PIT STOP 

Motorsports: a stop at a pit for servicing and refuelling, especially during a race. 

informal: a brief rest, especially during a journey

WHY?

ENERGETIC SUPPORT FOR CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS.

Working in the creative industries leaves emotional wear and tear. It gets bumpy, no matter your status. This has always been true but it feels like things are more intense than ever; late stage Capitalism isn’t going away - and nor is our innate need for expression be it music, film, fashion or books.

There’s great bits and terrible bits. Dream jobs arrive hand-in-hand with incoherent contracts. There’s waiting, getting ghosted, getting hired at short notice, maybe getting fired. Sometimes it’s your creative expression becoming commodified, sometimes you are supporting a visionary who doesn’t trust themselves and therefore can’t trust you. 

Relief is offered here in the form of a coaching conversation that shifts its form to accommodate you - and a Personal blend to fuel your future laps. 

Flower Essences allow emotional recalibration and they are combined here with real-time coaching, so that you can flourish, even in difficult circumstances.

This gentle but firm pattern interruption.

In the intake form, you outline whatever’s going on - anything from creative challenge to a professional goal. This helps us to focus our time together.

Coaching is a broad term that can mean many things. Here we define it as the place from which assessment can be made and adjustment can be offered. It’s guidance and it’s feedback from an experienced perspective. 

Sometimes the coach can spot the places where you're operating under assumptions or definitions that aren't serving you.

Frequently, something gets reframed, and a shift in perspective follows, which can create clarity and/or space for feelings or tension that may have flown under the radar.

Other times, the feeling can already be named,"I have anxiety about this project" - but naming it can also be a pitfall. It’s possible to intellectualise an emotional experience, and inadvertently extend it.

Pit Stop is a place where you are encouraged to face your feelings. And then, the Flower Essences come in to help you integrate them. 

PIT STOP

WHO

This is for creative professionals who want shift gears. Maybe you feel like you’re ready to go faster. Could be you’ve been going too fast for too long and don’t know how to slow down.

Wherever you are in your current journey you will be met with practical support, grounded in emotional intelligence. 

This call is great for anyone working on a chunky creative project - especially those with a deadline of some kind.

Book proposals, post-production on a film, developing a one woman show - have all been through the Pit Stop.

Sometimes the root of creative burnout is a long-established emotional tension.

Sometimes major success arrives hand-in-hand with unforeseen personal challenges.

Sometimes finishing a project, even if everything went to plan, triggers grief.

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“Portia has an in depth knowledge of both flower essences and the nature of a career in the arts, and the combination is transformative! I was blown away by Portia's accurate insights into my current situation, and her ability to tease out areas where I was feeling stuck. She gave heartfelt guidance into moving forward, was supportive and warm in the session, and it felt like the flower essences followed through with even more support. I'd recommend a session and essences from Portia in a heartbeat - she's so special!”

Liz G - London

WHO AM I

Portia

She/her 

Filmmaker & Visual Artist

Advanced Flower Essence Practitioner 

Fully Insured

Trauma Informed

b 1984 

grew up between the UK and the US

in London since 1996 

very good at watching movies

very average at roller-skating 

Cancer Sun/ Aries Moon/ Virgo Rising 

4/6 Sacral Generator 

 I’ve worked in Film across multiple departments for 15 years. I’ve made my own work on micro budgets and crewed on a £200mill feature. I’ve also produced Visual Art, worked in Commercial Casting - been Freelance my whole professional life.

Pit Stop is the call that I wish had been available to me.

A coaching session that recognises the importance of meeting the deadline,

while still caring about the emotional shape you’re in when you meet it.

I know from experience; if you prioritise output over everything, you burnout.

If you never leave your comfort zone, you make ‘safe’ work.

For me, honouring both these truths has been possible since I started working with Flower Essences.

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Flower Essences are a vibrational remedy. You work with them to rebalance emotional issues.

This could be anything from deep seated shame to establishing more resilience.

When you work with Flower Essences, you are, to some degree, embracing the mystery.

They are Yin Energy. The Blackness. That which cannot be measured.

They are an opportunity to let Nature be your guide.

The intelligence of these frequencies is supreme.

It is my joy and privilege to offer them to anyone who is interested 🤠

The package includes:

  • 1 hour telephone call (not Zoom)

  • Personal Blend (30ml bottle)

  • Follow-up email with summary and prompts

  • Voice note detailing your blend 

Investment: £125 UK / £150 INTERNATIONAL

Flower Essences are made with alcohol as a stabiliser/base.

They are safe to take alongside medication.

Blends can be mixed with vinegar or vegetable glycerine as an alternative base.

A trace of alcohol will still be present.

At the Pit Stop

nothing is too unusual

to be expressed.

Look at the flowers,

a lot of them are strange, strange, strange -

and they blossom without apology.

Passion Flower

“I’ve had several consultations and bespoke blends from Portia for burnout. She holds space beautifully and fully meets you wherever you’re at. Portia has a broad range of wisdom and knowledge sources to draw on which inform a rich dialogue. Over a series of months my burnout has lifted, in part through a deep support by the flowers, which have allowed me to tune into a different way of being.”

Clare C, - London

You will be asked to fill out a form designed to gather

specific information for the call, via the link here

FAQ’S

  • The call is 60 minutes. Sometimes we go over by 5 - 10 minutes.

  • Yes, a form to collect relevant information has been designed specifically for the Pit Stop Call, to direct the focus of the session with care.

  • Once you press ‘Select & Continue’ on a timeslot in the booking calendar the form will appear (i.e. before checkout)

  • Yes! The fee is slightly higher for international clients to accommodate for postage costs. (Brexit did us no favours)

  • No. It’s an actual phone call. Just voices. 

  • Also, no. I find this focuses the call and encourages both of us to show up in full presence. Some clients like to be prepared with a note taking device. 

  • Absolutely. Some of our clients like to work with their blend for an extended period of time. A bottle of a repeat blend costs £22 plus postage

  • Sure! We can make big leaps without the essences. There will be a discount on rate if you don’t require a blend.

    We keep the booking form process as simple as possible, so if this is you please email directly at newwooindustries@gmail.com stating your timezone and best available time slots.

  • We will do our best to meet your availability, please email newwooindustries@gmail.com telling us when you would like a session

  • 48 hrs+ if you change your mind about Pit Stop, or are unable to attend the call, you will receive a full refund.

    Less notice than 48hrs will incur a 50% cancellation/reschedule fee.

Lana P, London

“These potions are a portal to communion with the wisdom of the plant realm….

…I’ve had the gift of working with the flower essence blends from Portia for about 6 months and they have subtly but powerfully revealed to me depths and crevices of life’s teachings which otherwise would have gone unturned. It’s not only the blend which transforms - the quality and depth of being heard imparts it’s own transformation. Portia listens to a frequency in your voice beyond even your own comprehension and translates this frequency into a complementary vibrational drink with the flower essences.

She is a seer, a listener and a creator.”

WHEN IT’S YOU AND THE BLEND

Consistency is the key.

It only takes a moment to take your drops.

Not all moments are equal.

Some people keep them by their toothbrush.

Some people keep them in their handbag.

The main thing is,

trust the essences,

while they remind how to trust yourself.