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“I will cut adrift
I will sit on pavements
And drink coffee
I will dream;
I will take my mind
Out of its iron cage
And let it swim
This fine October.”
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~ Virginia Woolf : 📷 Unknown

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“We are born into bodies
That are fluid and free...
Rhythm, breath,
Music and movement
Become tools of seeing
And then freeing the habits
That hold us back.
When we move our bodies
Then our hearts begin to open,
When the body and the heart
Taste freedom
The mind won’t be far behind.”
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~ Gabrielle Roth : 📷 Andrey Stanko

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“I am made for Autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Wooly jumpers, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. The moody hues and subdued palette punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye.”
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~ Alys Fowler : 📷 Unknown

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“I have been busy finding calm. It sounds crazy, I know. But it is a full time position and it pays so well. I have sorted through the things that bring me peace and the things that disrupt it. I have spent hours just doing what I love. Or loving what I do. I drink tea now. Slowly. And I can almost feel it hug me as it wanders down my chest and fills my lungs with the kind of breath that is thankful. I say hello to people walking by. I wave from a distance like a schoolgirl through the windowpane. I watch the rain. As it glides and shimmers and slides across pavement. I wonder at how the sun paints her light upon my wall. And how she always seems to do it as I’m just about to fall. Casting down anchors wherever I am called to be silent and trust the waters. And I have been busy growing things like my heart. And my hope. And my treasure above. And learning the difference between joy and happiness. So if you cannot find me for a while, I have been busy. Finding calm. It sounds crazy, I know.”
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~ Ullie Kaye : 📷 Laura Wencker
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I was certainly busy finding calm during my time away and yes it did include drinking welcomed cups of tea after returning from long walks out in the stunning Derbyshire and Yorkshire countryside.
I hope you have all been keeping well and have been enjoying the gentle delights of September.
Sarah 🍂🫖 xx

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“This strangely
Still pause
Between summer
And autumn,
Greenery and gold,
And the heat
And rising wind
That is once again
Readying itself
To rush it all away
In a climactic symphony
Of colour and scent
Is in my opinion,
One of the best parts
About living on earth.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown
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I know I am not alone in my love for this special time of year - the energy, the quality of the light, the gentleness, the anticipation of new things coming…….
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For all of the above reasons, this is why I love taking a holiday in early September and I’m looking forward to spending nourishing time in the Derbyshire Peaks and the Yorkshire Dales.
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I wish you all a wonderful new month. Enjoy this time of transition and shall be back here when it is officially Autumn.
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Love Sarah 🧡xxx

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“In order to
Sort out the chaos
And complications
And confusions,
We must come back
To the simplest thing
We do know.
What feels like
Nourishment?
Begin with That.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown
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Wishing everyone enjoying the August Bank Holiday next Monday a nourishing long weekend. I shall be back here the week after that.
With love Sarah 🤍xx

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“Do not try to serve
The whole world
Or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
A clearing
In the dense forest
Of your life
And wait there
Patiently,
Until the song
That is yours alone to sing
Falls into your open cupped hands
And you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
How to give yourself
To the world
So worthy of rescue.”
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~ Martha Postlethwaite : 📷 Francesco Mastalia

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“Stillness is an act of rebellion. It is activism against a culture that has perpetuated speed, productivity, perfectionism and results, at all costs. ‘Just’ being still and quiet with ourselves is an act of rebellion against the things that make us miserable, sick, exhausted and broken. Stillness is a way of rewilding ourselves. Of shaking free of the ‘civilized’ cultural constructs that keep us from our inner knowing, our inner wisdom and our inherent wholeness. All the ‘doing’ in the world doesn’t do that. Just ‘being’ is the thing that frees us.”
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~ Caitlin Cady : 📷 Unknown

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“If you are circling around the same lesson, that doesn’t mean you haven’t healed or progressed. It probably means that you are trying to access a new level, a new paradigm, a new experience of life. Healing is not an arrival, a destination. The same lesson might come up over and over, to strengthen the muscle of not being limited by it. Your healing is in the freedom of letting life be what it is—not controlling every aspect of life to fit a narrow definition of what you imagine it ‘should’ be. Healing is knowing you will not abandon yourself any longer. Healing is trusting that you won’t create new stories about what is or isn’t possible for you based on external circumstances. Healing was never going to be a destination. It’s a constant becoming, and unfolding. It’s your ability to be alive to all of your life. To be present to it all. To exist without needing an escape hatch. Healing was never about arriving, but about continually freeing yourself to be in your life while you’re in it. What a gift.”
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~ Jamie Varon : 📷 Unknown

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“We need to stop seeing life in such strict binaries. It was a success or a failure. It was good or it was bad. Life so often lives in the unexplainable. How do you measure an experience when that experience will have inevitably pushed you, made you grow, taught you something invaluable about yourself? How do you compare one unique life to another? What if success is you trying and honoring yourself on a daily basis? What if you don’t have to be a household name to feel you have made a difference in the lives of others? What if you felt significant simply because you exist and are here? Your ambitions can be big or small. I believe the only real risk of failure is failing to ever listen within and find what is true and still and honest there. Everything else is information. Everything else is your life, full of lessons and growth and moments of backtrack followed by moments of easy forward momentum. Failing to hear yourself, getting to know yourself, and becoming aware of yourself is the only real risk. Get outside the binaries. They don’t define you. You define you.”
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~ Jamie Varon : 📷 Unknown

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“Sometimes you must realize
That your perception
Is simply past pain
Overshadowing the view.
Old traumas create
Clouds over lands
You now cannot see clearly.
Rest your eyes.
The past is not the present.
Begin from your breath.
There is light. There is light.
You don’t have to remain stuck
In stories of old storms
When it is now a new morning.”
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~ Victoria Erickson : 📷 Unknown

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“Don’t give up on yourself. Ever. Believe in change. Believe in fresh starts. Believe that an hour, a month, a year can change anything and everything. Believe in a transformation. A breakthrough. A breakdown leading to a breakthrough. Keep healing and growing, not so you can be a ‘better’ version of yourself, but so you can be a freer version of yourself. Free yourself from limits, and limiting beliefs, and limited personal narratives. Believe that you can change your story, see your past through a new filter, let go, and find yourself in a future full of magic and synchronicities and right places, right time. Let go of plans, control, grasping, clenching. Sometimes you have to let life lead you. Sometimes you have to take a deep inhale, a big exhale, and admit to yourself that you still have hope. Don’t let the world harden you, try as it will to do so. Believe in you. Start within. Free yourself. Listen to yourself. Honour yourself. Let that still voice within be the guiding light for a while. Exhale.”
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~ Jamie Varon : 📷 Unknown