For as long as I can remember, holidays have been my escape. 

A pause button.
A place that felt better than my real life.
Somewhere I could breathe, feel lighter, more myself.

When I think about it, I realise this is most definitely a hangover from my teaching days… and come to think of it my own education prior to that!  My life was divided into periods of several weeks spent working before the next holiday arrived, and I constantly found myself counting down, hoping for time to pass quickly so I could finally feel 'free'.

But the thing is, and without realising it, that pattern fully embedded itself and quietly whispered:
“The grass is greener somewhere else.

That has, in turn became a mantra that has ruled every area of my life.

This last holiday showed me something different. 

I thought it would be fun, maybe even meditative. What I didn’t expect was how deeply this experience would mirror the kind of healing work I guide my clients through every day.

Because working with clay?
It demanded everything—my body, my mind, my presence, my patience.
And so does healing.

Here are the lessons that clay gently (and at times not-so-gently) reminded me of—and how they connect to the way we heal, grow, and come back home to ourselves.

This is a kind of grief no one talks about

Grief doesn’t only follow death. Sometimes, grief shows up when the life you thought you’d live slips out of reach.

Maybe you pictured a family that didn’t come, a career that never took off,
a love that never found you, a family life that included a partner to share the load with, a version of yourself you expected to become — and didn’t.

It’s a quiet grief. Often invisible, sometimes even hard to identify by ourselves.  And because it isn’t widely acknowledged, many people push it down or minimize it. They say things like:

“Other people have it worse.”
“I should be grateful for what I have.”
“I should be over it.”

What can you expect in a Root Cause 1:1 session?

We can spend decades retelling a story, yet not getting any further to the Root Cause of what our body is trying to communicate with us.  It is not until we really begin listening and decoding the subtle signals that our body is sending, that we can shed light on what has been buried.