About Sacred Self
About Sacred Self All Sacred Self products are intuitively heart-made and hand-crafted by professionally trained aromatherapist Michelle Marie McGrath since around 2002. Each alchemical oil combination is energetically infused with love, sound, light, colour, sacred...
Womb Awakening
So what is Womb Awakening about? Many women today, when contemplating their womb space, sadly feel associations of pain, discomfort and inconvenience. Life experiences tied to the menstrual cycle, the pill, sexuality and fertility are not always pleasurable and...
The end: this is the beginning
Since the beginning of April 2020, each time I strolled around Rosemere I found myself continually noticing an Elder tree and had the sense it was trying to attract my attention. Yes really. There are two small elder trees which lean together and form a natural...
The book that wants to be written by you
At the end of 2018 I declared 2019 My Year of Writing. I was going to stop faffing, stop ‘thinking’ about writing and get on with it. I decided to write about what was helpful for me during my writing process in 2019—also so I can remember it. Often we are so focussed...
A Season of Alchemical Change
When we have a full moon or a lunar eclipse, often patterns are illuminated we hadn't been aware of. OR patterns we are aware of, but had been ignoring....but can't ignore any longer. When we see certain situations in technicolour, we can't unsee them. We...
Moving to Cornwall
After having spent the last 20 years in Australia, I decided to share a new exciting chapter in my life, about moving to Cornwall, the most south-western point in England. On a practical note, if you're considering a visit to Cornwall (why wouldn't you be?) it's worth...
Dear Australia
Last year I was invited by Susannah Conway, to write a love letter to Australia, my home of the past 20 years. It was for one of her community projects - April Love. Unsurprisingly I have very mixed feelings about the place and I had the distinct sense it was my...
The Doorway of Not Yet – so what now?
Standing at the doorway of not yet - so what now? What if in the 'meantime' really means in the 'me-time' and is an invitation to go deep, right into ourselves? The blank page of not-yet-ready-to-be-seen. What if these in-between times are invitations to reveal...
What’s really in your aromatherapy spray?
I'm a passionate aromatherapist who has been creating magical concoctions for around 17 years. Or rather, they create themselves and I observe the process. I have always been smell-obsessed and overly smell sensitive. I remember smelling all the bottles in The...
Sacred France – Part 2
As mentioned previously, France has always had a special place dans mon coeur. Today I will share a little of about my time in the medieval walled city Carcassonne. If you're planning a trip here (and why wouldn't you be), you can fly directly and cheaply to...
Sacred France – Part 1
Where to start? Ah la France Je t'adore! I always believed I would live somewhere French-speaking. I spent time as an infant in Belgium where my Mum got a job, worked as an au pair in Paris at 19, a Modern Languages student at age 23 in Clermont-Ferrand and...
From Babylove to Womb Love Alchemical oil
Back in June 2012, I started to see the image of a baby inside a bubble of cobalt blue light. It was literally floating and bouncing around me in my auric field. I was puzzled as I did not feel that having a child was a priority. I was not even in a relationship! A...