What do you know about Intuitive Healing
✨ Unveiling the Magic of Intuitive Healing with Michelle ✨ Hello, beautiful souls! 🌸 Have you ever wondered what intuitive healing truly is? 🤔 It’s a unique and personal journey that I am excited to guide you through, tailored specifically for each individual. 😊 What is Intuitive Healing? For me, intuitive healing is about connecting […]
10 Steps to Find More Joy in Your Life
Discover the Joy Within: Download Your Free Ebook Now! 📚 Are you searching for more happiness and fulfilment in your daily life? Look no further! We’re excited to offer you a complimentary copy of “Finding Joy in Your Everyday Life: A Ten-Step Guide” by Michelle Thomas. In this insightful ebook, Michelle Thomas, renowned life coach […]
What stops you manifesting what you want?
What stops you manifesting what you want ? There are two main saboteurs here, Negative Thoughts and Limiting Beliefs. I am not sure which one is more effective. No matter how well you visualise what you want, or repeat your affirmations, somehow a part of you is creating a block at the same time. When […]
A Day to Honour Women
Don’t you just love stories with feel-good content and happy endings? Me too! And here we have exactly that – the Quinta Carvalhas story which is a thirty-year romance-romantic-comedy-drama-cliffhanger-thriller in the making. I have never wondered about the ‘who’ behind this farm – I mean, I know it’s me, but I have never considered it […]
Embracing the Art of Slow Decorating
Before my life as a retreat centre owner, I was an interior designer (amongst other things) which is why I leapt into the renovation and design of the Grand Quinta Project with childlike enthusiasm. My equivalent of being let loose with a bottomless wallet in a sweet shop, is to be let loose on a […]
Mastering Mindful Eating: Techniques for Slow and Mindful Consumption
Mastering Mindful Eating: Techniques for Slow and Mindful Consumption Discover the art of mindful eating and how it can transform your relationship with food. The Concept of Mindful Eating Mindful eating is a practice that involves paying full attention to the act of eating. It is about being present in the moment and engaging all […]
Have you met Perry?
Let Me Introduce You I sat in the restaurant section of the delicatessen with a cappuccino in front of me as a slow heat crept through my body, starting somewhere behind my face, spreading through my scalp and down into my torso. It increased in intensity while a roaring started in my ears. I was […]
How to ZAP that negative thought loop
January felt like the longest month. As the month progressed it felt like it became longer and longer and would not end, like it had stretched to be 97 days long. It wasn’t only the passing of my beloved hound Pippin (thank you for all your kind condolences), it just felt like a long and […]
Finding Your North Star
Yesterday my friend died. This difficult day brought home a few realisations for me. The first was, community is everything. The surprise of seeing all our team gathered around the car to say farewell to her fair undid me. And then, the funeral – oh my hat. Also, on this day of loss, I found […]
The Year I Flung My Arms Wide and Smiled at the Sky
In previous years I have deliberately not announced my birthday to anyone, and it was the happy accident of people seeing the birthday prompt on their Facebook feeds that caused me to receive a lot of good cheer and wishes for the best of health. This is what happens when you grow up in a […]
Reach for Unattainable Goals
In my first January letter to you, we discussed writing down what you truly want, andvisualizing the end. In the second January letter we spoke about throwing caution andhesitation to the wind, lifting your chin and shouting, “Just Begin!” But some of those goals on your list should seem unattainable. This is the next step, […]
How You Are Changing the World?
Have you asked yourself, “What is my purpose?” This is a question so many of my clients ask when they come to me for Reiki or IntuitiveHealing. “Why am I here? What should I be doing?” My answer is always the same: You should live your life in heart-centered deep joy. This is a seemingly […]
Daily Action Made Easy
‘Just Do It’, the words of that iconic Nike ad, really grabbed my soul the first time it came out. I was attracted by the kind of freedom I could sense in what it would be like to throw caution and perfection-seeking to the wind. It was 1988 and I was an almost-adult in Johannesburg […]
How To Make It Past February
Even though I have years and years of enthusiastic New Year’s resolutions lying scattered in the communal resolution graveyard, I just can’t help myself – every January, I need to have some fresh new goals or habits to start the new year with. I always have ideas to get me excited and determined. I also […]
24 New Beginnings
I was a fresh-faced student in Johannesburg when I met Richard on a blind date early in 1987. We were inseparable after that, called ‘Mr. and Mrs. Thomas’ by our friends long before we actually tied the knot. After graduation we moved to a small mining town in the middle of nowhere. I married a […]
The Quinta Bookshelf
When I re-designed Christmas to be easy and light, it made sense that we would give each other books: we are all bibliophiles in our family, and I have a large library wall to fill. Half the pleasure of gifting books is in the shopping for them, and I was delighted to discover an online […]
How to Love Yourself When You Think It’s Impossible
I was at a funeral of a dear friend a few years ago. The service had not begun yet, and in that hushed and sniffling stillness one of my friend’s grandchildren bounced down the aisle to me and said in a clear and piping voice, “Would you like to see my belly button?” She held […]
Your Hidden Superpower 🦋
Where were you when you were first told to stop feeling? When I was four years old my sister pushed me down the stairs and I landed on my head. An egg the size of a rugby ball emerged on my forehead, and our neighbour who was a nursing sister was called. She came at […]
Failing Fantastically
Question: Dear Michelle, do you ever fail? Seeing what you have created motivates me, but I am scared to fail. Answer: ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘Of course. I fail at something weekly at least. Failure got me here.’ This question came from a retreat guest. I had just told them how I manifested the farm and […]
How to find peace where you are
Achieving a state of time spaciousness Following my own advice to be kind to myself, I booked a short break last week for Richard and I to Rome and Naples. We explored Rome in my favourite way – we wandered around wherever our feet took us, drifting in and out of shops and up and […]
