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Candles and coaching may not be an immediately obvious combination but imagine watching the flame, enjoying the scent and reading a neuro linguistic inspired text all designed to shift your mindset

08/09/2026

It’s everywhere. Hotels. Magazines. Instagram. The "cushion dent"

You know the one. 🙃

A few months ago, I’d have shrugged. I prefer cushions the way they are. Yet there I was the other week pinching my cushions without thinking.

Why?

Somewhere along the line, I’d quietly absorbed the idea that this is how cushions are supposed to look.

After thousands of tiny exposures, our brains file these subtle cues under "correct." Familiarity disguises itself as preference. We think, "I chose this," when really, we’ve just seen it enough times to stop questioning it.

It isn't about cushions, and it isn't about candles. It’s about noticing those quiet moments in our routines and asking:

Did I choose this… or did it choose me?

Read the full reflection (it gets personal with my 14-year-old handwriting!) on the blog: (Link in Bio)

20/08/2026

Hello! People keep asking me "Michelle, what made you start a fragrance business in France at 60?” Good question! 😂 So here is a little about me,

Honestly? It wasn’t the plan. Not remotely.

I’ve had a rather eclectic career. I was a musician, spent 16 years in the military, then became a consultant and coach. Eventually I moved to France with my French husband, where I was quite happily getting on with life.

And then I started making candles.

Not to start a business. I just really love candles and scent.

I quickly realised that France isn’t quite as candle-obsessed as the UK, and I couldn’t find the sort of candles I wanted for my own home. So I started experimenting with making them myself, initially trying to recreate the sort of beautiful, expensive candles I loved.

And then something else happened.

I started playing around with the idea of pairing fragrance with reflective words and thoughts, something that could make you pause for a moment rather than simply make your room smell nice.

And somehow, from that rather innocent experiment, Meliusse was born.

So here I am, at 61 now, apparently a candle maker 😂

I’m still not entirely sure how that happened.

But I’m having rather a good time finding out where it leads.

19/08/2026

Your vessel. Our fragrance. No need to buy a whole new diffuser set. If you've got an empty vessel at home(any vessel, not just ours), just grab a refill with reeds.Wash. Refill. Enjoy.

13/08/2026

A client came to me stuck. They wanted something to change, how the relationship worked, how they felt inside it, but had no idea what that change would actually look like, or whether they even had the right to want it. They didn't know if the answer was to leave. They just knew something had to change.

Most people expect this to be the hard part. It rarely is. It's remarkable how easily people can see it, once they're actually asked.

We went further back. What was it like with your parents? What do you remember from school, from early friendships? Old shapes started showing up in new rooms. The same dynamic, different faces, never quite looked at, never quite questioned. That's the thing about these patterns: they don't announce themselves. They run quietly in the background, shaping choices, long before anyone thinks to ask why the same problem keeps turning up wearing a different face. Nothing changes until the pattern is actually seen, named, out loud, in daylight.

That's the pattern, more often than not. We can see clearly for the people we love. It's ourselves we lose the thread on. So we ask the question.....

What changed for them wasn't a decision to leave or stay. It was that they stopped defaulting and started choosing, whatever that turned out to mean. Sometimes that reshapes the relationship. Sometimes it ends it. The leaving, if it happens, was never the goal. Seeing clearly was.

11/08/2026

My dog still flinches sometimes, two years after we rescued her.

Her name's Tequila. Actually it's Tekila, but my brain hardwired that spelling in a nanosecond, so it stuck.

She is loved, safe, and spoiled rotten. But every now and then, when I reach out to stroke her head, she still cowers for a fraction of a second.

Before she came to us, she was beaten. Her life is completely different now, but her nervous system never got the memo. It's a reminder of how deeply memory lives in the body, not just the mind.

Intellectually, she knows she's safe. Instinct just reacts before logic can catch up.

Humans do the exact same thing. We pull back, snap, freeze, or reach for quick comfort, not because we're weak, but because an old script in our brain is protecting us from a threat that isn't there anymore.

Same wiring as the wasp thing I wrote about, the brain reacting before the mind's even in the room.

Breaking a pattern like that isn't about willpower. It's about gently, repeatedly, teaching the nervous system that the old danger is gone.

I wrote more about why our bodies do this. Didn’t read it? Link in bio/comments if you want the full breakdown.

06/08/2026

Suddenly everyone on social media seems to be holding a tiny microphone.

I even saw someone accidentally drop theirs because they suddenly needed both hands. Not quite the mic-drop moment they’d planned. 🎤😂

And given that hands free options do exist, it made me wonder…

When does something stop being a useful tool and become a social cue?

We copy fashion.
We copy phrases.
We copy poses.
Apparently, we copy microphones too.

There’s something wonderfully human about it. We look around to see what everyone else is doing, often without even realising it. It’s how trends are born. Not because anyone told us to, but because belonging feels safer than standing out.

No judgement. I probably do exactly the same with something else and don’t even know it.

Maybe the microphone isn’t the interesting part.

Maybe it’s our instinct to belong. Unless someone can tell me why we are favouring these over hands free versions 🤔

04/08/2026

Sprinting in My Knickers

Not exactly the title I imagined for my latest blog...

What do an angry swarm of wasps, a faulty dishwasher and your subconscious mind have in common?

More than you'd think.

One rather undignified afternoon in my garden led me to discover why we keep repeating habits we know aren't serving us, even when we desperately want to change.

It has nothing to do with a lack of willpower.

And everything to do with the invisible pathways your brain has been building for years.

If you've ever wondered why breaking old habits feels so difficult, this one's for you.

Link in comments or just head over to my blogs at Meliusse.com

30/07/2026

I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by being told what I should do.

Wake up at 5am.
Journal.
Meditate.
Have the perfect morning routine.
Have the perfect evening routine.
Take this supplement. No, wait… this one.
Eat this. No, don’t eat that. That’s bad for you.

As though we’re all living the same life.

What happened to asking ourselves…

What do I choose to do?

What suits my life?
My family?
My work?
My personality?

Perhaps we’ve become so used to looking for answers that we’ve forgotten to ask ourselves the question that matters most.

What might be best for me?

27/07/2026

Someone wrote to me after reading my blog asking me this specific question. The conversation that followed was layered with complexity and this post can't do that justice.

However, apart from becoming a habit, there were some crucial elements underpinning that opening sentence "I can't stop checking my e mails on holiday". In their case, validation, need, emptiness.

Read the full blog (see my bio) on how to make that transition past 5pm.

23/07/2026

If you’ve been following Meliusse for a while, you may have noticed that not every post is about fragrance.

That isn’t by accident.

Beautiful scents can transform the atmosphere around us, but lasting change comes from within. The choices we make, the thoughts we carry, the perspectives we hold, and the moments we choose to pause all shape how we experience the world.

When I created Meliusse, I wanted it to be about more than beautiful fragrance. I wanted it to offer moments of reflection alongside beautifully crafted scents.

So you’ll find posts about fragrance, alongside reflections on the ideas that help us better understand ourselves and the people around us.

Some will be about scent. Some will be about life. Together, they’re all part of what Meliusse has always been about, more than scent alone.

I hope you'll enjoy following the journey

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07789775256

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http://www.meliusse.com/

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