Hello Darling!
​I can barely contain myself today. I am your typical mother who is bursting with pride for my amazing son, Charles. He's just completed the world's toughest footrace, the Marathon Des Sables.
What is it? If you ask me, it's a week of self-inflicted torture. But officially it's a 250km race over endless sand dunes in the Sahara Desert over six days. It's basically a marathon every day for a week. The runners have to carry all their own food and equipment on their back and water is rationed -- even though temperatures are in the 50s centigrade -- if the water ration is exceeded, the runner is penalised! And at night they sleep in tents made of goat hair. Due to these extreme conditions, their feet swell, crack and bleed under the pressure and the heat.
​I know what you're thinking. Why on earth would anyone do this?! Well, for Charles, the motivation was raising money for the London Air Ambulance Team, where he works. As a paramedic, Charles knows more than most about the vital and important work done by this organisation. And there is still time to sponsor them - go to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/charles-henderson3
But anyway, how did it go for Charles? Of about 1000 of the world's best athletes, he finished in the top 20 per cent. Thus my heart swelling with pride! Just to finish this race is a huge achievement -- many fall by the wayside due to the gruelling conditions.
​Anyway, like I said, I am bursting with pride and also relieved he's safely finished. I also know for sure that he had a team of angels helping him and the rest of the team with whom he completed this mission. It reminds me that our friends in Spirit can offer invaluable help and support at times like this but ultimately we still have work to do here on the earth plane. To use a bicycling analogy, the angels can lubricate the wheels but we still have to do the pedalling!
​Still though, the angels tell me that although there is a great deal they can do to smooth your path in life, guide you gently around the obstacles in your way, and ease your burdens, you still have to ask for their help. This bit is essential. This is the way the universe is run. It is a universal law.
So, my advice for you in this blog is to take 10 minutes of quiet time, alone. Turn your phone off, shut the door, etc... and sit down with a pen and paper. Write 'dear Angels' at the top of the page, then tell them anything you want to tell them about the challenges you're facing. Then ask them to take these challenges and find the best solutions, tell them you are giving your challenges to them to sort out. Ask them to guide you to take any action and decisions necessary on the earth plane but that you know that they have many more resources than you as well as a much broader perspective on solutions available. You now hand them the job of overcoming these challenges in the highest and best way.

