🌳Winter Roots #1: Finding Your Ground

With a guided meditation, journalling, creative exercise and affirmations

Hi friends,

How are you settling in to 2026? I’m still taking every day one step at a time.

No pressure, no big commitments, no big decisions, no giant goals, very little planning. It’s okay if you’re not ready.

Here in the U.K. we are right in the middle of winter. There’s even been snow and storms here.

I created this Winter Roots series as a gentle ‘mini retreat’ to step into every Sunday morning (I usually post at 8.08am UK time), for the next four weeks. Or whenever you like, it will be waiting for you in your inbox or on your Substack app. There is no rush, you cannot be late. Do as much or as little as you like, to bring some nourishment to your soul in these new days of 2026 and beyond.

This series weaves together guided meditation, embodied enquiry, therapeutic journalling and a creative practices. Designed to feel strength and resilience and grow strong roots for the year ahead.

Let’s ease into the year with strong foundations, and find our ground. This posts includes:

1. Finding ground

2. Guided meditation

3. A creative invitation

4. Gentle therapeutic journalling questions

5. Affirmations and Mantras

Before we can grow roots, we need to find the ground. For all of us, including those carrying trauma, grief, or chronic overwhelm, the sense of having solid ground underneath can feel impossible.

This guided meditation helps you locate what’s stable - even if it’s just this breath, this moment, this body. And there is a beautiful visualisation to give you imagery to strengthen your sense of groundedness today, and as you move through the year.

Feeling the strong ground connects us to what is most real in the present moment, to what is beneath us, all around us, and within us. And having an image to anchor to gives our more spiritual and creative side something to hold on to too.

Grounding is the foundation of all regulation.

Trauma leaves us “up in our heads” or dissociated from the body, often looping in cycles in our mind. Grief can make us feel unmoored. Even feeling tired, lost or overwhelmed can leave us feeling disconnected.

Neuroscience shows that bottom-up regulation (starting in the body,) is more effective, even for trauma, than top-down (thinking your way to calm).

So in our meditation we will bring a sense of deep rootedness, using our nervous system’s natural capacity for regulation, absorbing the experience into our wiring.

Grounding is permission to rest, to be held by what supports us in reality itself, and stop carrying everything alone.

Guided Meditation: Winter Roots

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