Grounding Rituals
Favourite nourishing traditions when everything feels a bit like the melting face emoji + a recipe for my grandma's favourite leek and potato soup
Hello,
How has your 2025 been going?
Personally, it has been a trip of a year so far to say the least, and this is the same for most friends I have spoken to as well. From what I keep hearing on astrological forecasts, the next 10 months will have many more surprises on the cards for us all too.
I have been counting my lucky stars and feeling incredibly grateful that at a bit of a rock bottom, I could take some time to take a step back, dust myself off and recenter before jumping back into the swing of things.
As I tried to recalibrate my nervous system from a turbulent few days (which turned into a couple of weeks), I made a mental note of every nourishing act I was doing to bring myself back into my body so that I could lean on these tools when the rug gets pulled again.
I’ve crafted the list below in case it can help anyone else too. I think perhaps this is a follow on from the Nervous System Regulation post I made last year <3
Everything below, accompanied by some long walks by the sea, daily yoga, kundalini meditation, TBM DI’s, flower remedies (sweet chestnut was a solace this time) and I think I can safely say I feel like myself again. Just perhaps with better boundaries for the future.
I hope your 2025 has been smooth sailing so far and if it does get rocky, I hope some of these nourishing rituals can help bring you back to centre <3
With love,
Fleur x
(P.S. keep in touch over on instagram or see more recipes here xx)
Things I return to when life and the world feel upside down and you and your loved ones are in need of some nourishment and reassurance.
1. Ferment something (anything).
It’s a present for your future self + quick, easy nourishing food when things are busy. There’s also something incredibly grounding about getting your hands into a big bowl and rubbing salt into grated or sliced vegetables.
Some favourite, low effort and satisfying ferments include ginger carrots, beetroot kraut and lacto-fermented radish and fennel.
2. Make stock from vegetable scraps + bone broth with mineral rich sea salt, kombu + ACV.
I love to chuck everything into the slow cooker and leave it to bubble away and do its thing for a day, slowly getting more nutritious by the hour. Good for you + good for the planet.
3. Make soup (+ lots of it).
Always so soothing; to make, serve and then eat. I’m not sure if anything beats a comforting bowl of hot homemade soup to warm your hands and heart when things feel rough. Make it with with the homemade broth for extra brownie points.
Favourite soup recipes at the moment are spinach + nutmeg (recipe here - just sub the nettles for spinach) and my grandma’s famous leek and potato (recipe below).
4. Bake Bread
It’s always the simplest things that seem to be the most grounding: sunlight on your face first thing, bare feet on the grass, a hot bath or a warm crusty piece of bread straight out the oven. For gluten-free friends this seedy keto-bread is one of my absolute faves and can sometimes hit the same spot as a glutinous loaf.
5. Make Katie Flour’s Savoury Granola
The wonderful hormone health chef Katie Flour has two granola recipes on her website for different phases of your cycle that I am obsessed with. Granola 1 for follicular and ovulation and Granola 2 for luteal and menstrual. Pics above are of Granola no. 1 with toasted quinoa, pumpkin seeds and allll the good herbs (I also like to add a spoonful of vanilla paste for a touch of sweetness).
Gibaut Soup Recipe
A soup I grew up on and always feels like home. This recipe was passed down from my grandmother who was taught it from her grandmother and so on and so on. It’s a simple peasant dish and one of the only dishes my mum will eat when she lets me cook for her.
It’s so easy but is somehow loved by everyone who tries it and tastes even better the next day when the flavours have had time to melt into each other.
As the vegetable ratios are simple (1:1:1) it’s very easy to scale up (i.e. for 6 people use 6 potatoes, 6 leeks + 6 carrots etc). The recipe below will serve 2. I hope you enjoy <3
INGREDIENTS:
2 x potatoes
2 x carrots
2 x leeks
1 Litre vegetable Stock
Splash olive oil
Piece of kombu (optional)
Spash ACV (optional)
RECIPE:
Boil the kettle and fill a bowl with the freshly boiled water.
Peel the potatoes and chop into 1cm cubes - then place into the bowl of boiled water (the hot water helps to remove some of the starch from the potatoes).
Peel the carrots and chop into 1cm cubes.
Add a splash of oil to a big soup pan with a lid and gently sauté the carrots.
Remove the outer leaves of the leeks, slice in half and then into 1cm semi circles.
Add the leeks to the pan and sweat with the carrots for a few minutes until everything becomes soft.
Strain the potatoes from the hot water and add to the saucepan.
Add the vegetable stock so it covers the veg by 1cm, kombu and acv if using.
Simmer gently with the lid on for 20 - 30 minutes or until everything is soft.
Eat straightaway or leave to cool and heat up again when hungry.
Remove the kombu before serving <3