Hello Darling!
A couple of days ago, I had a friend over for lunch and we got talking about angels, angel communications and signs. Despite a huge rise in awareness in the last 20 or so years, thanks to the work of wonderful people like Diana Cooper, Doreen Virtue and more recently Kyle Gray, there is still a great deal of confusion and disbelief surrounding angels.
Even amongst people who follow one of the world's main religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, in which angels feature prominently in all, many devotees still find it hard to say they believe in angels, despite also claiming that every word of the Bible or Koran is 'gospel truth' so to speak.
I understand it of course. The idea of invisible beings with wings who only want to help us does smack a little of Father Christmas and the tooth fairy. We 21st Century humans are so indoctrinated with the value of the five senses that anything that cannot (usually) be perceived with our own eyes or ears is difficult to comprehend. So when you get someone like me who comes along and says I can actually hear angels speaking to me, I'm often dismissed as 'harmless but doolally' or I'm condemned as a deliberate and malicious fraud, preying on the vulnerable.
I honestly don't mind... these days there is an army of us who believe in and work with angels so I am in good company! However, I'm digressing a bit because today I want to offer a few tips and hints for how you can better harness the power of angels in your life. There is, you see, a huge army of unemployed angels just waiting for us to give them something to do by asking for their help. This is because we are governed by the law of free will -- which means we have to ask and it is given. Angels and other light beings will not just decide what we need for us and take action without our say so.
So, here are my top tips:
1. Assume that there are angels everywhere you go, hovering about you and saying 'What do you need? Come on, give me a job, how can I help...' then talk to them  
3. There are billions, trillions, bazillions of angels out there... so feel free to call on some of the unknown ones (and take the pressure off the popular ones like Archangel Michael - not that He can't handle it), so call upon the angels of cats, the angels of cars, the angels of coffee shops, the angels of curtains, the angels of plants, the angels of spring, the angels of dreams... 
3. Generally speaking, messages from angels fall into several main categories – they provide answers to your prayers/requests; they confirm that they’ve heard your prayers and are on the job; they offer reassurance that you’re on the right path and all is well; they offer comfort by just letting you know that they’re there; they guide you towards your life mission, and they warn you about situations that you might want to avoid.
4. Angels use synchronicity and coincidences to give you signals about your life path and their presence. When you notice these signs, thank them as it will encourage them to do it more often.
5. The thing is, often people realise they’re getting some kind of angel message but they don’t what the message is, they can’t understand what the angels are trying to tell them. Perhaps they’re pulling the same oracle card over and over again, or perhaps they’re hearing the same name from a load of different sources, or perhaps they’re seeing the same recurring number everywhere, a client of mine came to me and said he’d been seeing the number 222 everywhere, it was the time his bus left, it was the time on the clock when he woke in the night, it was the amount of change he received at the shops… he knew this was an angelic message but he didn’t know what the message was. How can you interpret angelic signs? Ask yourself, 'have I prayed for anything? Is this confirmation that they're on the job? Have I been struggling lately? Is this reassurance that all is working out? Have I been holding back on making a decision? Is this a nudge to taking that step forward?'
If you're still not sure, try automatic writing. Sit down with a pen and paper, make sure you'll not be disturbed for and then set a timer for 15 minutes.  
Take a couple of moments to close your eyes, take three deep breaths and say, ‘I call on my angels to communicate with me now’ pick up the pen and write, Hi angels, I know you’ve been giving me signs, what are you trying to tell me?
Then write the first thing that comes to your mind, even if it’s just one word. Continue this back and forth Q&A without lifting your pen from the paper until the timer goes off. Don't stop writing, don't edit yourself or correct grammar, just allow the flow.
If you do give this a go, I'd love to hear how it went! Please do put a comment below or perhaps a message on my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/zoehendersonhealer

Lots of love, Zoë xx

PS I am now offering angel guidance and healing sessions over Skype/Zoom/Facetime - get in touch if you'd like to book an appointment! Just click here.
 

Hello Darling,
This week finds me in a period of mourning. After a period of illness, a very close friend of mine has passed into Spirit recently and I am deeply saddened by his loss from my Earthly, physical life. 
As a spiritual healer and psychic, people often mistakenly assume that I am not so effected by the passing over of loved ones as I know that they are simply going back 'home' and at some point I will join them back there, as will we all.
However, while knowing this does offer some comfort, it does not compensate for the deep sense of grief at having lost the person from this physical life.
Yes, we are all spiritual beings - first, foremost and always. But while we are incarnated here on Earth, we are also physical beings and our bodies of skin and bone have their own consciousness and intelligence. The body craves for the touch and smell of our loved one, the body yearns to see that person, hear their voice and their laugh.
This chapter of their existence, though, is finished.
Yes, they simply move to another form of existence and we may even continue to have a relationship with that person while we are here and they are there but it's a different type of relationship. This new relationship state is to what we must adjust.
There is no avoiding the raw pain of grief that comes with the passing of a loved one. And no good is done by denying yourself the process of fully grieving. Emotions must be processed, felt and released, in order to transform into something lighter and more positive. This is simply part of the beautiful cycle in which we're participating. There is also an honouring of the person in the grieving process. I would advise though, that you also honour them by calling to mind the times they were at their best, their happiest, their most generous, their kindest. Remembering their earthy life this way is the greatest show of honour and respect you can give them. And please let me assure you, they are very aware of your thoughts and actions with regards to their memory. So, raise a glass to their name, light a candle to their memory, get a tattoo, make a donation to their favourite charity... they see it all.
My final thought is to let you know that death can in fact be the ultimate healing. Sometimes, when I am asked to work at the bedside of someone who is terminally ill, my role is not to try and heal them of their condition. My role is in fact to help them transition to Spirit as smoothly as lovingly as possible, without fear.

