My head was sooooo full!
Have you ever felt that feeling?
That your head is so full you just can’t take in or concentrate on anything else?
Read MoreMy head was sooooo full!
Have you ever felt that feeling?
That your head is so full you just can’t take in or concentrate on anything else?
Read MoreI have been practising mindfulness for a long time and for me it is a part of my life but I still remember how challenging I found it when I first started. At the time I struggled with anxiety and practising mindfulness was the only thing that really helped me so I was determined to keep going with it but it felt like a chore, for quite some time. Something I needed to do in order to keep my anxiety at bay.
Read MoreThere is an old saying that nothing is inherently good or bad—what makes it one or the other, is merely your reaction to it. Find the positive and you will be happier. Those who soar against all odds, do so because they look at the positive that could come out of their situation, however bad it may seem to others.
Read MoreSelf care made easy, can you apply some of this?
Read MoreIf you haven’t heard the term biohacking* as a way to support your wellbeing, you’re not alone. Biohacking will impact your life sooner or later — and maybe it already has. If you’ve pursued ways to improve your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, or cellular health, that’s biohacking.
Read MoreCoddiwomple is an old English slang verb meaning “to travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination.” Wonderful isn’t it?
Read MoreI found, particularly as I got closer and closer to the birth date, that people were desperate to tell me all about the things that could go wrong. I love this quote taken from one of my go-to hypnobirthing books (England and Horowitz's 'Birthing from Within'); ‘We all have beliefs about childbirth... but whose beliefs are they: ours? Or are they adopted from someone else?’
Read MoreFor years I have skirted around this statement and have stepped so many times closer to it, but not resting there permanently. Its been this goal that would allow itself to be held in my fingers for a short time and eventually would slip through them like butter that has melted and won’t return to the solid-state.
The quest for anything takes time and patience and the one foot in front of the other mantra, the desire to get to where you want to go has to be strong enough for you to keep going when the going gets tough. I have the Billy Ocean song playing in my head now!!!
Read MoreThe ripples of my practice however, are worth their weight in gold, as I watch my children teach their teddybears to meditate and breath, as I hear them sit with each other and talk through their fears, remind each other to breath, and when life gets a bit too much for me, remind me to breath! I realise that this practice, this small thing I decided to have a go at over a decade ago, has not only changed my life, but my childrens and perhaps my childrens, childrens lives.
Read MoreWhat is an affirmation, well according to many sources on google, an affirmation is a statement or a word that people use to help them feel a certain way.
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