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My New Book, Namaste, is out now!

Here it is, the book I started writing over 11 years ago now, finally published!

It took me 7 months to complete the first draft before I gave up on it for 7 years, only returning to it following a failed IVF cycle (when I needed more creativity in my life)…

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Jill's Gluten, Dairy & Refined Sugar Free Chocolate Cake

Gateau de Nancy

Ingredients:

  • 125g Pure Margarine (I prefer the Sunflower one)

  • 125g 70% dark chocolate (I use Lindt)

  • 4 eggs

  • 125g coconut sugar (or brown caster sugar if you don’t mind the sugar content)

  • 25g gluten free flour

  • ÂĽ teaspoon baking powder

  • 100g ground almonds

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Healing, Reiki Emma Despres Healing, Reiki Emma Despres

A healing crisis

With all the recent healing work, a healing crisis was inevitable.  It was funny as I hadn't identified with it as such, I just knew something was "off" and was trying to figure out the reason for this.

In the back of my mind I had this thought that I needed to write about healing crises in my Reiki Level One Manual, because following a Reiki attunement (and each of the three levels) you go through a 21 day healing process…

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