Did you know that your skin is the largest organ in your body? Your skin absorbs, so it makes sense to feed it the right nourishment.
Fiona became interested in caring for her own skin after experiencing severe rosacea and when mainstream avenues failed to heal, she set about finding her own solutions
We keep exploring more options to ensure we live as close to nature as possible.
Fiona believes that everything is connected, so you can't just fix the mind OR the body, the two go hand in hand. She realised the next obvious progression for her was to develop her own line of body care. She's used natural solutions for years and it was time to develop these further.
Her small product range began and it's growing all the time. All hand crafted, small batch creation.
My skin had always been my pride — clear, glowing, and easy to care for. But suddenly, everything changed. A painful rash and irritation spread across my face, and I was diagnosed with rosacea.
Despite trying treatments, including steroids, nothing worked. Desperate for relief, a friend introduced me to natural mineral makeup. Skeptical but willing to try, I visited a store where the staff immediately recognized my condition.
They recommended a mineral makeup that helped heal my skin. Within days, I saw dramatic improvement. The missing nutrients—like zinc and vitamins—were finally replenished, and my skin began to heal. This experience sparked a mission to create skincare products that combined nature's best to promote true skin wellness.
At The Awakened Body, we believe true beauty starts with caring for your skin in a way that honors nature. Our products are nearly 100% organic, handmade with pure ingredients to nourish, heal, and protect your skin without harsh chemicals. We use only what’s necessary—nothing more. Whether you have sensitive skin or simply seek a more natural routine, our products are for you.
Our signature ingredients in our skincare include:
Zinc: Calms inflammation and promotes skin healing
Lavender: Soothes irritated skin.
Vitamin E: Protects and repairs skin damage.
Manuka or Tea Tree oils: a healer used for centuries
Colloidal Silver: for it's antibacterial, antimicrobial properites
We create with intention - to nurture your skin naturally.
Light Moisturiser - a lightweight formula with lavender and vitamin E for daily hydration and a refreshed feel.
Rich Moisturiser - deeply hydrating with natural oils, ideal for dry or sensitive skin.
Hair Moisture - great for curls
Mineral Deodorant - a natural deodorant with colloidal silver and lavender for gentle, antibacterial protection..
Mineral Makeup - this was the key to Fiona's wakeup call, the zinc in the mineral makeup helped fix her rosacea
Healing Balm - An, anti-inflammatory blend traditionally used to ease muscle pain and joint aches. ingredients.
Itch & Sting Relief - charcoal draws out toxins and stings and relieves itching, blended to a gel for easy application. Instant relief
Finally I have found a natural moisturiser that actually nourishes your skin, smells fresh without an overpowering scent and leaves your skin feeling soft.
A little goes a long way also which is a real bonus. I got my Mum to try it and now she's hooked too.
It's amazing, my cracked skin has gone.
I used to get cracked dry cracked skin especially in the winter your moisturiser healed it instantly, I'll never go back.
I used to spend a lot on hair gel and mouse.
Since trying the hair curl from Awakened Body, I'm hooked. It's fantastic and keeps my curl looking good all day. I can freshen it up using more as well
I'm an outdoors kinda guy and work hard. My partner used to complain I had wiffy armpits.
I switched to the Awakened Skin deodorant and I no longer have BO, partner happy and I smell sweet!
In our previous blog post we touched on this subject talking about when things don't go as you'd planned that is to say 'that's good' and then add the pivotal word 'because...'
I can clearly remember sitting on top of the hill in my car, cats in the back after evacuating my home having evacuated my home following the tsunami warning at 1am in the morning due to a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
What the heck, I didn't ask for that in my life and I sat there thinking about what had just happened, that I'd purchased my townhouse in a small complex because I felt that would feel safe and a community because at the time I was living on my own. That night I realised that in a disaster, most people look after No. 1. I checked each unit, knocking on their doors to make sure everyone was ok and heading for the hills, everyone (I thought) had gone. So by the time I got to my parking spot, that hillside was covered in people walking about aimlessly not knowing what to do next.
It's in times of big upheaval like that, that we get really real with ourselves and what we want for our lives. I
realised I wasn't living the life I loved at the time. I wasn't doing the work I love (coaching) and whilst I loved my wee townhouse, I wasn't happy with:
a big mortgage
being in a job I didn't love
living in an environment which didn't sit with my values
So I made the decision to sell and build a tiny house on wheels.
Once I started preparing my home for sale (after fixing the quake damage which thankfully was fairly minor in scheme of things), I started sharing my intention. I received well meant opinions of 'but that's your nest egg, you can't sell it', 'what will you do, where will you live', 'but you don't have anywhere to put a tiny house'. Of course all of that was true but what I realised was...
That was their 'business' (their fears if it were them) and not mine, that was their values around abundance and not mine.
Here's what the situation, the earthquake, the evacuation, other people's opinions etc taught me and what I said to myself. I used not just one, but three little phrases to sum up:
That's good because now I can finally live the life I've been dreaming of, no mortgage, doing what I love in a way that I love. If I'd listened to the well-meaning advice of others, then I'd still be working on a job that didn't fill my cup
That's good therefore it gives me the push I needed to shift my life to a whole new paradigm. Sometimes adversity brings the most amazing gifts in disguise
That's good and now I get to embark on a whole new adventure. I realised in that process that I do actually love change. The story I'd been believing (I don't love change) was simply a mask for the true belief which was 'I don't like the projection of change', so I changed the projection!
This technique goes hand in hand with the gem we talked about in last week's blog post being 'you are the meaning maker in your life'. So I could have made the earthquake mean all things bad, instead I chose to look on it as a gift
This story leads into the topic of this week's podcast 'become your own detective'. You see I had been avoiding the detective part and so it took a big shakeup to get me to SHIFT! Since then I have developed The BS Shift - which is a clever little method to SHIFT you from stuck-ness to unstuck, peeling back one layer at a time. If I'd had that then, maybe I'd have shifted sooner!
How could that little phrase 'that's good because/therefore/and now' help you to move on with lightening speed from those pesky moments when things 'don't go as expected'? And retrospectively how could you have applied them in your life?
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And the kicker - you seem to keep repeating the same patterns over and over
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