Plants & Prayers
I filled my bedroom with plants when I started finding chemotherapy too hard. All types: cacti, succulents, snake, zebra, prayer plants; bonsai tree, aloe vera, peace lilies. I remember...
Skin Elixir Blog - nourish the skin you're in
5 Nutrition Tips to Support Healthy Skin
When thinking about our skin it is important to think not only about how we support our skin from the outside but also about the nutritional building blocks that will...
5 Reasons Black Seed Oil is the Secret to Beautiful Skin
Skin Elixir is grounded on the principles of 'feed the skin goodness, feed the mind calm; and the notion of potions to nourish the skin you're in. In 2021, the...
The Katie Murray Blog: Fertile Darkness
This is an extract from Katie Murray's forthcoming Memoir: This morning there’s nothing between my fingers but gratitude and warm dark earth. The perfect snowdrops, purple crocus, soft yellow primroses...
GUEST Blog Spot MUA Caroline Barnes: Top tips for glowing skin this Spring
In today's first of the monthly Skin Elxiir Nourish the skin you're in monthly guest blog spot we hear from Parisienne MUA Caroline Barnes: Spring is just round the corner,...
The Katie Murray Bi-Monthly Blog: YOU
Today's poem is the third poem in the Self Love three-part poem collection, sitting alongside, I am and Moments. When I started facing up to the reality of losing parts of my body -...
5 tips to nourish yourself from the inside out
It's so easy to burn out isn't it? It took me back to last March when I was really poorly with nothing like I'd ever remembered feeling. I had pulled...
The Katie Murray Blog: MOMENTS
Moments I am the whisper and the song I am vulnerable and I am strong I am whole and I am scarred I am peaceful and I am scared I...
5 tips for relieving dry skin
Dry skin is a common issue, especially during the harsher winter months when skin battles the drying effects of colder weather combined with central heating. I remember so well the...
5 Best Gifts to Gift Yourself
Recently I've been inspired by the fabulous Cottage Fairy you can check out her YouTube Channel here and her wonderful prompts for living life more simply. Her way of life is...
The Katie Murray Blog: I am
Trapped underneath a clutter of dirty dishes, literally and metaphorically, I feel like Alice in Dsytopia-Land much of the time in this third lockdown. The ‘to-do lists’ I start to...
Frankincense the King of Oils
People ask how Skin Elixir - nourish the skin you're in came about and I tell them through passion and experimentation and a little more than a mild obsession and...