Lots of love, Zoë xx
PS I am now offering guidance and healing sessions over Skype/Zoom/Facetime - get in touch if you'd like to book an appointment! Just click here.
 

Hello Darling!
Or should I say, 'kia ora' because as I type this, I'm on the other side of the world from my UK home in Englefield Green, visiting my twin sister Zandra in New Zealand. Yes, our parents named us Zoë and Zandra, a nice ring for identical twins. 
My apologies if you're reading this while in Europe because I'm about to rave a little about the New Zealand summer. This burst of heat after months of winter in England feels wonderful. My depleted Vitamin D levels are getting a much needed top up and I understand why flowers are compelled to turn their heads towards the sun. Its healing and rejuvenating rays are literally life giving.
As well, I am always happy to be with my sister, the person with whom I've shared three score and ten or so years walking this planet. When we were born, our parents felt like we were a miracle.
I described in my book how our Mummy, through the earlier years of her marriage, suffered from four miscarriages. She just couldn’t hold her babies. About a year before our arrival and at the age of 40, in despair and with a last hope, she went to church and lit a candle. She silently wept as she sat in the pew and prayed to God and the angels for a child. A year later she had us. When we were told this later in our lives, she said we were the result of a miracle!
Zandra and I were always known as the Hall twins as no one could ever tell the difference to be able to identify ‘ourselves’. We were inseparable as children and never got tired of each other’s company. She, though, was the more studious one who did well in exams whilst I was the daydreamer, who did not.
Identical twins were rare where we lived in the 1940s so we were stared at a lot. Mummy loved it and all through the years until we left home, and for some time after, the local press would follow our lives with updates in the newspapers. Zandra and I hated always being pushed in front of the cameras. Our lives were all in print with photos, ‘the Hall twins’, with write-ups on the latest events of our lives.
The strong bond between us has remained with us all the way through our lives but there is a downside to this. I literally feel my sister's pain. Like the time she had to have an emergency peritonitis operation - I was awake all night in agony.
"At least you had anaesthetic for it!" I told her later.
The weirdest thing though, which still happens to this day, is that when we are together for any length of time and then part our ways, we swap characters on departure. We say our goodbyes, in tears more often than not, and then we are 'in' each other.
Although we look alike, our characters are quite different. Many a time once we are settled back to our own places, we ring each other and say, “Please will you get out of my body?” It is a strange feeling, I speak the way she speaks anyway, and we have the same mannerisms. However, we swap actions, she acts like me and vice versa.  This can last for a couple of days or even up to a week, and we always get ourselves back at the same time. So if I don't quite seem myself when I meet you back in England when I'm first home from New Zealand, that may be why. I'm not myself; I'm part Zandra!
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 Lots of love, Zoë xx
PS I am now offering guidance and healing sessions over Skype/Zoom/Facetime - get in touch if you'd like to book an appointment! Just click here.

