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Welcome to my blog, I hope you will discover clear guidance and practical tools within my pages. Whatever you are experiencing - grief, life transitions, stress, or emotional challenges my words are created with your support in mind. Through my experience as a spiritual counsellor and life coach, I offer solace for your healing and transformation every step of your journey.
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Healing from Grief and Loss. Cooking up a grief storm
Take one steamy kitchen window, one fiery oven or hob, a good dollop of sadness and a pinch of come on now grief spice. I have no idea when or how it began, it just seemed to gather momentum and exploded right into my kitchen. It was like Vinted for emotions! I had swapped curling up on the floor howling in pain for stirring, mixing, baking, and chopping like a demon. I was not cooking for me; it was for anyone who might eat it! The huge void in my body didn't seem to want to

ANNI POOLE
Dec 27, 20233 min read


Wintering Your Light
A simple candlelight ceremony to calm busy hearts and remember your wholeness This is the day before Winter Solstice, and the traditional...

ANNI POOLE
Dec 20, 20231 min read


Coping and not coping with the holidays
The sat nav had created so many left turns along a bland dual carriageway lined with lamps and laybys that I nearly missed the final left...

ANNI POOLE
Dec 15, 20233 min read


Grief without Walls
When someone dies there are comforting rituals to support the bereaved family, death is a natural ending for most human beings. When...

ANNI POOLE
Nov 30, 20233 min read


A race for peace before the sun sets on a problematic day.
What does peace really mean to you? If you watch the sun setting with joy in your heart and your fears carefully buried, then you are...

ANNI POOLE
Aug 5, 20222 min read


Springing back into wellbeing
Start the day with kind words for you. Self care is about being aware of who you are BEING in any given moment. The greatest amplifier of...

ANNI POOLE
Mar 25, 20223 min read


Ready For Change? Wellbeing Conference Leeds UK
When life begins to fray at the edges or even fall apart a little, it is a welcome signpost that something is out of alignment somewhere....

ANNI POOLE
Mar 12, 20221 min read


Perfection or intuition?
Perfection or intuition? Who wins the day? Art work by Lucy Campbell Perfection or intuition which do you choose? Perfection, always out...

ANNI POOLE
Jul 29, 20211 min read


Compassion Fatigue in a Pandemic
“Lockdown and the pandemic have clearly shaken the mental health of the caring sector, particularly in education.” Anni Poole talking to...

ANNI POOLE
Jun 25, 20213 min read


Impossible to imagine ?
Art work Garth Laidlaw. Imagination is the wildest and least expensive resource we ever have, it can be painted, shaped, and sculpted,...

ANNI POOLE
Jan 25, 20213 min read


Something greater than sleep?
Thank you to Veema for this beautiful art. It’s a new day, with fresh thinking and renewed hope. What if today you felt amazing . . . ?...

ANNI POOLE
Jan 18, 20212 min read


Simply Being
The search for some THING outside ourselves is over, we can now short circuit the ego's own instant voice of lack, or of telling us we...

ANNI POOLE
Dec 19, 20205 min read


Creating pearls from the grit of life
How do you show up in your life? Are you abundant in your laughter and joys, like an abundant tree with its crown of leaves? Do you seek...

ANNI POOLE
Aug 4, 20202 min read


Understanding Life in 2020
So many changes are occurring across the world and in our own lives, what did they bring? Will the changes be long lasting? For the...

ANNI POOLE
Jul 22, 20202 min read


What do you know of LOVE?
Can you remember that first ever sense of pure love? Mine was aged 10 for a boy in my class, Robert Tate. It was that feeling of utter...

ANNI POOLE
Jul 22, 20202 min read


Grant yourself three wishes.
Can you just imagine the sound of the rainy beach pebbles crunching and rustling beneath your feet, or can you smell the sea drenched...

ANNI POOLE
Jul 22, 20202 min read
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