Emberkind: Family Forest & Counselling

08/10/2025

08/10/2025

07/10/2025

It’s the small and simple things.

The free stuff.
The things we forget to notice.

Like conkers: why are they so satisfying?
Smooth, shiny, a bit pointless, but somehow… perfect.

Maybe it’s just that small hit of nostalgia and nature
that reminds us to slow down a bit. 🍂

07/10/2025

Looking forward to helping with this event this year 💀 🎃👻

🎃🧟 Join us for Halloween at Cynheidre on Sunday 26th October between 3pm and 7pm. We have lots to see and do🧟‍♀️🕷

Purchase tickets now at www.ticketsource.co.uk/llanellirailway

05/10/2025

Acorns caught my eye today.
Not for what they are, but for what they might become.
Little hats, fairy cups, treasure tucked into pockets.

This is what I love about forest school
The way children instinctively collect, create, imagine.
The way nature invites us to play again.
✨ Creativity is a way back to ourselves.
And sometimes the smallest seed holds the most potential.

Whether in the woods or in a therapy room, this is the heart of what I do:
Creating safe spaces for small sparks to grow.

05/10/2025

✨ Exciting News! ✨
Teaming up with the lovely Laura from and delighted to invite you to our very first Christmas Women’s Workshop 🎄💫

📍 Unit 7 Café, Llanelli SA15 2DS
🗓 Sunday 30th November
⏰ 15.30 -18.30

Treat yourself to a restorative and festive afternoon designed to nurture both body and mind 🌸

🌿 Create your own beautiful willow Christmas wreath using natural resources
🌿 Master the art of blood sugar balance to boost energy, support hormone health, and enhance wellbeing
🌿 Gain practical tools to regulate your nervous system, helping you restore calm, focus, and resilience

£45 + booking fee
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-wreath-workshop-tickets-1754980065619?aff=oddtdtcreator
(Link in bio )

✨ Spaces are limited – book early to secure your spot and gift yourself (or a friend) an afternoon of creativity, health, and connection.

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29/09/2025

Golden sun rays through the trees, golden curls in stories and golden songs on the forest floor.

The Emberlings were out in full force last Friday, stirring, mixing, munching and making a right bear-y mess in the woods.

We followed fairy tales, built with hammers, danced under trees, and somehow didn’t spill a single spoon of porridge. ✨Goldilocks would be proud not a bowl left behind 🍯🐻

📍Fridays | 0–5s | Llanelli
Still a few forest spots left this term and Christmas term starts 14th of November.
message to join! 🌿

24/09/2025

Motherhood isn’t time off, it’s time given.

Given to raising the next generation.
Given to care, connection, survival.
And too often, given without recognition, without rest, without return.

Some mothers re enter work, with support behind them.
Others carry the weight alone or simply don’t have the privilege, the health, or the options to return.
The years away cost not just income, but confidence, identity, and choice.

When the payments stop when society stops counting — many are left asking:
What did I live on?

This poem is for the unpaid hours, the invisible labour, and the mothers still holding it all together.

22/09/2025

Beautiful post from one of our embers who is attending our Forest school and is also one of the best child minders around . Vicky looked after my children many times and they always loved their time at day dreams child minding 🌈💭

19/09/2025

Today the forest gave us fire toasted bread and sticky marshmallow smiles.
The children hammered and built with focus and pride, stirred up muddy kitchen feasts fit, and listened as a little mouse and her friends all went searching for berries together.

Every corner of the woods held a pocket of magic story, craft, fire, friendship ✨🪵

We still have spaces this term at Emberkind Forest come and see what adventures the woods might hold for you 🔥

17/09/2025

🎃 The mornings are getting colder, the nights darker… it can only mean one thing… it’s that time of year again!

We’ve got two spooky Halloween specials for you this October half term, full of forest fun for the whole family! 🍂✨

🧹 Thursday 30th October
Join us for a Room on the Broom adventure, with interactive storytelling, forest play, broomstick crafting and more!

🌲 Friday 31st October
Step into the Forest of Shadows for an original story quest full of mystery, potion making, marshmallow toasting, and magical mischief.

🕰️ Both sessions run from 10am–12pm
📍 Llanelli & Mynydd Mawr Railway, Cynheidre, SA15 5DQ
💰 £12 per child / £10 per sibling
🎭 Costumes welcome (but not essential). Please make sure outfits are suitable for forest play and sitting safely near fires.

📩 To book, message our page or email
[email protected]

🎟️ Spaces are limited don’t delay or we’ll vanish in a puff of smoke!

21/05/2025

Children protect what they love. And they love what they experience.
That’s the heart of place-based learning
and it’s exactly what happened here.

This forest site was once alive with imagination.
Mud kitchens bubbling with ‘soup’, children climbing, jumping, balancing, building, storytelling.
Laughter echoing through the trees, smoke curling from the fire, porridge simmering in the pan.
For many, it was their first deep connection with nature.
And it mattered.

In 2020, the site was shut down. Declared unsafe.
Now, five years on, it’s overgrown and quite slowly being reclaimed by nature, but holding echoes of something much wilder, freer, and deeply loved.

It’s hard to see it like this. Because what happened here wasn’t small.
It gave children the chance to be brave, muddy, creative, and connected.
It gave them a place to belong in nature and once you’ve felt that, it never really leaves you.

These places aren’t just playgrounds. They shape who we become.
And I’ll always believe they’re worth protecting.

“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the Earth before we ask them to save it.”
– David Sobel