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Michelle Wollaston Says Gratitude Isn’t a List — It’s a Lens

25 Aug, 2025 3
Michelle Wollaston Says Gratitude Isn’t a List — It’s a Lens

Honouring the Virgo New Moon and Women’s Health Week

In an earlier issue, I shared how gratitude isn’t just a list of things we’re supposed to feel thankful for, it’s a powerful spiritual practice that can transform how we relate to challenge, grief, and growth. (If you missed it, you can read that piece here.) 

As we move into September’s Virgo New Moon, we’re being offered the perfect energetic support to take this work even deeper.

Virgo invites us to return to the body, clear the clutter (physical, emotional, and energetic), and create rituals that restore. It’s the archetype of sacred service, not in the people-pleasing sense, but in the quiet, intentional ways we care for ourselves and others.

This New Moon lands during Australia’s Women’s Health Week, a national event dedicated to empowering women to prioritise their wellbeing. The timing couldn’t be more aligned. Because true health, emotional, mental, and spiritual, often begins with the smallest acts of presence.

This is where gratitude becomes more than a journaling prompt. It becomes a way of seeing:

The silence after a storm

The lesson behind a heartbreak

The inner strength you didn’t know you had

When we approach gratitude this way, it grounds us. It reveals what’s sacred. It helps us come home to ourselves, especially when life feels overwhelming.

That’s exactly what we’ll be exploring in my upcoming workshop, Gratitude as Medicine. We’ll gather online during Women’s Health Week to honour this Virgo New Moon, reflect, release, and reframe how we relate to the messier parts of our journey.

You don’t need to have it all together. You just need a willingness to start.

REGISTER HERE   $7 from every registration will be donated to Jean Hailes Women’s Health Week