It’s been beautiful to start building up our small community here, and it’s also time for a change of home (and a new name).

The reasons for this change are twofold -

The first quite basic one is that Substack wasn’t the ideal place to host the kind of community we are building on a practical level. People weren’t always receiving notifications for posts and events happening.

The second and most important is for ethical reasons. Principally that I don’t want to be processing payments through an organisation that is platforming Nazis…

This may sound like I’m being hyperbolic but there are genuine Neo Nazi, white supremacist writers and fee charging publications that are making money and building their reach through Substack. I’ve linked to some articles here if you want to read more.

And the third reason (okay three-fold…) which links to both previous reasons, is that I am so excited to have become a creator in The Portal Collective.

The Portal is a beautiful project, creating a platform for creators and community builders that is founded on the principles of permaculture and values of social justice and community care.

Sally the founder of The Portal, has been working tirelessly on this project, and has trusted a small group of us to work as pilot group. She is a specialist in interactive learning and community space building and I’m so thrilled to be working with her.

(You can learn more about The Portal and Sally on this podcast episode)

I’m so honoured to be part of the community and delighted to be moving our Community Membership over there - where it will become ‘The Mycelium’.

So what will this look like? What will be the same? What will change?

‘The Mycelium’ Community Membership will include

* Monthly Home Practice - A mix of prompts and resources drawing from somatics, mindfulness, nature connection, with space for sharing and connection with the community.

* Monthly Community Connection Session (60 mins) - Gently facilitated monthly space to come together to connect around the previous month’s invitation.

* Celtic Wheel Events (2 hours) - A space to come together to mark the Festivals of the Celtic Wheel of the Year. I will guide the group through invitations from nature connection, meditations, journaling and somatic exercises, and closing with a restorative EcoNidra™ Meditation.

* Private podcast (NEW) - I am going to be moving my Celtic Wheel Podcasts episodes to become part of The Mycelium. These are personal, and it feels right to move them into our Community Space.

This will still be on a tiered pricing scale, with free spaces available for anyone who needs them.

Those who are already part of the Community Membership, I will be emailing you shortly with August’s Home Practice and Links and more details.

I’m hoping to get The Mycelium up and running by the start of September. If you’d like to join us send me an email - [email protected] and I can add you to the waiting list.

I will still be writing on Substack, creating non-Celtic Wheel podcast episodes, and engaging with our community here, whilst moving the Membership (now Mycelium) over to The Portal.

Thank you for being part of this journey and community and I am excited to start this new chapter together.

Warmest wishes,

Harriet Hamid-Collett

Here are the links mentioned in the podcast episode:

Please find the prompts below to use in whatever ways feel supportive for you.

🌻 The season that has been - Reflecting on your year so far.

A moment of joy/nourishment this season was...

I offer myself compassion for...

This season taught/ showed me...

🌻 The season that is to come - Looking ahead to the rest of the year

My hopes for the season to come are...

Looking forward I feel a sense of…

I am entering this season with the intention...

Below are the Beltane prompts that are included in this episode, please do share your responses to these / to the process of exploring them and/or to my responses I shared. I always love to connect.

Prompts

🌿In this season

I am grateful for…

I appreciate…

I am enjoying…

🌿 In this season

I am proud of…

I have shown myself…

I can see in myself…

Below are links to the resources and things referenced during the episode:

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How is it Spring already?!

Thanks for being here and listening - the prompts are below for you to use however makes sense to you. I’ve also included links to some of the episodes and the Toolkit sessions that I mentioned.

I’d love to hear your responses and what comes up for you.

Prompts -

🌿 Where am I noticing sings of growth already?

🌿 What nurturing so I need to support my growth?

Links -

Podcast Episode - The Breath and Mindfulness

Podcast Episode - Story follows State

Covid Conscious Resilience Toolkit instagram post with more info

Get in touch to join the Waitlist for future CC Resilience Toolkit sessions

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Some strong themes in the responses for me this year! I’d love to know any thoughts and reflections you have from the prompts, from my sharings or anything else that comes up for you.

Here are the prompts for Imbolc 2025, in the two different themes.

