Welcome
Before We Begin
“Something in you already knows the way.”
— Helena Willow
Dear Reader
You are holding a practice book. A Fairytale story as real as life itself.
A mirror.
This “booklet” was born from thirty years of tending my own inner fire — and from working with women who, like me, had been carrying too much for too long. Women who were sensitive, intuitive, deeply feeling. Women who had spent years holding space for others while their own flame sometimes grew dim.
If that sounds familiar, you are in the right place.
What you will find in these pages is not another self-improvement programme. There is no fixing here, because you are not broken.
What you will find instead is a path — ancient, spiraling, and deeply practical — for learning to tend the fire that is already yours.
I wrote this for the woman standing between worlds.
Perhaps you have one foot in the life you have built — the responsibilities, the routines, the roles you carry — and one foot in something you cannot yet name. A pull. A restlessness. A quiet knowing that there is more to you than what you have been living.
You are not imagining it. And you are not alone.
The threshold woman has always existed.
She is the one who senses the turn of the seasons before anyone else. She is the one who feels the room shift when she walks in. She is the one whose body speaks truths her mind has not yet caught up with.
This book is for her and them.
Which is to say — this book is for you.
How to Read This Book
Five Streams, One River
Each chapter in this booklet weaves together five streams of knowing. You do not need to understand them all at once. They will reveal themselves as you read.
The Fairy Tale opens each chapter with a story about a Faery Princess who has lost her powers. Her journey mirrors yours. Let her story work on you the way fairy tales always have — not through the mind, but through the deeper places.
The Personal Story is mine. I share moments from my own life — the raw, specific, sometimes uncomfortable moments where something shifted. I share them not because my story is yours, but because the particular has a way of unlocking the universal.
How to Read This Book
One River, Five Streams
The Reader Mirror turns to face you. These are the passages where I speak to you directly, where the book becomes a conversation between us. If something lands in your body — a tightening, a softening, a sudden urge to cry — pay attention. That is information.
The Teaching offers the framework. This is where I lay out the principles of energy work as I have come to understand them — through my own practice, through my teachers, through years of working with women in my sessions and retreats.
The Lineage honours the teachers and traditions that shaped this work. No wisdom arrives in isolation. Everything I share has roots.
The Three Spirals
This booklet is organised into three parts, each named for one of the three energy spirals.
Part One: Spiral of Maintenance is where we begin. Here we learn to see our energetic body as it is — often depleted, often carrying what does not belong to us. We learn the daily practice of clearing and tending. Think of it as brushing your teeth, but for your energy field.
Part Two: Spiral of Boost takes us deeper. Once we can maintain our energy, we learn to build it — to call in more of what feeds us, to work with helpers and guides, to strengthen our connection to source.
Part Three: Spiral of Retrieval is the deep work. Here we retrieve the parts of ourselves we have lost, given away, or hidden. This is where the Faery Princess reclaims her powers. And where you reclaim yours.
Follow The SPirals
“You do not have to read straight through. Follow what calls you.
Skip what does not resonate.
Return to what stays with you.
Trust your timing.”
— Helena Willow
A Gentle Guide
Using This Book
At the end of each chapter, you will find a practice and a set of journal prompts. There is also a separate journal page for each chapter where you can write more freely. I encourage you to use them — not because you have to, but because the spiral asks us to move, not just to read.
Go slowly. This is not a book to rush through over a weekend. Let each chapter breathe. Sit with the practice for a few days before moving on. Let the fairy tale settle into your bones. Write in the margins if you feel called to.
And please — be gentle with yourself. If a chapter brings up something difficult, put the book down and tend to yourself first. You can always come back. The spiral is patient. It will wait for you.
From Helena
“Something in you already knows the way.
This book is not here to teach you something new.
It is here to help you remember what
you have always carried.”
See you on the path.
With love and fire,
Helena Willow