5 tips for avoiding seasonal whelm
We are cantering towards the end of the loooooongest year in the history of forever. For many people the joy of Christmas and all the normality it promises can’t come soon enough. In a dazzling display of “We’re OKAY”ness, I’ve seen more lightup Snowmen, LED Reindeer...
Growing Prosperous Starts With Knowing How It Looks And Feels.
A couple of days ago, I was saw an Instagram post by Leonie Dawson talking about her birthday (you can find out more about Leonie here). She had decided to spend a few hours of her birthday in the library (can't fault her) and the post included a series of photos. The...
Spelunking
Spelunking A client of mine introduced me to the word. It’s a good one huh? Take a guess, what do you think it means? We Brits don’t often hear it over here - instead I think it's called 'pot holing' which sounds like the least romantic way to spend a day! As you may...
What Your Dog Can Teach You About Stress – Lessons From Rabbit
Hello Lovely, Sooooo... we're three months in to living with Rabbit, our Romanian Rescue Dog, and Whoah!!! It's been....exciting. This week I had a useful reminder about dealing with stress. It's a bit of a story, so here's a video, then come back after and I'll...
Degunked & Aligned
I’ve been thinking about where we are now, this shifting semblance of normal. I realised that as my kid becomes more okay with the weirdness I can segue away from being a 24/7 pillar of security and snacks and put my focus back on work a little more (don’t get me...
Pups, parenting & patterns
Here at the house of Ekins' we decided to up the interesting ante and get a puppy. This has always been on the periphery, and now with all this ‘free time’ (ha!) it seemed like the ‘ideal’ moment. (You’ll notice there’s a lot of air quoting going on here...we are at...

Carrie Ekins
Head of the Herd - mentor
As for many of us therapists and healer types, deep in my heart I knew what my calling was, but it was fuzzy in form, so university beckoned and a respectable 2:1 in Bsc (hons) Psychology was the prize. However, this wasn’t the real study of people that I yearned for, Psychology was all words and rhetoric – only leading to a corporate career and a management fast track. So I ran away to learn about the world. My mother always knew I would…