with his best friend. There are many stories of our heroes who don’t die but go to the Isles of the West. The stories say they will come again when their people need them. I live in the middle of another one right now – Wild Edric. Who knows, maybe they will come. The way our world is now we could surely use them!

Anger has its own purpose ... what we need to do is discover what that purpose is. Doing that can be hard and difficult work. I had it beautifully demonstrated to me last week by a client. Her journey into getting close to her anger and beginning to learn what it was there for - and how it had helped her through her life to date - inspired this podcast. Walking with her on this journey, then helping her to go off on her own, and then the privilege of her sharing with me what happened on her first venture to uncover its purpose, showed me new things as well as old.

Clients are such a joy to work with ... I hope you enjoy this journey too.

As well as being Mum gorgeous Sam and wife to Jon, Fay is chief-cook-and-bottle-washer (i.e. staff!) to Maya and Barney, gorgeous cats who love to pounce on the keyboard and chase the cursor; and she's guardian to Bugsey the Bunny. Busy woman!

I really enjoy being with Fay. She sees the funny side of life and her glass is always half full, add in she's practical, down to earth and caring. Like me, she loves to dance round the kitchen when cooking the tea, and sings along with herself too, and like me she makes up her own words as she goes along!

Wow! That's a big one!

So … just where does my shit come from, where does the way I work come from? And why is it so different from many Business Models?

So … what is rewilding your heart all about? It’s about finding your wild heart – often buried deep inside you – reconnecting with it and making that a daily practice.

You’ll find it reconnects you with Nature too. No longer will you have the weird sort of feeling that you and the natural world may be on opposite sides, or even (as some do) that Nature can be your enemy at least some of the time. You’ll discover that connecting with the natural world, through your wild heart, really improves and expands all your relationships, personal and professional, and makes your whole life more comfortable and enjoyable.

I was already half into psychology back then too. My Dance degree had included the Rudolf Laban techniques of understanding, using and working with the Shadow side of body-movement. Understanding the shadow side of what people say with their bodies and noticing how what their bodies say agrees, or disagrees, with their mouths say.

So … what you see is what you get works super-well in ordinary personal relationships too.

I’ve been doing a lot of work on brand, branding and rebranding over the past year, mainly on myself but also with clients so this podcast is a story about that, about what happened to me.

As you know, I'm all about putting the soul back in your business - and putting the soul back in my own business too. I do walk my talk! It required a lot of looking at myself, sorting the bits of my life, my past that had brought me to this Now, to see which bits were past the sell-by date and put them in the compost. It's tough but Oh! it's just so worthwhile! join me on this mini story for more.