Women In Wellness: Jeannie Lymath of SoleCare Healing On The Five Lifestyle Tweaks That Will Help Support People’s Journey Towards Better Wellbeing
An Interview With Candice Georgiadis
Do not expect someone else to make you happy — you are responsible for your own happiness — buy your own flowers, jewellery, weekends away, spa days. Nourish yourself with unconditional love!
As a part of my series about the women in wellness, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeannie Lymath, founder of SoleCare Healing.
Jeannie Lymath is a mum-of-two from Portsmouth, UK, who runs a reflexology and healing business, SoleCare Healing.
Jeannie is a qualified ACHO registered crystal healer and AOR registered reflexologist. Her passion is helping others embark on their own crystal journey towards self-discovery and fulfillment.
She is a former forensic scientist and NHS worker, who switched careers to follow her passion 10 years ago alongside raising two children under the age of two.
She now offers traditional reflexology, crystal reflexology, crystal therapy, live meditation, several different workshops including crystal and moon magic, healing retreats and more. She also offers subscription packages to aid people in their path to mindfulness and with their meditation sessions.
She has been offering crystal healing for five years and reflexology for 10.
Her aim is to create a community, to help people look after their mental health and practice mindfulness — something she feels a lot of people need to focus on during lockdown, with added anxiety and stresses often creeping in heavily.
She hopes to make people feel stronger, sleep better, reduce anxiety and chronic pain, feel more content and gives them a stronger sense of wellbeing.
Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Our readers would love to “get to know you” better. Can you share your “backstory” with us?
I started my holistic journey when I was pregnant with my 2nd child. I was in and out of hospital with false labour and extremely anxious that my pregnancy would end in premature labour and NICU like my previous pregnancy. A midwife suggested reflexology and I began visiting reflexologist weekly. I had never experienced such relaxation and I truly believe this holistic therapy calmed my whole being down so that my daughter was born 5 days late and twice the size of my first born. This sowed the seed for wanting to help others and make a difference. It began with Reflexology and has evolved into crystal healing and moon cycles.
Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you started your career? What were the main lessons or takeaways from that story?
When my mother was seriously ill and admitted to the high dependency unit, I honestly thought she was going to die. I went home and created a crystal mandala to invoke healing, I called all my angels, guides, guardians and ancestors to help. I went to the hospital and taped healing sigils I had created on the back of photos of me, my sisters and grandchildren and I brought crystals for my mother to hold in her hand. I read healing stories about goddesses, ascended masters and anything that would help her believe in miracles and the power of healing. Three weeks later at the absolute disbelief that she had survived my mother, my Superhero was discharged and swears it was this continual healing that gave her the will to live.
You do not have to be an expert or a master within your passion, but you do need clear intent and the belief that you can make a difference. Never think you are not enough to make miracles happen!
Can you share a story about the biggest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?
I think every businesswoman will have made their share of small mistakes from advertising, renting rooms and collaborations. I haven’t made a huge mistake as I like to say yes to as many opportunities as possible but if they do not work out it is part of the learning curve and my journey.
Mistakes are the best way to learn!
Let’s jump to our main focus. When it comes to health and wellness, how is the work you are doing helping to make a bigger impact in the world?
The world we live in wants us to believe success is big houses, fancy cars and exotic holidays. My work is focused on what brings you happiness and creating a sustainable world around that, there are crystal meditations that will take you to every inch of the universe on the back of dragons. Deep relaxation is the first step to quietening your mind so that your soul can speak, understanding what YOU truly want and using crystals to empower these changes or beliefs. I hope that each person I reach can step forward confidently in their life away from societal expectations so that it inspires others to make that move to a more spiritual way of living.
Can you share your top five “lifestyle tweaks” that you believe will help support people’s journey towards better wellbeing? Please give an example or story for each.
1. Always set a part of your day that is just for YOU — half an hour of reading, an undisturbed bath, meditation, a nature walk. This gives you quiet time to reflect or prepare for your day.
2. Train your brain to pick up on the negative words you say about yourself and your life. Learn to reword what you are saying to yourself. You are what you say.
3. Journal as much as you can — subconscious writing is a simple tool that exposes your deepest fears and desires — all of it needs to be unearthed to heal.
4. Life is not meant to be easy, there will always be challenges and heartbreak — the key is always finding the positive and reminding yourself how to be grateful.
5. Do not expect someone else to make you happy — you are responsible for your own happiness — buy your own flowers, jewellery, weekends away, spa days. Nourish yourself with unconditional love!
If you could start a movement that would bring the most amount of wellness to the most amount of people, what would that be?
A free collective that is available for every gender, colour, age, sexuality that explores spirituality openly throughout the country and the world, from crystal healing to chanting, where there are funds available for study and self-improvement.
What are your “5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started” and why?
1. Time is an illusion; it does not matter if everything happens in 5 weeks or 5 years — the key is to keep going and believe in yourself.
2. Patience is required.
3. To swap saying “I don’t have enough time” with “what are my priorities today” — that mantra is a game changer.
4. Being self-employed can be lonely, so find your work tribe for support.
5. To be kinder to myself and understand there are good days and bad days.
Sustainability, veganism, mental health and environmental changes are big topics at the moment. Which one of these causes is dearest to you, and why?
Mental health has always been a huge part of my life surrounded by people who suffer daily; there is not enough support that is available quickly enough and I have lost friends who have not felt they could be any more of this world.
What is the best way our readers can follow you online?
Instagram — @solecarehealing
Facebook Group — Solecare Healing Community — https://www.facebook.com/groups/solecarehealingcommunity
Website — www.solecare.org
Thank you for these fantastic insights!
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