What to keep hold of from winter (inner vision/wisdom)

I will remember…

I will continue to…

My wisdom will…

What to reach out towards in spring (inspiration/nourishment)

I will invite more…

I am looking forward to…

My hope is…

If you’d like to join our Community Membership and come along for our live Imbolc session, you can find out more by clicking the button below, or you can simply get in touch with any questions.

You can also check out some of the Home Practices in the Community Membership posts (these are before the paywall, which is just in place to safeguard the community engagement in the comment section). Hopefully this might give you a sense of some of the Membership.

Thanks so much for being here. The transcript should be available in the Substack but if you have any problems with that please do let me know.

Warmest wishes,

A super short episode to share with you the concept of ‘Story Follows State’ - something has made so much sense of things I’ve been feeling but not quite understanding.

Does this resonate with you? What thoughts do you have?

I’d love to hear from you in the comments. And any request for topics for future episodes do let me know!

As I approached planning both this year’s live Winter Solstice session, as well as the prompts for this podcast, I decided to change things up a little.

Previously I have focused on the concept of gratitude and tying this into the ‘feast of yule’ - feasting on our gratitude and letting it nourish us!

But this year I felt much more drawn to a different invitation from this festival. The invitation of the darkness and stillness to acknowledge and accept ourselves just as we are. To stop striving for change and to try to access some tenderness and compassion for the parts of ourselves that we might leave in the dark or might strive to fix.

Perhaps it’s the messy goo of the matresence period, or the dire state of the world, or a combination of all things, but this felt like the invitation that I wanted to give and meet.

My hope is that by offering this invitation, we might start to embrace more of the parts of us that don’t seem so shiny. The parts that are real and deserve acceptance and grace.

As always, I’ve included the prompts below if you would like to use them in whatever way makes sense to you. Please do feel free to comment below if you’d like to share anything that comes up for you as you go through them.

Warmest wishes to you

Prompts:

* I will offer myself grace when…

* I want to invite in compassion for…

* I hold tenderly the part of myself…

* I understand why I…

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Reaching the end of the growth part of the year, Samhain can be seen as an invitation to turn inwards. Nourishing our roots in preparation for, and as the start of the hibernation season.

The focus on this episode is around nourishing ourselves, and recognising that caring for ourselves is necessary to sustain us for caring for each other.

Listen to hear my reflections around prompts in this theme, and also please see below for the prompts so that you can explore these yourself.

I’d love to connect about any reflections, insights, questions - come on in to the comments section or send me a message!

Here are the prompts from this episode:

🌿 I want to spend time…

🌿 I will try to prioritise…

🌿 I want to make space for…

🌿 I will try to invite…

Here is a link for the video that I created of the poem I mentioned ‘The Unbroken’ by Rashani Réa

And if you would like to join us for the Community Samhain Event on 2nd November, you can learn more about the Pay what you can system Community Membership here:

You can also stay up to date with my work and receive practices for each Celtic Wheel Festival via my Mailing List.

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Welcome back for the seventh episode of the podcast and fifth Celtic Wheel episode - this time marking the Autumn Equinox.

The prompts are below so that you can engage with these in your own time and in your own ways. Please do feel free to share any thoughts or reflections you have from these prompts - I’d love to connect!

Also there is a link for the Autumn Equinox Self-Paced workbook (which I appropriately imperfectly forgot to mention). This covers the invitations that we go through in the live sessions, so you can access this in your own time and space.

As always, I’d love to connect - please do share in the comments if you’d like to have space for your reflections and connection.

Prompts:

Where do I need to find more balance?

Harvest -

I am proud of…

I am grateful for…

Welcome back for the sixth episode of the podcast and fourth Celtic Wheel episode - this time marking the festival of Lammas.

The prompts are below so that you can engage with these in your own time and in your own ways. Please do feel free to share any thoughts or reflections you have from these prompts - I’d love to connect!

I’ve also included links for the Live Lammas Event, as well as the Self-Paced Workbook, and a link for the article I mentioned from Margeaux Fledman.

The transcript should be available via your chosen podcast player (substack / spotify / apple podcasts) but if not please let me know and I can send you a copy.

Prompts:

On Sacrifice/Letting go

I am letting go of…

I will allow myself to stop…

On Creation and Gratitude

I see that I am creating…

I am grateful that I have…

Links:

Carescapes by Margeaux Feldman Article :