Here it is, the first official entry in my own blog for my personal website. Tecassia our independent publishing house also has a blog for all things reading writing, author mindset, and publishing where both Camilla Fellas Arnold my business partner and I share anything you need to get yourself writing and your book published and out in the world.
Why am I starting a blog
When I considered beginning to write and share things, share my thoughts, and expertise after 20 years as a multidisciplinary holistic practitioner, my journey, my own writing, and writing coaching professionally. I considered regular blogging vs sharing on social media. The idea of blogging regularly felt so much easier. I noticed a significant difference in the response of my nervous system; I could breathe deeper and easier than when I considered the idea of sharing my work via social media organically. As blogging felt more aligned, it became an easy choice, even if I still need to build the habit.
My previous attempts to write
I might as well be honest from the start; historically, I have never really got going with blogging in the past; despite me being old enough to remember life before social media when blogs were how you did share your ideas. Blogging always felt like something I had to do as part of marketing, and as soon as we “have to” do anything, our subconscious immediately ensures we do anything but. Any time I did begin a post, I would get 500 words in at best and then sometimes freeze for months at a time. The thought of writing on a regular basis used to barely cross my mind before my throat would close, even two years ago, when I attended a workshop that Camilla was running called Art Healing the Inner Child, I had a migraine inside the first five minutes.
Since I met Camilla after covid in April 2020, I have been talking about books and writing and publishing more with her, and I began to see how I needed to do some healing work in this area. I settled myself to offer the mindset work for authors or do the operations and logistical side of the business. I never saw myself as a writer or an author.
Healing my relationship to reading
Over the last year, with perseverance and patience, using the different holistic tools I have trained in over the years, including homoeopathy (I’m currently a homoeopathy student as I write this) in order to heal my reaction to the PTSD and release the trauma around the cardiac arrest that I had at 17 years old. I began to read for pleasure again in a way I haven’t done since I was a teenager.
When I was young, I loved books and was a prolific reader as a child; actually, I wanted to be Matilda and read all the books in the library; I had an aunt whose friend worked at Collins publishers, and so every birthday and Christmas, I was given up to a dozen new or recently published books which kept me going for quite a bit of the year. I remember having a my own lightweight blue typewriter to type my stories on.
After my heart attack at 17, I stopped reading for pleasure because I was meant to be reading my texts for college; I also didn’t take my drama GCSE, forwards to a drama A level. The result was I lost access to creativity and stories for pleasure in all sorts of ways all at once, and I never read or wrote again and only dabbled in drama classes years later for about 3 months. All this time, I have missed it like an ache in my soul, the reading, the writing, the stories, and the storytelling and the drama – all of it.
As I did the inner work to deeply heal my PTSD I am less frozen and afraid and I am finding that my reading for pleasure has also returned organically. I have been reading a book a week on average since October 2025, and I am loving it all over again.
What am I going to blog about.
The same thing is now occurring with my writing, my journaling, both non-fiction and my own fiction series; they are all beginning to flow, which is why it is time to begin to start this blog and share all sorts and regular updates both here and in my newsletter. Feel free to subscribe to stay in touch.
Going forward, I will be using my blog to write about all these different strands of my life, all things holistic, sharing my expertise, and also things I have become interested in on my own personal journey or use with my clients.
These include: coaching and subconscious mindset work. Holistic therapies, energy medicine, and healing generally. More specifically, Kinesiology, Chinese 5 Elements, Acupuncture Meridians, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Emotional Freedom Technique is sometimes known as tapping.
Epigenetics and Transforming DNA Memories, Vibrational tools like Sound Essences, and Homoeopathy, including looking at different remedies, what they are used for, and how they help people heal.
I will also be writing about how the Chinese Five elements and Celtic wheel of the year anything that might be occurring with moon cycles or astrology as it impacts our lives and our year. (although the astrology is more on a personal level, not professional)
I will also write about the divine feminine journey, including the different Goddesses I work with, Lilith, Mary Magdalene, Quan Yin, and Hecate
I will also be writing about all things reading, writing, writing coaching, author mindset, and publishing for those who are interested in any of this content are you will find content both here and on Tecassia website.
I look forward to sharing more of what I’m up to in future blogs and my regular newsletter feel free to subscribe here. If there is anything that has peaked your interest that you would like me to write more about, feel free to get in touch, and I will happily elaborate or deep dive on another entry of the blog.
Love Emily x