May Newsletter: Glimmers and Gentle Growth
May Newsletter – Gentle Growth & Glimmers
Welcome to May; a month where tiny glimmers, small shifts, and soft growth are enough.
There is no rush here, only a space to remember your own rhythm.
Glimmers: A New Lens of Healing
This month, we’re focusing on glimmers. Those quiet, restorative moments that gently return us to a sense of safety and presence.
Where triggers activate our nervous system into defence, glimmers remind us that the world can be soft. They are the opposite of danger; cues of goodness, beauty, and calm.
A glimmer can be:
sunlight warming your skin,
the smell of your favourite meal,
a kind word or smile,
finishing work early,
or simply a moment where your breath deepens and the world softens.
The more we notice glimmers, the more our mind and body learn to trust again.
This month, may you seek glimmers not as a task, but as a quiet remembering: life is still full of light.
What’s Resonating with me: This months choice is ‘And How Does That Make You Feel?’ by Joshua Fletcher.
This month I’ve been reading ‘And How Does That Make You Feel?’ a raw, warm exploration of therapy, growth, and the quiet power of being witnessed.
One reflection that’s stayed with me:
Healing is not a destination — it’s a conversation. A conversation you keep coming back to.
I invite you to see your healing not as a project to fix or perform, but as a gentle conversation with yourself — one you return to with curiosity and care.
Featured Blog Post: What Makes Good Therapy
If you’re wondering what makes a therapeutic space feel safe, real, and empowering, I’ve written a full post exploring exactly that.
Gentle Practice for May: A Glimmer Log
This month’s practice is soft and simple:
A printable “Glimmer Log” to help you gently track moments that bring you warmth, ease, or safety.
There are no goals here, only space to notice what nourishes you.
The Glimmer Log is available exclusively to newsletter subscribers.
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Your Reflection Resource:
May you move gently,
notice what’s soft and true,
follow the glimmers,
and trust that you are exactly where you’re meant to be.
With care,
Preeti
The Healing Practice
June Newsletter: The quiet strength of healing.
It all begins with an idea.
As i reflect on my practice over the last few weeks, I have realised that there’s a kind of strength that rarely gets acknowledged; the strength it takes to keep healing even when it feels messy, slow, or invisible.
Naturally, we all have expectations when it comes to doing ‘healing work’, often this is portrayed as lots of light bulb moments, manageable crying, and everything is done on a relatively quick timeline. Anyone that has been to therapy will tell you, it often looks very different. Healing, which can be described as the process of learning and unlearning, is never a linear process, its cyclical, which means it can be exhausting at times by nature. You return to points that the logical mind responds to by saying ‘i’ve done this already’, ‘i’ve been here before?", ‘when will this stop?’. Sometimes healing isn’t peaceful, it’s actually a combination of very heavy and messy emotions, that can look like some of the following:
Grieving a timeline that never happened.
Waking up anxious and still showing up to work.
Having very little hope that things will change for the better, but still showing up and doing things you know are good for you.
It’s having the courage to say: “I’m angry today” and staying with your body when everything in you wants to leave it.
We often assume healing means being soft, calm, and graceful but real healing often looks like feeling stuck and still choosing not to give up.
If you’re doing this work, the real, raw, tender work of feeling, releasing, and trying again, you’re doing something extraordinary. Even if no one sees it. Even if it doesn’t feel like progress.
🌿 Reminder:
If you are feeling it, you are healing it.
You don’t need to subscribe to an aesthetic of what healed looks like to be healing.
Your healing doesn’t need to look like anyone else’s, it only needs to be yours.
🌬️ A Gentle Breath to Support You
To support your nervous system as you move through the deeper layers of healing, I’ve created a free breath work guide for you; a soft, accessible practice based on coherent breathing.
🌀 [Click here to download the guide]
This breath helps calm your body, regulate your emotions, and return you to a place of quiet inner safety. No timers. No pressure. Just soft presence.
If you are interested in breath work, please do reach out for more information on in person and online classes.
As always take what you need from this and leave the rest.
You’re already healing, even on the days that feel heavy.
And you’re already enough, even in the in-between.
With care,
Preeti
The Healing Practice