Hello Darling!
I want to talk about animal communication this week. I've had some clients in the last few days who've come to me for healing for their pets. Cats and dogs, specifically, although over the years I've had sessions with all manner of feathered, furred and scaly beasties.
It's reinforced for me once again how blessed we are to have our animals in our lives. These divine, pure spirits that walk this earth in animal bodies are here to teach us about unconditional love, which is what they offer us in abundance.
What many of my clients are surprised to realise though is that, when they come to me with an animal that has an illness of some kind, be that a physical or mental disorder, the root cause is invariably their human companion (you  may call yourself your pet's 'owner' but this is no more true than calling yourself the owner of your spouse and children). 
I had a man this week who had a session with me over Skype as he and his dog were based in Europe. The dog was anxious and depressed and had a rash on his skin. The cause? The man's own high stress and anxiety levels. 
"You must heal your own issues in order to help your dog," I told the man. In truth, he was in far more need of healing than his beautiful canine friend so he booked a session for himself.
Our animals will take on our conditions in order to relieve us of them. I've known horses that get arthritis in their knee just like their 'owner'. This is why domestic animals get human conditions like diabetes and obesity. No animal that lives in the wild ever gets diabetes!
As well, your animal is highly sensitive to the atmosphere and energy of your home as well as to your personal energy. The best thing you can do for your pet is not bring your stresses home.
I want to leave you with a small tip on how to communicate with your pet. First, be aware that your pet can read your thoughts, this is why they always know when, for example, you're going on holiday. The have 'snatched' the images from your head as you've thought about it. We can use the same method to deliberately communicate. So instead of talking to your pet and expecting them to understand English, communicate with them in the language of images and emotions. Sit for a few moments in quiet meditation and 'send' your pet images and feelings of love. This method can also be used to reassure a pet about something like a house move, 'send' your pet images of them being happy in the new home, images of sunshine, grassy lawns, log fires... along with feelings of being cosy, safe and happy.
Before I finish, just a little diary info. If you or anyone you know are in Bath this coming weekend on Saturday 10 February, there's a wonderful Holistic Wellbeing Fayre fundraiser happening at Bath Guildhall from 10.30am till the evening. It's being held to raise money for HorseWorld, a Bristol-based charity dedicated to saving the lives of abandoned, neglected and mistreated horses, ponies and donkeys.
HorseWorld cares for more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys at its Bristol site and provides after-care and support for around 300 more, who have been re-homed throughout the South-West. It's motto is rescue, rehabilitate and rehome. More information here: ​holistichorsewelfarefundraiser.webs.com

Lots of love, Zoë xx
PS I am now offering guidance and healing sessions over Skype/Zoom/Facetime - get in touch if you'd like to book an appointment! Just click here.

Hello Darling!
I know you might not expect a spiritual healer to talk about plastic pollution but this week that's what I feel very moved to talk about. 
Thank goodness we seem to at last be waking up to the urgent need to address the terrible damage we are doing to our beautiful Mother Earth through the thoughtless use of plastic. As an energy healer, I'm very aware that all sentient beings experience pain and suffering and, on our planet today, many creatures great and small are suffering as a result of plastic. 
Did you know that UK supermarkets currently generate one million tons of plastic every year? We are choking in plastic and poisoning ourselves with the chemicals they leech into soil and waters. It's bad enough that we're doing it to ourselves but in my opinion it's far worse that we are subjecting all the other creatures who live on this planet to the same fate. I spend enough time in Dubai to know that camels roaming the deserts are dying due to stomachs distended with plastic waste from humans. The same thing is happening to the whales in our oceans. The question is, what can we do about it? There's no use feeling that the problem is too large and that nothing can be done. I believe we can stage a revolution and transform the way we think about the 'convenience' of plastic. Is it really so convenient to have mountains of plastic waste clogging up our countryside, rivers and lakes? That's why I signed a Greenpeace petition this week aimed at plastic-free UK supermarkets (if you feel so moved, here is the link https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/plastic-free-supermarket-ef)
We must clean up our act and even the smallest of gestures counts... like saying no to a disposable coffee cup, refusing plastic bags when you shop... I shall be thinking of more ways that I can reduce my use of plastic and I would love to hear your suggestions as well. If you want to share your thoughts, please leave your ideas in the comments section.
Meanwhile, just a reminder that I am now offering healing and intuitive guidance sessions online as well as face to face - this can be for you or for your pet. You can see my calendar and just book yourself in at a time that suits... the links are below.

Lots of love, Zoë xx
PS I am now offering guidance and healing sessions over Skype/Zoom/Facetime - get in touch if you'd like to book an appointment! Just click here.

