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Heather Dawn Godfrey P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon)   Gifts of nature, the healing qualities of plants range from physical to ethereal; we are inextricably connected to earths’ web of life.   ….you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the sea can find their prayer in your heart. Kahlil Gibran   We […]

 Heather Dawn: Godfrey. P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon)   It is over two years since COVID-19 hit the world stage.  In spite of the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was downgraded and officially acknowledged by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UK Government (19th March 2020) as NOT being a ‘high consequence infectious disease‘, draconian measures to […]

Heather Dawn: Godfrey. P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon)   COVID-19 ‘swept the world’ into a frenzy of alarm last year. So much so that governments around the globe unilaterally sanctioned, ‘post-haste’, emergency lockdown (an unfortunate prison term) (Gieske 2020), social behavioural dictates (which include self isolation, distancing, mask wearing, and who how and when person to […]

My new book, Healing with Essential Oils, provides detailed insight of 58 essential oils, and includes insight about how these oils evolve within the plant and the roles they play, the various methods of extraction, also the chemical composition of each oil and its therapeutic actions, including its corresponding subtle qualities (for example, related colours, […]

    Heather Dawn: Godfrey. P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon) Award winning author, essential oil and well being therapist, and teacher        I am thrilled and honoured Janey asked me to contribute to her best selling new book, Happy Healthy Sober.   This is a lovely positive and upbeat book which explores ways to […]

Heather Dawn: Godfrey. P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon)   Author of Healing with Essential Oils, Essential Oils for the Whole Body, and Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation, published by Healing Arts Press, Inner Traditions USA.           We are surrounded by viruses and other microbes with which we share a symbiotic and, mostly, […]

Read my contribution in Janey Lee Grace’s new book, Happy Healthy Sober                 I’m so thrilled to have been asked to contribute a section to Janey’s new and timely book Happy Healthy Sober – Ditch the Booze and Take control of your life.  This upbeat, positive and informative […]

Heather Dawn: Godfrey.  P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon) (Author of Healing with Essential Oils)   The Role of Essential Oils within Plants Essential oils occur as secondary metabolites in plants and, while not vital to the plants existence, they play a significant supportive role.   Exuding as an auric, enveloping, vaporous mist surrounding the plant, their […]

The article below includes excerpts from my books, Healing with Essential Oils, Essential Oils for the Whole Body and Essential Oils for Mindfulness and Meditation (Published by Inner Traditions, Bear & Co., Vermont USA)       Heather Dawn: Godfrey. P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon) Notes from my presentation given at Wellbeing by the Lakes (Sculptures by the Lakes), […]

How do you get inspired to write? The inspiration comes from within, but it is enhanced and clarified in many ways. My subject inspires me. My students and clients inspire me. The process of being a therapist and author inspires me. My sense of gratefulness inspires me. Writing itself inspires me. Sometimes I feel as […]

Heather Dawn: Godfrey.  P.G.C.E., B.Sc. (Joint Hon) Writing my books: the journey’s beginning Where do I start? This, I believe, is the biggest question, laden with the colours, shapes and shadows that suddenly burst into the foreground of my imagination. Then, suddenly, it becomes clear to me: in the spirit of paradox, this is also […]

  As affirmed in my recent blog, ‘Grateful Reflection’, one of the lovely unexpected consequences of setting out on my writing journey is that I encounter so many amazing and inspiring people.  It is so uplifting to realise just how many kindred spirits exist. In sharing a little bit about them here, I aim to […]