DESIGN & WELLBEING
With Nicky Johnson
THE HEART SHAMAN
Welcome
Design & Wellbeing for living in harmony.
Life, healing, fashion and art are all journeys working in cycles. I have created this website in a fashion to reflect this and show you a glimpse of my history and where I am now. Having previously studied art and fashion, styled for Tatler, running catwalk shows up and down the country along with designing for a sailing company, I settled in London as a Fashion Designer for a high-end luxury brand. This led me to work as a Fashion Designer for an equestrian company in Ireland, then as a Womenswear and Interiors Designer for another high-end luxury brand in Dublin, Ireland. I moved to Sydney, Australia, styling, designing and life coaching for private clients.
My work with private clientele opened up wider paths, becoming as much about how people were feeling on the inside, assisting their overall wellbeing; as how they looked on the outside. With the majority of my client base being in the public eye; life coaching, styling and designing became a full package that evolved itself naturally.
I qualified in numerous therapies, enabling me to offer a wider variety of solutions. There is not a one size fits all, in clothes or how we heal. When you feel good on the inside, your light shines brighter on the outside, so it became my life purpose to help people heal and feel their absolute best, inside and out.
Love Nicky
The Heart Shaman
Wisdom Keepsakes With Nicky
Lifestyle Quotes and Little Gems by Nicky Johnson
Smile and Wear Colours
Instead of fretting the little stuff, have some fun, it's important to be silly sometimes. Life can be difficult with huge challenges, so it's important to smile where you can.
Allow yourself to have fun and honour your inner child, don those bright colours.... simply because they make you smile. Colours are therapy; yellow aids joy and happiness, pink is love, relaxation and brings a feeling of contentment, giving your mood an instant lift.
When styling and designing, tones of blue are an invaluable colour for clients in the public eye, blue suits, blue ties, blue dresses; as blue conveys authority and encourages people to sit up and listen, so is a powerful tool for speaking publicly if you wish to be heard. For a first interview I advise incorporating a hue of pink, as pink gives a good first impression and may land you that desired job. Enjoy colour and have fun exploring. Love Nicky
Release All Judgement
Life, relationships, jobs, families can all carry immense judgement and criticism from others' and yourself at times. People can be cruel and you, 'your-self', can be your biggest critique.
Drop your judgement, on yourself and others and release other peoples' judgement on you. It does not serve any purpose for you to hold onto anything negative. Practice the art of letting go, allowing yourself to be lighter and releasing the weight of the world. Love Nicky
Chase Waterfalls
Keep pushing your 'self' out of your comfort zones, pursue your passions even if it feels scary to change. Nature works in cycles, we are nature, so we too flow through cycles in life for balance, health and a harmonious way of living. Nature is not stagnant; change is the one certainty in life. We grow stronger from the challenges and evolve into lighter better versions of our self.
Spring, each new moon, the beginning of the monthly cycles are renewal, planting the seeds of creation of who you wish to be and create. What do you want to change in life for yourself? It can be one small step at a time so not to overwhelm your self, or ten giant leaps. Honour your self and what feels accomplishable for you. Love Nicky.
Be Kind to Yourself
Life works in cycles, nature rests to rejuvenate. Trees experience a period of dormancy during the winter months, animals go into hibernation, and we too benefit from shutting down from time to time and allowing our body to revitalize fully, enabling us to move forward with renewed vibrancy and a healthier mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Sometimes we must stop, to breathe, to meditate, to be still. It is in our blood, our ancestry, to be dormant and just shut down for a period so our body can rejuvenate itself and replenish supplies.
Ensure you get enough sleep when you can, especially for women; not enough sleep can raise cortisol resulting in weight gain, mental, emotional and hormonal imbalances. Keeping our equilibrium in check means self-care. The Egyptians included a day of rest into their calendar, we have this for a reason. We have to look after our own self so we can look after others.
Remember to speak kindly to yourself, your body listens to what you tell it and acts accordingly. Tell your body positive mantras, show yourself compassion and be gentle. Love every little thing about you unconditionally and be responsible for your wellbeing. Love Nicky
Raise your Boundaries
Respect and honour your boundaries and trust your intuition and gut feeling. If something doesn't feel right; trust yourself.
Know it is ok to say no if it preserves your inner peace. Don't try to fit into someone else's expectations, it just becomes excess baggage that doesn't fit in your suitcase of life and holds you back from who you are meant to be.
Pack your suitcase, your vessel, your body with what feels comfortable to you. People pleasing can happen when you feel you can't say no to people for fear of letting them down, but you end up carrying their weight as well as your own.
See how light you become when you release expectations of others' demands and live for what feels right to you. Synchronicities will start appearing as you travel your own path, no two people are living the same journey. Love Nicky
Honour Your Joy
Do something that brings you joy.
What brings you joy? What makes you happy? When was the last time you did something just for you because it is what you love?
I love being a Mommy, I love painting, I love horse riding; the freeing feeling of being at one with a horse... removing my stirrups and allowing the magnificent animal to jump over show jumps whilst I put all my trust into this incredible being. I love sailing in the ocean and being free. I love shamanic healing and connecting to the sacred, I love walking in nature with my beautiful children, and I love Bubble Baths with a candle burning. Life can sometimes get in the way and that's when you have to force yourself to do a little luxury or something that brings you joy.
Don't leave your passions to burn out, get out and make yourself do something just for you. Then enjoy it, don't feel guilty about receiving pleasure, we are humans with numerous sensory systems pleading for us to engage in playful activities to release that dopamine. Love Nicky
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