Hello Darling!
With my first angel workshop of the year happening in a few days, I am feeling a little angel-focused today so I'm just going to go with that. As I prepare for the workshop, I've been reminded about the questions that usually pop up as people begin to play with the idea of angelic realms, angelic beings, and guardian angels. I'm going to address some of these here. First, people ask me, 'if angels exist, why can't I hear mine?' There are several possible reasons. One is that your belief about how you will receive guidance is too limited. The messages might not be coming in the way you expect.
Just like a British tourist who travels to some exotic far-flung country and gets frustrated when he can't communicate with the locals. What does he do? Uses the same language but louder. Still he's not understood so he starts shouting. He gets angry and assumes these people are ignoring him or making fun of him. He does not consider that there are many modes of communication - not everyone speaks his dialect of English language. If he calmed down he would realise there are many other communication channels available to him if would just broaden his idea of how messages can be given and received, for example, he could draw a picture or use sign language. 
Our angels communicate with us in a myriad of ways -- many of which are as subtle as a summer breeze so you need to pay attention. Our angels may send us guidance in the form of a nudge towards a book or a movie; they may send a symbol in the form of an animal or bird; they may send healing via a bird song you hear; it may just be a thought that keeps popping into your head; it may be via a conversation you overhear on the bus or in a cafe. It could be a repeated symbol such as heart shapes being offered to you in all sorts of ways. It may be the words written on the side of the truck that just cut you off, or the sensation of rain on your cheek.
Yes, it would be nice if your guardian angel appeared in front of you in full angelic splendour and sat down with you for a chat to answer all your questions. I'm not saying something like that never happens, it does, but in only the rarest circumstances because God did not task his angel messengers to work with us in this way. They are our guides, protectors and friends in Spirit. Not unlike, perhaps, the friends who volunteer to be on the sidelines when you  run a marathon -- they will make sure you stay on the right path, offer you a cup of water as you pass by desperate for a drink, they will pass you a banana or glucose sachet to keep your energy up, and they will cheer you on, clapping and assuring you that you can do it when you hit 'the wall' and are ready to give up. They won't though, carry you on their backs, run the race for you, or go into in-depth discussion about training schedules whilst you're mid-run. They'll be there at the end of the race though, ready to give you a big hug and a congratulations.
Finally, one of my biggest tips for re-setting your brain to be more receptive to Spirit messages and guidance is get out in nature. Every day. Breathe that ionised air and, ideally, let your bare feet stand on the earth. I will finish with a poem by Carrie Latet:

Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze?
A teardrop in the falling rain?
Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves?
Or been kissed by a lone snowflake?
Nature is an angel's favourite hiding place.
Carrie Latet

Lots of love, Zoë xx

Hello Darling
As 2017 rolls away, I am excited about entering the vibration of 2018, which is a Universal Energy number of 11. Eleven is a Master number, it's a spiritual and an intuitive number so wouldn't it be marvellous if the world entered a phase of greater spirituality in this coming year? 
I read an article this week that made me hopeful the world is at last bringing spiritual and energy healing more into the mainstream. In the December 2017 issue of What Doctors Don't Tell You there was an article about spiritual healing and which modalities worked best. They looked at Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki, Qijong, and Reconnective Healing. Personally, I think all of them work - like anything, it's more about the practitioner rather than the modality when you don't get the results you hope. I've been giving hands-on healing since I was a small child when I started healing our ill pets and I know with 100 per cent certainty that it's powerful and effective.  It lifts my heart to see that scientists are beginning to understand what they were simply unable to understand or explain in the past. The WDDTY article states that, in 2003, a systematic review of 90 clinical and laboratory studies examining hands-on and distance healing revealed that 70.5 per cent of the clinical studies reported positive outcomes, as did 62 per cent of the laboratory studies. Why is this important? Well, one of the reasons is the skyrocketing cost of conventional healthcare and the nasty effects of the medication so many people are taking. Frankly, we need alternatives! Happily, we have them as more and more people are becoming healers and more people are turning to energy healing. Long may it continue into 2018!
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Lots of love and a happy new year, Zoë xx

PS I am now offering guidance and healing sessions over Skype/Zoom/Facetime - get in touch if you'd like to book an appointment! Just click here.

Hello Darling,
Best wishes of the season! Christmas is such an interesting time isn't it. On the one hand we all talk of love, forgiveness, goodwill to everyone... and on the other we're all rushing about in a panic about gift buying, card sending, turkey pre-ordering. Then we get stressed about how much money we've spent and even as we're still eating the last of the mince pies on Boxing Day, we start stressing about how much we've eaten and drunk over Christmas and we start planning our weight-loss and fitness strategies for the new year... which will start just as soon as we've finished that enormous tin of Celebration chocolates someone brought round. Oh alright, yes, empty the last of the cream liqueur into my glass as well. 
Forget all that for a minute though because I want to bring angels back into the Christmas story. We sometimes forget about the more spiritual side of Christmas when we're preoccupied with the material side of it. Christmas is a time though when our angels can come closer so if you're ever going to get a sense of them, it could be over the next few weeks.
If you're keen to feel or sense your angels, first off, ask them to please come closer so you can feel their energy or ask them for a sign that they're around. They are always around of course but most of the time we are too preoccupied to notice or we dismiss any angelic synchronicities in our lives as "just coincidence" or "my imagination". Of course they are always delighted when you ask for their help with something too. Our angels get great joy from helping us but because our universe operates under the law of free will, the angels cannot step in and take action in our lives until we ask them for help. So, what would you like help with? Don't be shy, ask. I think the best ways to do this is either by talking to them out loud or by writing to them. If you have any amazing or just interesting results, I'd love to hear about them in the comments section below this blog.
Have a very merry Christmas!
Lots of love, Zoë

PS I'm holding a day-long Angel Workshop on the 20th and the 26th of January 2018 in Surrey. Click here for more details. 

I am not usually the most political of animals. Generally I prefer to put all my energies into my healing work and grandchildren. It doesn't leave much time for paying heed to the political squabbles of the day. However, I felt a deep anger boiling up inside me earlier today when I read on the internet about a petition going around to repeal an amendment UK that MPs have just voted on which would scrap key animal protections. Basically, the MPs are claiming that animals can't feel emotions or pain. This vote strips animals of the rights they had under EU law as sentient beings, which is a foundation stone of animal welfare.

As an animal communicator and healer, I know with every cell of my being that animals feel just the same emotions as humans. Sadness, joy, delight, irritation... In fact, many animals go one better than humans in that they are capable of unconditional love. Something which is extremely rare in the human species.

I've worked with animals suffering traumas and depression from cruelty and neglect; I've worked with animals who take on the illnesses and stress of their human guardians to relieve their human friends of it. 

Whether you're a Brexiteer or a Remainer, surely we all want Britain to forge a better, kinder version of itself as we go forward. Why can't we take this opportunity to increase the protections on animals? To massively boost our environmental standards? We could lead the world in this way. Be trailblazers for animal rights and the environment. 

EU law protects animal welfare and I do not want a Brexit Britain that treats animals like commodities that exist purely for our benefit. As it says in the petition, the only reason to deny animal sentience would be to make it easier to exploit them. Strip away that recognition and there’s no reason to worry about animal testing, barbaric hunting games, and gruesome slaughterhouses.

The vote narrowly passed in parliament and will go to the Lords. The online petition is about giving the Lords the backing they need to overturn this amendment as well as the loud message that the British people do not want a callous Britain.  

If you feel as certain as I do that animals are most definitely sentient beings who have feelings and emotions, I would urge you to sign this online petition and pass it around to all your social platforms.
 https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/uk_animal_bill_loc/?cREFDab